Iron complexation as a tool to direct mixed clostridia-lactobacilli fermentations
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B Bruyneel1, M Vande Woestyne, W Verstraete
1Laboratory of Microbial Ecology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, State University of Ghent, Belgium.
The Journal of Applied Bacteriology
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
Iron complexation was investigated as a possible tool to give lactobacilli a competitive advantage over clostridia. The iron complexing substance tested, i.e. 2,2'-dipyridyl, was not toxic itself for clostridia, but its addition to a mixed culture of lactobacilli and clostridia resulted in a strong ecological advantage of the lactobacilli.