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Isolation of tannin-degrading lactobacilli from humans and fermented foods
1Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Rokkodai 1-1, Nada-ku, Kobe City 657-8501, Japan. osawa@ans.kobe-u.ac.jp
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|July 6, 2000
Abstract:
Lactobacilli with tannase activity were isolated from human feces and fermented foods. A PCR-based taxonomic assay revealed that the isolates belong to Lactobacillus plantarum, L. paraplantarum, and L. pentosus. Additional studies on a range of Lactobacillus species from established culture collections confirmed that this enzymatic activity is a phenotypic property common to these three species.