3.3. Bile salt hydrolase activity
As reported by) when BSH-producing bacteria st reaked out on MRS agar plates containing TDCA (0.5%), taurine-conjugated bile acid is deconjugated to deoxycholic acid and thus, BSH-active
Strains produced opaque white colonies with or without precipitate halos. In the present study, most of the LAB isolates viz. L.fermentum AI2; P. parvulus AI1; W. cibaria 85 and 92werefoundtobeBSH-positive.Three of the isolates (AI3, AD29andAI10) showed poor BSH activity while one of