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Presence of additional peptidases in Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ 302 compared to Lactococcus lactis 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Streptococcus thermophilus is widely used in the dairy industry but little is known about its peptidase system. The aim of this study was to determine the biochemical and genetic characteristics of this system, and to compare it to the well known system of Lactococcus lactis . We separated the intracellular proteins of Strep. thermophilus CNRZ 302 and L. lactis NCDO 763 by ion-exchange chromatography and we detected the activity of the different types of peptidases. In both L. lactis and Strep. thermophilus strains, we showed 13 different peptidase activities with biochemical homologies between both species. Streptococcus thermophilus also possessed two peptidases which we did not find in L. lactis : an aminopeptidase and an oligopeptidase. We performed Southern blot experiments and among the eight peptidase genes tested, only the genes encoding the general aminopeptidases, pepC and pepN , were homologous between the L. lactis and Strep. thermophilus strains. Besides biochemical and genetic similarities, the peptidase systems of Strep. thermophilus and L. lactis thus differed by the presence of additional peptidases in Strep. thermophilus . 相似文献
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Yanick Auffray Emmanuel Lecesne Axel Hartke Philippe Boutibonnes 《Current microbiology》1995,30(2):87-91
The heat shock response was investigated in the thermophilic acid bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus. The heat resistance (58°C, 30 min) of log-phase cells grown at 42°C was enhanced by pretreatment at 52°C for 15 or 30 min. Concurrently to this acquired thermotolerance, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis indicates that the cells induced the synthesis of at least 22 heat shock proteins after temperature upshift. Furthermore, following SDS-PAGE, Western blotting, and immunological analysis, six proteins were found to be antigenically related to the Escherichia coli heat shock proteins DnaK, DnaJ, GroEL, GrpE, and La and to the Bacillus subtilis 43 factor Among these six proteins, two related to DnaK and GroEL, are clearly overexpressed during this stress. It is concluded that S. thermophilus possesses a heat shock response similar to that known to occur in mesophilic microorganisms. 相似文献
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Characterisation of Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ1205 and its cured and re-lysogenised derivatives
Elizabeth Stanley Gerald F. Fitzgerald Douwe van Sinderen 《FEMS microbiology letters》1999,176(2):503-510
Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ1205 is the lysogenic host for the temperate phage phi O1205. A derivative of CNRZ1205 was isolated which was cured of phi O1205 and this strain was used to construct a re-lysogenised derivative. Pulse field gel electrophoresis and sequencing of the attachment site regions confirmed that excision and re-integration of the phage was a site-specific event. Interestingly, cells from the cured, as well as its re-lysogenised derivative, were found to have a very long chain length. 相似文献
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Thibessard A Borges F Fernandez A Gintz B Decaris B Leblond-Bourget N 《Applied and environmental microbiology》2004,70(4):2220-2229
To better understand the defense mechanism of Streptococcus thermophilus against superoxide stress, molecular analysis of 10 menadione-sensitive mutants, obtained by insertional mutagenesis, was undertaken. This analysis allowed the identification of 10 genes that, with respect to their putative functions, were classified into five categories: (i) those involved in cell wall metabolism, (ii) those involved in exopolysaccharide translocation, (iii) those involved in RNA modification, (iv) those involved in iron homeostasis, and (v) those whose functions are still unknown. The behavior of the 10 menadione-sensitive mutants exposed to heat shock was investigated. Data from these experiments allowed us to distinguish genes whose action might be specific to oxidative stress defense (tgt, ossF, and ossG) from those whose action may be generalized to other stressful conditions (mreD, rodA, pbp2b, cpsX, and iscU). Among the mutants, two harbored an independently inserted copy of pGh9:ISS1 in two loci close to each other. More precisely, these two loci are homologous to the sufD and iscU genes, which are involved in the biosynthesis of iron-sulfur clusters. This region, called the suf region, was further characterized in S. thermophilus CNRZ368 by sequencing and by construction of DeltasufD and iscU(97) nonpolar mutants. The streptonigrin sensitivity levels of both mutants suggest that these two genes are involved in iron metabolism. 相似文献
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Effects of rodA and pbp2b disruption on cell morphology and oxidative stress response of Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ368
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Thibessard A Fernandez A Gintz B Leblond-Bourget N Decaris B 《Journal of bacteriology》2002,184(10):2821-2826
Insertional mutagenesis was used to isolate clones from Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ368 that were modified in their abilities to tolerate oxidative stress. During this process, two menadione-sensitive clones (6G4 and 18C3) were found to display abnormal cell morphologies and distorted chain topologies and were further studied. Molecular characterization of both 6G4 and 18C3 mutants indicated that they were disrupted in open reading frames homologous to rodA and pbp2b, respectively. Both genes encoded proteins in Escherichia coli that were described as being implicated in peptidoglycan synthesis during the process of cell elongation and to function in determining the rod shape of the cell. This work reports a possible connection between peptidoglycan biosynthesis and oxidative stress defense in S. thermophilus CNRZ368. 相似文献
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Thibessard A Fernandez A Gintz B Decaris B Leblond-Bourget N 《Canadian journal of microbiology》2002,48(5):473-478
Streptococcus thermophilus bacteria are used as a starter in the fermentation of yogurts and many cheeses. To construct mutants of S. thermophilus CNRZ368, the use of the plasmid pGh9:ISS1 was considered. This plasmid is known to be a good tool for insertional mutagenesis in gram-positive bacteria, owing to its ability to integrate in the genome by a mechanism of replicative transposition. However, the presence of three endogenous ISS1 copies in the genome of S. thermophilus CNRZ368 and the possible occurrence of homologous recombination could reduce the efficiency of pGh9:ISS1 as a tool for generating mutants. To address this question, the ability of pGh9:ISS1 to transpose randomly in the genome of strain CNRZ368 was investigated. The results of our experiments indicated that: (i) the frequency of transposition of ISS1 was high, approximately 2 x 10(-2), in S. thermophilus CNRZ368; (ii) the integration of multiple tandem copies of the plasmid was frequent; (iii) homologous recombination events between ISS1 were not predominant; and (iv) plasmid pGh9:ISS1 transposed randomly around the S. thermophilus CNRZ368 chromosome. In addition, we describe the strategy used to localize the pGh9:ISS1 insertion locus on the physical map of strain CNRZ368 and the method used to clone the regions flanking this insertion site, especially when multiple copies of the plasmid were integrated in tandem. 相似文献
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Deveau H Barrangou R Garneau JE Labonté J Fremaux C Boyaval P Romero DA Horvath P Moineau S 《Journal of bacteriology》2008,190(4):1390-1400
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and their associated genes are linked to a mechanism of acquired resistance against bacteriophages. Bacteria can integrate short stretches of phage-derived sequences (spacers) within CRISPR loci to become phage resistant. In this study, we further characterized the efficiency of CRISPR1 as a phage resistance mechanism in Streptococcus thermophilus. First, we show that CRISPR1 is distinct from previously known phage defense systems and is effective against the two main groups of S. thermophilus phages. Analyses of 30 bacteriophage-insensitive mutants of S. thermophilus indicate that the addition of one new spacer in CRISPR1 is the most frequent outcome of a phage challenge and that the iterative addition of spacers increases the overall phage resistance of the host. The added new spacers have a size of between 29 to 31 nucleotides, with 30 being by far the most frequent. Comparative analysis of 39 newly acquired spacers with the complete genomic sequences of the wild-type phages 2972, 858, and DT1 demonstrated that the newly added spacer must be identical to a region (named proto-spacer) in the phage genome to confer a phage resistance phenotype. Moreover, we found a CRISPR1-specific sequence (NNAGAAW) located downstream of the proto-spacer region that is important for the phage resistance phenotype. Finally, we show through the analyses of 20 mutant phages that virulent phages are rapidly evolving through single nucleotide mutations as well as deletions, in response to CRISPR1. 相似文献
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Although Streptococcus thermophilus accumulated [14C]lactose in the absence of an endogenous energy source, galactose-fermenting (Gal+) cells were unable to accumulate [14C]galactose unless an additional energy source was added to the test system. Both Gal+ and galactose-nonfermenting (Gal-) strains transported galactose when preincubated with sucrose. Accumulation was inhibited 50 or 95% when 10 mM sodium fluoride or 1.0 mM iodoacetic acid, respectively, was added to sucrose-treated cells, indicating that ATP was required for galactose transport activity. Proton-conducting ionophores also inhibited galactose uptake, although N,N'-dicyclohexyl carbodiimide had no effect. The results suggest that galactose transport in S. thermophilus occurs via an ATP-dependent galactose permease and that a proton motive force is involved. The galactose permease in S. thermophilus TS2b (Gal+) had a Km for galactose of 0.25 mM and a Vmax of 195 micromol of galactose accumulated per min per g (dry weight) of cells. Several structurally similar sugars inhibited galactose uptake, indicating that the galactose permease had high affinities for these sugars. 相似文献
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ATP-dependent phosphorylation of [14C]galactose by 11 strains of Streptococcus thermophilus indicated that these organisms possessed the Leloir enzyme, galactokinase (galK). Activities were 10 times higher in fully induced, galactose-fermenting (Gal+) strains than in galactose-nonfermenting (Gal-) strains. Lactose-grown, Gal- cells released free galactose into the medium and were unable to utilize residual galactose or to induce galK above basal levels. Gal+ S. thermophilus 19258 also released galactose into the medium, but when lactose was depleted growth on galactose commenced, and galK increased from 0.025 to 0.22 micromol of galactose phosphorylated per min per mg of protein. When lactose was added to galactose-grown cells of S. thermophilus 19258, galK activity rapidly decreased. These results suggest that galK in Gal+ S. thermophilus is subject to an induction-repression mechanism, but that galK cannot be induced in Gal- strains. 相似文献
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Ki Beom Lee Russell Cail Seung-Hyeon Moon Man Bock Gu 《Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering》1999,4(2):93-97
The acquired freeze-thaw tolerance was investigated forLactococcus lactis ssp.diacetylactis. Pretreatment of microorganisms at less severe temperatures to initiate cold tolerance gaveL. lactis ssp.diacetylactis improved cell viability after successive freezings and thawings. The ability of cells to survive freeze-thaw was dependent
on factors experienced prior to freezing. Factors affecting lactic acid bacteria survival during freeze-thaw cycles were found
to be different diluents, growth phase, and different cold temperatures. Viability experiments showed that this strain displaying
cold shock cryotolerance had an improved survival capacity in stationary phase. The plasmid contents of lactic acid bacteria
isolated from different types, DRC-2 and DRC-2C, were examined and compared with the plasmid contents of culture collection
strains both before and after cold shock treatment. Using agarose gel electrophoresis, no obvious correlation between the
cold shock response and the number of plasmids in the cell could be observed. 相似文献
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Varcamonti M Graziano MR Pezzopane R Naclerio G Arsenijevic S De Felice M 《Applied and environmental microbiology》2003,69(2):1287-1289
An insertional deoD mutant of Streptococcus thermophilus strain SFi39 had a reduced growth rate at 20 degrees C and an enhanced survival capacity to heat shock compared to the wild type, indicating that the deoD product is involved in temperature shock adaptation. We report evidence that ppGpp is implicated in this dual response. 相似文献
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目的 为了降低嗜热链球菌工业化生产成本,提高其发酵活菌数,对嗜热链球菌原始培养基的成分进行了响应面优化.方法 利用Design-Expert软件首先采用Plackett-Burman试验设计筛选出了影响嗜热链球菌生长的显著因子,再依据响应面法设计试验,得到嗜热链球菌的优化培养基配比.结果 乳糖、酵母粉和L-半胱氨酸为嗜热链球菌生长的显著性因子;优化后培养基配比由结果分析可知,当活菌数达到最大值时,即:乳糖的浓度为3.6%,酵母粉的浓度为1.74%,L-半胱氨酸的浓度为1.1%,牛肉蛋白胨1%,酪胨1%,KH2PO4 0.20%,Na2 HPO40.20%,叶温-80 0.1%活菌数为最高2.34×109 CFU/mL.结论 采用响应面分析法优化的培养基较经典TPY培养基活菌数提高了近2~3倍. 相似文献
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Autolysis of Streptococcus thermophilus 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1