Review article
The influence of gene transfer on the lactic acid bacteria evolution
Višnja Bačun-Družina
orcid.org/0000-0002-1140-4882
; Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Jasna Mrvčić
Ana Butorac
Krešimir Gjuračić
Abstract
In the case of preparing various dairy products, the exploitation of lactic acid bacteria has been essential in the course of past millennia in all known nations. Numerous comparative analyses of gene and genome sequences reveal that the exchange of genetic material within and between bacterial species is far more general and frequent than has previously been thought. Consequently, the horizontal gene transfer between distant species or within the same species is an important factor in the Lactobacillales evolution. Knowledge about the exchange of lactobacillus genetic information through horizontal gene transfer, mobile genetic elements, and its evolution is very important due to characterizations and stability maintenance of autochthonous as well as industrial lactic acid bacteria strains in dairy products that benefit human health.
Keywords
the lactic acid bacteria; horizontal gene transfer; mobile genetic elements; evolution
Hrčak ID:
40503
URI
Publication date:
5.9.2009.
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