Characterization of lactobacillus delbrueckii subspecies bulgaricus and streptococcus thermophilus as lactic cultures isolated from traditional Turkish yogurts and subtyping of streptococcus thermophilus using crispr analysis and mlst

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2010
Altay Dede, Neslihan
Yogurt is a characteristic fermented dairy product of Turkey and Bulgaria and its popularity has been increasing all over the world. Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus (Lactobacillus bulgaricus) are used together as starter culture in production of yogurt. The objective of this study was to isolate and characterize yogurt cultures from traditionally produced yogurts (i.e. produced without using commercial starter cultures) and to search the genotypic diversity within traditional S. thermophilus isolates. Yogurt cultures were isolated from traditionally produced yogurts collected from different regions of Turkey and identified biochemically. Acidification ability of the isolates was examined and the cultures giving best acidifying rates were further subjected to a selection in terms of their acetaldehyde production ability. Then, phage resistance and proteolytic activity of chosen isolates were tested. Finally, twenty-five L. bulgaricus and twenty-two S. thermophilus isolates were selected as cultures having best technological properties. Furthermore, subtyping studies were carried out to indicate strain diversity among isolates. S. thermophilus was selected as target organism for subtyping in this study. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) loci are highly polymorphic genetic regions, which are composed of partially palindromic direct repeats interspaced by sequences called spacers. In order to characterize S. thermophilus isolates genotypically, CRISPR1 locus of the isolates were analyzed. Additionally, nineteen isolates selected after CRISPR1 analysis were characterized using multilocus sequence typing (MLST). This provided to compare CRISPR1 analysis with MLST as a typing method. According to CRISPR1 analysis S. thermophilus isolates were grouped into 6 main clusters with a total of 15 sub-clusters. MLST results demonstrated an evolutionary relationship among these strains compatible with that derived from the CRISPR1 analysis.

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N. Altay Dede, “Characterization of lactobacillus delbrueckii subspecies bulgaricus and streptococcus thermophilus as lactic cultures isolated from traditional Turkish yogurts and subtyping of streptococcus thermophilus using crispr analysis and mlst,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2010.