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Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S1
Published on: 30 August 2011
Volume 10 Supplement 1
Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Lactic Acid Bacterium
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Edited by Colin Hill, Michiel Kleerebezem and Jan Kok
10th Symposium on Lactic Acid Bacterium. Go to conference site.
Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands
28 August - 1 September 2011
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Systems solutions by lactic acid bacteria: from paradigms to practice
Lactic acid bacteria are among the powerhouses of the food industry, colonize the surfaces of plants and animals, and contribute to our health and well-being. The genomic characterization of LAB has rocketed a...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S2
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Genomic diversity and versatility of Lactobacillus plantarum, a natural metabolic engineer
In the past decade it has become clear that the lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum occupies a diverse range of environmental niches and has an enormous diversity in phenotypic properties, metabolic cap...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S3
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Lactococci and lactobacilli as mucosal delivery vectors for therapeutic proteins and DNA vaccines
Food-grade Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) have been safely consumed for centuries by humans in fermented foods. Thus, they are good candidates to develop novel oral vectors, constituting attractive alternatives to...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S4
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Importance of lactic acid bacteria in Asian fermented foods
Lactic acid bacteria play important roles in various fermented foods in Asia. Besides being the main component in kimchi and other fermented foods, they are used to preserve edible food materials through fermenta...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S5
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Genomic analysis reveals Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis as stable element in traditional sourdoughs
Sourdough has played a significant role in human nutrition and culture for thousands of years and is still of eminent importance for human diet and the bakery industry. Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis is the predo...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S6
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Inhibitory activity of Lactobacillus plantarum LMG P-26358 against Listeria innocua when used as an adjunct starter in the manufacture of cheese
Lactobacillus plantarum LMG P-26358 isolated from a soft French artisanal cheese produces a potent class IIa bacteriocin with 100% homology to plantaricin 423 and bacteriocidal activity against Listeria innocua a...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S7
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Contribution of glutamate decarboxylase in Lactobacillus reuteri to acid resistance and persistence in sourdough fermentation
Acid stress impacts the persistence of lactobacilli in industrial sourdough fermentations, and in intestinal ecosystems. However, the contribution of glutamate to acid resistance in lactobacilli has not been d...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S8
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From transcriptional landscapes to the identification of biomarkers for robustness
The ability of microorganisms to adapt to changing environments and gain cell robustness, challenges the prediction of their history-dependent behaviour. Using our model organism Bacillus cereus, a notorious Gram...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S9
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Modulation of the gut microbiota by nutrients with prebiotic properties: consequences for host health in the context of obesity and metabolic syndrome
The gut microbiota is increasingly considered as a symbiotic partner for the maintenance of health. The homeostasis of the gut microbiota is dependent on host characteristics (age, gender, genetic background…)...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S10
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Systems biology of lactic acid bacteria: a critical review
Understanding the properties of a system as emerging from the interaction of well described parts is the most important goal of Systems Biology. Although in the practice of Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) physiolog...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S11
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Carbohydrate catabolic flexibility in the mammalian intestinal commensal Lactobacillus ruminis revealed by fermentation studies aligned to genome annotations
Lactobacillus ruminis is a poorly characterized member of the Lactobacillus salivarius clade that is part of the intestinal microbiota of pigs, humans and other mammals. Its variable abundance in human and animal...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S12
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Genome sequences and comparative genomics of two Lactobacillus ruminis strains from the bovine and human intestinal tracts
The genus Lactobacillus is characterized by an extraordinary degree of phenotypic and genotypic diversity, which recent genomic analyses have further highlighted. However, the choice of species for sequencing has...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S13
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The evolutionary emergence of stochastic phenotype switching in bacteria
Stochastic phenotype switching – or bet hedging – is a pervasive feature of living systems and common in bacteria that experience fluctuating (unpredictable) environmental conditions. Under such conditions, th...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S14
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Medical nutrition therapy: use of sourdough lactic acid bacteria as a cell factory for delivering functional biomolecules and food ingredients in gluten free bread
Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated disease, triggered in genetically susceptible individuals by ingesting gluten from wheat, rye, barley, and other closely related cereal grains. Currently, the estimate...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S15
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Genetic analysis and morphological identification of pilus-like structures in members of the genus Bifidobacterium
Cell surface pili in Gram positive bacteria have been reported to orchestrate the colonization of host tissues, evasion of immunity and the development of biofilms. So far, little if any information is availab...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S16
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Immunomodulatory mechanisms of lactobacilli
Over the past decade it has become clear that lactobacilli and other probiotic and commensal organisms can interact with mucosal immune cells or epithelial cells lining the mucosa to modulate specific function...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S17
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Investigation of the adaptation of Lactococcus lactis to isoleucine starvation integrating dynamic transcriptome and proteome information
Amino acid assimilation is crucial for bacteria and this is particularly true for Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) that are generally auxotroph for amino acids. The global response of the LAB model Lactococcus lactis s...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S18
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Enhancing the stress responses of probiotics for a lifestyle from gut to product and back again
Before a probiotic bacterium can even begin to fulfill its biological role, it must survive a battery of environmental stresses imposed during food processing and passage through the gastrointestinal tract (GI...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S19
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Bacteriophages of lactic acid bacteria and their impact on milk fermentations
Every biotechnology process that relies on the use of bacteria to make a product or to overproduce a molecule may, at some time, struggle with the presence of virulent phages. For example, phages are the prima...
Microbial Cell Factories 2011 10(Suppl 1):S20
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