Toxicity of Methylated Bismuth Compounds Produced by Intestinal Microorganisms to Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a Member of the Physiological Intestinal Microbiota
Figure 4
Reduction of the cell counts of B. thetaiotaomicron due to the production of volatile TMBi produced by M. smithii (). M. smithii and B. thetaiotaomicron were grown in the coculture system. CBS was applied at a concentration of 80 μM to the culture of M. smithii in its late exponential phase. The TMBi production of M. smithii, during its 48 h incubation in the presence of CBS, results in a significant cell count reduction of B. thetaiotaomicron cultures (t) compared to untreated control (ut).
