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Respiration metabolism reduces oxidative and acid stress to improve long-term survival of Lactococcus lactis.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Sept 2004
Rezaïki Lahcen, Cesselin Bénédicte, Yamamoto Yuji, Vido Karin, van West Evelien, Gaudu Philippe, Gruss Alexandra
Abstract excerpt
The impact of oxygen on a cell is strongly dependent on its metabolic state: survival in oxygen of free-living Lactococcus lactis, best known as a fermenting, acidifying bacterium, is generally poor. In contrast, if haem is present, L. lactis uses oxygen to switch from fermentation to respiration metabolism late in growth, resulting in spectacularly improved long-term survival. Oxygen is thus beneficial rather...
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