Brevibacterium linens

Brevibacterium linens
	German Romadur cheese, with Brevibacterium linens causing "red smear" on its surface
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinobacteria
Order:	Actinomycetales
Suborder:	Micrococcineae
Family:	Brevibacteriaceae; Breed 1953
Genus:	Brevibacterium
Binomial name
	Brevibacterium linens;

Brevibacterium linens is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium. It is the type species of the family Brevibacteriaceae.[1]

Brevibacterium linens is ubiquitously present on the human skin, where it causes foot odor. The familiar odor is due to sulphur containing compounds known as S-methyl thioesters. The same bacterium is also employed to ferment several washed-rind and smear-ripened cheeses such as Munster, Limburger, Port-du-Salut, Raclette, Livarot, Pont l'Eveque, Wisconsin Brick, Năsal and Pálpusztai. Its aroma also attracts mosquitoes.[2]

The first comprehensive proteomic reference map of B. linens was published in 2013.[3]

References

V. B. D. SKERMAN, VICKI McGOWAN, P. H. A. SNEATH (1 January 1980). "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names". ICSP. 30 (7038): 225–420. doi:10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
Bernard Dixon (27 April 1996). "Cheese, toes, and mosquitoes". British Medical Journal. 312 (7038): 1105. doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7038.1105.
Shabbiri, Khadija; Botting, Catherine H.; Adnan, Ahmad; Fuszard, Matthew (2013). "Charting the cellular and extracellular proteome analysis of Brevibacterium linens DSM 20158 with unsequenced genome by mass spectrometry-driven sequence similarity searches". Journal of Proteomics. 83: 99–118. doi:10.1016/j.jprot.2013.02.029.

External links

Type strain of Brevibacterium linens at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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[1] V. B. D. SKERMAN, VICKI McGOWAN, P. H. A. SNEATH (1 January 1980). "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names". ICSP. 30 (7038): 225–420. doi:10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

[2] Bernard Dixon (27 April 1996). "Cheese, toes, and mosquitoes". British Medical Journal. 312 (7038): 1105. doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7038.1105.

[3] Shabbiri, Khadija; Botting, Catherine H.; Adnan, Ahmad; Fuszard, Matthew (2013). "Charting the cellular and extracellular proteome analysis of Brevibacterium linens DSM 20158 with unsequenced genome by mass spectrometry-driven sequence similarity searches". Journal of Proteomics. 83: 99–118. doi:10.1016/j.jprot.2013.02.029.