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This study describes the accelerating effect exerted on proteolysis and flavour development in cheese-curd slurries by combined application ofLactococcus lactis subsp.lactis IFPL359 and high concentrations of its Lac− Prt− derivative, (i.e. that which has reduced capacity to metabolize lactose and reduced proteolytic activity, strain T1). Cells of strain T1 partially lysed by either sonication or incubation with lysozyme, were also used to ascertain how proteolysis was affected by release of intracellular enzymes in the initial stage of incubation of the strains in cheese-curd slurries. The presence of strain T1 produced higher levels of non-protein nitrogen (NPN) and amine nitrogen (AN) during the first weeks of incubation when partially lysed cells had been added. Addition of whole cells of strain T1 produced higher values of NPN and AN at the end of incubation of slurries, accelerating proteolysis by about 2 weeks with respect to the control, which only contained the parental strain IFPL359. At the end of the experimental period higher amino acid levels were detected by HPLC in the slurry containing whole T1 cells. Volatile fractions of the different cheese-curd slurries were also analysed. The higher level of proteolysis produced by addition of high levels of strain T1 appeared to be related to release of intracellular enzymes by this strain owing to its greater capacity for autolysis.
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Rodríguez, J., Requena, T., Martínez-Castro, I. et al. The accelerating effect of aLactococcus lactis subsp.lactis lactose-utilization/proteinase-deficient strain on proteolysis and flavour development. Z Lebensm Unters Forch 203, 77–81 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01267774
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