Metabolomic Differences between Viable but Nonculturable and Recovered Lacticaseibacillus paracasei Zhang

Wang, Huiying; Zhang, Yuhong; Dai, Lixia; Bo, Xiaoyu; Liu, Xiangyun; Zhao, Xin; Yu, Jie; Kwok, Lai-Yu; Bao, Qiuhua

doi:10.3390/foods12183472

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“…Metabolomic studies have revealed significant differences between VBNC and recovered cells, particularly in Lacticaseibacillus paracasei Zhang, a probiotic and starter strain. Levels of specific amino acids like L-cysteine, L-alanine, L-lysine, and L-arginine notably increased in revived cells, suggesting altered physiology in the VBNC state ( Wang et al, 2023 ).…”

Section: Alternatives In Viability Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Probiotic and postbiotic analytical methods: a perspective of available enumeration techniques

Boyte,

Benkowski,

Pane

et al. 2023

Front. Microbiol.

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Probiotics are the largest non-herbal/traditional dietary supplements category worldwide. To be effective, a probiotic strain must be delivered viable at an adequate dose proven to deliver a health benefit. The objective of this article is to provide an overview of the various technologies available for probiotic enumeration, including a general description of each technology, their advantages and limitations, and their potential for the future of the probiotics industry. The current “gold standard” for analytical quantification of probiotics in the probiotic industry is the Plate Count method (PC). PC measures the bacterial cell’s ability to proliferate into detectable colonies, thus PC relies on cultivability as a measure of viability. Although viability has widely been measured by cultivability, there has been agreement that the definition of viability is not limited to cultivability. For example, bacterial cells may exist in a state known as viable but not culturable (VBNC) where the cells lose cultivability but can maintain some of the characteristics of viable cells as well as probiotic properties. This led to questioning the association between viability and cultivability and the accuracy of PC in enumerating all the viable cells in probiotic products. PC has always been an estimate of the number of viable cells and not a true cell count. Additionally, newer probiotic categories such as Next Generation Probiotics (NGPs) are difficult to culture in routine laboratories as NGPs are often strict anaerobes with extreme sensitivity to atmospheric oxygen. Thus, accurate quantification using culture-based techniques will be complicated. Another emerging category of biotics is postbiotics, which are inanimate microorganisms, also often referred to as tyndallized or heat-killed bacteria. Obviously, culture dependent methods are not suitable for these products, and alternative methods are needed for their quantification. Different methodologies provide a more complete picture of a heterogeneous bacterial population versus PC focusing exclusively on the eventual multiplication of the cells. Alternative culture-independent techniques including real-time PCR, digital PCR and flow cytometry are discussed. These methods can measure viability beyond cultivability (i.e., by measuring cellular enzymatic activity, membrane integrity or membrane potential), and depending on how they are designed they can achieve strain-specific enumeration.

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confidence: 99%