PUBLICATION
Weissella confusa DD_A7 pre-treatment to zebrafish larvae ameliorates the inflammation response against Escherichia coli O157:H7
- Authors
- Dey, D.K., Kang, S.C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-200529-11
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- Microbiological research 237: 126489 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- Bacterial contamination, Escherichia coli, Multidrug-resistant, Zebrafish larvae
- MeSH Terms
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- Administration, Oral
- Animals
- Anti-Bacterial Agents/administration & dosage
- Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology
- Colony Count, Microbial
- Disease Models, Animal
- Escherichia coli Infections/drug therapy*
- Escherichia coli Infections/mortality
- Escherichia coli Infections/pathology
- Escherichia coli Infections/prevention & control
- Escherichia coli O157/pathogenicity
- Immunity/drug effects
- Inflammation/drug therapy
- Macrophages/drug effects
- NF-kappa B/drug effects
- Oxidative Stress/drug effects
- Probiotics/administration & dosage
- Probiotics/pharmacology*
- Reactive Oxygen Species/analysis
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Weissella*
- Zebrafish/microbiology*
- PubMed
- 32464536 Full text @ Microbiol. Res.
Citation
Dey, D.K., Kang, S.C. (2020) Weissella confusa DD_A7 pre-treatment to zebrafish larvae ameliorates the inflammation response against Escherichia coli O157:H7. Microbiological research. 237:126489.
Abstract
Increasing multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacterial contamination in the environment has become the leading cause of food poisoning, resulting in life-threatening conditions due to late detection and limited therapeutic options. Escherichia coli O157:H7 is one such pathogen which is severely affecting the environmental livestock and ultimately leads to human infection. In this context, probiotics could be a useful strategy to minimize the growth of pathogens, as they produce several antimicrobial compounds and shows an exclusive competitive behavior against the pathogens. Therefore, supplementation of probiotics is wieldy accepted in the field of agriculture for the maintenance of animal's health. Previously, we reported that W. confusa DD_A7 possesses anti-bacterial and immune-stimulatory activity in-vitro. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the impact of oral-administration of DD_A7 powder against E. coli O157:H7. The 6 days post-fertilized zebrafish larvae were used to evaluate the pathogenicity of the microbe. 1 × 108 CFU/ml of E. coli O157:H7 effectively induced the inflammatory response in zebrafish larvae. Where 1 × 108 CFU/ml DD_A7 pre-treatment prolonged the survivability of zebrafish larvae and improved the immune response of zebrafish larvae against pathogenic infection. The antibacterial property of DD_A7 against the pathogen correlated with the significant reduction of oxidative stress and host inflammatory response, by inhibiting NF-κB and its downstream signaling pathway. The findings demonstrated the prophylactic activity of DD_A7 suggesting that its supplementation improved the host defense mechanism by reducing oxidative stress. The growth of pathogen was effectively suppressed in the DD_A7 pre-treated larvae and maintained a healthy gastrointestinal environment in the zebrafish model.
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