Impact of the metabolic activity of Streptococcus thermophilus on the colon epithelium of gnotobiotic rats.
The thermophilic lactic acid bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus is widely and traditionally used in the dairy industry. Despite the vast level of consumption of S. thermophilus through yogurt or probiotic functional food, very few data are available about its physiology in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). The objective of the present work was to explore both the metabolic activity and host response of S. thermophilus in vivo. Our study profiles the protein expression of S. thermophilus after its adaptation to the GIT of gnotobiotic rats and describes the impact of S. thermophilus colonization on the colonic epithelium. S. thermophilus colonized progressively the GIT of germ-free rats to reach a stable population in 30 days (10(8) cfu/g of feces). This progressive colonization suggested that S. thermophilus undergoes an adaptation process within GIT. Indeed, we showed that the main response of S. thermophilus in the rat's GIT was the massive induction of the glycolysis pathway, leading to formation of lactate in the cecum. At the level of the colonic epithelium, the abundance of monocarboxylic acid transporter mRNAs (SLC16A1 and SLC5A8) and a protein involved in the cell cycle arrest (p27(kip1)) increased in the presence of S. thermophilus compared with germ-free rats. Based on different mono-associated rats harboring two different strains of S. thermophilus (LMD-9 or LMG18311) or weak lactate-producing commensal bacteria (Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron and Ruminococcus gnavus), we propose that lactate could be a signal produced by S. thermophilus and modulating the colon epithelium.
INRA, MICALIS (UMR 1319), Domaine de Vilvert, F-78352 Jouy-en-Josas, France. francoise.rul@jouy.inra.fr
Françoise
F
Rul
Leila
L
Ben-Yahia
Fatima
F
Chegdani
Laura
L
Wrzosek
Stéphane
S
Thomas
Marie-Louise
ML
Noordine
Christophe
C
Gitton
Claire
C
Cherbuy
Philippe
P
Langella
Muriel
M
Thomas
D000220:Adaptation, Biological / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D003106:Colon / Q000382:microbiology*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D013047:Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms; D048249:Streptococcus thermophilus / Q000378:metabolism*
D001426:Bacterial Proteins
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