PRESENCE OF LACTOSE GENES AND INSERTION SEQUENCES IN PLASMIDS OF MINOR SPECIES OF THE GENUS LACTOCOCCUS

Authors
BOUNAIX S BENACHOUR A NOVEL G
Citation
S. Bounaix et al., PRESENCE OF LACTOSE GENES AND INSERTION SEQUENCES IN PLASMIDS OF MINOR SPECIES OF THE GENUS LACTOCOCCUS, Applied and environmental microbiology, 62(3), 1996, pp. 1112-1115
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Applied and environmental microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00992240
Volume
62
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1112 - 1115
Database
ISI
SICI code
0099-2240(1996)62:3<1112:POLGAI>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
The type strains of all known species and biovars of the Lactococcus g enus were tested for the presence of plasmids, lactose genes, and inse rtion sequences cloned from the lactose plasmid of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis. Only the biovar xylosus of this subspecies is plasmid f ree. The lactose plasmid is present only in lactose-positive strains e xcept in Lactococcus plantarum. The distribution of insertion sequence s varies within the type strains of the Lactococcus genus.