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Table 5 Specific bile salt hydrolase (BSH) activity of LAB strains

From: Construction of a shuttle expression vector for lactic acid bacteria

LAB strains transformed with pPBT-GFP

BSH activitya

Sodium glycocholate (GC)

Sodium taurocholate (TC)

Sodium taurodeoxycholate (TDC)

Bile salt mixture

Specific activity (U/mg)

Specific activity (U/mg)

Specific activity (U/mg)

Specific activity (U/mg)

P. acidilactici MTCC 5101

126.1 ± 10.6

68.1 ± 7.6

90.2 ± 8.7

128.3 ± 9.7

L. brevis MTCC 1750

95.4 ± 4.2

43.4 ± 5.3

35.5 ± 9.8

88.1 ± 6.3

  1. aValues are means of triplicates ± standard error of means