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Plasmid Profiling and Curing of Lactobacillus Strains Isolated from the Gastrointestinal Tract of Chicken  

Chin Sieo Chin (Department of Microbiology, Institute of Bioscience, University Putra Malaysia)
Abdullah Norhani (Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Institute of Bioscience, University Putra Malaysia)
Siang Tan Wen (Department of Microbiology, Institute of Bioscience, University Putra Malaysia)
Wan Ho Yin (Institute of Bioscience, University Putra Malaysia)
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Journal of Microbiology / v.43, no.3, 2005 , pp. 251-256 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we assessed the susceptibility of 12 Lactobacillus strains, all of which had been isolated from the gastrointestinal tracts of chicken, to three antibiotics (chloramphenicol, erythromycin and tetracycline) used commonly as selective markers in transformation studies of lactic acid bacteria. Among these strains, $17\%,\;58\%,\;and\;25\%$ were found to exhibit a high degree of resistance to $200\;{\mu}g/ml$ of tetracycline, erythromycin, and chloramphenicol, respectively. Seven of the 12 Lactobacillus strains exhibiting resistance to at least $50\;{\mu}g/ml$ of chloramphenicol or erythromycin, and five strains exhibiting resistance to at least $50\;{\mu}g/ml$ of tetracycline, were subsequently subjected to plasmid curing with chemical curing agents, such as novobiocin, acriflavin, SDS, and ethidium bromide. In no cases did the antibiotic resistance of these strains prove to be curable, with the exception of the erythromycin resistance exhibited by five Lactobacillus strains (L. acidophilus I16 and I26, L. fermentum I24 and C17, and L. brevis C10). Analysis of the plasmid profiles of these five cured derivatives revealed that all of the derivatives, except for L. acidophilus I16, possessed profiles similar to those of wild-type strains. The curing of L. acidophilus I16 was accompanied by the loss of 4.4 kb, 6.1 kb, and 11.5 kb plasmids.
Keywords
antibiotic resistance; curing agents; Lactobacillus; plasmid profile; plasmid curing;
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