Plasmids of raw milk cheese isolate Lactococcus lactis subsp. Lactis biovar diacetylactis DPC3901 suggest a plant-based origin for the strain

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 6451-6462

  Fallico, Vincenzo ^a,b   McAuliffe, Olivia ^a   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^b,c   Ross, R Paul ^a,c  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A PLANTS; DIACETYLACTIS; GENETIC BASIS; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LEUCONOSTOC; METAL TRANSPORTERS; PLANT CELL WALL; RAW MILK CHEESE;

COBALT; DNA; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; PLANT CELL CULTURE;

CHEESES;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; COBALT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; ION; NICHE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEESE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEESE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS SUBSP. LACTIS BV. DIACETYLACTIS; LEUCONOSTOC; LEUCONOSTOC LACTIS;

EID: 80052795487     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00661-11     Document Type: Article

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