Title
Influence of Bacillus subtilis C-3102 on microbiota in a dynamic in vitro model of the gastrointestinal tract simulating human conditions
Author
Hatanaka, M.
Nakamura, Y.
Maathuis, A.J.H.
Venema, K.
Murota, I.
Yamamoto, N.
Publication year
2012
Abstract
Survival and germination rate of Bacillus subtilis C-3102 spores were investigated in a stomach and small intestine model (TIM-1), while the impact of C-3102 cells that had passed through TIM-1 on human colon microbiota was evaluated in a model of the large intestine (TIM-2). The survival of C-3102 spores in TIM-1 was 99%; 8% of the spores had germinated. Effluent of TIM-1 was subsequently introduced into TIM-2 and a micro-array platform was employed to assess changes in the microbiota composition. The effluent, which contained germinated C-3102 cells, increased some Bifidobacterium species and decreased some Clostridium groups. These changes were greater compared to those obtained by adding C-3102 spores directly to TIM-2. The present study suggests that oral doses of B. subtilis C-3102 spores have the potential to modulate the human colon microbiota. This effect may be caused by germination of the spores in the gastrointestinal tract. © 2012 Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Subject
Life
PHS - Pharmacokinetics & Human Studies
EELS - Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences
Biomedical Innovation
Healthy Living
Bacillus subtilis
C-3102
Gastrointestinal tract model
Microbiota
Probiotic
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.3920/bm2012.0016
TNO identifier
466462
ISSN
1876-2883
Source
Beneficial Microbes, 3 (3), 229-236
Document type
article