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US 9,416,351 B2Granted
Lactic bacterium for texturizing food products selected on basis of phage resistance
AssigneeChr. Hansen A/S
InventorsThomas Janzen, Ditte Ellegaard Christiansen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a bacterial cell with texturizing property, starter cultures comprising the cell, and dairy products fermented with the starter culture.
Claims9
A lactic acid bacterium having a mutation in the region between the Pribnow box and the ribosome binding site of the galactokinase (galK) gene, wherein the mutation results in the replacement of C in the sequence TTCAGT (SEQ ID NO:6) downstream from the wildtype Pribnow box with a nucleotide selected from the group consisting of A and G.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.