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Comparative genomics of the lactic acid bacteria.

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Makarova, K., Slesarev, A., Wolf, Y., Sorokin, A., Mirkin, B., Koonin, E., Pavlov, A., Pavlova, N. +42 more·2006·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Lactic acid-producing bacteria are associated with various plant and animal niches and play a key role in the production of fermented foods and beverages. We report nine genome sequences representing the phylogenetic and functional diversity of these bacteria. The small genomes of lactic acid bacteria encode a broad repertoire of transporters for efficient carbon and nitrogen acquisition from the nutritionally rich environments they inhabit and reflect a limited range of biosynthetic capabilities that indicate both prototrophic and auxotrophic strains. Phylogenetic analyses, comparison of gene content across the group, and reconstruction of ancestral gene sets indicate a combination of extensive gene loss and key gene acquisitions via horizontal gene transfer during the coevolution of lactic acid bacteria with their habitats.

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  • Strains of L. lactis are typically auxotrophic for several amino acids and need an extracellular protease to grow to high cell densities in milk.

    “Strains of L. lactis are typically auxotrophic for several amino acids and in order to grow to high cell densities in milk they need an extracellular protease.”

    From Modeled Structure of the Cell Envelope Proteinase of Lactococcus lactis (2020) · cites this paper as Makarova et al., 2006

    The Introduction (page unavailable) describes both prototrophic and auxotrophic pathways across lactic acid bacteria, but does not establish that L. lactis strains are typically auxotrophic for several amino acids. The phyletic-patterns section says L. lactis retains many biosynthetic reactions; searches for an extracellular protease and growth to high cell densities in milk found no passage addressing that requirement. (LLM, conf=0.72)

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Makarova, K., Slesarev, A., Wolf, Y., Sorokin, A., Mirkin, B., Koonin, E., Pavlov, A., Pavlova, N., Karamychev, V., Polouchine, N., Shakhova, V., Grigoriev, I., Lou, Y., Rohksar, D., Lucas, S., Huang, K., Goodstein, D. M., Hawkins, T., Plengvidhya, V., Welker, D., Hughes, J., Goh, Y., Benson, A., Baldwin, K., Lee, J.-H., Díaz-Muñiz, I., Dosti, B., Smeianov, V., Wechter, W., Barabote, R., Lorca, G., Altermann, E., Barrangou, R., Ganesan, B., Xie, Y., Rawsthorne, H., Tamir, D., Parker, C., Breidt, F., Broadbent, J., Hutkins, R., O'Sullivan, D., Steele, J., Unlu, G., Saier, M., Klaenhammer, T., Richardson, P., Kozyavkin, S., Weimer, B., & Mills, D.
Affiliations
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • Fidelity Systems (United States) (US)
  • Birkbeck, University of London (GB)
  • Joint Genome Institute (US)
  • Agricultural Research Service (US)
  • Biology and
  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln (US)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706;
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • North Carolina State University (US)
  • Utah State University (US)
  • University of California, Davis (US)
  • Nutrition and Food Science and
  • Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108;
  • Department of Food Science and Toxicology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2006-10-17
Volume
103
Issue
42
Pages
15611-15616
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2098686923
Cited by
1,391
References
59
Citations by year
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FWCI
118.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Energy (-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC03-?, AC03-76SF00098, W-7405, 05CH11231, -7405-ENG-48, W‐7405‐ENG‐48, W-7405-ENG-36, DE-AC02-)
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture (DE-AC02-05CH11231)
  • Utah State University
  • Utah Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Dairy Management
  • American Vineyard Foundation
  • Pickle Packers International
  • Joint Genome Institute (AC02-05CH11231, DE–AC02–05CH11231)
  • National Institutes of Health (DE-AC02–05CH11231, DE-AC03- 76SF00098)
  • Office of Science (DEAC03-76SF00098, DEAC02–05CH11231, AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02)
  • Agricultural Research Service
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM055434, R01 GM55434)
  • Biological and Environmental Research (05CH11231, DE-AC02 − 05CH11231, AC02-05CH11231)
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (W-7405-ENG 48, -7405-Eng-48, DE-AC03-76SF00098, W-7405-ENG-36, DE-AC02-05CH11231)
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (AC02‐05CH11231, DE AC03 76SF00098, 05CH11231)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (W‐7405‐ENG‐36, DE-AC02-05CH11231)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Keywords
lactic acid bacteria, comparative genomics, genome sequence, phylogenetic diversity, transporters, prototrophy, auxotrophy, gene loss, horizontal gene transfer, fermented foods, fermented beverages
MeSH terms
Animals, Bacterial Proteins, Biological Evolution, Food Microbiology, Lactobacillus, Phylogeny, Streptococcaceae, Genome, Bacterial, Lactic Acid, Gene Transfer, Horizontal, Genomics

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