We showed that the growth of lactic acid bacteria during alcoholic fermentation depends on the composition of the must. We illustrated how the addition of sulfur dioxide to the must before fermentation and the temperature of storage both affect the growth of these bacteria in the wine. Whereas species of Lactobacillus and Leuconostoc mesenteroides were isolated from grapes and must, Leuconostoc...

Sequence Analysis of Leuconostoc mesenteroides Bacteriophage 1-A4 Isolated from an Industrial Vegetable Fermentation Z. Lu,* E. Altermann, F. Breidt, and S. Kozyavkin Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144; AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand; Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh,...

Article info: Received: 22 February 2012 In revised form: 28 April 2012 Accepted: 30 April 2012 ABSTRACT Dextransucrases are enzymes that transfer the glucosyl moiety from sucrose to other acceptor molecules. In the present study, we have investigated the biosynthesis of dextransucrases by two strains of Leuconostoc mesenteroides isolated from Bulgarian fermented products. Extracellular dextran...

The effects of Leuconostoc mesenteroides strain NTM048 and type strain JCM6124(T) on the murine immune system were characterized. Although the bacterial cells and exopolysaccharides of each strain induced immunoglobulin A production in Peyer's patch cells, the effects of NTM048 were more potent than those of JCM6124(T). Oral administration of the cells of each strain increased the fecal immunog...

The slime forming Leuconostoc mesnreroides is distributed widely in nature and is apparently ubiquitous in sugar factories. Neill, Hehre, Sugg, and Jaffe (1939) found dextran, a fermentation product of L. meenteroides, in all samples of cp sucrose examined. This organism, long a nuisance in the factory, has in recent years attracted wide interest because of the commercial possibilities of the d...

Leuconostoc mesenteroides strains that are resistant to high levels of nisin (up to 25,000 IU/ml in broth) were isolated. These nisin-resistant mutants were evaluated to determine their potential use as starter culture strains for cabbage fermentations. We found that some L. mesenteroides strains could be adapted to high levels of nisin resistance, while others could not. The nisin resistance t...

Bacterial profile modification (BPM), a form of tertiary oil recovery, diverts water from the water-flooded high-permeability zone into the oil-bearing low-permeability zone. During field use, exopolymer-producing bacteria plug the high-permeability zone only in the immediate vicinity of the injection point (the near-well bore region). For effective BPM the plug must penetrate far into the form...

Leuconostoc mesenteroides is a heterofermentative Grampositive bacterium that plays key roles in fermentation of foods such as kimchi, sauerkraut, and milk, leading to the production of various organic acids and aromatic compounds. To study the microbiological and genomic characteristics of L. mesenteroides, we have developed a new chemically defined minimal medium by using the single omission ...

morphological, cultural, physiological and biochemical characteristics were employed to identify lactic acid bacteria (lab), isolated from drinking yoghurt in different areas in fars province, iran. from 18 drinking yoghurt samples a total of 673 lab positives were determined, in which 117 (17.38%) and 556 (82.62%) were identified as lactic acid cocci and lactic acid bacilli, respectively. addi...

Leuconostoc (Ln.), Weissella, and Oenococcus form a group of related genera of lactic acid bacteria, which once all shared the name Leuconostoc. They are associated with plants, fermented vegetable products, raw milk, dairy products, meat, and fish. Most of industrially relevant Leuconostoc strains can be classified as either Ln. mesenteroides or Ln. pseudomesenteroides. They are important flav...