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Detection of specific bacteriocin-producing lactic acid bacteria by colony hybridization
M I Martínez1, E Rodríguez, M Medina
1Departamento de Nutrición y Bromatología III, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
Journal of Applied Microbiology
|August 26, 1998
Abstract:
A colony hybridization method for detecting lactic acid bacteria encoding specific bacteriocins was developed. Specific PCR-generated probes were used to detect colonies of pediocin PA-1, lactococcin A, enterocin AS-48, nisin A and lacticin 481 producing strains. The probes were shown to be sensitive and specific for sequences belonging to the structural genes of the respective bacteriocins.