Method for the production of a dairy food product and a method for gene transfer by conjugation
AssigneeDsm IP Assets B.V.
InventorsMariya Alexeevna Tarazanova, Thom Huppertz, Herwig Bachmann, Jan Kok, Marke Beerthuyzen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of microbiology, specifically the field of production of a dairy food product using fermentation and the field of gene transfer by conjugation.
Claims15
A dairy bacterial strain with clumping and/or chaining properties when cultured under liquid conditions, wherein the clumping property results in clumps of at least 20 bacteria per average clump, and wherein the chaining property results in chains of at least 8 bacteria per average chain, and wherein the strain comprises an increased amount of expression product of a pilin gene cluster compared to that of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris NCDO712 when cultured under identical conditions.
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