Dear Friends of Lactacid:
We are needing some advice finding a laboratory or a firm that would
like to develop a simple, rapid and cheap test kit to detect the
presence of a certain lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus fermentum
strains) that are able to induce flocculation in our industrial
alcoholic fermentation process.
This test kit must (perhaps) be developed not for the bacteria itself
but for detecting the protein (s?) responsible for the
co-flocculation phenomena.
We have considerable evidence that most of the flocculation problems
we have are directly related to Lacobacillus infection and it is
certainly mediated by lectins, that attach to the mannose moiety of
the cell wall of the bacteria.
We can send a lyophil of a typical strain that is able to
co-flocculate with our yeast.
If possible reply directly to me (jaime at azul.ctc.com.br)
I thank you in advance for your kind help.
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Jaime Finguerut (Mr., chem.eng.)
Copersucar
Cx.Postal 162 Piracicaba
Sao Paulo BRAZIL 13400-970
fax +55 19 429 8109
jaime at azul.ctc.com.br
