Heterologous production of methionine-γ-lyase from brevibacterium linens in lactococcus lactis and formation of volatile sulfur compounds

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2326-2332

  Hanniffy, Sean B ^a   Philo, Mark ^a   Peláez, Carmen ^b   Gasson, Michael J ^a   Requena, Teresa ^b   Martinez Cuesta M C ^b  

^a NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DEL FRÍO CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES; BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; CELL EXTRACTS; CHEESE RIPENING; DIMETHYL DISULFIDES; FLAVOR DEVELOPMENT; FLAVOR FORMATIONS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY - MASS SPECTROMETRIES; HETEROLOGOUS PRODUCTIONS; INDUCIBLE PROMOTERS; L CYSTEINES; L CYSTINES; L METHIONINES; LACTIC ACID BACTERIA; LACTIS STRAINS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; METHANETHIOL; PURIFIED PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SULFUR-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS; VOLATILE SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WHOLE CELLS; WILD-TYPE STRAINS;

AIR PURIFICATION; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; FLAX; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LACTIC ACID; LINEN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC ACIDS; PIGMENTS; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR DETERMINATION;

GENE ENCODING;

CELL EXTRACT; CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTEINE; CYSTINE; DIMETHYL DISULFIDE; METHANETHIOL; METHIONINE; METHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; PLASMID VECTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SULFUR; VOLATILE AGENT;

BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; PLASMID; RECOMBINATION; SULFUR COMPOUND; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; WILD TYPE;

BREVIBACTERIUM; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTEINE; CYSTINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

EID: 64749114679     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02417-08     Document Type: Article

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