title: Characterization of a wild, novel nisin a-producing Lactococcus strain with an L. lactis subsp. cremoris genotype and an L. lactis subsp. lactis phenotype, isolated from Greek raw milk.
abstract: Several molecular taxonomic studies have revealed that many natural (wild) Lactococcus lactis strains of dairy origin which are phenotypically representative of the L. lactis subspecies lactis cluster genotypically within subspecies cremoris and vice versa. Recently, we isolated two wild nisin-producing (Nis(+)) L. lactis strains, M78 and M104, of the lactis phenotype from Greek raw milk (J. Samelis, A. Lianou, A. Kakouri, C. Delbès, I. Rogelj, B. B. Matijašic, and M. C. Montel, J. Food Prot. 72:783-790, 2009); strain M78 possess a novel nisin A sequence (GenBank accession number HM219853). In this study, the actual subspecies identity of M78 and M104 isolates was elucidated, using 16S rRNA and acmA (encoding lactococcal N-acetylmuramidase) gene and histidine biosynthesis operon polymorphisms and 16S rRNA and ldh (encoding lactate dehydrogenase) gene phylogenies. Except the acmA gene analysis, molecular tools revealed that isolates M78 and M104 clustered with strains of the cremoris genotype, including the LMG 6897(T) strain, while they were distant from strains of the lactis genotype, including the LMG 6890(T) strain. The two wild isolates had identical repetitive sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR), randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), plasmid, and whole-cell protein profiles and shared high 16S rRNA (99.9%) and ldh (100%) gene sequence homologies. In contrast, they exhibited identical sugar fermentation and enzymatic patterns which were similar to those of the subspecies lactis LMG 6890(T) strain. To our knowledge, this is the first complete identification report on a wild L. lactis subsp. cremoris genotype of the lactis phenotype which is capable of nisin A production and, thus, has strong potential for use as a novel dairy starter and/or protective culture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Parapouli
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Delbès-Paus
authors.forename: Athanasia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kakouri
authors.forename: Anna-Irini
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Koukkou
authors.forename: Marie-Christine
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Montel
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Samelis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019295:Computational Biology; D005838:Genotype; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics; D006115:Greece; D013294:Lactococcus lactis / Q000235:genetics*; D008892:Milk / Q000382:microbiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010641:Phenotype; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D019105:Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; C026255:endo-N-acetylmuramidase
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