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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Chr. Hansen A/s, Hoersholm, DK;
Eric Johansen, Hoersholm, DK;
Kim Ib Soerensen, Farum, DK;
Mirjana Curic-Bawden, Brookfield, WI (US);
Mette Pia Junge, Hilleroed, DK;
CHR. HANSEN A/S, Hoersholm, DK;
Abstract
Described are mutantstrains and mutantsubsp.strains that excrete glucose into milk when the milk is inoculated and fermented with such strains. Methods for obtaining such strains without genetic modification are described, including methods for obtaining suchstrains by selecting and isolating from a pool ofstrains derived from a galactose-fermentingmother strain a pool ofstrains which are resistant to 2-deoxyglucose, and selecting and isolating from the pool ofstrains which are resistant to 2-deoxyglucose astrain which exhibits a growth rate in M17 medium+2% galactose higher than its growth rate in M17 medium+2% glucose. The strains are useful for decreasing the lactose content of a fermented food product and for boosting growth of the probiotic BB-12®.