title: Selected characteristics of several strains of Lactobacillus plantarum.
abstract: Several relevant characteristics have been studied in nine Lactobacillus plantarum strains isolated from Cabrales cheese. They fermented lactose efficiently and possessed both beta-galactosidase and beta-phosphogalactosidase activities, but no significant proteolytic activity was detected. Antimicrobial susceptibility tests revealed no high level resistance to any of the fourteen compounds tested. All the strains had a high content of extrachromosomal DNA of unknown function. A recombinant plasmid comprising pUC19 from Escherichia coli and a small cryptic plasmid from L. plantarum has been constructed and may be used to develop a shuttle vector for these species.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología Funcional, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mayo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hardisson
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Braña
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D002611:Cheese; D005285:Fermentation / Q000502:physiology; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014169:Transformation, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents