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. 2006 Mar;188(5):1979–1986. doi: 10.1128/JB.188.5.1979-1986.2006

TABLE 1.

CA and DCA concentrations that totally inhibit growth and dissipate the ΔpH and ΔΨ in lactobacilli and bifidobacteriaa

Strain Origin CA (mM)
DCA (mM)
MIC ΔpH diss. ΔΨ diss. MIC ΔpH diss. ΔΨ diss.
Lactobacillus acidophilus JCM 1034 Human intestine 8.5 5.5 ND ND ND ND
L. salivarius subsp. salicinius JCM 1040 Human intestine 6.0 5.0 ND 0.6 0.8 ND
L. salivarius subsp. salicinius JCM 1044 Human intestine 6.0 7.0 3.0 0.7 0.8 0.3
L. salivarius subsp. salicinius JCM 1047 Swine intestine 4.5 8.0 ND 0.55 0.9 ND
L. gasseri JCM 1131T Human intestine 7.0 6.5 3.5 ND 1.0 0.7
L. reuteri JCM 1112T Intestine of adult 13.0 10.0 4.0 ND 0.7 0.4
L. salivarius subsp. salivarius JCM 1231T Human saliva 5.5 6.5 ND ND ND ND
L. buchneri JCM 1115T Tomato pulp 6.5 6.0 ND 0.8 0.8 ND
L. sakei JCM 1157T Starter of sake 4.0 9.0 3.0 0.7 0.9 0.2
Bifidobacterium breve JCM 1192T Intestine of infant 5.0 6.0 2.0 0.5 0.6 0.3
B. breve JCM 7017 Human feces 3.0 6.0 ND 0.55 0.6 ND
B. pseudocatenulatum JCM 1200T Feces of infant 3.0 6.0 3.0 0.45 0.6 0.3
B. gallicum JCM 8224T Human feces 7.0 8.0 ND 0.45 0.8 ND
B. longum JCM 1217T Intestine of adult 9.0 8.0 3.0 0.55 0.6 0.2
B. bifidum JCM 1255T Feces of infant 5.0 4.0 ND 0.3 0.4 ND
B. adolescentis JCM 1275T Intestine of adult 5.0 8.0 ND 0.4 0.6 ND
a

All of the data are the means of two separate experiments. ND, not determined; diss., dissipating.