Use of potassium depletion to assess adaptation of ruminal bacteria to ionophores.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
R P Lana, J B Russell

Abstract

When mixed ruminal bacteria from cattle fed timothy hay were suspended in a medium containing a low concentration of potassium, monensin and lasalocid catalyzed a rapid depletion of potassium from cells. The ionophore-mediated potassium depletion was concentration dependent, and it was possible to describe the relationship with saturation constants. Mixed ruminal bacteria never lost more than 50% of their potassium (Kmax = 46%), and the concentrations of monensin and lasalocid needed to cause half-maximal potassium depletion (Kd) were 178 and 141 nM, respectively. When cattle were fed 350 mg of monensin per day, the ratio of ruminal acetate to propionate decreased from 4.2 to 2.9, and the Kd of monensin was eightfold greater than the value for mixed ruminal bacteria from control animals. Monensin supplementation also caused a twofold increase in the Kd of lasalocid. Lasalocid supplementation (350 mg per day) had no effect on the ruminal acetate-to-propionate ratio, but it caused a twofold increase in the Kd values of monensin and lasalocid. Increases in Kd occurred almost immediately after ionophore was added to the ration, and the Kd values returned to their prefeeding values within 14 days of withdrawal. Ionophore supplementa...Continue Reading

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