Metabolic and transcriptomic adaptation of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis Biovar diacetylactis in response to autoacidification and temperature downshift in skim milk.
For the first time, a combined genome-wide transcriptome and metabolic analysis was performed with a dairy Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis strain under dynamic conditions similar to the conditions encountered during the cheese-making process. A culture was grown in skim milk in an anaerobic environment without pH regulation and with a controlled temperature downshift. Fermentation kinetics, as well as central metabolism enzyme activities, were determined throughout the culture. Based on the enzymatic analysis, a type of glycolytic control was postulated, which was shared by most of the enzymes during the growth phase; in particular, the phosphofructokinase and some enzymes of the phosphoglycerate pathway during the postacidification phase were implicated. These conclusions were reinforced by whole-genome transcriptomic data. First, limited enzyme activities relative to the carbon flux were measured for most of the glycolytic enzymes; second, transcripts and enzyme activities exhibited similar changes during the culture; and third, genes involved in alternative metabolic pathways derived from some glycolytic metabolites were induced just upstream of the postulated glycolytic bottlenecks, as a consequence of accumulation of these metabolites. Other transcriptional responses to autoacidification and a decrease in temperature were induced at the end of the growth phase and were partially maintained during the stationary phase. If specific responses to acid and cold stresses were identified, this exhaustive analysis also enabled induction of unexpected pathways to be shown.
Raynaud
Sandy
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Laboratoire Biotechnologie-Bioprocédés, UMR 5504 INSA/CNRS & UMR 792 INSA/INRA, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, 135 Avenue de Rangueil, 31077 Toulouse cedex 4, France.
Perrin
Rémi
R
Cocaign-Bousquet
Muriel
M
Loubiere
Pascal
P
D000064:Acclimatization; D000818:Animals; D005285:Fermentation; D006019:Glycolysis; D007700:Kinetics; D013294:Lactococcus lactis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D008892:Milk / Q000382:microbiology*; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000378:metabolism; D025221:Phosphofructokinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010735:Phosphoglycerate Kinase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D013696:Temperature; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D025221:Phosphofructokinases; D010735:Phosphoglycerate Kinase; D009584:Nitrogen