Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (7): 2924-2931.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2023.07.023

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Separation of Sheep Secretory Immunoglobulin A Coated Bacteria by Flow Cytometry

MI Hui1, PENG Can1*, HE Zhixiong1,2*, TAN Zhiliang1,2   

  1. 1. Institutional Center for Shared Technologies and Facilities of Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Nutritional Physiology and Metabolic Process, South Central Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in the Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Research Center of Livestock & Poultry Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Pollution Control and Waste Utilization in Livestock and Poultry Production, Key Laboratory for Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China;
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2022-09-13 Online:2023-07-23 Published:2023-07-21

Abstract: This study aimed to establish a flow cytometry (FCM) method for sorting secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) coated bacteria from the digestive tract contents of ruminants. Four healthy adult meat sheep in good physical condition were randomly selected and their ileal contents were collected to prepare the bacterial solution. The loading concentration of the bacterial solution, the working concentration of the bacterial dye 4', 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and the anti-IgA antibody were optimized. The results showed that the optimal loading concentration of the bacterial solution of the contents was from 2.5 to 5 mg·mL-1, the best staining concentration of DAPI was 5 μg·mL-1, and the optimum amount of anti-IgA antibody was 5 μg. The reproducibility test results showed that the relative bias of the proposed method is less than 5% and that it is stable and reproducible. The sorting method of sIgA-coated bacteria established in this study is high selectivity, less sample consumption and easy operation and can provide technical support for related studies of the composition and function of sIgA-coated bacteria in ruminant digestive tracts.

Key words: secretory immunoglobulin A, secretory immunoglobulin A coated bacteria, microbe, flow cytometer

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