title: Characterization of Lactobacillus sake strains associating with production of ropy slime by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns.
abstract: Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) patterns and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns were used for the characterization of ropy slime-producing Lactobacillus sake strains. The two most revealing commercially available primers (OPJ 12 and OPJ 16, Operon Inc. Alameda, USA) and two rare-cutting enzymes (AvrII and SmaI) were chosen from a pretested lot for the typing of 69 ropy slime-producing strains, 7 non-ropy isolates and 4 non-ropy reference strains. Both RAPD and PFGE patterns confirmed the group division established in previous studies and provided new information concerning ropy slime-producing strains. PFGE patterns were found to have the greatest discriminatory power, revealing the genetic variation of the main group of ropy slime-producing L. sake strains and distinguishing all non-ropy strains from slime-producers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene, University of Helsinki, Finland. johanna.bjorkroth@helsinki.fi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Björkroth
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ridell
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Korkeala
mesh_terms: D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D005516:Food Microbiology; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000145:classification*; D019105:Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial