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Exploring the influence of the surface proteins on probiotic effects performed by Lactobacillus pentosus HC-2 using
Yang Du1, Baojie Wang1, Keyong Jiang1
1CAS Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao, 266071, China; Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China.
Abstract:
In order to understand the mediation function of surface proteins in probiotic effects executed by Lactobacillus pentosus HC-2 in midgut of Litopenaeus vannamei, the immune and digestion related enzymes and the transcriptome expression were analyzed after shrimp fed with normal HC-2 or with stripped surface proteins HC-2 by lithium chloride (LiCl) treatment. The results showed that the shrimp fed with normal HC-2 produced much higher immune and digestion related enzymes than the control group or LiCl-treated HC-2 group to defense the Vibrio parahaemolyticus E1 infection. We obtained total over 275,099 unigenes from L. vannamei midgut, 981 genes were significant differentially expressed in normal HC-2 group compared with control, 1314 genes were significant differentially expressed in LiCl-treated HC-2 group compared with control, and 1689 genes were significant differentially expressed in LiCl-treated HC-2 group compared with normal HC-2 group. The GO/KEGG enrichment analysis of the significantly different genes demonstrated that L. vannamei fed with normal HC-2 induced immune-related, signal transduction, ion homeostasis, cell-cell adhesion, response stress/stimulus, vascular endothelial growth factor and peritrophin genes up-regulation, which were important genes involved in improving the shrimp intestine immune response, nutrition and growth performance, and bacteria adhesion and colonization, but these genes were suppressed in the midgut of shrimp fed with deprived surface proteins bacteria. Taken together, these results indicated that the surface proteins were essential for HC-2 executing probiotic effects in midgut of shrimp. Our data contribute to improve the current understanding of host - Lactobacillus interaction and the probiotic mechanisms in shrimps.
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