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Journal of Bacteriology, April 2003, p. 2571-2581, Vol. 185, No. 8
0021-9193/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.8.2571-2581.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Genomic Diversity and Relatedness of Bifidobacteria Isolated from a Porcine Cecum

P. J. Simpson,1 C. Stanton,1 G. F. Fitzgerald,2 and R. P. Ross1*

Teagasc, Dairy Products Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, County Cork,1 Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland2

Received 20 November 2002/ Accepted 3 February 2003

This study initially involved the isolation of a number of bifidobacteria from either the lumen or the epithelium of a porcine cecum. A total of 160 isolates were selected at random on MRS plates containing cysteine hydrochloride (0.5 g/liter) and mupirocin (50 mg/liter). All were identified as bifidobacteria based on fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase activity. Following genomic digestion with the restriction enzyme XbaI and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), the isolates produced 15 distinct macro-restriction patterns. Several of the PFGE patterns differed by only 1, 2, or 3 DNA fragments and were grouped as related patterns into seven PFGE types, termed A through G. The related patterns appeared to show genomic plasticity within the isolates arising from chromosomal mutations or possibly horizontal transfer of plasmids. The relative frequency of each PFGE type was maintained within each cecal sample, with PFGE type E representing approximately 50% of the isolates. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA PCR, cell morphology, whole-cell protein profiling, 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing, and DNA-DNA hybridization were used to determine if the seven apparently unrelated PFGE types represented genetically distinct isolates. Four groups were identified: PFGE types A, C/D/G, B/E, and F, and these appeared to represent Bifidobacterium minimum, Bifidobacterium pseudolongum subsp. pseudolongum, and Bifidobacterium pseudolongum subsp. globosum and two new species, respectively. The data demonstrate the presence of considerable genomic diversity within a relatively simple bifidobacteria population, consisting of 15 distinct strains representing four groups, which was maintained throughout the porcine cecal contents and epithelial layer.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Teagasc, Dairy Products Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland. Phone: 353 25 42229. Fax: 353 25 42340. E-mail: pross{at}moorepark.teagasc.ie.

Journal of Bacteriology, April 2003, p. 2571-2581, Vol. 185, No. 8
0021-9193/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.8.2571-2581.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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