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Hu H, Qimu G, Nie J, Wu N, Dan T. Selection of a galactose-positive mutant strain of Streptococcus thermophilus and its optimized production as a high-vitality starter culture. J Dairy Sci 2024:S0022-0302(24)00787-2. [PMID: 38754828 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2023-24550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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Streptococcus thermophilus (S. thermophilus) is a common starter in yogurt production and plays an important role in the dairy industry. In this study, a galactose-positive (Gal+) mutant strain, IMAU20246Y, was produced using the chemical mutagen N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (NTG) from wild type S. thermophilus IMAU20246 which was known to have good fermentation characteristics. The sugar content of milk fermented by either the mutant or the wild type was determined using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); metabolism of lactose and galactose was significantly increased in the mutant strain. In addition, we used the response surface methodology to optimize components of the basic medium M17 for survival ratio of the mutant strain. Under these optimal conditions, the viable counts of mutant S. thermophilus IMAU20246Y reached 4.15 × 108 cfu/mL and following freeze drying in the medium retained cell viability of up to 67.42%. The above results are conducive to production of a high vitality starter culture and development of 'low sugar, high sweetness' dairy products.
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- Haimin Hu
- Key Laboratory of Dairy Biotechnology and Engineering, Ministry of Education, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China; Key Laboratory of Dairy Products Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China; Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Dairy Biotechnology and Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
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- Inner Mongolia Scitop Bio-tech Co., Ltd., Hohhot 011508, China
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- Key Laboratory of Dairy Biotechnology and Engineering, Ministry of Education, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China; Key Laboratory of Dairy Products Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China; Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Dairy Biotechnology and Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
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- Key Laboratory of Dairy Biotechnology and Engineering, Ministry of Education, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China; Key Laboratory of Dairy Products Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China; Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Dairy Biotechnology and Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
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- Key Laboratory of Dairy Biotechnology and Engineering, Ministry of Education, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China; Key Laboratory of Dairy Products Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China; Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Dairy Biotechnology and Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China.
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Grizon A, Theil S, Callon C, Gerber P, Helinck S, Dugat-Bony E, Bonnarme P, Chassard C. Genetic and technological diversity of Streptococcus thermophilus isolated from the Saint-Nectaire PDO cheese-producing area. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1245510. [PMID: 38487210 PMCID: PMC10939066 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1245510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2024] Open
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Streptococcus thermophilus is of major importance for cheese manufacturing to ensure rapid acidification; however, studies indicate that intensive use of commercial strains leads to the loss of typical characteristics of the products. To strengthen the link between the product and its geographical area and improve the sensory qualities of cheeses, cheese-producing protected designations of origin (PDO) are increasingly interested in the development of specific autochthonous starter cultures. The present study is therefore investigating the genetic and functional diversity of S. thermophilus strains isolated from a local cheese-producing PDO area. Putative S. thermophilus isolates were isolated and identified from milk collected in the Saint-Nectaire cheese-producing PDO area and from commercial starters. Whole genomes of isolates were sequenced, and a comparative analysis based on their pan-genome was carried out. Important functional properties were studied, including acidifying and proteolytic activities. Twenty-two isolates representative of the diversity of the geographical area and four commercial strains were selected for comparison. The resulting phylogenetic trees do not correspond to the geographical distribution of isolates. The clustering based on the pan-genome analysis indicates that isolates are divided into five distinct groups. A Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) functional annotation of the accessory genes indicates that the accessory gene contents of isolates are involved in different functional categories. High variability in acidifying activities and less diversity in proteolytic activities were also observed. These results indicate that high genetic and functional variabilities of the species S. thermophilus may arise from a small (1,800 km2) geographical area and may be exploited to meet demand for use as autochthonous starters.
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- Anna Grizon
- UMR545 Fromage, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Université Clermont Auvergne, Aurillac, France
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- UMR545 Fromage, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Université Clermont Auvergne, Aurillac, France
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- UMR545 Fromage, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Université Clermont Auvergne, Aurillac, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR SayFood, Palaiseau, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR SayFood, Palaiseau, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR SayFood, Palaiseau, France
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- UMR545 Fromage, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Université Clermont Auvergne, Aurillac, France
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Xiong Z, Tian X, Wang G, Song X, Xia Y, Zhang H, Ai L. Development of a high-throughput screening method for exopolysaccharide-producing Streptococcus thermophilus based on Congo red. Food Res Int 2022; 162:112094. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2022.112094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Revised: 10/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Gasser C, Garault P, Chervaux C, Monnet V, Faurie JM, Rul F. Co-utilization of saccharides in mixtures: Moving toward a new understanding of carbon metabolism in Streptococcus thermophilus. Food Microbiol 2022; 107:104080. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2022.104080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Revised: 05/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Kong L, Xiong Z, Song X, Xia Y, Ai L. CRISPR/dCas9-based metabolic pathway engineering for the systematic optimization of exopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Streptococcus thermophilus. J Dairy Sci 2022; 105:6499-6512. [PMID: 35691751 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2021-21409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Streptococcus thermophilus is used extensively in the dairy industry and has shown great promise as a chassis cell for the biosynthesis of high-value metabolites. However, metabolic engineering in S. thermophilus lacks effective genetic modification tools to modulate gene expression to relieve metabolic burden and maximize the production of desired compounds. Here, we developed a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats interference (CRISPRi) system for efficient gene transcriptional modulation in S. thermophilus. Our CRISPRi system typically achieved 66 to 98% knockdown of single or multiple gene expression. We used CRISPRi for the biosynthesis of a new exopolysaccharide (EPS) as a paradigm model. Repression of galK at module of uridine diphosphate glucose sugar metabolism and overexpression of epsA and epsE at EPS synthesis module resulted in an approximately 2-fold increase in EPS titer (277 mg/L) when compared with a control strain. This study demonstrated the effectiveness of CRISPRi as a powerful metabolic engineering tool and synthetic biology strategy for S. thermophilus.
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- Linghui Kong
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China; School of Pharmacy (School of Enology), Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, 264003, Shandong Province, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
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Xu ZS, Liang Y, Kong J, Zhang SS, Liu XL, Wang T. A food-grade vector for Streptococcus thermophilus based on the α-complementation of β-galactosidase. J Dairy Sci 2022; 105:5641-5653. [PMID: 35599030 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2021-21699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Streptococcus thermophilus is a common yogurt starter that consumes lactose as its primary carbon source. The enzyme β-galactosidase is essential for the lactose metabolism and the growth of this species. Streptococcus thermophilus appears to be a promising cell factory. Food-grade vectors have advantages in heterologous protein expression. This study aimed to determine whether the β-galactosidase of S. thermophilus has the α-complementary characteristic and to develop a novel food-grade vector based on this phenomenon. The N-terminal 7 to 36 AA residues of the β-galactosidase in S. thermophilus were deleted. The obtained mutant S. thermophilus Δα lost β-galactosidase activity and growth ability in the lactose medium. Subsequently, plasmids expressing α-fragments with different lengths of 1 to 36 (Sα1), 1 to 53 (Sα2), and 1 to 88 (Sα3) AA were constructed and transformed into S. thermophilus Δα. Recombinant S. thermophilus Δα expressing Sα2 or Sα3 recovered the ability to grow in the lactose medium, and their β-galactosidase activity accounted for 24.5% or 11.5% of the wild strain, respectively. These results indicated that the α-complementation system of β-galactosidase existed in S. thermophilus. Based on the characteristic, a food-grade vector pSEα was constructed. Except for Sα2, vector pSEα expressed the α-donor derived from E. coli β-galactosidase. This facilitated the construction of recombinant plasmids in E. coli DH5α and thus improved the transformation efficiency of S. thermophilus. Green fluorescent protein as a reporter protein could be highly expressed in S. thermophilus using this vector. As a result, pSEα is an efficient and safe vector for S. thermophilus with potential food applications.
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- Z S Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Biobased Material and Green Papermaking, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Science, Jinan, 250353, P. R. China; School of Bioengineering, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Science, Jinan, 250353, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biobased Material and Green Papermaking, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Science, Jinan, 250353, P. R. China; School of Bioengineering, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Science, Jinan, 250353, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, P. R. China
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- College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biobased Material and Green Papermaking, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Science, Jinan, 250353, P. R. China; School of Bioengineering, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Science, Jinan, 250353, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Biobased Material and Green Papermaking, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Science, Jinan, 250353, P. R. China; School of Bioengineering, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Science, Jinan, 250353, P. R. China.
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Roux E, Nicolas A, Valence F, Siekaniec G, Chuat V, Nicolas J, Le Loir Y, Guédon E. The genomic basis of the Streptococcus thermophilus health-promoting properties. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:210. [PMID: 35291951 PMCID: PMC8925076 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08459-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background Streptococcus thermophilus is a Gram-positive bacterium widely used as starter in the dairy industry as well as in many traditional fermented products. In addition to its technological importance, it has also gained interest in recent years as beneficial bacterium due to human health-promoting functionalities. The objective of this study was to inventory the main health-promoting properties of S. thermophilus and to study their intra-species diversity at the genomic and genetic level within a collection of representative strains. Results In this study various health-related functions were analyzed at the genome level from 79 genome sequences of strains isolated over a long time period from diverse products and different geographic locations. While some functions are widely conserved among isolates (e.g., degradation of lactose, folate production) suggesting their central physiological and ecological role for the species, others including the tagatose-6-phosphate pathway involved in the catabolism of galactose, and the production of bioactive peptides and gamma-aminobutyric acid are strain-specific. Most of these strain-specific health-promoting properties seems to have been acquired via horizontal gene transfer events. The genetic basis for the phenotypic diversity between strains for some health related traits have also been investigated. For instance, substitutions in the galK promoter region correlate with the ability of some strains to catabolize galactose via the Leloir pathway. Finally, the low occurrence in S. thermophilus genomes of genes coding for biogenic amine production and antibiotic resistance is also a contributing factor to its safety status. Conclusions The natural intra-species diversity of S. thermophilus, therefore, represents an interesting source for innovation in the field of fermented products enriched for healthy components that can be exploited to improve human health. A better knowledge of the health-promoting properties and their genomic and genetic diversity within the species may facilitate the selection and application of strains for specific biotechnological and human health-promoting purpose. Moreover, by pointing out that a substantial part of its functional potential still defies us, our work opens the way to uncover additional health-related functions through the intra-species diversity exploration of S. thermophilus by comparative genomics approaches. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12864-022-08459-y.
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- Emeline Roux
- INRAE, Institut Agro, STLO, Rennes, France.,Université de Lorraine, CALBINOTOX, Nancy, France.,Université de Rennes, INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
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- INRAE, Institut Agro, STLO, Rennes, France.,Université de Rennes, INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
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- Université de Rennes, INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France
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Xiong Z, Chen H, Song X, Xia Y, Ai L. Rapid isolation of exopolysaccharide-producing Streptococcus thermophilus based on molecular marker screening. JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2022; 102:862-867. [PMID: 34173230 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.11398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND As a natural food additive, exopolysaccharide (EPS) produced by Streptococcus thermophilus can improve product viscosity and texture. The protein EpsA is a putative pathway-specific transcriptional regulator for EPS biosynthesis in S. thermophilus. RESULTS According to comparative analysis of EPS biosynthetic gene clusters, a conserved region of epsA (609 bp) was employed to design primer pair epsA-F/R as a molecular marker for the isolation of EPS-producing (EPS+ ) S. thermophilus. Two EPS+ S. thermophiles strains, AR333 and S-3, were band-positive, whereas Lactococcus lactis NZ9000 (non-EPS-producing, EPS- ), Lactobacillus casei LC2W (EPS+ ) and L. plantarum AR113 (EPS+ ) were negative by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplicon bands using the epsA probe. This indicated good specificity of the epsA probe to EPS+ S. thermophilus. Moreover, based on PCR screening with the epsA probe, 23 positive strains were isolated and identified as S. thermophilus from our microbial library and natural fermented milk with 141.3-309.2 mg L-1 of EPS production, demonstrating the validity of our molecular marker screening method. CONCLUSION The designed molecular marker of epsA can rapidly screen EPS+ S. thermophilus, which has potential application in the dairy and other food industries. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Zhiqiang Xiong
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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Xu Z, Li C, Ye Y, Wang T, Zhang S, Liu X. The β-galactosidase LacLM plays the major role in lactose utilization of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum. Lebensm Wiss Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2021.112481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Recent Research Advances in Small Regulatory RNAs in Streptococcus. Curr Microbiol 2021; 78:2231-2241. [PMID: 33963446 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-021-02484-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) are a class of regulatory RNAs 20-500 nucleotides in length, which have recently been discovered in prokaryotic organisms. sRNAs are key regulators in many biological processes, such as sensing various environmental changes and regulating intracellular gene expression through binding target mRNAs or proteins. Bacterial sRNAs have recently been rapidly mined, thus providing new insights into the regulatory network of biological functions in prokaryotes. Although most bacterial sRNAs have been discovered and studied in Escherichia coli and other Gram-negative bacteria, sRNAs have increasingly been predicted and verified in Gram-positive bacteria in the past decade. The genus Streptococcus includes many commensal and pathogenic Gram-positive bacteria. However, current understanding of sRNA-mediated regulation in Streptococcus is limited. Most known sRNAs in Streptococcus are associated with the regulation of virulence. In this review, we summarize recent advances in understanding of the functions and mechanisms of sRNAs in Streptococcus, and we discuss the RNA chaperone protein and synthetic sRNA-mediated gene regulation, with the aim of providing a reference for the study of microbial sRNAs.
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Kong L, Xiong Z, Song X, Xia Y, Zhang H, Yang Y, Ai L. Enhanced Antioxidant Activity in Streptococcus thermophilus by High-Level Expression of Superoxide Dismutase. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:579804. [PMID: 33281773 PMCID: PMC7688587 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.579804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Superoxide dismutase (SOD) plays an essential role in eliminating oxidative damage of lactic acid bacteria. Streptococcus thermophilus, an important probiotic lactic acid bacterium, often inevitably suffers from various oxidative stress during dairy fermentation. In this study, to confer high-level oxidative resistance, the sod gene from Lactobacillus casei was heterologous expressed in S. thermophilus S-3 using our previous constructed native constitutive promoter library. The enzyme activity of SOD was significantly enhanced in engineered S. thermophilus by promoter #14 (2070 U/mg). Furthermore, the strategy of multi-copy sod-expressing cassettes was employed to improve SOD activity. The maximum activity (2750 U/mg) was obtained by the two-copy sod recombinant, which was 1.5-fold higher than that of one-copy recombinant. In addition, the survival rate of multi-copy sod recombinants was increased about 97-fold with 3.5 mmol/L H2O2 treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first report of multi-copy sod gene expression in S. thermophilus, which exerts a positive effect on coping with oxidative stress to enhance the potential of industrial application.
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- Linghui Kong
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Food Science, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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CRISPR-Cas-mediated gene editing in lactic acid bacteria. Mol Biol Rep 2020; 47:8133-8144. [PMID: 32926267 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-020-05820-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 09/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The high efficiency, convenience and diversity of clustered regular interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems are driving a technological revolution in the gene editing of lactic acid bacteria (LAB). Cas-RNA cassettes have been adopted as tools to perform gene deletion, insertion and point mutation in several species of LAB. In this article, we describe the basic mechanisms of the CRISPR-Cas system, and the current gene editing methods available, focusing on the CRISPR-Cas models developed for LAB. We also compare the different types of CRISPR-Cas-based genomic manipulations classified according to the different Cas proteins and the type of recombineering, and discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of CRISPR-Cas application in LAB.
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Xiong ZQ, Fan YZ, Song X, Xia YJ, Zhang H, Ai LZ. Short communication: Genome-wide identification of new reference genes for reverse-transcription quantitative PCR in Streptococcus thermophilus based on RNA-sequencing analysis. J Dairy Sci 2020; 103:10001-10005. [PMID: 32896392 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2020-18672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Streptococcus thermophilus, one of the most important industrial lactic acid bacteria, is widely used for the production of fermented dairy products such as yogurt and cheese. The accuracy of gene expression-based analyses (e.g., reverse-transcription quantitative real-time PCR) relies heavily on the selection of reliable reference genes (RG), which provides the basis for correctly interpreting expression data. However, many traditional RG are not stably expressed in different systems. Here we used RNA-sequencing to systematically investigate gene expression variation at the genome scale and identify more stable RG in S. thermophilus. In total, 21 putative candidate RG were identified with variation coefficient values <10.0 based on the expression of all 1,911 genes under 4 different experimental conditions. We selected and validated 12 RG chosen from transcriptomes by using reverse-transcription quantitative real-time PCR, and ranked their expression stability by statistical algorithms geNorm and NormFinder. Compared with traditional RG 16S rRNA, genes encoding glycine-tRNA ligase subunit β GlyS and fatty acid-binding protein DegV were more stable under all 4 treatments, which have never been used as RG in S. thermophilus. Our finding provides the foundation for more precise analysis of gene expression in S. thermophilus and other lactic acid bacteria species.
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- Zhi-Qiang Xiong
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Food Microbiology, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
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Markakiou S, Gaspar P, Johansen E, Zeidan AA, Neves AR. Harnessing the metabolic potential of Streptococcus thermophilus for new biotechnological applications. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2020; 61:142-152. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2019.12.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Alexandraki V, Kazou M, Blom J, Pot B, Papadimitriou K, Tsakalidou E. Comparative Genomics of Streptococcus thermophilus Support Important Traits Concerning the Evolution, Biology and Technological Properties of the Species. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2916. [PMID: 31956321 PMCID: PMC6951406 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Streptococcus thermophilus is a major starter for the dairy industry with great economic importance. In this study we analyzed 23 fully sequenced genomes of S. thermophilus to highlight novel aspects of the evolution, biology and technological properties of this species. Pan/core genome analysis revealed that the species has an important number of conserved genes and that the pan genome is probably going to be closed soon. According to whole genome phylogeny and average nucleotide identity (ANI) analysis, most S. thermophilus strains were grouped in two major clusters (i.e., clusters A and B). More specifically, cluster A includes strains with chromosomes above 1.83 Mbp, while cluster B includes chromosomes below this threshold. This observation suggests that strains belonging to the two clusters may be differentiated by gene gain or gene loss events. Furthermore, certain strains of cluster A could be further subdivided in subgroups, i.e., subgroup I (ASCC 1275, DGCC 7710, KLDS SM, MN-BM-A02, and ND07), II (MN-BM-A01 and MN-ZLW-002), III (LMD-9 and SMQ-301), and IV (APC151 and ND03). In cluster B certain strains formed one distinct subgroup, i.e., subgroup I (CNRZ1066, CS8, EPS, and S9). Clusters and subgroups observed for S. thermophilus indicate the existence of lineages within the species, an observation which was further supported to a variable degree by the distribution and/or the architecture of several genomic traits. These would include exopolysaccharide (EPS) gene clusters, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs)-CRISPR associated (Cas) systems, as well as restriction-modification (R-M) systems and genomic islands (GIs). Of note, the histidine biosynthetic cluster was found present in all cluster A strains (plus strain NCTC12958T) but was absent from all strains in cluster B. Other loci related to lactose/galactose catabolism and urea metabolism, aminopeptidases, the majority of amino acid and peptide transporters, as well as amino acid biosynthetic pathways were found to be conserved in all strains suggesting their central role for the species. Our study highlights the necessity of sequencing and analyzing more S. thermophilus complete genomes to further elucidate important aspects of strain diversity within this starter culture that may be related to its application in the dairy industry.
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Affiliation(s)
- Voula Alexandraki
- Laboratory of Dairy Research, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Dairy Research, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
| | - Jochen Blom
- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
| | - Bruno Pot
- Research Group of Industrial Microbiology and Food Biotechnology (IMDO), Department of Bioengineering Sciences (DBIT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
| | - Konstantinos Papadimitriou
- Laboratory of Dairy Research, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
| | - Effie Tsakalidou
- Laboratory of Dairy Research, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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