Screening of harmine tolerance/degrading bacteria from camel rumen

OBJECTIVE: Peganum harmala, a famous traditional Chinese drug, contains a variety of alkaloids and toxic for many animals. Camels mainly live in desert or semi-desert areas, with the robust gastrointestine system in digesting various feed including toxic plants without disease symptoms.

METHODS: Camel rumen content was used as the inoculant to inoculate medium M98-5 which contains 100 mg x L(-1) harmin and cultivated for 5 days. Upto 5 subculturings, strains that could degrading or tolerant harmine were isolated. Their conversion activity was determined by thin-layer chromatography. The taxonomic position of the strains were identified based on 16S rRNA sequences analysis.

RESULTS: 15 out of the 29 isolates have harmine degrading activity. Most of the isolates are identified as the members of the Genera Lactobacillus (16 strains, 55%), Shigella (7 strains, 24%) and Bacillus (4 strains, 13.8%). Only one strain belong to genus Enterococcus and one belong to genus Megasphaera.

CONCLUSION: The results indicated that the harmine tolerance/degrading communities of camel rumen are limited and only Lactobacillus have harmine-degrading activity.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2010

Erschienen:

2010

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:50

Enthalten in:

Wei sheng wu xue bao = Acta microbiologica Sinica - 50(2010), 8 vom: 27. Aug., Seite 1001-7

Sprache:

Chinesisch

Beteiligte Personen:

An, Dengdi [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Yanlei [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Yongxia [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Xianchun [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

4FHH5G48T7
Harmine
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 26.10.2010

Date Revised 25.11.2016

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM202237273