Lactic acid bacteria species

US6579711B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• NESTEC S.A. · CH

Inventors

• Walter Gaier · Vevey, CH
• David Pridmore · Lausanne, CH
• Francesca Stingele · Lausanne, CH
• Jean-Richard Neeser · Lausanne, CH
• Patrice Desachy · Bulle, CH
• Bruno Pot · Brugge, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 2000
• Grant date: Jun 17, 2003
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S435/884
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Strain of lactic acid bacterium, (1) whose 16S ribosomal RNA is characteristic of the genus Streptococcus, (2) whose total protein profile, obtained after migration of the total proteins on an SDS-PAGE electrophoresis gel, is characteristic of that of the strain of lactic acid bacterium CNCM I-1920 but distinct from those of the recognized species belonging to the genus Streptococcus, namely S. acidominimus, S. agalactiae, S. alactolyticus, S. anginosus, S. bovis, S. canis, S. caprinus, S. constellatus, S. cricetus, S. cristatus, S. difficile, S. downei, S. dysgalactiae ssp. dysgalactiae, S. dysgalactiae ssp. equisimilis, S. equi, S. equi ssp. equi, S. equi ssp. zooepidemicus, S. equinus, S. ferus, S. gallolyticus, S. gordonii, S. hyointestinalis, S. hyovaginalis, S. iniae, S. intermedius, S. intestinalis, S. macacae, S. mitis, S. mutans, S. oralis, S. parasanguinis, S. parauberis, S. phocae, S. pleomorphus, S. pneumoniae, S. porcinus, S. pyogenes, S. ratti, S. salivarius, S. sanguinis, S. shiloi, S. sobrinus, S. suis, S. thermophilus, S. thoraltensis, S. uberis, S. vestibularis, S. viridans. The invention also relates to the use of a strain of lactic acid bacterium according to th…