Journal
FOOD & FUNCTION
Volume 12, Issue 19, Pages 9077-9086Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1fo01357b
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31301520]
- Key Research and Development Program of Hebei Province [19227134D]
- Science and Technology Research Projects of Colleges and Universities in Hebei Province [ZD2021059]
- Food Processing Discipline Group of Hebei Agricultural University [2021-08]
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The study identified genes that persistently responded to acid during yogurt fermentation and were less affected by cold stress, suggesting their potential involvement in post-acidification. Among these genes, LDB_RS05285 was found to be crucial in inhibiting post-acidification and could be a new target for regulating yogurt quality.
During the storage of yogurt, acid-resistant bacteria continue to produce lactic acid (i.e., post-acidification process), leading to undesirable taste and flavor. Many methods have been proposed to inhibit post-acidification. However, the specific genes involved during this biological process have not yet been systematically studied. Hence, herein, we assessed the culture starter Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus ATCC11842 with regards to its transcriptomes under in vitro acid- and cold-culture conditions. Through differential gene expression analysis, we screened out 69 candidate genes that persistently responded to acid with or without cold stress. qPCR was then used to determine the in situ expression levels of these candidate genes at different stages of yogurt fermentation and storage. Genes whose expression levels did not change much from the end of fermentation to the early stage of yogurt storage were more likely to be post-acidification genes, as such stability indicated that they were not affected by cold stress. LDB_RS05285 was determined to be one such gene; the overexpression of this gene showed that the increase of gene expression could reduce the acid production of the strain without affecting normal growth. Therefore, the genetic manipulation techniques that increased the expression level of the LDB_RS05285 gene might have the potential to inhibit the post-acidification of yogurt. Thus, LDB_RS05285 plays an important role in the post-acidification process and would become a new target for regulating yogurt post-acidification.
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