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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2005, p. 4925-4929, Vol. 71, No. 8
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Genetic Analysis of Two Bile Salt Hydrolase Activities in Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM

Olivia McAuliffe,1,{dagger} Raul J. Cano,2 and Todd R. Klaenhammer1*

Department of Food Science, Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695,1 Environmental Biotechnology Institute, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 934072

Received 17 November 2004/ Accepted 21 February 2005


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ABSTRACT
 
Two genes, bshA and bshB, encoding bile salt hydrolase enzymes (EC 3.5.1.24) were identified in the genome sequence of Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM. Targeted inactivation of these genes via chromosomal insertion of an integration vector demonstrated different substrate specificities for these two enzymes.


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INTRODUCTION
 
In humans and other mammals, primary bile salts are produced de novo in the liver from cholesterol (4). The steroid portion of the molecule is conjugated with an amide bond at the C-24 position to one of two amino acids, taurine or glycine. Following manufacture, conjugated bile salts are stored in the gall bladder and secreted via the bile duct into the small intestine. Here, these conjugates form spontaneous micelles that trap dietary cholesterol and fats, thus facilitating their absorption by the intestinal epithelium into the bloodstream (25). While more than 95% of bile salts enter the enterohepatic circulation in humans (17), up to 650 mg of bile salts per day elude absorption through the intestinal epithelium. Thus, high concentrations of these conjugates are present in the gastrointestinal tract.

Certain species of the indigenous microflora, including a number of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria, have evolved the ability to deconjugate bile salts. This action is dependent on the presence of an enzyme known as bile salt hydrolase (BSH; cholylglycine hydrolase; EC 3.5.1.24) that catalyzes the hydrolysis of glycine- and/or taurine-conjugated bile salts into the amino acid residue and the bile acid (13). Several theories have been proposed for the ecological significance of BSH activity in these organisms. These include their ability to use free amino acids as electron acceptors to obtain energy under anaerobic conditions (19, 35) and self-protection against the toxic effects of bile salts (32). However, studies on the impact of BSH-producing organisms in the colonized host have produced much conflicting evidence. Observations that a reduction in the levels of serum cholesterol is associated with the presence of BSH-producing organisms has led to increased interest in the possibility of their use in hypercholesterolemic individuals or to prevent elevated cholesterol levels in individuals with normal cholesterol status (8). Conversely, negative effects have also been reported including cases of contaminated small bowel syndrome, impaired lipid absorption, gallstone formation, and increased risk of colon cancer (25).

Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM is a human isolate used commercially for over 25 years as a probiotic culture (31). The organism has the ability to survive in the gastrointestinal tract (31, 33), adhere to human epithelial cells in vitro (16), utilize fructooligosaccharides (3), modulate the host immune response, and prevent microbial gastroenteritis (36). Analysis of the NCFM genome sequence revealed the presence of two putative bile salt hydrolase genes (2). The bile-hydrolyzing capability associated with L. acidophilus NCFM had been previously identified by phenotypic screen (D.C. Walker, unpublished results). Due to the implications of the presence of bile salt hydrolase in several probiotic strains, this study was designed to further characterize this activity in NCFM through targeted gene inactivation.


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Genomic analysis of the bsh loci.
 
To identify the molecular foundations of the relationship between probiotic organisms and their hosts, genetic characterization of strains is essential (26). Thus, L. acidophilus NCFM was chosen for whole-genome sequencing. The 2.0-Mb genome sequence of L. acidophilus NCFM has recently been elucidated (2) and contains 1,864 predicted protein-encoding genes. Sequence analysis was performed using a combination of GCG (version 9.1; University of Wisconsin Genetics Computer Group), Clone Manager (version 6.0; SciEd Central) and GAMOLA (1). Protein homology searches were performed with the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (PSI-BLAST), version 2.2, at the website of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). Screening of early drafts of the genome sequence led to the identification of an open reading frame (ORF) whose predicted protein sequence showed significant similarity to BSH enzymes found in a number of other organisms (Table 1). These included Lactobacillus johnsonii (82%) (29), Listeria monocytogenes (65%) (9), and Bifidobacterium longum (54%) (34). This gene was designated bshA. Analysis of the genomic organization of the region surrounding bshA revealed the presence of a number of ORFs with homology to DNA helicases, transporters, and hypothetical proteins (Fig. 1). A promoter-type structure and ribosomal binding site preceding bshA were identified, as well as a putative terminator ({Delta}G = –24.7 kcal) downstream, suggesting that bshA is transcribed independently of the surrounding genes. Subsequent sequencing, leading to improved genome assemblies, resulted in the identification of another ORF, designated bshB, the putative gene product of which displayed 57% identity to that of bshA. Again, a ribosomal binding site and putative promoter were identified within the genome structure; a potential terminator ({Delta}G = –21.4 kcal) downstream also indicates that bshB is most likely to be monocistronic. Genes in the vicinity of bshB were predominantly similar to genes encoding hypothetical proteins of unknown function (Fig. 1). No other bsh homologues were found in the L. acidophilus NCFM genome. The GenBank accession number for the L. acidophilus NCFM genome sequence from which the bshA and bshB genes are derived is CP000033.


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  		TABLE 1. Comparison of amino acid sequences of some bacterial BSH enzymes



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  		FIG. 1. Schematic representation of the genetic organization of the bsh loci of L. acidophilus NCFM. Arrows indicate ORFs and the directions of transcription; bsh genes are represented by solid black arrows. Annotations of flanking genes are also indicated. HP denotes a hypothetical protein of unknown function. This representation is not drawn to scale.


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Construction of bsh mutants.
 
The directed integration system described previously by Russell and Klaenhammer (30) was used to inactivate first bshA and then bshB in the genome of L. acidophilus NCFM, creating two separate mutants. Primers were designed to amplify a 588-bp internal region of bshA (forward primer, 5'-AAA GTC GAC GAA AAG GGG CTT GGT A-3'; reverse primer, 5'-AAG AAT TCC CAT CAG GTT GTT CTA C-3'). The underlined restriction sites were used to clone the amplified product into the Ori+ RepA– integration plasmid, pORI28. The resultant plasmid, pTRK734, was transformed into L. acidophilus NCFM containing pTRK669, a temperature-sensitive helper plasmid that provides repA in trans for the replication of pORI28. A temperature increase from 37°C to 42°C resulted in the integration of pTRK734 into the NCFM genome, concurrent with the loss of pTRK669 and its associated Cmr phenotype at the nonpermissive temperature. To confirm the integration of pTRK734 at the correct genome locus, Southern hybridizations were performed using the 588-bp fragment, labeled with nonradioactive digoxigenin (DIG) (Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Indianapolis, IN), as a probe. The bshA probe hybridized to a 4.8-kb EcoRI fragment in the wild type (Fig. 2A). In the mutant NCFM{Delta}bshA (or NCK1618), this band was absent, and due to the presence of a single EcoRI site in the integration vector sequence, junction fragments of approximately 4.3 kb and 2.7 kb were observed (Fig. 2A). This genome structure is indicative of the occurrence of a single crossover homologous recombination event (Fig. 2B). An additional band of 2.3 kb was detected in the mutant (Fig. 2); this fragment corresponds to the integration vector, pTRK734, which had amplified and was present in more than one copy. In the case of bshB, a 618-bp internal fragment was amplified (forward primer, 5'-AGG ATC CAG TTA GTT CCA TCA GAA TA-3'; reverse primer, 5'-TAT AAG CTT GGT ATG GCC GGA CTC AAC-3') and cloned into pORI28 to create pTRK735 and a similar strategy adopted for inactivation. The integration event was checked and verified in a manner similar to that shown in Fig. 2 for the bshA mutant. The bshB mutant was designated NCFM{Delta}bshB (or NCK1619).



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  		FIG. 2. (A) Southern hybridization analysis of L. acidophilus NCFM and NCK1618. Chromosomal DNA was digested with EcoRI (lanes 1 and 2) and hybridized with the DIG-labeled 588-bp internal bshA fragment as a probe. Lanes: M, DIG-labeled {lambda}-HindIII marker (Roche Molecular Biochemicals); 1, NCFM; 2, NCK1618. DNA sizes are indicated in kilobases. (B) Schematic representation of the relevant regions of the NCFM and NCFM{Delta}bshA (NCK1618) chromosomes. Heavy lines represent chromosomal DNA; thin lines represent plasmid DNA. bshA is represented by the arrow, and the shaded box is the internal fragment corresponding to the hybridization probe. EcoRI sites (E) are indicated.


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Determination of bile tolerance.
 
Bile tolerance is an important criterion in the selection of probiotic strains. Previous reports have suggested that a concentration of 0.3% oxgall (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO) closely approximates the bile levels found in the gastrointestinal tract (14, 15). To evaluate their ability to grow in the presence of bile, the parent, NCFM{Delta}bshA, and NCFM{Delta}bshB were screened for growth on MRS plates or in MRS broth supplemented with concentrations of oxgall up to 0.5%. Typically, Lactobacillus spp. do not grow at levels higher than 0.3% (20, 21). When incubated under anaerobic conditions, the parent was capable of growth in up to 0.25% oxgall, as were both NCFM{Delta}bshA and NCFM{Delta}bshB (data not shown). At concentrations of 0.3% and higher, no growth was observed for any strain, either in broth or on plates. This indicated that inactivation of one or other of the bile salt hydrolase enzymes of L. acidophilus NCFM did not affect its ability to grow in the presence of bile.


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Detection of BSH activity.
 
A direct plate assay for detection of BSH activity was employed to compare the NCFM{Delta}bshA and NCFM{Delta}bshB mutants with the wild-type strain. A number of glycine- and taurine-conjugated bile salts were selected for the assays; these are listed in Table 2. By the inclusion of bile salts in agar medium, BSH-positive strains can be identified by halos of precipitated free bile acids surrounding the colonies due to hydrolysis and acidification of the medium. The assay used in this study is a modified version of that developed by Dashkevicz and Feighner (6); in our assays, the upper concentration of bile salts used was reduced from 0.5% to 0.2% due to the inability of L. acidophilus NCFM to grow at 0.5%. In the cases of taurochenodeoxycholic acid (TCDCA) and glycochenodeoxycholic acid (GCDCA), this concentration was reduced further to 0.02 to 0.05%. For the wild-type strain, hydrolysis of taurodeoxycholic acid (TDCA) (Table 2 and Fig. 3A) and taurocholic acid (TCA) (Table 2) under anaerobic conditions resulted in significant amounts of deoxycholic acid precipitating around active colonies. Similar levels of precipitation were observed surrounding colonies of NCFM{Delta}bshA when plated on TDCA (Table 2 and Fig. 3B) and TCA (Table 2), indicating that this mutant had retained the ability to hydrolyze these deoxy-conjugated compounds. Furthermore, NCFM{Delta}bshA retained the ability to hydrolyze the glycine-conjugated compounds such as glycodeoxycholic acid and glycocholic acid. Hydrolysis of TCDCA and GCDCA by L. acidophilus NCFM was observed as a cloudiness in the agar rather than as distinct zones of precipitation observed for the other bile salts. However, while both the parent and mutant grew, albeit slowly, on 0.05% TCDCA and GCDCA, NCFM{Delta}bshA appeared to have lost the ability to hydrolyze both salts (Table 2), as indicated by the lack of precipitation in the agar. Interestingly, when both TCDCA and GCDCA concentrations in the agar were further reduced to 0.02%, NCFM{Delta}bshA showed some signs of BSH activity (Table 2). The creation of a {Delta}bshB mutant allowed the activities of BshB to be assessed in a similar manner. Comparisons with the parent strain demonstrated that while NCFM{Delta}bshB displayed growth on and precipitation of all glycoconjugates tested, this mutant was capable of growth but incapable of precipitation of the tauroconjugated bile salts, TCA, TDCA, and TCDCA (Table 2 and Fig. 3C).


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  		TABLE 2. Analysis of L. acidophilus NCFM and bsh mutants on different bile saltsa



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  		FIG. 3. Plate assays for the detection of BSH activity. (A) L. acidophilus NCFM; (B) NCFM{Delta}bshA (NCK1618); (C) NCFM{Delta}bshB (NCK1619) on MRS agar containing 0.2% TDCA. In the assays shown, precipitation in the agar is indicative of BSH activity specific for TDCA.

Thus, to summarize, while NCFM{Delta}bshA was capable of the hydrolysis of some tauro- and glycoconjugated bile salts, this mutant had a reduced ability to hydrolyze TCDCA and GCDCA, bile salts containing chenodeoxycholic acid as the steroid moiety. Conversely, inactivation of bshB revealed that the BshB enzyme encoded by this gene appears to exhibit substrate specificity dictated by the amino acid conjugated to the bile salt. This conclusion was made based on the inability of NCFM{Delta}bshB to hydrolyze any bile salt conjugated to taurine. Previous studies have demonstrated that the specificity of the catalytic activities of BSH enzymes may be influenced either by the amino acid in the conjugate or by other side chains in the steroid moiety (13, 18, 27). Our results suggest that BshA activity is dictated by the steroid nucleus of the conjugated bile salt, while the specificity of BshB is determined by the presence of taurine in the bile salt structure.

To our knowledge, this is the first report of the presence of two BSH enzymes with different substrate specificities in a single strain of Lactobacillus. Although BSH production is not an essential attribute for organisms that colonize the gastrointestinal tract, its importance in colonizing species of Lactobacillus is highlighted by the high level of conservation between the various enzymes indicated in Table 1. However, after a comparison of both predicted protein sequences to the deduced amino acid sequences of other BSH enzymes, it was interesting that they both share a higher level of identity to enzymes from other Lactobacillus species than to each other. BshA shares 69% identity with the enzyme from L. johnsonii NCC533 (29), while BshB is more similar (57% identity; 76% similarity) to that of BSH alpha from L. johnsonii 100-100 (11). No such identity was observed at the DNA level. However, the G+C contents of both genes are similar to those of other genes in the L. acidophilus NCFM genome. Therefore, it is possible that bshA and bshB may have originated from different sources through horizontal gene transfer from a closely related genome, but we have no tangible evidence for this at the present time. Another possibility is that these genes may have arisen from a duplication event, following which the genes have subsequently diverged to encode enzymes with different substrate specificities. However, since the proteins share only 57% identity, this scenario is unlikely.

While the evolution of BSH enzymes with different activities in L. acidophilus NCFM is striking, the significance of BSH activity in lactobacilli is still far from understood. Since the free bile acids appear to be more inhibitory than the conjugated bile salts themselves, it is most likely not a detoxification mechanism for these organisms. While some positive effects of the consumption of BSH-producing probiotics have been documented, the effects are often transient and unsustainable. Generally, human studies have yielded mixed results with no clear-cut reduction in cholesterol observed due to probiotic consumption (12). It seems that the debate will continue as to whether or not this enzyme activity is a desirable property in probiotic bacteria.


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
We thank Mike Russell for his technical assistance and Eric Altermann for his help with sequence analysis. Raul Cano provided DNA sequence information prior to publication.

This research was funded by the North Carolina Dairy Foundation, Danisco, Inc. (Madison, WA), the Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center, and Dairy Management, Inc., the California Dairy Research Foundation, and The Environmental Biotechnology Institute.


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FOOTNOTES
 
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dept. of Food Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695. Phone: (919) 515-2971. Fax: (919) 515-7124. E-mail: trk{at}unity.ncsu.edu. Back

{dagger} Present address: Dairy Products Research Center, Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland. Back


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