Gut³Beads

Growth Booster Beads for Intestinal Microbiota Culturing

Product description

Aiming to support the growth of difficult to grow bacteria within dynamic systems, Bac³gel’s latest technological development, Gut³Beads, transforms the mucus-based substrate into a spherically shaped additive to boost the metabolic activity of species of interest, conferring Gut³Beads the name of growth boosters.

This product was tailored to sustain the mechanical stress of dynamic conditions, such as the ones experienced in bioreactors, as well as enzymatic digestion during extensive culture times, while providing a mucin supply to the bacteria in a prolonged manner.

Similarly to our in vitro mucus models, the beads are mainly composed of mucin accordingly to the microenvironmental conditions at which different species of bacteria reside. The Gut³Beads increase the metabolic activity and propel proliferation of difficult to grow bacteria such as Akkermansia muciniphila and Velionella parvula, and productive bacteria such as Lacticaseibacillus plantarum and Lactiplantibacillus paracasei.