| Title: | Resistance to bacteriocin Lcn972 improves oxygen tolerance of Lactococcus lactis IPLA947 without compromising its performance as a dairy starter |
| Author(s): | Lopez-Gonzalez MJ; Campelo AB; Picon A; Rodriguez A; Martinez B; |
| Address: | "Dairy Safe group, Department of Technology and Biotechnology of Dairy Products, Instituto de Productos Lacteos de Asturias, IPLA-CSIC, Paseo Rio Linares, s/n 33300, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain. Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Carretera de La Coruna Km 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain. Dairy Safe group, Department of Technology and Biotechnology of Dairy Products, Instituto de Productos Lacteos de Asturias, IPLA-CSIC, Paseo Rio Linares, s/n 33300, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain. bmf1@ipla.csic.es" |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12866-018-1222-8 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1471-2180 (Electronic) 1471-2180 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "BACKGROUND: Lactococcus lactis is the main component of the mesophilic starters used in cheese manufacture. The success of milk fermentation relies on the viability and metabolic activity of the starter bacteria. Therefore, robust strains able to withstand the harsh conditions encountered during cheese manufacture and starter production are demanded. In this work, we have applied adaptive evolution under cell envelope stress imposed by the cell wall active bacteriocin Lcn972 to evolve strains with more robust phenotypes. RESULTS: Consecutive exposure of the starter strain L. lactis IPLA947 to Lcn972 yielded a stable mutant, L. lactis R5, with enhanced survival when challenged with hydrogen peroxide. L. lactis R5 exhibited faster growth rates in aerobic fermentations in broth and was able to acidify milk to a lower pH in aerated milk cultures. The improved behavior of L. lactis R5 in the presence of oxygen did not translate into a better performance in the presence of heme (i.e. respiration metabolism) or into higher survival during storage at cold temperatures or after freeze-drying compared to the wild type L. lactis IPLA947. L. lactis R5 retained the same milk acidification rate and no changes in the consumption of lactose and production of organic acids were noticed. However, the profile of volatile compounds revealed a significant increase in 3-hydroxy-2-butanone (acetoin) in curds manufactured with L. lactis R5. CONCLUSIONS: Based on our results, L. lactis R5 can be proposed as a suitable dairy starter with improved survival under oxidative stress and enhanced metabolic traits. The results support the notion that adaptive evolution under cell envelope stress might be useful to generate strain diversity within industrial L. lactis strains" |
| Keywords: | "Adaptation, Physiological Bacteriocins/*pharmacology Cheese/*microbiology Drug Resistance, Bacterial Fermentation Hydrogen Peroxide/pharmacology Lactic Acid/metabolism Lactococcus lactis/drug effects/growth & development/metabolism/*physiology Lactose/met;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineLopez-Gonzalez, Maria Jesus Campelo, Ana Belen Picon, Antonia Rodriguez, Ana Martinez, Beatriz eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2018/07/22 BMC Microbiol. 2018 Jul 20; 18(1):76. doi: 10.1186/s12866-018-1222-8" |
