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SUBMITTER: Ainsworth S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4068662 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ainsworth Stuart S Mahony Jennifer J van Sinderen Douwe D
Applied and environmental microbiology 20140509 14
Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris strains are used globally for the production of fermented dairy products, particularly hard cheeses. Believed to be of plant origin, L. lactis strains that are used as starter cultures have undergone extensive adaptation to the dairy environment, partially through the acquisition of extrachromosomal DNA in the form of plasmids that specify technologically important phenotypic traits. Here, we present a detailed analysis of the eight plasmids of L. lactis UC509. ...[more]