Production of equol from daidzein by gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium isolated from rat intestine - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2006 Sep;102(3):247-50.

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Production of equol from daidzein by gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium isolated from rat intestine

Kimiko Minamida et al. J Biosci Bioeng. 2006 Sep.

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Abstract

Isoflavones (mainly daidzein and genistin) belong to the flavonoid group of compounds and are classified as phytoestrogens. In the intestine, daidzin is converted to daidzein by beta-glucosidase, and then daidzein is converted to O-desmethylangolensin (O-DMA) or equol via dihydrodaidzein by enzymes of intestinal bacteria. We isolated, for the first time, an anaerobic gram-positive rod-shaped strain capable of producing equol from daidzein. Its 16S rDNA gene sequence (1428 bp) showed 99% similarity with that of the human intestinal bacterium SNU-Julong 732 (AY310748) and 93% similarity with that of Eggerthella lenta ATCC 25559(T) (AF292375). This strain converted daidzein to equol via dihydrodaidzein in an equol-assay medium anaerobically. The addition of butyric acid and arginine increased the conversion ratio of daidzein to equol 4.7- and 4.5-fold, respectively.

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