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Advances in the genetics of thermophilic lactic acid bacteria
1Université Catholique de Louvain, Unité de Génétique, Croix du Sud, 5 B-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
|October 12, 2000
Abstract:
Molecular genetics of thermophilic lactic acid bacteria has advanced in several directions: exploitation of the milk proteins and sugars; primary and secondary metabolism; stress response; and molecular ecology of bacteria and their phages. These have singularly contributed to open new avenues of scientific interest in the field: comparative phage genomics; horizontal gene transfer events in bacterial or phage populations; and genetics of external polysaccharide production.