Abstract

The mammalian gastrointestinal tract is a heterogeneous ecosystem with the most abundant, and one of the most diverse, microbial communities. The gut microbiota, which may contain more than 100 times the number of genes in the human genome, endows the host with beneficial functional features, including colonization resistance, nutrient metabolism, and immune tolerance (Backhed, 2005). Dysbiosis of gut microbiota may result in serious adverse consequences for the host, such as neurological disorders, cancer, obesity, malnutrition, inflammatory dysregulation, and susceptibility to pathogens (Turnbaugh et al., 2006; Malo et al., 2010; Wang T. et al., 2012; Subramanian et al., 2014; Sampson et al., 2016). Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) function as probiotics. Lactobacillus plantarum, an important member of the family of LAB, is commonly found in fermented food and as a commensal bacterium in the gut microbiota. The beneficial effects of probiotics are strain-specific (Ramos et al., 2013). Some L. plantarum strains were demonstrated to confer various beneficial properties by improving growth performance and promoting gut health, and has been used for the prevention or treatment of various diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease [strain Lp91; (Duary et al., 2012)], uremia [strain AD3; (Patra et al., 2018)] and liver damage [strain C88; (Duan et al., 2018)] in humans and animals. The beneficial effects of L. plantarum are associated with the regulation of the immune response [strain 426951; (Soltani et al., 2017)], maintenance of gut microbiota homeostasis [strain ZDY04; (Qiu et al., 2018)], and enhancement of epithelial barrier function [strain 299v; (Barnett et al., 2018)]. In our previous study, L. plantarum ZLP001 strain isolated from the gastrointestinal mucosa of a healthy weaned piglet was demonstrated to exhibit high antioxidant ability, and the dietary supplementation of L. plantarum ZLP001 was shown to improve growth performance and antioxidant status of weaned piglets (Wang J. et al., 2012). L. plantarum ZLP001 inhibits growth and adhesion of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and enhances host defense by strengthening intestinal epithelial barrier function and innate immune response to secret antimicrobial peptides (Wang J. et al., 2018). Lactobacillus plantarum is a highly flexible and versatile species and has one of the largest genomes among the known LAB. Consistent with the diversity of probiotic functions, complete genome sequencing analysis revealed the genomic diversity and environment specialization of L. plantarum strains isolated from different niches, including plant (Liu et al., 2015), dairy (Zhang et al., 2015), or vegetable (Crowley et al., 2013) fermentations, as well as saliva (Kleerebezem et al., 2003) and gut (Li et al., 2013). To gain a better insight into the beneficial effects on gut health in piglets, the complete genome of L. plantarum ZLP001 was sequenced and a comparative genome analysis study was conducted between L. plantarum ZLP001 and other available L. plantarum genomes.

Highlights

  • The mammalian gastrointestinal tract is a heterogeneous ecosystem with the most abundant, and one of the most diverse, microbial communities

  • The beneficial effects of L. plantarum are associated with the regulation of the immune response [strain 426951; (Soltani et al, 2017)], maintenance of gut microbiota homeostasis [strain ZDY04; (Qiu et al, 2018)], and enhancement of epithelial barrier function [strain 299v; (Barnett et al, 2018)]

  • L. plantarum ZLP001 strain isolated from the gastrointestinal mucosa of a healthy weaned piglet was demonstrated to exhibit high antioxidant ability, and the dietary supplementation of L. plantarum ZLP001 was shown to improve growth performance and antioxidant status of weaned piglets (Wang J. et al, 2012)

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Introduction

The mammalian gastrointestinal tract is a heterogeneous ecosystem with the most abundant, and one of the most diverse, microbial communities. For phylogenetic and comparative genome analyses, a total of 18 complete genome sequences of L. plantarum strains were obtained from the NCBI database (Table 1). The raw and assembled sequence data for L. plantarum ZLP001 genome have been deposited at SRA database under the accession number PRJNA381357 (SRP102895) and GenBank under the accession number CP021086, respectively.

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