Evaluation of Subsp (Canan SV-53) as a Potential Probiotic Bacterium.

The advent of omic platforms revealed the significant benefits of probiotics in the prevention of many infectious diseases. This led to a growing interest in novel strains of probiotics endowed with health characteristics related to microbiome and immune modulation. Therefore, autochthonous bacteria in plant ecosystems might offer a good source for novel next-generation probiotics. The main objective of this study was to analyze the effect of ( a bacterium isolated from the blueberry biota, on the mammalian intestinal ecosystem and its potential as a probiotic microorganism. . , reinforced the intestinal epithelial barrier avoiding bacterial translocation from the gut to deep tissues, even after feeding BALB/c mice for a prolonged period of time. Moreover, diet supplementation with led to increases in the number of Paneth cells, well as an increase in the antimicrobial peptide α defensin. The anti-bacterial effect of . against and serovar Typhimurium was also reported. Importantly, -fed animals showed better survival in an in vivo serovar Typhimurium challenge compared with those that received a conventional diet. These results demonstrated that possesses characteristics of a probiotic strain by contributing to the reinforcement and maintenance of intestinal homeostasis.