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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages S220-S243Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fux028
Keywords
Lactococcus lactis; gene regulation; -omics; gene technology; systems biology; single-cell analysis
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- BeBasic FS10
- Stichting Technische Wetenschappen (STW) grant [10619]
- EU
- TOP-GO program - Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [700.10.353]
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Lactococcus lactis is a major microbe. This lactic acid bacterium (LAB) is used worldwide in the production of safe, healthy, tasteful and nutritious milk fermentation products. Its huge industrial importance has led to an explosion of research on the organism, particularly since the early 1970s. The upsurge in the research on L. lactis coincided not accidentally with the advent of recombinant DNA technology in these years. The development of methods to take out and re-introduce DNA in L. lactis, to clone genes and to mutate the chromosome in a targeted way, to control (over) expression of proteins and, ultimately, the availability of the nucleotide sequence of its genome and the use of that information in transcriptomics and proteomics research have enabled to peek deep into the functioning of the organism. Among many other things, this has provided an unprecedented view of the major gene regulatory pathways involved in nitrogen and carbon metabolism and their overlap, and has led to the blossoming of the field of L. lactis systems biology. All of these advances have made L. lactis the paradigm of the LAB. This review will deal with the exciting path along which the research on the genetics of and gene regulation in L. lactis has trodden.
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