Effectiveness of Chemometric Techniques in Discrimination of Lactobacillus helveticus Biotypes from Natural Dairy Starter Cultures on the Basis of Phenotypic Characteristics

AUTOR(ES)

Gatti, Monica

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Lactobacillus helveticus is the dominant organism in natural starter cultures used for the production of typical Italian cheeses. In this study, 74 L. helveticus strains, isolated from grana and provolone cheese natural whey starters, were distinguished with respect to their origin by using both cell wall protein profiles and chemometric evaluation of some phenotypic parameters, such as the ability to acidify cultures and the presence of nonspecific proteolytic and peptidase activities. Cell wall protein patterns allowed L. helveticus strains to be distinguished with respect to their source of isolation. Among the different phenotypes studied, no single specific parameter permitted the two groups of strains to be separated. A good discrimination between the two groups of L. helveticus species was obtained by multivariate statistical techniques, which permitted the extraction of all of the discriminating information retained in the phenotypic activities. Associations between strain phenotype expression and dairy environmental ecosystem source are discussed.

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