Abstract:
:Many food-grade bacteria produce exopolysaccharides (EPS) that affect the texture of fermented food products and that may be involved in probiotic properties. Propionibacterium freudenreichii is a Gram-positive food-grade bacterium with reported probiotic capabilities that is widely used as starter in Swiss-type cheese. In this study, 68 strains of P. freudenreichii were screened for the beta-glucan capsular phenotype by immunoagglutination with a specific antibody and for the presence of the gtf gene coding for polysaccharide synthase. All strains were positive for PCR amplification with gtf gene-specific primers, but the presence of beta-glucan capsular EPS was detected for only 35% of the strains studied. Disruption of gtf in P. freudenreichii revealed that gtf is a unique gene involved in beta-glucan capsular EPS production in P. freudenreichii. The gtf gene was transferred into and expressed in Lactococcus lactis, in which it conferred an agglutination-positive phenotype. Expression of the gtf gene was measured by performing quantitative reverse transcription-PCR assays with RNA from four capsular and three noncapsular strains. A positive correlation was found between the beta-glucan capsular phenotype and gtf gene expression. Sequencing of the region upstream of the gtf open reading frame revealed the presence of an insertion element (IS element) in this upstream region in the four strains with the beta-glucan capsular phenotype. The role of the IS element in the expression of neighboring genes and its impact on interstrain variability of the P. freudenreichii capsule phenotype remain to be elucidated.
journal_name
Appl Environ Microbioljournal_title
Applied and environmental microbiologyauthors
Deutsch SM,Le Bivic P,Hervé C,Madec MN,LaPointe G,Jan G,Le Loir Y,Falentin Hdoi
10.1128/AEM.02591-09subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-05-01 00:00:00pages
2740-6issue
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0099-2240issn
1098-5336pii
AEM.02591-09journal_volume
76pub_type
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