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Complete genome sequence of the prototype lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis subsp cremoris MG1363

Authors list: Wegmann, U; O'Connell-Motherwy, M; Zomer, A; Buist, G; Shearman, C; Canchaya, C; Ventura, M; Goesmann, A; Gasson, MJ; Kuipers, OP; van Sinderen, D; Kok, J

Publication year: 2007

Pages: 3256-3270

Journal: Journal of Bacteriology

Volume number: 189

Issue number: 8

ISSN: 0021-9193

eISSN: 1098-5530

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.01768-06

Publisher: American Society for Microbiology

Abstract:
Lactococcus lactis is of great importance for the nutrition of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. This paper describes the genome sequence of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363, the lactococcal strain most intensively studied throughout the world. The 2,529,478-bp genome contains 81 pseudogenes and encodes 2,436 proteins. Of the 530 unique proteins, 47 belong to the COG (clusters of orthologous groups) functional category "carbohydrate metabolism and transport," by far the largest category of novel proteins in comparison with L. lactis subsp. lactis IL1403. Nearly one-fifth of the 71 insertion elements are concentrated in a specific 56-kb region. This integration hot-spot region carries genes that are typically associated with lactococcal plasmids and a repeat sequence specifically found on plasmids and in the "lateral gene transfer hot spot" in the genome of Streptococcus thermophilus. Although the parent of L. lactis MG1363 was used to demonstrate lysogeny in Lactococcus, L. lactis MG1363 carries four remnant/satellite phages and two apparently complete prophages. The availability of the L. lactis MG1363 genome sequence will reinforce its status as the prototype among lactic acid bacteria through facilitation of further applied and fundamental research.

Authors/Editors

- Uni.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Goesmann

Citation Styles

Harvard Citation style: Wegmann, U., O'Connell-Motherwy, M., Zomer, A., Buist, G., Shearman, C., Canchaya, C., et al. (2007) Complete genome sequence of the prototype lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis subsp cremoris MG1363, Journal of Bacteriology, 189(8), pp. 3256-3270. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.01768-06

APA Citation style: Wegmann, U., O'Connell-Motherwy, M., Zomer, A., Buist, G., Shearman, C., Canchaya, C., Ventura, M., Goesmann, A., Gasson, M., Kuipers, O., van Sinderen, D., & Kok, J. (2007). Complete genome sequence of the prototype lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis subsp cremoris MG1363. Journal of Bacteriology. 189(8), 3256-3270. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.01768-06