Lactobacillus brevis SBC8803 and Reduced Polyphosphate Accumulation

• Accumulation of polyphosphate in Lactobacillus spp. and its involvement in stress resistance.

  • 2014-03
  • Applied and environmental microbiology 80(5)
  • • Cristina Alcántara
    • Amalia Blasco
    • Manuel Zúñiga
    • Vicente Monedero

  • PubMed: 24375133
  • DOI: 10.1128/aem.03997-13

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Polyphosphate Accumulation

  • Low evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  The constructed ppk mutant showed a lack of intracellular poly-P granules and a drastic reduction in poly-P synthesis.

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Moderate