Tyrosine decarboxylase activity of enterococci grown in media with different nutritional potential: tyramine and 2-phenylethylamine accumulation and tyrDC gene expression

The ability to accumulate tyramine and 2-phenylethylamine by two strains of Enterococcus faecalis and two strains Enterococcus faecium was evaluated in two cultural media added or not with tyrosine. All the enterococcal strains possessed a tyrDC which determined tyramine accumulation in all the cond...

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Main Authors: Eleonora eBargossi, Giulia eTabanelli, Chiara eMontanari, Rosalba eLanciotti, Veronica eGatto, Fausto eGardini, Sandra eTorriani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00259/full