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Systems Solutions by Lactic Acid Bacteria: From Paradigms to Practice

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de Vos, Willem M·2011·Microbial Cell Factories

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Lactic acid bacteria are among the powerhouses of the food industry, colonize the surfaces of plants and animals, and contribute to our health and well-being. The genomic characterization of LAB has rocketed and presently over 100 complete or nearly complete genomes are available, many of which serve as scientific paradigms. Moreover, functional and comparative metagenomic studies are taking off and provide a wealth of insight in the activity of lactic acid bacteria used in a variety of applications, ranging from starters in complex fermentations to their marketing as probiotics. In this new era of high throughput analysis, biology has become big science. Hence, there is a need to systematically store the generated information, apply this in an intelligent way, and provide modalities for constructing self-learning systems that can be used for future improvements. This review addresses these systems solutions with a state of the art overview of the present paradigms that relate to the use of lactic acid bacteria in industrial applications. Moreover, an outlook is presented of the future developments that include the transition into practice as well as the use of lactic acid bacteria in synthetic biology and other next generation applications.

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  • Mixed-strain undefined cultures result in more resilience and robustness in dairy processes as compared with selected ones, which are characterized by low strain diversity.

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  1. Van de Bunt B Bron P Sijtsma L De Vos WM Hugenholtz J A new method to assess volatile metabolites in non-growing Lactococcus lactis cell suspensions with relevance for flavor formation in cheese Submitted PMC4266196 25492249

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Authors
de Vos, W. M.
Venue
Microbial Cell Factories
Published
2011
Volume
10
Issue
Suppl 1
Pages
S2
ISSN
1475-2859 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2097603527
Cited by
134
References
131
Citations by year
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Type
conference abstract
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
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  • Microbial Cell Factories (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Academy of Finland
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Keywords
lactic acid bacteria, probiotics, starter cultures, metagenomics, comparative genomics, synthetic biology, industrial applications, self-learning systems
MeSH terms
Animals, Bifidobacterium, Biotechnology, Fermentation, Food-Processing Industry, Humans, Lactic Acid, Probiotics, Lactobacillales

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