Publications by authors named "M Carmen Balebona"

Postbiotics are metabolic by-products from microorganisms that provide health benefits to the host. Their secretion can be influenced by various conditions affecting bacterial metabolism. This study presents a novel approach for producing potential postbiotics, specifically extracellular products (ECPs), from the probiotic strain Shewanella putrefaciens SpPdp11, grown under different culture conditions.

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This study investigates the postbiotic potential of extracellular products (ECPs) from Bacillus pumilus strains cultivated on microalgae-supplemented media. We assessed enzymatic and antimicrobial activities to select ECPs that enhance the digestive processes in gilthead seabream. Additionally, we explored the in vitro enzymatic capacity of the chosen postbiotics to hydrolyze macromolecules in microalgae.

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Shewanella putrefaciens Pdp11 (SpPdp11) is a probiotic strain assayed in aquaculture; however, its postbiotic potential is unknown. Postbiotics are bacterial metabolites, including extracellular products (ECPs) that improve host physiology and immunity. Their production and composition can be affected by different factors such as the growing conditions of the probiotics.

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Article Synopsis
  • Increased knowledge of functional foods has led to innovations in health products, particularly probiotic-based options like Shewanella putrefaciens Pdp11 (SpPdp11), which shows promising benefits for farmed fish, but live probiotics face challenges such as survival, efficacy, and safety concerns.
  • Limitations in using live probiotics include variable effectiveness across different fish species and environmental factors that affect their activity, as well as potential negative impacts like undesired substances and risks of antibiotic resistance.
  • The study's objective was to explore the postbiotic potential of extracellular products (ECPs) from SpPdp11 under varying conditions, revealing that these ECPs can differentially reduce bacterial biofilm, lower virus titers
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Skin lesions are a frequent fact associated with intensive conditions affecting farmed fish. Knowing that the use of probiotics can improve fish skin health, SpPdp11 dietary administration has demonstrated beneficial effects for farmed fish, so its potential on the skin needs to be studied more deeply. The wounded specimens that received the diet with SpPdp11 showed a decrease in the abundance of , and related to bacterial biofilm formation, as well as the overexpression of genes involved in signaling mechanisms (), cell migration and differentiation (, , , ); and repression of genes related to cell proliferation (, ), consistent with a more efficient skin healing processes than that observed in the wounded control group.

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