Employing lytic phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer in Lactococcus lactis.

Autor: Barbara Marcelli, Harma Karsens, Mark Nijland, Ruben Oudshoorn, Oscar P Kuipers, Jan Kok

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 9, p e0238988 (2020)

Lactococcus lactis is a lactic acid bacterium widely used as a starter culture in the manufacture of dairy products, especially a wide variety of cheeses. Improved industrial strains would help to manufacture better food products that can meet the in

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Functional role of surface layer proteins of Lactobacillus acidophilus L-92 in stress tolerance and binding to host cell proteins

Autor: Taketo Wakai, Jan Kok, Chie Kano, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Harma Karsens

Publikováno v: Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health. 40:33-42

Lactobacillus acidophilus surface layer proteins (SLPs) self-assemble into a monolayer that is non-covalently bound to the outer surface of the cells. There they are in direct contact with the environment, environmental stressors and gut components o

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https://doi.org/10.12938/bmfh.2020-005

A Specific Sugar Moiety in the Lactococcus lactis Cell Wall Pellicle Is Required for Infection by CHPC971, a Member of the Rare 1706 Phage Species

Autor: Jan Kok, Barbara Marcelli, Anne de Jong, Oscar P. Kuipers, Thomas Janzen, Harma Karsens

Publikováno v: Applied and environmental microbiology, 85(19):e01224-19. AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY

Lactococcus lactis is a Gram-positive bacterium widely used as starter culture for the production of different dairy products, especially a large variety of cheeses. Infection of lactococcal starter cultures by bacteriophages is one of the major caus

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31350317

Benchmarking Various Green Fluorescent Protein Variants in Bacillus subtilis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Lactococcus lactis for Live Cell Imaging

Autor: Wout Overkamp, Ruud Detert Oude Weme, Ákos T. Kovács, Ana Solopova, Jan-Willem Veening, Harma Karsens, Jan Kok, Oscar P. Kuipers, Katrin Beilharz

Publikováno v: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79, 20, p. 6481-6490
Applied and environmental microbiology, 79(20), 6481-6490. AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) offers efficient ways of visualizing promoter activity and protein localization in vivo , and many different variants are currently available to study bacterial cell biology. Which of these variants is best suited for

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https://hdl.handle.net/11370/d4970610-ab55-404c-b65f-5b3a36be31de

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Autor: Aldert Zomer, Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum, Richard J.S. Baerends, Anne de Jong, Naomi E. Kramer, Jan Kok, Oscar P. Kuipers, Harma Karsens, Chris D. den Hengst, Girbe Buist

Publikováno v: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 82:113-122

Several complete genome sequences of Lactococcus lactis and their annotations will become available in the near future, next to the already published genome sequence of L. lactis ssp. lactis IL1403. This will allow intraspecies comparative genomics s

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https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1020691801251