NOVEL STRAIN OF LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CAROTENOIDS

• Main Authors: MALDONADO BARRAGAN, ANTONIO, GARRIDO FERNANDEZ, JUAN, HORNERO MENDEZ, DAMASO, CABALLERO GUERRERO, BELEN, RUIZ BARBA, JOSE LUIS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 01.02.2011
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PROCESSES USING MICROORGANISMS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; VINEGAR; WINE

The present invention relates to a novel bacterial strain (CECT 7531), which belongs to the Lactobacillus plantarum species, or any mutant strain thereof. The present invention likewise relates to the use of said strain for the production of carotenoids, for the manufacture of a probiotic food, or of a nutritional, vitamin or mineral supplement, and also a method for the production of carotenoids using said strain. Nueva cepa de Lactobacillus plantarum para la producción de carotenoides. La presente invención se refiere a una nueva cepa bacteriana, CECT 7531, que pertenece a la especie Lactobacillus plantarum, o cualquier cepa mutante que proceda de la misma. La presente invención se refiere también al uso de dicha cepa para la producción de carotenoides, para la fabricación de un alimento probiótico, de un complemento nutricional, vitamínico o mineral, así como un método para la producción de carotenoides mediante dicha cepa.