Rapid Detection of Lactobacillus and a Preliminary Investigation of Lactobacillus Plasmids of Pickle

Abstract:

Plasmids of Lactobacillus are precious genetic resources,which carried with some characteristics of Lactobacillus and used in construction of Lactobacillus cloning expression vectors.To investigate resources of Lactobacillus plasmids from Chinese pickle,we collected 52 samples of Chinese pickle,and isolated Lactobacillus strains from these samples using rapid-detection PCR technology which was designed by us.Isolated Lactobacillus strains were further confirmed by 16s rDNA sequencing.Finally,plasmids of isolated Lactobacillus strains were extracted.One Lactobacillus sakei strain and 18 Lactobacillus plantarum strains were detected,and the detection rate of Lactobacillus strain was 36.5%.Eleven Lactobacillus strains contained plasmids,and the detection rate was 21.2%.The results of agarose gel electrophoresis showed 9 band profiles which detection rate was 17.3%.The results of our investigation indicated Chinese pickle are rich in Lactobacillus plasmids,which need to be further study.