title: Susceptibility and adaptive response to bile salts in Propionibacterium freudenreichii: physiological and proteomic analysis.
abstract: Tolerance to digestive stresses is one of the main factors limiting the use of microorganisms as live probiotic agents. Susceptibility to bile salts and tolerance acquisition in the probiotic strain Propionibacterium freudenreichii SI41 were characterized. We showed that pretreatment with a moderate concentration of bile salts (0.2 g/liter) greatly increased its survival during a subsequent lethal challenge (1.0 g/liter, 60 s). Bile salts challenge led to drastic morphological changes, consistent with intracellular material leakage, for nonadapted cells but not for preexposed ones. Moreover, the physiological state of the cells during lethal treatment played an important role in the response to bile salts, as stationary-phase bacteria appeared much less sensitive than exponentially growing cells. Either thermal or detergent pretreatment conferred significantly increased protection toward bile salts challenge. In contrast, some other heterologous pretreatments (hypothermic and hyperosmotic) had no effect on tolerance to bile salts, while acid pretreatment even might have sensitized the cells. Two-dimensional electrophoresis experiments revealed that at least 24 proteins were induced during bile salts adaptation. Identification of these polypeptides suggested that the bile salts stress response involves signal sensing and transduction, a general stress response (also triggered by thermal denaturation, oxidative toxicity, and DNA damage), and an alternative sigma factor. Taken together, our results provide new insights into the tolerance of P. freudenreichii to bile salts, which must be taken into consideration for the use of probiotic strains and the improvement of technological processes.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Recherches de Technologie Laitière, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 65 Rue de St. Brieuc, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Pauline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Leverrier
authors.forename: Diliana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dimova
authors.forename: Vianney
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pichereau
authors.forename: Yanick
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Auffray
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boyaval
authors.forename: Gwénaël
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jan
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D001647:Bile Acids and Salts / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018869:Heat-Shock Response; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D011424:Propionibacterium / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D020543:Proteome; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001647:Bile Acids and Salts; D020543:Proteome