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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2013

Catabolism of serine by Pediococcus acidilactici and Pediococcus pentosaceus.

Stefan Irmler, Tharmatha Bavan, Andrea Oberli, Alexandra Roetschi, René Badertscher, Barbara Guggenbühl, Hélène Berthoud

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stefan IrmlerAgroscope Liebefeld Posieux Research Station ALP, Bern, Switzerland. stefan.irmler@alp.admin.ch
Tharmatha Bavan
Andrea Oberli
Alexandra Roetschi
René Badertscher
Barbara Guggenbühl
Hélène Berthoud
Federal Office for Agriculture · CHAgroscope · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to produce diacetyl from pyruvate and l-serine was studied in various strains of Pediococcus pentosaceus and Pediococcus acidilactici isolated from cheese. After being incubated on both substrates, only P. pentosaceus produced significant amounts of diacetyl. This property correlated with measurable serine dehydratase activity in cell extracts. A gene encoding the serine dehydratase (dsdA) was identified in P. pentosaceus, and strains that showed no serine dehydratase activity carried mutations that rendered the gene product inactive. A functional dsdA was cloned from P. pentosaceus FAM19132 and expressed in Escherichia coli. The purified recombinant enzyme catalyzed the formation of pyruvate from L- and D-serine and was active at low pH and elevated NaCl concentrations, environmental conditions usually present in cheese. Analysis of the amino acid profiles of culture supernatants from dsdA wild-type and dsdA mutant strains of P. pentosaceus did not show differences in serine levels. In contrast, P. acidilactici degraded serine. Moreover, this species also catabolized threonine and produced alanine and α-aminobutyrate.

Indexed as

CheeseCloning, MolecularDiacetylEnzyme StabilityEscherichia coliGene ExpressionHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationL-Serine DehydratasePediococcusPyruvic AcidRecombinant ProteinsSerineSodium ChlorideDiacetylL-Serine DehydratasePyruvic AcidRecombinant ProteinsSerineSodium Chloride

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PMID23241976
PMCPMC3568594
OpenAlexW2031976951

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