Project description:Nowadays, Western diets and lifestyle lead to an increasing occurrence of chronic gut inflammation, that represents an emerging health concern with still a lack of successful therapies. Fermented foods, and their associated Lactic Acid Bacteria, have recently regained popularity for their probiotic potential including the maintenance of gut homeostasis by modulating the immune and inflammatory response. Our study aims to investigate the cross-talk between the food-borne strain Lactiplantibacillus plantarum C9O4 and intestinal epithelial cells in an in vitro inflammation model. Cytokines profile shows the ability of C9O4 to significantly reduce levels of IL-2, IL-5, IL-6, and IFN-γ. Proteomic functional analysis reveals an active host-microbe interaction that highlights an immunoregulatory role of C9O4, able to revert both the detrimental effects of IFN-γ through the JAK/STAT pathway and the apoptosis process in inflamed cells. These results suggest a promising therapeutic role of fermented food-associated microbes for the management of gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases.
Project description:Identification of proteins contained in extracellular vesicles of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum PCM 2675. Dataset is related to publication http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/evcna.2024.49. This work was financially supported by the National Science Centre, Poland (no. 2021/43/D/NZ6/01464).
Project description:The study was conducted on a model of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum, one of the most studied species widely used in the food industry as a probiotic microorganism and/or microbial starter culture. As a result of step-by-step selection from the L. plantarum 8p-a3 strain isolated from the «Lactobacterin» probiotic, the L. plantarum 8p-a3-Clr-Amx strain was obtained, showing increased resistance, compared with the parent strain, to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid (MIC 20 mcg/ml) and clarithromycin (MIC 10 mcg/ml). The L. plantarum strain DMC-S1 was isolated from the intestine of Drosophila melanogaster Canton-S line. Extracellular vesicles of this bacterium can play a significant role in the drug-resistance development and host-microbe interactions.
Project description:Complete genome sequence of probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum subsp. plantarum E1 isolated from Eup (a fermented bamboo shoot) of North-East India.
Project description:Probiotics have been suggested to ameliorate the function of the intestinal epithelial barrier and so have several mediators and receptors of the expanded endocannabinoid system, the endocannabinoidome (eCBome). Here we cocultured three live strains of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum with intestinal epithelial organoids to study their effects on the gut barrier function and the possible involvement of the eCBome in this effect. All three L.plantarum strains variously reduced the trans-epithelial permeability of intestinal organoids and promoted increased mRNA expression of several tight junction proteins and intestinal barrier proteins. Concomitantly, the three strains upregulated the expression of genes encoding biosynthetic enzymes (i.e., NapePLD, Abdh4, Gde1, Daglb) and receptors (i.e., Cnr1, Cnr2, Gpr55, and Ppara), while concurrently downregulating the expression of two essential catabolic enzymes (i.e. Faah and Naaa), involved in the signaling of several eCBome mediators known for their role in regulating the intestinal epithelial barrier. Selective inhibitors of eCBome mediator degrading enzymes FAAH and MAGL, i.e., URB597 and JZL184, increased N-acyl-ethanolamine (NAE) and 2-monoacylglycerol (2-MAG) levels, respectively, enhanced the expression of intestinal epithelial barrier genes and reduced the trans-epithelial permeability of organoids, as for L. plantarum strains. Interestingly, inflammation-induced trans-epithelial permeability in organoids was also reversed by both FAAH and MAGL inhibitors. We surmise that elevated endogenous levels of either NAEs or 2-MAGs promote improvement in small intestine trans-epithelial permeability and that L. plantarum strains may exploit this mechanism to promote these beneficial effects.
Project description:Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1 was differentially fermented in 29 different fermentations according to a factorial, combinatorial scheme that included variations in growth temperature (28 or 37C), NaCl concentration (0 or 0.3M), pH (5.2, 5.8, 6.4), as well as oxygen (N2 or air) and amino acid availability (1.1 or 2x concentration).
Project description:To characterize the effect of lactic acid on the L. plantarum growth and adaptation, we investigated the transcriptome under hydrochloride (HCl) or lactic acid at the early stage of the growth.
