Method for screening Lactobacillus casei fermentation agent
AssigneeChina Agricultural University
InventorsRan Wang, Huiyuan Guo, Pengjie Wang, Jingjing He, Xiaoxia Li, Liang Zhao, Bing Fang, Jing Zhan, Hao Zhang
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Abstract
A method for screening Lactobacillus casei fermentation agent is provided. The method is specifically implemented by screening a Lactobacillus casei strain with high-expression of a lac cluster gene and no enzymatic activity of β-fructosidase. The Lactobacillus casei strain that rapidly metabolizes lactose is screened through high expression of the lac cluster gene, such that the problem of large differences in acid production in fermented milk beverage products is avoided.
Claims8
A method for screening a Lactobacillus casei fermentation agent, comprising the following steps:
- (1) inoculating Lactobacillus casei into a liquid culture medium and culturing to obtain an inoculated Lactobacillus casei liquid culture medium;
- (2) extracting a total DNA from the Lactobacillus casei, amplifying a tuf gene and a lac cluster gene, using the tuf gene as a control, and using an equation Nrelatives=(1+E)−ΔCT to determine a plasmid copy number of the lac cluster gene, wherein the tuf gene is an elongation factor Tu of a single copy gene on a L. casei genome;
- Nrelatives is a plasmid copy number;
- E is an amplification efficiency, and E=10−1/K, K is a standard curve slope;
- −ΔCT is a difference value between a number of a first cycle and a number of a second cycle, wherein a fluorescent signal of an amplified product of the lac cluster gene reaches a set threshold through the first cycle, a fluorescent signal of an amplified product of the tuf gene reaches the set threshold through the second cycle;
- the tuf gene is a gene of an elongation factor Tu of a single copy gene on a Lactobacillus casei genome, and a GenBank number of the tuf gene is AJ418937.2;
- and
- the lac cluster gene is a lacG gene;
- wherein
- the step of using the equation Nrelatives=(1+E)−ΔCT to determine a plasmid copy number of the lacG gene in the step (2) comprises:
- using tuf2-F/R:
- tuf2-F:
- SEQ ID NO:
- 1,
- tuf2-R:
- SEQ ID NO:
- 2;
- and lacG-F/R:
- lacG-F:
- SEQ IS NO:
- SEQ ID NO:
- 3,
- lacG-R:
- SEQ ID NO:
- 4 as primers, detecting a CT value through a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), and calculating expression levels of the tuf gene and lacG gene;
- and calculating the plasmid copy number through the ΔCT;
- (3) preparing a crude enzyme liquid of β-fructosidase, and determining an enzymatic activity of the β-fructosidase of the Lactobacillus casei;
- and
- (4) performing a screening on the Lactobacillus casei fermentation agent according to the plasmid copy number of the lacG gene and the enzymatic activity of the β-fructosidase.
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