Brevibacterium linens
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| German Romadur cheese, with Brevibacterium linens causing "red smear" on its surface | |
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| Family: | Brevibacteriaceae Breed 1953
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| Genus: | Brevibacterium
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| Brevibacterium linens | |
Brevibacterium linens is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium. It is the type species of the family Brevibacteriaceae.[1]
Brevibacterium linens is ubiquitously present on the human skin, where it causes foot odor. The familiar odor is due to sulfur-containing compounds known as S-methyl thioesters. The same bacterium is also employed to ferment several washed-rind and smear-ripened cheeses such as Munster, Limburger, Port-du-Salut, Raclette, Livarot, Pont l'Eveque, Époisses, Wisconsin Brick, Năsal and Pálpusztai. Its aroma also attracts mosquitoes.[2]
The first comprehensive proteomic reference map of B. linens was published in 2013.[3]
References
- ^ "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 30 (7038): 225–420. 1 January 1980. doi:10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|authors=ignored (help) - ^ Bernard Dixon (27 April 1996). "Cheese, toes, and mosquitoes". British Medical Journal. 312 (7038): 1105. doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7038.1105. S2CID 72609132.
- ^ Shabbiri, Khadija; Botting, Catherine H.; Adnan, Ahmad; Fuszard, Matthew (2013). "Charting the cellular and extracellular proteome analysis of Brevibacterium linens DSM 20158 with unsequenced genome by mass spectrometry-driven sequence similarity searches". Journal of Proteomics. 83: 99–118. doi:10.1016/j.jprot.2013.02.029. PMID 23507220.
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