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Protocol

Microbiological Experiment

medium formula

LB Medium

Yeast Extract 5 g / L
Sodium Chloride 10 g / L
Tryptone 10 g / L
Agar 20g/L(solid)

GM17 Medium

M17 Medium 42.25g/L
Glucose 5g/L
Agar 12.5g/L(solid)

SGM17MC Medium(hypertonic/recovery medium)

M17 Medium 42.25g/L
Sucrose 171.15g /L
Glucose 5g/L
1mol/L MgCl2 20ml/L
1mol/LCaCl2 2ml/L

G-SGM17 Medium(Medium for preparation of competent states)

Sucrose 171.15g /L
Glycine 25 g/L
M17 medium 42.25g/L
Glucose 5g/L

Culture of strains

Lactic acid bacteria culture

Solid: the preserved strains/cultured strains were coated/strewed onto the pre-prepared GM17 solid medium and placed in an anaerobic tank or drying oven for 30h without oxygen.
Liquid: Inoculate the preserved strain/culture liquid onto a shaker tube containing 5ml pre-prepared GM17 liquid medium and placed in a shaker or anaerobic tank or drying oven for 30h in anaerobic mode at 30℃.

E. coli culture

Solid: the preserved strains/cultured strains were coated/strewed onto the pre-prepared LB solid medium and placed in a 37℃ constant temperature incubator for aerobic static culture for 24h.
Liquid: Inoculate the preserved strain/culture liquid into a shaker tube containing 5 ml pre-prepared LB liquid medium, placed on a constant temperature shaker, and aerobically cultured at 185rpm at 37℃ for 24h.

Recovery, inoculation and preservation of strains

1. Transfer from solid to liquid: Use a pipette tip to pick a single colony into a shaking tube containing 5 ml of culture medium, rinse the pipette tip, and discard it.
2. Liquid to liquid: Pipette 50μL of culture medium into a shaking tube containing 5 ml of culture medium (diluted at a ratio of 1:100), rinse the tip of the pipette, and discard it.
3. Bacteria preservation: 50% glycerol solution and cultured bacterial liquid are added to the same preservation tube at a volume of 1:1, pipetted evenly, and stored in a refrigerator at -80℃.

The addition of antibiotics

Erythromycin: working concentration: 500 μg/ml (E. coli) / 5 μg/ml (lactic acid bacteria), storage concentration: 100 mg/ml erythromycin-ethanol solution, protected from light, stored at -20°C. Sterilize with a filter membrane before use.

Nisin: working concentration: 50 IU/ml (lactic acid bacteria), storage concentration: 1000 IU/ml, protected from light, stored at -20°C. Sterilize with filter membrane before use.

Kanamycin: Working concentration: 50 μg/ml (E. coli), storage concentration: 50 mg/ml, protected from light, stored at -20°C. Sterilize with filter membrane before use.

Ampicillin: Working concentration: 50 μg/ml (large intestine), storage concentration: 100 mg/ml, protected from light, stored at -20°C. Sterilize with filter membrane before use.

Triclosan: working concentration: 0.625 μM/ml, 1.25 μM/ml (DH5α),2.5 mM/ml (Nissle 1917), storage concentration: 100 mg/ml triclosan-ethanol solution, protected from light, stored at 4°C. Sterilize with filter membrane before use.

Chemical Transformation of E.Coli

Preparation of competent cells

1. The bacteria to be transformed are cultured in advance to the plateau or late logarithmic growth stage. Then the bacterial suspension is inoculated in a 5 ml LB liquid medium at a ratio of 1:100-1:50 and cultured with shaking at 37°C 3 hours to OD600 = 0.5-0.7.
2. Transfer 1 ml of culture medium into a 1.5 ml centrifuge tube, place it on ice for 5 minutes and then centrifuge at 4°C and 8000 rpm for 2 minutes.
3. Discard the supernatant, gently suspend the cells in 200 μL of pre-chilled 0.05 mol/L CaCl2 solution, and then place on ice for 10 min.
4. Centrifuge for 2 minutes at 4°C and 8000 rpm. (If there is no need to preserve the seeds, this step can be omitted. )
5. Discard the supernatant, add 200 μL of pre-cooled 0.05 mol/L CaCl2 solution containing 15% glycerol, gently suspend the cells, and place on ice for a few minutes to form a competent cell suspension. (If there is no need to preserve the seeds, this step can be omitted) Competent cells can be used for a transformation immediately or stored at -80°C for half a year.

Transformation

1. Take 200 μL of competent cell suspension from -80℃ refrigerator and thaw on ice. (If there is no need to preserve the seeds, this step can be omitted.)
2. Add plasmid DNA solution (the volume should not exceed 5 μL, depending on the concentration), shake gently, and place on ice for 20 min.
3. Heat in a 42℃ water bath for 60 seconds, and quickly place on ice to cool for 3 minutes after heat shock.
4. Add 800 μL of LB liquid medium (without antibiotics) to the tube, place it in a shaker at 37°C, and incubate for 10-30 minutes.
5. Centrifuge at 3000 rpm for 2 minutes, discard part of the supernatant (100-200 μL of the supernatant is best), gently pipette the cells to resuspend them in the supernatant solution.
6. Spread the above-mentioned bacterial liquid on a screening plate containing antibiotics (place it face up for half an hour, and invert the culture dish after the medium absorbs the bacterial liquid completely ). Then incubate at 37°C for 16-24 hours.

Electric transformation of lactic acid bacteria

Preparation of competent cells

1. Day 1: Remove the preserved strains from the refrigerator at -80℃, thaw them on ice, streak them on the GM17 solid medium, and cultivate them overnight at 30℃.
2. Day 2: Take a single colony from the plate on Day 1, place it in 100 ml G-SGM17 medium, and cultivate it anaerobic at 30 ℃ until the OD600 is 0.6-0.8.
3. Aliquot into 50 ml centrifuge tubes, pre-cool on ice for 20-30 minutes, and centrifuge at 4°C and 4000 rpm for 10 minutes.
4. Discard the supernatant, add 3 ml of pre-chilled ddH2O, gently blow to suspend the bacterial pellet, dispense it in a 1.5 ml centrifuge tube, and centrifuge at 4°C and 4000 rpm for 10 min.
5. Repeat step (4)
6. Change ddH2O to 10% glycerol and repeat step (4)
7. Repeat step (6)
8. Finally, add 500 μL of 10% glycerol to each centrifuge tube, which can be used for a transformation immediately or stored at -80°C.

Electric transformation

experimental group: Put 100 μL of competent cells into a pre-cooled 2 mm electric shock cup containing 10 μL of plasmid DNA solution, and place them on ice for 10 min.
control group: Put 100 μL of competent cells into a pre-cooled 2 mm electric shock cup containing 10 μL ddH2O, and place them on ice for 10 minutes.
1. Set the electro-transfer parameters as follows: voltage 2000 V, capacitance 25 μF, resistance 200 Ω.
2. After electroporation, immediately add 1 ml of resuscitation medium SGM17MC, mix well and place on ice for 10 minutes.
3. Transfer the solution from the electroshock cup to a 1.5 ml centrifuge tube and incubate at 30°C for 2 h anaerobic.
4. Centrifuge at 4000 rpm for 10 minutes, discard part of the supernatant,and spread the plate. Place it on the front side for half an hour.
After the bacterial solution is entirely absorbed by the culture medium, place the petri dish upside down. Anaerobic culture at 30°C for 2-3 days.

Cleaning the electric shock cup

1. Gently rinse the shock cup with clean water.
2. Add 70% alcohol to the shock cup and soak for 2 hours.
3. Discard the alcohol, and rinse with distilled water 2 to 3 times. Use a 1 ml pipette to suck ddH2O.
and repeatedly blow the inner wall of the electric shock cup more than 10 times.
4. Add 2 ml of absolute ethanol to the electric shock cup and soak for 30 minutes.
5. Discard the absolute ethanol and place it in a fume hood to volatilize the ethanol.
6. Put the cleaned electric shock cup into the refrigerator at -20℃ for later use.
Note: 1. The shock cups used for different samples should be separated.
2. Soak in 1% alcohol for 30 minutes a week.

Electric transformation of Escherichia coli

Preparation of competent cells

1. Day 1: Remove the preserved strains from the refrigerator at -80℃, thaw on ice, streak on the LB solid medium, and cultivate overnight at 37℃.
2. Day 2: Take a single colony from the plate on Day 1, place it in 100 ml LB liquid medium, and incubate at 37 ℃ on a shaker until the OD600 is 0.6-0.8.
3. Aliquot into 50 ml centrifuge tubes, pre-cool on ice for 20-30 minutes, and centrifuge at 4°C and 4000 rpm for 10 minutes.
4. Discard the supernatant, add 3 ml of pre-chilled ddH2O, gently blow to suspend the bacterial pellet, dispense it in a 1.5 ml centrifuge tube, and centrifuge at 4°C and 4000 rpm for 10 min.
5. Repeat step (4)
6. Change ddH2O to 10% glycerol and repeat step (4)
7. Repeat step (6)
8. Finally, add 500 μL of 10% glycerol to each centrifuge tube, which can be used for a transformation immediately or stored at -80°C.

Electric transformation

experimental group: Put 100 μL of competent cells into a pre-cooled 2 mm electric shock cup containing 10 μL of plasmid DNA solution, and place them on ice for 10 min.
control group: Put 100 μL of competent cells into a pre-cooled 2 mm electric shock cup containing 10 μL ddH2O, and place them on ice for 10 minutes.
1. Set the electro-transfer parameters as follows: voltage 2000 V, capacitance 25 μF, resistance 200 Ω.
2. After electroporation, immediately add 1 ml of the corresponding resistant LB liquid medium to mix and place on ice for 10 min.
3. Transfer the solution from the electric shock cup to a 1.5 mL centrifuge tube and incubate at 37°C for 2 hours on a shaker.
4. Centrifuge at 4000 rpm for 10 minutes, discard part of the supernatant and spread the plate. Place it on the front side for half an hour.
After the bacterial solution is entirely absorbed by the culture medium, place the petri dish upside down. Incubate overnight at 37°C.

Induced expression in cells

1. Inoculate the preserved strain/cultured strain into an Erlenmeyer flask containing 20 mL of pre-prepared LB liquid medium, place it on a constant temperature shaker, and culture it aerobically at 37°C and 185 rpm.
2. When od600 reaches 0.4 ~ 0.6, add IPTG and control its concentration to 0.6 mM.
3. After 6 hours of constant temperature incubation, put it in the refrigerator overnight.

Cell Lysis

1. Add 500 μL of a bacterial solution to a 1.5 mL centrifuge tube, cool the centrifuge tube in liquid nitrogen until the bacterial solution is entirely frozen, and immediately melt it in warm water at 37°C. Put it into liquid nitrogen immediately after melting, and repeat the operation 5 times. During repeated freezing and thawing, please pay attention to the condition of the centrifuge tube to prevent it from breaking.
2. After repeated freezing and thawing, put it in a centrifuge and centrifuge at 10,000 rpm for 1 min.
3. After centrifugation, taking the supernatant or the sediment depends on the specific experimental design. Store the supernatant in a refrigerator at -20°C.

Molecular Experiment

Plasmid extraction

Escherichia coli

Small extraction: See TIANGEN plasmid small extraction kit.
Large-scale extraction based on TIANGEN plasmid large-scale extraction kit.
1. Take 100 mL (choose the appropriate amount according to the concentration of the cultured cells, 200 mL is recommended for a soft copy) overnight cultured bacteria liquid into the centrifuge tube, room temperature 8000 rpm (~8228×g) centrifugation for 3 minutes to collect the bacteria liquid, try to suck Except the supernatant. Note When there is much bacterial liquid, the bacterial pellet can be collected in a centrifuge tube by centrifugation. The amount of bacterial liquid should be sufficiently lysed. Too much bacterial liquid will lead to insufficient lysis and reduce the efficiency of plasmid extraction.
2. Try to absorb the supernatant as much as possible. To ensure that the supernatant is completely absorbed, please use clean absorbent paper to absorb the water droplets on the bottle wall. 3. Add 8 mL of solution P1 (please check whether RNaseA has been added) to the centrifuge tube with bacterial pellet, and use a pipette or vortex to lyse the suspended bacterial cell pellet completely.
Note: Be sure to suspend the bacterial sediment thoroughly. If some bacteria are clumps that are not thoroughly mixed, it will affect the lysis effect, resulting in low extraction volume and purity. For low-copy plasmids, increase the number of bacteria while increasing the proportion of P1, P2. The amount of P4.
4. Add 8 mL of solution P2 to the centrifuge tube, turn it upside down gently 6-8 times, and leave it at room temperature for 5 minutes.
Note: Mix gently, do not shake vigorously to avoid contamination of genomic DNA. At this time, the bacterial liquid should become transparent and viscous. If it does not become apparent, it may be due to too much bacteria and incomplete lysis, so fewer bacteria should be reduced.
5. Add 8 mL of solution P4 to the centrifuge tube, and immediately turn it upside down gently 6-8 times, mix well, until the solution appears white dispersed flocculent precipitate. Then leave it at room temperature for about 10 minutes. Centrifuge at 8000 rpm (~8228×g) for 5-10 min to allow the white precipitate to separate to the bottom of the tube (the centrifugation time can be increased appropriately), and carefully pour all the solution into the filter CS1 (please avoid pouring a large amount of precipitate to block the filter ), slowly push the push handle to filter, and collect the filtrate in a clean 50 mL tube (provided by yourself).
Note: Mix the solution immediately after adding solution P4 to avoid local precipitation. If the solution poured into the filter CS1 after centrifugation has white precipitation, it would not affect the filtration. If there are too many bacteria (>100 mL), it is recommended to extend the centrifugation time to 20-30min.
6. Add isopropanol equal to the filtrate volume to the filtrate, mix upside down, and centrifuge at 8000 rpm (~8228×g) for 5 min.
7. Pour and discard the supernatant. Take care to prevent the precipitate from being poured out. Add 6 mL of 70% ethanol to wash the precipitate. Centrifuge at 8000 rpm (~8228×g) at room temperature for 5 min. Carefully discard the ethanol. Repeat the operation once.
8. Leave the lid open in the air for 5-10 minutes, and dissolve the precipitate with an appropriate volume of ddH2O as needed.

Lactic acid bacteria

When extracting plasmids, it is necessary to add lysozyme buffer (from biosharp company) with a working concentration of 30 mg/mL after the small extraction step 3 of E. coli and place it at 42°C for 1 hour to assist in breaking the wall. The subsequent steps are the same.

Enzyme digestion

Single enzyme digestion system

Plasmid DNA: x μL (according to the actual concentration)
Restriction endonuclease: 1μL
10×buffer : 2μL
ddH₂O: 20-x μL

Double enzyme digestion system

Plasmid DNA: x μL (according to the actual concentration)
Restriction enzyme 1: 1μL
Restriction enzyme 2: 1μL
10×buffer : 2μL
ddH₂O: 20-x μL
The total system is 20 μL, add samples and mix well, 37℃ water bath for 1h-3h, electrophoresis verification.

PCR

System (20μL in total)
  r Taq Buffer(10x     2μL  
dNTPs 1.6μL
Pre primer 0.5μL
Back primer 0.5μL
rTaq 0.5μL
  Template sequence   1.0μL
ddH2O 14.8μL
Reaction procedure
  94℃     5min  
90℃ 30 s
55℃ 30 s
72℃ x min
72℃ 8 min
16℃ ∞ min

Step2 to Step4 30cycles

Agarose gel electrophoresis

1. Dissolve 0.3 g of agarose in 30 mL of 1X TAE solution, heat it until the bubbles stop, and the solution becomes transparent, cool slightly and add 3 μL Goldview (10000x)
2. Pour the gel into the gel membrane tool inserted with the comb (the sample amount determines the specific size), and wait for it to set.
3. Add 1/2/3 μL 6× loading buffer to the 5/10/15μL sample and mix by pipetting.
4. Put the gel into the electrophoresis tank and add 1X TAE buffer to completely cover the gel and squeeze out the bubbles in the gel hole.
5. Add the mixed sample and marker to the gel hole. Specific experiments determine the sample loading volume. The marker loading volume is based on the following standards, 11 wells gel corresponds to 2 μL, 8 wells correspond to 5 μL, and 6 wells corresponds to 10 μL.
6. Run electrophoresis under 180V voltage until the colour band of loading buffer is electrophoresed to the middle or two-thirds of the gel, stop electrophoresis.
7. Use ultraviolet light to image the gel. If necessary, cut rubber for recycling.

Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

1. Prepare running buffer: Dissolve 15.1 g Tris and 94 g glycine in 900 mL deionized water, add 50 ml 10% SDS, and then dilute to 1 L with deionized water.
2. Add 5x SDS loading buffer to the protein sample and control its volume fraction in the mixed solution to 20%.
3. Take out the Meilunbio® Gel protein precast gel, and then fix the precast gel in the electrophoresis tank. Add running buffer solution to check for leaks.
4. Fill the inner tank of the electrophoresis tank with electrophoresis buffer, and add the electrophoresis solution to the corresponding level in the outer tank, and the maximum shall not overflow the inner tank. Take out the comb, use a syringe or other tools to suck the electrophoresis solution, and then gently blow the sample well to remove the remaining storage buffer and impurities in the sample well.
5. Add sample: Use conventional 1X loading buffer to process the sample. After aspirating the sample with the pipette, insert the pipette tip into the sample hole vertically to add the sample. Be careful not to pierce the gel with the pipette tip, and do not over-insert the comb hole to deform the rubber plate and cause liquid leakage.
6. Electrophoresis conditions: 110 V. When the bromophenol blue indicator is electrophoresed at the bottom of the gel or a predetermined position in the experiment, the electrophoresis can be ended.
7. After the electrophoresis is over, remove the gel. Use a blade to cut the glue on both sides along the gap between the short glass and the edge strip, open the glass plate to take out the gel. 8. After staining with Coomassie Brilliant Blue for 3 hours, elute with eluent. Eluent configuration 200 mL ethanol 300 mL acetic acid 500 mL water (volumes of ethanol and acetic acid are variable)

WesternBlot

1. SDS-PAGE
2. Prepare electro-transfer solution (prepared during electrophoresis, need to be placed in the refrigerator to pre-cool) or buy directly
3. Cut the fibre membrane and cut off a corner, put it in methanol for activation, carefully cut the required fragments with a rubber cutting board (compared to maker). This step needs to be soaked in electro transmission fluid.
4. Cut a small piece at the corner of the gel to recognize the order of sample addition.
5. Assemble the sandwich structure: sponge-filter paper-fibre membrane-sample glue-filter paper-sponge (black below).
6. Connect the membrane to the positive electrode and transfer it for 90 minutes at 110 A on ice (4°C).
7. Dilute the 10x blocking solution to 1x (4℃), dilute 10xTBS to 1x and add 2mL Tween (cut off the tip with scissors).
8. Take out the fibre membrane, discard the gel, soak it in the blocking solution and place it on a shaker for 15-20 minutes.
9. Wash with TBST two to three times, once for 10 minutes.
10. The primary antibody (stored in a refrigerator at 4°C) was diluted 1:10000 with TBST, put the membrane into it, and incubated overnight at 4°C on a shaker.
11. Take out the membrane and wash it three times with TBST for 10 minutes each time.
12. Dilute the secondary antibody (stored in a refrigerator at 4°C), dilute TBST 1:10000, put the membrane into it, and incubate at room temperature for 2 hours.
13. Wash three times with TBST and prepare for development.

Note: 1. Electro-hydraulic

  Tris-base     58.2g  
Glycine 29.3g
SDS 3.7g
ddH2O 1000mL

Add 1/4 volume to get methanol when used

2. 10xTBS

  Tris-base     58.2g  
Glycine 29.3g
SDS 3.7g
ddH2O 1000mL

Adjust pH to 7.6 with HCl and dilute to 1L

3. TBST buffer

  20% Tween-20     1.65m  L
TBS 700mL

4. Blocking buffer

Dilute 10×TBS to 1×, add 5% skimmed milk, 0.1% Tween-20, and store at 4°C.

Protein Concentration

1. Dilute the cultured strains into an LB liquid medium containing the corresponding antibiotics at a ratio of 1:100, and place them in a shaker at 37°C and 185rpm for overnight culture.
2. Divide the cultured bacteria liquid into 50 mL shake tubes and centrifuge at 4000 rpm for 10 min at 4°C.
3. Suspend the cells by pipetting with 3mL 1×PBS solution.
4. Use repeated freezing and thawing methods to lyse the cells.
5. After centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 15 minutes, collect the supernatant to obtain a protein sample.

Protein purification

According to Beyotime His-tag protein purification kit,Beyotime GST-tag protein purification kit, Biolab His-tag protein purification kit (inclusion body protein) kit.

Verification of stress resistance

FabV/Triclosan resistance

The effect of triclosan on bacterial growth

Based on E. coli
Triclosan gradient settings: 0, 0.1625, 0.325, 0.625, 1.25, 2.5, 5, 10 μM/mL
1. Prepare LB is containing 20 μM/mL triclosan, LB containing 100 μg/mL Cana, LB contains 100 μg/mL ampicillin, and LB without anti-antibody. Cultivate for 24h to plateau.
2. Re-inoculate bacteria, press 1:100 volume, culture until od is between 0.7 and 0.8.
3. Prepare 10 shaking tubes for each type of bacteria, add 1 mL of anti-LB to the first eight tubes, and then add 1 mL of LB containing 20 μM/mL triclosan to the first tube, and mix thoroughly by pipetting and aspirating. , Suck 1 mL of LB liquid in the tube, add it to the second tube, suck and mix thoroughly, then aspirate the LB liquid in the second tube, add it to the third tube, and so on to the seventh tube. Finally, there should be 2 mL LB in the seventh tube, 1 mL must be discarded, and the 7 is 1 mL. Add 1 mL of LB containing 100 mg/mL ampicillin to the ninth tube, 1 mL of LB containing 100 μg/mL Kana to the tenth tube, and 2 mL of LB without anti-antibody to the eleventh tube.
4. Add 1 mL of the bacterial solution to the first to tenth tubes. Finally, it is guaranteed that all eleven tubes contain 2 mL LB. Measure the OD of each tube immediately, measure the OD once every 2 hours, and measure continuously for 12 hours. Using a microspectrophotometer, only take 2 μL for each measurement. Take the first OD as 100% and subtract the OD of the blank control to draw a growth curve.
5. According to the set triclosan gradient, configure different concentrations of triclosan-resistant solid LB medium, coat and cultivate the bacteria, and observe the growth of the bacteria after 24 hours.

Effective screening concentration

1. Prepare LB plates under non-resistant, 0.625μM/mL triclosan concentration, 1.25μM/mL triclosan concentration.
2. Spread the bacterial liquid in the early stage of logarithmic growth on the culture medium, and control the bacterial concentration of the two groups to be about 0.4 to keep the same.
3. Place it in a constant temperature incubator at 37°C and incubate for 18 hours, and observe the plate results.

HSP stress resistance test

1. Temperature: Connect the engineered bacteria containing the HSP gene and the control bacteria to each of 15 tubes of medium containing 5ml LB, and divide them into 5 groups, each with 3 tubes. All the groups were placed in a static culture at 37°C for 5 h, the expected OD was 1.0, and then the different groups were placed at different temperatures, respectively: 37°C, 42°C, 47°C, 52°C, and 57°C. The OD600 of the bacterial solution was measured every 2 hours, and the measurement was continued for 12 hours. Taking the first OD600 as 100%, calculate the survival rate.
2. Ethanol: Connect the engineered bacteria containing the HSP gene and the control bacteria to each of 6 tubes of liquid medium containing 5 mL of LB, and divide them into two groups, each with three tubes, one group with 10% (v/v) ethanol ( 0.5mL ethanol plus 4.5mL LB), one group with the same volume of water (0.5mL water plus 4.5mL LB), placed in a static culture at 37°C for 8h, the OD600 of the bacterial solution was measured every 1 hour for the first 4 hours, and the last 4 Measure the OD every 2 hours every hour. Taking the first OD600 as 100%, calculate the survival rate.
3. Peroxide: The engineered bacteria containing HSP gene and the control bacteria were connected to each of 6 tubes of 5mL LB liquid medium, divided into two groups, each group of three tubes, one group with 1 mM hydrogen peroxide, one group with The same volume of water was placed in a static culture at 37°C for 8 hours, and the OD600 of the bacterial solution was measured every 8 hours for two consecutive days. Taking the first OD600 as 100%, calculate the survival rate.

Validation of destination product

Tes4

Detection of butyric acid by high-performance liquid chromatography

Sample preparation

1. Crush the cells of wild-type strains (Nissle 1917, DH5α) and engineered strains and take the supernatant for testing.
2. Prepare 100 mg C/L of different short-chain fatty acid samples (acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid, isobutyric acid, valeric acid, isovaleric acid).

  group     name  
1 Mixed acid
2 LB
3 LB+Butyric acid
4 Butyric acid
5 WT(Nissle 1917)
6 Nissle 1917-JTes4
7 DH5α-JTes4
Use of High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

1. Preparations before using the instrument
(1) Processing of sample and mobile phase
The prepared solution needs to be filtered with a 0.45 μm disposable filter membrane. For pure organic phase or a certain proportion of organic phase, use organic filter membrane, and for water phase or buffer salt, use water filter membrane. Water, methanol, can be used after filtration; the water needs to be re-filtered or replaced with freshwater if stored for more than one day. The mobile phase containing stabilizer needs to be specially treated or use a chromatographically pure mobile phase.
(2) Replace the cleaning fluid in the cleaning bottle in the pump head
The mobile phase is different, and the cleaning solution is different. 50% methanol can be used; if the mobile phase contains electrolytes, 95% deionized water or even high-purity water is usually used if the mobile phase is a methanol-water system. If the instrument is used frequently, it is recommended to replace it twice a week. If the instrument is rarely used, it must be replaced before each use.
(3) Replace the lotion in the needle washing bottle in the tray (the lotion is generally) 50% methanol.
2. Eliminate bubbles in the pump
The pump must be turned off when opening and closing the exhaust valve. The specific operations are as follows:
(1) With the pump closed, open the exhaust valve.
(2) Select the channel to discharge bubbles and turn on the pump.
(3) Press the "Purge" key at the bottom right of the front panel of the pump, the instrument will automatically and quickly clean the remaining bubbles in the pump at a rate of 6.0 mL/min, and it will stop automatically in 5 minutes. If you want to stop manually, press the "Purge" key again to stop the cleaning.
(4) Change to other channels to discharge air bubbles. Note Only one channel can be used to discharge air bubbles When using the quick cleaning valve. Several channels must not be discharged proportionally at the same time. The rapid switching of the proportional valve may easily cause damage.
(5) When there are no bubbles in the flow path, turn off the pump and close the exhaust valve.
Note: The exhaust valve cannot be over-tightened or over-tightened. If it is over-tightened, the mobile phase will easily flow into the pump head from the cleaning valve and cause an alarm.
3. Set the temperature of the column thermostat
Press and hold the "+" or "-" key on the column oven until the number starts to flash to set the temperature.
4. System preparation
(1) Flush the flow path with methanol or acetonitrile for about 20 minutes before analyzing the sample, balance and activate the chromatographic column, and drive away impurities and water in the pipeline.
(2) If the mobile phase is a mixture of the organic phase and water phase, after the first step is completed, adjust the ratio of the valve according to the needs of analyzing the sample, and then flush the flow path for about 20 minutes. After the baseline becomes flat, the sample can be injected.
(3) If the flow phase contains buffer salt solutions, organic/inorganic acids or other electrolytes, after step 1 is completed, rinse the flow path with 95% deionized water for about 20 minutes, and then adjust the proportional valve according to the needs of the analysis sample After flushing the flow path for about 20 minutes, the sample can be injected after the baseline becomes flat.
5. Wash the needle
Before making a sample, press the "wash" button on the panel of the autosampler to wash the needle and remove the remaining air bubbles in the needle. If the bubbles in the needle are still not clear, press the "wash" key again until the bubbles are cleared.
6. Sample injection
(1) Establishment of program files
The pump's flow rate, the ratio of each channel; the autosampler's injection volume, the temperature of the column oven; the detector's wavelength, and the time required to measure each sample must be specified in the program file.
(2) Establishment of method documents
After sample injection, the software will automatically collect chromatograms, and a method file is needed to process these spectra, such as integration, qualitative, quantitative.
(3) Establishment of the sample sequence
standard samples there are, samples there are, volumes are required to be fed, must be specified in the sequence file. (4) Sampling.
(5) Data processing and report printing.

SCFA Derivatization experiment

1. 0.54 mL of HCl (12.1 M), 0.86 mL of pyridine and 8.6 mL of water, ensure the pH is at 5.0.
2. 50 μL of 1 M EDC and 1 M O-BHA were dissolved in pyridine-HCl solution and centrifuged at 23°C and 1000 rpm for 10 min.
3. After centrifugation, add 250 μL H2O and mix well.
4. Add 2 mL of ethyl acetate solution for extraction, mix well, and centrifuge at 23°C and 1000 rpm for 5 min.
5. After the extraction is completed, use a disposable syringe to suck up the lower layer of solution to avoid sucking up the upper layer of organic solvents.
6. Take out the solution and dilute it 800 times with mobile phase (95% A-5% B), draw 1 mL and put it into a sample bottle.
7. Chromatographic conditions:
Column: Kinetex C18 2.6 um 100×2.1mm
Mobile phase: A: 0.1% phosphoric acid-water, B: 0.1% phosphoric acid-acetonitrile
Flow rate: 0.5 mL/min
Injection volume: 1 μL
Column temperature: 35℃
Mobile phase gradient

%B  
  Time     %A  
0 95 5
1 80 20
5.5 50 50
5.7 40 60
6.5 40 60
6.6 95 5
7.5 95 5

BSH

Bile hydrolase is to decompose the combined bile acid to produce bile acid and glycine/taurine. We mix the crude enzyme solution with 0.5mM sodium glycocholate/sodium taurocholate and react at 37℃ for 30 minutes after testing its amino acid content to indicate enzyme activity. BSH enzyme activity is defined as the amount of the substance that produces amino acids by hydrolysis of bound bile salt by crude enzyme per unit time and unit volume, unit nmol/(minml);

BSH specific enzyme activity is defined as unit time, unit mass. The crude enzyme in the total protein hydrolyzes the bound bile salt to produce amino acids in nmol/(ming).

Drawing of the standard curve

Take different concentrations of glycine working solution to measure its absorbance at 570 nm, and draw a standard curve with the concentration of glycine as the abscissa and the absorbance as the ordinate.

  Concentration/mM     0     0.1     0.2     0.3     0.     0.5  
0.5mM glycine/μL 0 150 300 450 600 750
  double distilled water/μL   750 600 450 300 150 0
Enzyme activity determination

1. Take three 0.1 mL of the broken bacterial supernatant, and add the following reagents to each:
1 mL 5mM sodium glycocholate
1 mL 5mM sodium taurocholate
1 mL of PB buffer (pH=6.8)
After mixing, incubate at 37 constant temperature for 30 min
2. Take 0.3mL of the sample after the reaction, add 0.45mL of ninhydrin working solution and 0.15mL of vitamin C working solution to mix well, heat at 80°C for 15min, and cool quickly.
3. Take 0.09 mL of the reaction solution, add 0.21 mL of 60% ethanol, mix well, and measure the absorbance at 570 nm.
Leagene Amino Acid (AA) Detection Kit (Ninhydrin Copper Colorimetry)

LL-37

Cell co-culture

Interact with cells with LL37 standard products and engineered bacterial protein samples. See 5 for details.

SOD

SOD enzyme activity determination

According to Nanjing built superoxide dismutase (SOD) test kit. The total SOD activity detection kit (WST method) of Nanjing Jiancheng Company is a colour reaction based on WST-1. WST-1 can react with the superoxide anion catalyzed by xanthine oxidase to produce water-soluble formazan dye. (formazan dye), this reaction step can be inhibited by SOD. The enzyme activity of SOD can be calculated by colourimetric analysis of the WST-1 product. When the SOD inhibition rate reaches 50% in this reaction system, the corresponding enzyme amount is one SOD activity unit (U). The corresponding formula can calculate the SOD inhibition rate (here omitted) and then the SOD activity (U/ mL).

SOD determination in cultured cells
Sample pretreatment

1. Collection of cultured cells:
The cells in suspension culture can be collected directly by centrifugation (4000 r/min, centrifugation for 10 minutes, discard the supernatant and leave the precipitated cells).
2. The fragmentation of cultured cells:
Choose to use repeated freezing and thawing method to break the cells: add a certain amount of PBS buffer to the EP tube (depending on the number of bacteria, usually 0.3~0.5mL for 10^6 cells) to entirely suspend the cells by pipetting. Put it directly in liquid nitrogen for 3~5s, immediately transfer it to -20°C refrigerator (20~30s), then take out the water bath to thaw at 37°C, and repeat the previous 3 times after thawing. (Be careful not to take it out of the liquid nitrogen and place it directly in a water bath 37°C to thaw so that the EP tube will easily burst and cause sample loss, so you must use freezing for gradient thawing).
3. Determination of protein concentration:
Use Biosharp company's BCA protein concentration determination kit.

Operation table
  Control well     Control blank hole     Measure well     Measure blank well  
  Sample to be tested(uL)    -   -  20 20
  dH2O(uL)   20 20  -   - 
  Enzyme working solution(uL)   20  -  20  - 
  Enzyme Diluent(uL)    -  20  -  20
  Substrate application solution(uL)   200 200 200 200

Mix well, incubate at 37°C for 20 minutes, read on the microplate reader at 450nm

Calculation formula and definition

1. Definition
In this reaction system, the enzyme corresponding to the SOD inhibition rate reaches 50% is one SOD activity unit (U).
2. Calculation formula in cell sample
Inhibition percentage = [(A control-A control blank)-(A measurement-A measurement blank)] / (A control-A control blank) × 100% Calculate the vitality of SOD according to the formula: SOD activity (U / mgprot)=SOD inhibition rate/50% × (reaction system 0.24mL/dilution multiple 0.02mL)/protein concentration of the sample to be tested (mgprot/mL)

Suicide switch

Glucose suicide switch

1. Add 50 μL of ddH2O to wells 2 to 8 of a 96-well plate.
2. Add 100 μL of the prepared glucose solution (concentration 0.5 g/mL) to the first hole, and then double-dilute the glucose solution, that is, add the drug solution to the first hole, and then use a pipette to fully pipette (at least three times) Above), and then pipet 50 μL from the first well to the second well, and then fully pipette to mix it with water, and repeat until the seventh well. At this time, the drug concentration in each hole is from left to right: 0.5, 0.25, 0.125, 0.675… (unit g/mL).
3. Add 200 μl of bacteria in logarithmic phase after adding the culture to the plateau phase and then dilute it at 1:100 to form an experiment to determine the antibacterial rate of the drug; add 200 μL of bacteria to the 8th well Add 200 μL of broth to the 9th well. At this time, the drug concentration in each hole, the final drug concentration from left to right is 10, 5, 2.5, 1.25, 0.625, 0.3125, 0.15625 (unit %); total liquid volume in each hole: 250 μL.
4. Put the 96-well plate in a 37 ℃ constant temperature incubator for 12 h. Measure the OD600 value within 12 hours, and measure it every 0.5h. Survival rate = OD600 of the hole/value of the first measurement*100%

Cell Experiment

Bacteria treatment process

Bacterial identification

1. Place the Nissle 1917 strain stored in a glycerin preservation tube in a refrigerator at -80°C in a water bath to quickly thaw, inoculate it in liquid LB medium for recovery, and culture it on a shaker at 140 rpm overnight for activation.
2. After overnight, inoculate it in liquid LB medium at a volume ratio of 10%. When the OD value is about 0.5, take the cultured bacterial solution for 16s gene identification. The experimental steps are as follows - Take 5 μL of bacterial solution and 45 μL of ALP to mix well by pipetting, 90℃ for 10 min, and record as a template after reaction; - Prepare the PCR reaction system as follows:

PCR reaction system
  Pre primer (27F) 10 μM     2 μL  
Back primer (1492R) 10 μM 2 μL
template 2 μL
PCR Enzyme 12.5 μL
ddH2O 6.5 μL

3. The PCR reaction program is as follows: 98°C, 5 min; 98°C, 15 s, 55°C, 15 s, 72°C, 15 s, 32 ×, 72°C, 5 min, 4°C, forever.
4. After the reaction is over, take 5 μL for agarose gel electrophoresis to verify the product's molecular weight and send the remaining samples to BGI for sequencing and two-way testing.
5. After the sequencing results are returned, perform a Blast comparison with the gene bank (NCBI) and perform follow-up experiments after verifying that they are correct. If there is contamination, it is necessary to pick out a single clone from the solid medium, culture it, and re-identify it.

Exploring the conditions of interaction

In order to further confirm the interaction time between Nissle 1917 strain and THP-1 cell line, wild-type Nissle 1917 strain was used to complete growth curve drawing, dilution plate counting, and determine the best interaction time.

Draw growth curve

The cultured Nissle 1917 wild-type bacterial solution was inoculated into the liquid medium according to the volume ratio of 10%, and the initial OD 600 was about 0.1. The OD600 was measured with a microplate reader at different culture time points, and the growth curve was drawn.

Dilution plate count

When E. coli enters the plateau phase, take the medium at different time points and dilute the medium gradually (repeat 3 times in parallel, 100μL+900μL), and take the dilution multiples of 10^-3, 10^-4, 10^-5, 10^-6 Carry out coating, the coating volume is 100 μL. Aerobic culture at 37°C for 48h, count the plates with a colony number of about 150 and calculate the CFU.

Live bacteria amplification and sample preparation

1. The verified Nissle 1917 bacteria and Nissle 1917 WT containing the four target genes are inoculated in a liquid LB medium at a volume ratio of 10%. (When the interaction research object is bacteria, the logarithmic growth phase should be selected Appropriate, at this time, the bacterial activity is relatively vigorous, when the interaction study object is the supernatant, the plateau period should be selected)
2. Measure the OD value of the bacteria in the appropriate period, centrifuge at 8000 rpm for 5 min to separate the supernatant from the bacteria. After the bacteria were washed and resuspended in PBS once. They were concentrated according to the requirements of the experimental design and recorded as live bacteria samples.

Collection of bacterial products

After cultivation, the related products are produced and purified from the DH5α and Nissle 1917 engineered bacteria containing four target genes.

Antibiotics' inhibitory effect on bacteria

1. Use gentamicin sulfate solid powder configuration, set 100μg/mL, 200μg/mL, 300μg/mL, 400μg/mL, 500μg/mL gentamicin gradient, and complete negative control (LB liquid medium) and complete Positive control (no antibiotics).
2. Connect the 10% bacterial solution, culture in a shaker at 140rpm 37℃, measure the OD600 absorbance value, and draw the growth curve, and at the dilution factor of 10^-5, coat the plate to count.

Cell processing process

Cell Recovery

The conserved THP-1 (P6 generation) was taken out of liquid nitrogen, thawed at room temperature, and directly inoculated in a T175 culture flask containing 40 mL of RPMI medium.

Conventional cell culture

THP-1 cells are subcultured (change medium) once every 2 days, and half of the medium is changed during subculture (change medium). That is, the same amount of medium is added and divided into two cultures.

Cell PMA polarization

Phorbol ester (PMA) induces THP-1 cells to differentiate into macrophages and establishes an inflammation model through LPS stimulation.
1. Centrifuge at 1000 rpm for 6 minutes (you can aliquot the cell culture solution into four 15ml centrifuge tubes).
2. Add PBS to mix well, centrifuge again at 1000 rpm for 6 min, and wash the cells once.
3. Add RPMI1640 complete medium to beat the cells, count and adjust the cell concentration to 1×106 cell/mL.
4. Add PMA reagent (50ng/mL) for polarization induction and shake well.
5. Connect to a 96-well cell culture plate, 200μL/well per well, and polarize for 48h to induce M0 macrophages.

Cells are exchanged at rest

1. Aspirate the medium in the 96-well plate, wash it once with PBS, and add a complete fresh medium at a concentration of 200 μL/well.
2. Leave it to stand for 72 hours, then the cell interaction experiment can be carried out.

Cell Interaction

1. Change to a brand new cell culture medium (complete cell culture medium with and without LPS), add live bacteria and place them in a cell incubator to interact with the cells for 2 hours (if cell product interaction is performed, the interaction experiment can be performed Prolonged) Note: LPS (lipopolysaccharide): increase the expression of pro-inflammatory factors.
2. Remove the supernatant and wash twice with PBS (collect the washed liquid and centrifuge the coated plate to see the number of bacteria, and initially estimate the number of phagocytosed bacteria. Note: It needs to be added after mixing on another plate).
3. Replace with 90% RPMI1640+10% FBS+100ng/mL gentamicin or double antibodies (streptomycin and penicillin) (with LBS and without LPS) cell complete medium, and put in the cells Take pictures after 22 hours in the incubator, observe whether there are live bacteria, and collect the cell supernatant by centrifugation. The CCK8 group needs to add 20μL CCK-8 reagent for detection after 22h (test OD450 value every 1 h, and select the optimal value until 4h is complete).

Experimental process

Determination of CCK-8 cell viability

In order to verify the effect of Nissle 1917 WT on the cell viability of THP-1, CCK-8 reagent was used for testing. In the CCK8 group, CCK8 was added after 22h (OD450 was measured once at 1 h, 2 h, and 3 h). If more viable bacteria are observed, select two wells of the cells in the CCK8 group for trypsin digestion, collect all the liquid and sonicate for 15 seconds, then dilute and plate the plate (you can choose only one gradient plate to see the specific bacterial number); The data measured at the appropriate interval is used as the result.

CCK8 experiment procedures and precautions
practical steps

1. Preparation of cell suspension cell count
2. Inoculate a 96-well plate According to the appropriate number of plated cells, about 100μL of cell suspension per well, the same sample can be repeated 3 times.
3. Culturing in a 37°C incubator takes about 2-4 hours to culture the cells to adhere to the wall after inoculation. If you do not need to adhere to the wall, this step can be omitted. v 4. Add different concentrations of toxic substances. v 5. Cultivation in a 37℃ incubator: The incubation time for adding toxic substances depends on the nature of the toxic substances and the sensitivity of the cells. It is generally determined according to the cell cycle, at least one generation time.
6. Add 10μLCCK8 Because the amount of CCK8 added to each well is relatively small, it may cause errors due to reagents sticking to the wall of the well. It is recommended to tap the culture plate gently after adding the reagents to help to mix.
7. Cultivate for 1-4 hours: The formazan (Formazan) formed varies depending on the cell type. If the colour is not enough, you can continue to cultivate to confirm the best conditions. Especially formazan (Formazan) formed by blood cells is very small, and it takes a long time for colour development (5-6 hours).
8. Determination of absorbance at 450nm: It is recommended to use dual wavelengths for measurement, with detection wavelengths of 450-490nm and reference wavelengths of 600-650nm.

Precautions

- When using a standard 96-well plate, the minimum seeding amount of adherent cells is at least 1,000 cells/well (100 μL medium). The sensitivity for detecting white blood cells is relatively low, so the recommended inoculation volume is not less than 2,500 cells/well (100 μL medium).
- Phenol red and serum will not interfere with the detection of the CCK8 method and can be eliminated by subtracting the background absorbance in the blank well.
- CCK8 can detect E. coli but not yeast cells. It is necessary to avoid bacterial contamination during each determination of the cell proliferation experiment not to affect the results.
- CCK-8 can be stored at 0-5°C for at least 6 months, and at -20°C in the dark can be stored for 1 year.
- When culturing in an incubator, the holes in the outermost circle of the culture plate are most likely to dry and volatilize, which increases errors due to inaccurate volumes. Under normal circumstances, only add medium to the outer circle of the wells, not as a measurement well.
- Add CCK8 to the culture medium, incubate for a specific period of time, and measure the absorbance at 450 nm as a blank control. When doing the dosing experiment, the absorption of the drug should also be considered. CCK8 can be added to the medium with the drug, incubated for a particular period of time, and the absorbance at 450 nm is measured as a blank control.
- Metal affects the colour development of CCK-8: when the final concentration is 1 mM, lead chloride, ferric chloride, and copper sulfate will inhibit 5%, 15%, and 90% of the colour reaction, degrading the sensitivity. If the final concentration is 10 mM, it will be 100% inhibited.
- Suspension cells are difficult to stain, so it is generally necessary to increase the number of cells and prolong the culture time.
- If you do not want to determine the OD value temporarily, you can add 10 μL of 0.1M HCL solution or 1% w/v SDS solution to each well, cover the culture plate and store it at room temperature away from light. Measure within 24 hours. The absorbance will not change.
- If the substance to be tested is oxidizing or reducing, replace the fresh medium before adding CCK8 (remove the medium, wash the cells twice with the medium, and then add the new medium) to remove the influence of the drug. Of course, the medium does not need to be replaced when the drug has a relatively small effect, and the blank absorption after the drug is added to the medium can be directly deducted.

Detection of cytokines by ELISA

Bacterial product and cell interaction

1. According to the interaction between the bacterial supernatant and the cells in the SOP file, the protein sample collected after purification needs to pass through the filter membrane without dilution. In the bacterial product and cell interaction experiment, add 20 μL/well of the protein sample.
2. End the experiment after incubating for 24 hours. Transfer the supernatant of the interaction to a new well plate and store at -80°C.
3. Replace the original 96-well plate with a complete medium, and then add CCK-8 for cell viability determination.

Bacteria and cell interaction

1. centrifuge the 96-well plate at 500g for 20 minutes at the end of the interaction. Collect the supernatant of each well, and store it at -80°C.
2. Replace the original 96-well plate with a complete medium, and then add CCK-8 for cell viability determination.

IL-6/IL-10 factor detection experimental procedures and precautions
Experimental steps

1. Take out the required slats from the aluminium foil bag that has been equilibrated at room temperature for 20 minutes, and seal the remaining slats with a ziplock bag and put it back to 4°C.
2. Set up standard wells and sample wells, add 50μL of different concentrations of a standard to each standard well;
3. Add 10μL of the sample to be tested to the sample hole to be tested, and then add 40μL of sample diluent;
4. Then add 100 μL of horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-labelled detection antibody to each standard wells and sample wells, seal the reaction wells with a sealing film, and incubate in a 37°C water bath or incubator for 60 minutes.
5. Discard the liquid, pat dry on absorbent paper, fill each hole with washing liquid, let stand for 1 min, shake off the washing liquid, pat dry on absorbent paper, and repeat the washing 5 times (the plate can also be washed with a plate washer).
6. Add 50 μL each of Substrate A and B to each well, and incubate at 37°C for 15 min in the dark.
7. Add 50 μL of stop solution to each well, and measure the OD value of each well at 450nm wavelength within 15 minutes.
8. Draw a standard curve: use the concentration of the standard product as the abscissa, and the corresponding OD value as the ordinate, draw a linear regression curve for the standard product and calculate the concentration of each sample according to the curve equation.

Precautions

1. Store the kit at 2-8°C, equilibrate at room temperature for 20 minutes before use. The concentrated washing liquid taken out of the refrigerator will crystallize, which is a normal phenomenon. The water bath is heated to dissolve the crystals before use completely.
2. The slats not used in the experiment should be immediately put back into the ziplock bag, sealed (dry at low temperature) and stored.
3. The standard diluent can be regarded as a negative control or blank; the sample after pretreatment does not need to be diluted, take 10μL and add the sample.
4. Strictly follow the time, amount of liquid addition and sequence indicated in the instruction manual for incubation operations. 5. Shake all liquid components well before use.

Hardware

Production and verification of freeze-dried powder

Liquid culture

Take 1ml of each bacteria and add 100mL ampicillin (100μL of ampicillin) LB medium conical flask. At the same time, prepare sterile ampicillin LB medium as a control group, and enter the shaker 37°C 180rpm culture.

Preparation of freeze-dried protective agent

First-generation use 57g skimmed milk powder, 12g sucrose, 12g sodium ascorbate dissolved in 400mL ddH2O, autoclave at 115°C for 30min, and store in a refrigerator at 4°C for later use. Second-generation use 28.5g skimmed milk powder, 6g fructooligosaccharides, 6g sodium ascorbate dissolved in 200mL ddH2O, autoclave at 115°C for 30 minutes, prepare it as a lyophilized protective agent, and store it in a refrigerator at 4°C for later use.

Gradient dilution coating of the stock solution before powder milling

1. In determining the gradient of the counting of the gradient dilution coating plate, first measure the OD600 of the cultured strain.
2. Take 36 solid ampicillin LB plates, aseptically, use a shake tube to dilute 100μL of bacterial solution in 900μL of ddH2O for gradient dilution, the dilution gradient is generally 10^-1, 10^-2, 10^-3, 10^-4, 10^-5, 10^-6, 10^-7, 10^-8, 10^-9 (depending on the OD value).
3. Three concentrations of 10^-5, 10^-6, and 10^-7 for each strain (make the number of bacteria at the median concentration between 30-300) are used for gradient coating of the plate, and 100μl bacterial solution per plate. Make three sets of duplicate controls for each concentration, a total of 433=36 groups of plates.
4. After coating, store in 37°C incubators for 12 hours and count.

Freeze-drying

1. Pre-freeze dryer in advance to -80°C
2. Use a 50mL centrifuge tube to take 100mL of bacteria solution (2 tubes per strain) and centrifuge at 5500rpm for 50min.
3. Pour out the supernatant after centrifugation, and add the protective agent at a ratio of 20 mL of protective agent per 100 mL of bacterial liquid.
4. Mix (resuspend) the bottom cell and defoam (if it is not defoamed, it may cause cracks on the surface of the freeze-dried powder).
5. Slowly pour 20 ml of the resuspended bacteria + protectant mixture into the pre-sterilized egg tart cup (defoaming), and put it in the refrigerator at -80°C for pre-freezing for 30 minutes (the sterilized disposable sterile bag can be covered On the outside, prevent impurities from falling in).
6. After pre-freezing for 30 minutes, put the egg tart cup into the freeze dryer and freeze-dry in a vacuum for 2.5 days.

Take powder from freeze-dried powder

Take out the lyophilized bacterial powder, return to room temperature, grind into powder, weigh and record.

Re-dissolve and recovere the lyophilized powder, and gradient dilution coating the lyophilized powder

1. Take 10mg of lyophilized powder, re-dissolve it in 1mL D-PBS buffer, and let it stand.
2. Take the above re-dissolved bacteria solution, take the solid ampicillin LB plate, perform the aseptic operation, use a shake tube to dilute 100μL of bacterial solution in 900μL of ddH2O, the dilution gradient is 10^-1, 10^-2, 10^-3, 10^-4, 10^-5, 10^-6, 10^-7, 10^-8, 10^-9 (the specific calculation depends on the concentration of the bacterial solution before lyophilization).
3. At the same time, add ampicillin at a concentration of 40μL ampicillin per 1ml of bacterial solution and shake well. Among the bacteria, each strain takes three concentration gradients of 10^-4, 10^-5, and 10^-6 (make the number of bacteria at the median concentration between 30-300), and each plate is coated with 100μL of the bacterial solution, and each concentration makes three groups of duplicate controls, a total of 433=36 groups of plates.
4. After coating, store in 37°C incubators for 12 hours and count.

Return the freeze-dried powder to the solution liquid-based culture

Take the lyophilized powder in the above gradient dilution back to the original solution, shake the Nissle 1917 wild-type, Nissle 1917 engineered bacteria containing BSH, LL37, SOD target genes in the tube, and perform the liquid-to-liquid operation. For each type of bacteria, 900μL of the bacterial solution was added to 100mL ampicillin (100μL of ampicillin) LB medium conical flask. At the same time, a sterile ampicillin LB medium was prepared as a control group and cultured in a shaker at 37°C at 150rpm.

Verify the corresponding target product

Determine SOD enzyme activity (see 4.4.1 for details)

Time limit inspection experiment for enteric-coated
capsules disintegration

The test methods and buffer formulations used in the following experiments are implemented according to The 2020 Edition of The Chinese Pharmacopoeia

Preparation of reagents and buffers

1. Preparation of hydrochloric acid solution (gastric juice) Draw 27mL of concentrated hydrochloric acid, slowly add 3000mL purified water while stirring, and pour into 3 beakers of the disintegrator, each beaker about 800mL hydrochloric acid solution.
2. Preparation of buffer 1 (artificial intestinal juice, phosphate buffer, pH=6.8) 6.8g potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KH2PO4), dissolved in 500mL of water, adjusted to pH 6.8 with NaOH solid), and another 10g of pancreatin, add an appropriate amount of water to dissolve, mix the two liquids and dilute to 1000 mL with purified water.
3. Preparation of buffer 2 (phosphate buffer, pH=6.6) sodium dihydrogen phosphate (Na2PO4) 3.48g, disodium hydrogen phosphate (Na2HPO4) 1.74g, dissolved in 500mL of water, another 8g of pancreatin, and an appropriate amount of water Dissolve, mix the two liquids and dilute to 800 mL with purified water.
4. Preparation of buffer 3 (phosphate buffer, pH 5.8) potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KH2PO4) 8.34g, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate (K2HPO4) 0.87g, dissolved in 500mL of water, another 10g of pancreatin, and an appropriate amount of water Dissolve, mix the two liquids and dilute to 1000 mL with purified water.

Embedding of capsules

Take 18 No. 2 enteric-coated capsules and 2g agar powder to prepare for embedding. Use the medicine spoon to fill the capsules. Each capsule is about 100mg powder.

Disintegration time limit inspection

Enteric-coated capsules, unless otherwise specified, take 6 capsules of the test substance, according to the above device and method.
1. Take the hydrochloric acid solution into the beakers 1, 2, and 3 of the disintegrator, add 800mL hydrochloric acid solution (gastric juice) to each beaker, and check for 2 hours without a baffle in the hydrochloric acid solution. There should be no cracks in the capsule shell of each capsule. Or disintegration phenomenon.
2. Take out the hanging basket, wash it with a small amount of water, and then check it in phosphate buffer saline 1, 2, 3 according to the above method, and it should all disintegrate within 1 hour. If one capsule does not disintegrate completely, another 6 capsules should be taken for a retest.