title: Characterization of a new organization of the plantaricin locus in the inducible bacteriocin-producing Lactobacillus plantarum J23 of grape must origin.
abstract: Lactobacillus plantarum J23 was previously characterized as a bacteriocin-producer-strain when it was cocultured with other lactic acid bacteria. In this work, the genetic organization of the pln locus in the J23 strain was studied and compared with those of previously described L. plantarum C11, WCFS1 and NC8 strains. A new organization of the plantaricin locus was detected in the J23 strain. The sequenced fragment (20,266 bp) comprised plnJLR, plnMNOP, plnEFI, plnGHSTUVWXY, and plNC8IF-plNC8HK-plnD operons, as well as a new region that includes three new orfs (GenBank accession number DQ323671). When the J23 pln gene sequences were compared with those included in the GenBank database, the identity of the putative encoded proteins was in the range 67.1-100%. The regulatory system and the repertoire of putative bacteriocins of the J23 pln locus presented important differences with respect to the ones of C11, WCFS1 and NC8, such as the absence of plnK and the presence of a larger plnJ gene than the previously described for the other L. plantarum strains. The pln locus in L. plantarum strains seems to be a mosaic-like structure with different modules and reorganizations that presents highly conserved regions related to transport and bacteriocin maturation and variable regions related to regulation and bacteriocin production.
authors.affiliation: Area de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Departamento de Agricultura y Alimentación, Universidad de La Rioja, Madre de Dios 51, Logroño, Spain.
authors.forename: Beatriz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rojo-Bezares
authors.forename: Yolanda
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sáenz
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Navarro
authors.forename: Rufino
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jiménez-Díaz
authors.forename: Myriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zarazaga
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Larrea
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Torres
mesh_terms: D001430:Bacteriocins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D048191:Lactiplantibacillus plantarum / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D009876:Operon; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D027843:Vitis / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D001430:Bacteriocins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial