The effect of arginine on the growth of probiotics.

The study objective was to examine the effect of arginine (Arg) supplementation on the growth of probiotics. Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG, Lactiplantibacillus plantarum, and Lactobacillus acidophilus were identified as potential probiotics. L. rhamnosus GG and L. plantarum were selected for further experimentation. The probiotics were co-treated with 0.9% NaCl (negative control), 0.5% Arg, and 1.0% Arg in a 1:1 ratio for 24 h at 5% CO The growth profiles of L. rhamnosus GG and L. plantarum were found to be similar, whereas L. acidophilus showed minimal or no transition from the initial lag phase. In the turbidity assay, the end-point absorbance for L. rhamnosus GG with 1.0% Arg was significantly lower than 0.9% NaCl and 0.5% Arg (p<0.05). For metabolic assays and CFU, increasing concentrations of Arg increased the viable cells for L. rhamnosus GG (p<0.05), but decreased viability for L. plantarum (p<0.05). Metabolic assays with dual-species bacterial suspensions indicated that Arg co-treatment inhibited viable proportions compared to control (p<0.05). The dead cell proportion was significantly lower than live cell proportion for all tested interventions and probiotics (p<0.05). Increasing concentrations of Arg promote the growth of L. rhamnosus GG, while conversely inhibiting the growth of L. plantarum. Therefore, the effect of prebiotic Arg on probiotics is concentration-dependent, leading to a selective promotion or inhibition of growth. The present study results show that Arg supplementation can selectively enhance the growth of L. rhamnosus GG while inhibit the growth of L. plantarum. This underscores the need to consider strain-specific responses in probiotic formulations when developing Arg-based synbiotics for modulating biofilms and creating ecologically homeostatic biofilm microenvironments.

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