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Removal of the cyanobacterial toxin microcystin-LR by human probiotics.

Meriluoto J, Gueimonde M, Haskard CA, Spoof L, Sjövall O, Salminen S

Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Abo Akademi University, Tykistökatu 6A, 20520 Turku, Finland. jussi.meriluoto@abo.fi

Three human probiotics, Lactobacillus rhamnosus strains GG and LC-705, and Bifidobacterium lactis strain Bb12, were found to bind the cyanobacterial peptide toxin microcystin-LR from water solutions. The highest removal percentage was 46%, observed with heat-treated L. rhamnosus strain GG (10(10) cells/ml) and a microcystin-LR concentration of 0.5 microg/ml during an incubation of 7 h at 35 degrees C.

Published 15 June 2005 in Toxicon, 46(1): 111-4.
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