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Identification and histamine formation of Tetragenococcus isolated from Thai fermented food products

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Forty-one tetrad-forming halophilic lactic acid bacteria were isolated from 7 kinds of fermented foods in Thailand. All the isolates were identified as the genus Tetragenococcus by their phenotypic characteristics. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene restriction analysis using MboI and AluI and 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses, 41 isolates could be divided into two groups (groups A and B). All 22 isolates in Group A were identified as T. halophilus. 16S rRNA gene sequences of the representative isolates, SP37-2 and KS87-1 exhibited 99.4–99.5 % similarity to that of T. halophilus ATCC 33315T. Nineteen isolates in Group B were identified as T. muriaticus. 16S rRNA gene sequences of the representative isolates, KM1-5 and KS87-14, showed 99.0–99.6 % similarity to that of T. muriaticus JCM 10006T. Histamine formation was determined by using HPLC and the histidine decarboxylase (hdc) gene of the newly isolated histamine-producing strain was partially sequenced. The strain KS87-14 prolifically formed histamine 10 times higher than the reported T. muriaticus JCM 10006T. The positive detection of KS87-14 was achieved by using hdcA gene-specific primers JV16HC and JV17HC.

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This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Thailand Research Fund for financial support under the TRF Senior Research Scholar programme to S.B. Thanks are also due to the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) for providing laboratory equipment and experimental space. We thank Dr. Jung-Sook Lee, Korean Collection for Type Cultures, Biological Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Yuseong, Daejeon, Republic of Korea for providing a type strain of T. koreensis.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand

    Jaruwan Sitdhipol & Somboon Tanasupawat

  2. Food Biotechnology Research Unit, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand

    Preenapha Tepkasikul, Amonlaya Tosukhowong & Wonnop Visessanguan

  3. BIOTEC Culture Collection, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand

    Pattaraporn Yukphan

  4. Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Center, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

    Takashi Itoh

  5. Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Agro-Industry, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, 90112, Thailand

    Soottawat Benjakul

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Sitdhipol, J., Tanasupawat, S., Tepkasikul, P. et al. Identification and histamine formation of Tetragenococcus isolated from Thai fermented food products. Ann Microbiol 63, 745–753 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13213-012-0529-1

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