Two strains isolated from human faeces and a bacteriocin-producing strain isolated from human milk now available from the NCIMB culture collection

Recent additions to the National Collection of Industrial and Food Bacteria include a bacteriocin producing strain isolated from human milk and two strains of bacteria isolated from human faeces. Most of the strains in our culture collection can be dispatched within one working day of order receipt.

NCIMB 15251 Lactobacillus gasseri was isolated from human milk and deposited at NCIMB by scientists from the Department of Gut Microbes and Health at the Quadram Institute.  The strain produces several bacteriocins including a novel bacteriocin, gassericin M. Bacteriocins are antimicrobial peptides produced by bacteria, which are of interest with respect to probiotics.

The two strains isolated from human faeces are NCIMB 15236 Longicatena caecimuris and NCIMB 15237 Erysipelatoclostridium ramosum, both deposited by scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

NCIMB manages the National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria - a reference collection of ACDP hazard group 1 and 2 microorganisms that includes many environmentally important and industrially useful bacteria, plasmids and bacteriophages. The collection is continuously expanding due to new accessions from the international research community.

The gut microbiome and its relationship to human health is a very exciting area of research and we are delighted to be able to reflect the current levels of interest in the topic with new additions to our culture collection.  For more information about our culture collection visit our website at www.ncimb.com or contact enquiries@ncimb.com.