Electrophoretic pattern of peptidoglycan hydrolases, a new tool for bacterial species identification: application to 10 Lactobacillus species.

doi:10.1016/S0923-2508(97)88344-1

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Electrophoretic pattern of peptidoglycan hydrolases, a new tool for bacterial species identification: application to 10 Lactobacillus species.

Research in microbiology - 1 Jan 2000

Lortal S, Valence F, Bizet C, Maubois J L

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Lactobacilli have been used as industrial starters for a long time, but in many cases their phenotypic identification is still neither easy nor reliable. Previously we observed that the cell wall peptidoglycan hydrolases of Lactobacillus helveticus were highly conserved enzymes; the aim of the pr...

Topics

Bacterial Proteins
Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
Lactobacillus
Peptide Hydrolases
Phenotype
Sensitivity and Specificity

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