Lactic acid bacterial strain with improved texturizing properties
AssigneeChr. Hansen A/S
InventorsKim Ib Soerensen, Mette Pia Junge, Jesper Broend, Victoria Prebner
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a novel Streptococcus thermophilus strain having improved texturizing properties, compositions comprising said strain as well as fermented products manufactured using said strain.
Claims17
An isolated mutant Streptococcus thermophilus strain derived from a galactose-negative mother strain having a transposase insertion element in its galactose operon promotor region, wherein said mutant Streptococcus thermophilus strain lacks a transposase insertion element in its galactose operon promotor region and is galactose-positive, wherein the galactose-negative mother strain is the Streptococcus thermophilus strain deposited at Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (Braunschweig, Germany) (DSMZ) under accession number DSM 17876.
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