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Slowly utilized carbon sources enhance botulinic specific toxicity by co-culture of Clostridium argentinense with the non-pathogen Pseudomonas mendocina
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2008-02Registro en:
Centorbi, Hugo José; Silva, Humberto de Jesus; Slowly utilized carbon sources enhance botulinic specific toxicity by co-culture of Clostridium argentinense with the non-pathogen Pseudomonas mendocina; Springer; World Journal of Microbiology; 24; 2-2008; 1823-1828
0959-3993
1573-0972
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Centorbi, Hugo José
Silva, Humberto de Jesus
Resumen
The growth and botulinic toxin production of Clostridium argentinense G 89 HT in co-culture with Pseudomonas mendocina were studied using two culture systems with carbon sources of rapid and slow utilization. Growth with glucose in homogeneous co-culture presented a dual-phase progression, with the toxin produced in the slow-growing phase. The extended 50 h growth period of the second phase at low specific growth rate was attributed to the combined metabolization of glucose and a complex carbon source of the alginate type produced by P. mendocina under strongly reducing conditions. With dextrin, the co-culture grew at the lower specific growth rate (μ = 0.03 h−1) for a period lasting 80 h. This fully enhanced the production of toxin with a specific toxicity 2.5 times higher than with glucose in a homogeneous system and 10.7 higher than that of C. argentinense G 89 HT single culture. The heterogeneous co-culture obtained with a dialysis membrane physically separating both bacteria (thereby eliminating the metabolic interaction) produced the lowest levels of growth and toxin of all the cases analyzed.