Abstract
At present, feeding probiotics has been an effective method to prevent and control enterogenous diseases of cultured fish. It is very important and urgent to study the molecular mechanism of the adhesion and colonization of probiotics to improve the use efficiency accurately. In our previous research, highly-adhesive Lactobacillus plantarum PO23 (LP-PO23) was isolated from the intestine of olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). To clarify the specific adhesion of LP-PO23 to intestinal epithelial cells (IECs), six adhesins, d-lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), enolase (ENO), 60 kDa chaperonin (Cpn60) and chaperone protein DnaK (DnaK) were identified as moonlighting proteins by far-Western blot and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry in this research. The recombinant proteins rLDH, rGAPDH, rEF-Tu, rENO, rCpn60 and rDnak containing FLAG tag were expressed and employed as antigens to produce mouse polyclonal antibodies (pAbs). Using pAbs, Western blot, immunofluorescence (IF) and immunoelectron microscopy (IEM) were carried out to confirm the surface distribution of six adhesins on LP-PO23 cells respectively. Finally, the specific binding of rLDH, rGAPDH, rEF-Tu, rENO, rCpn60 and rDnak to IECs was verified by IF. In binding inhibition assay, the mouse anti-GAPDH pAb displayed the strongest inhibition activity among six pAbs. These results confirmed that six moonlighting adhesins participated in the specific adhesion of LP-PO23 to IECs and would facilitate understanding the adhesion mechanism of lactobacilli.
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