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18838805

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-10-23
pubmed:abstractText
An equol-producing bacterium was newly isolated from the feces of healthy humans and its morphological and biochemical properties were characterized. The cells were obligate anaerobes. They were non-sporulating, non-motile, gram-positive bacilliform bacteria with a pleomorphic morphology. The strain was catalase-positive, and oxidase-, urease-, and indole-negative. The only other sugar utilized by the strain was glycerin. The strain also degraded gelatin, but not esculin. It was most closely related to Eggerthella hongkongensis HKU10, with 93.3% 16S rDNA nucleotide sequence homology. Based on these features, the isolate was identified as a novel species of the genus Eggerthella. It was named Eggerthella sp. YY7918. Strain YY7918 converted substrates daidzein and dihydrodaidzein into S-equol, but did not convert daidzin, glysitein, genistein, or formononetin into it. An antimicrobial susceptibility assay indicated that strain YY7918 was susceptible to aminoglycoside-, tetracycline-, and new quinolone-antibiotics.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1347-6947
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
72
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2660-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Isolation and characterization of a novel equol-producing bacterium from human feces.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Applied Microbiology, Gifu Prefectural Research Institute for Bioengineering, Gifu, Japan. yokoyama@bio.rd.pref.gifu.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article