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标题：Molecular Characterization and Enological Potential of A High Lactic Acid-Producing Lachancea thermotolerans Vineyard Strain
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作者：Georgios Sgouros ; Athanasios Mallouchos ; Maria-Evangelia Filippousi 等
期刊名称：Foods
电子版ISSN：2304-8158
出版年度：2020
卷号：9
期号：5
页码：595-610
DOI：10.3390/foods9050595
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Lactic acid production is an important feature of the yeast Lachancea thermotolerans that has gained increasing interest in winemaking. In particular, in light of climate change, the biological acidification and ethanol reduction by the use of selected yeast strains may counteract the effect of global warming in wines. Here, the enological potential of a high lactate-producing L. thermotolerans strain (P-HO1) in mixed fermentations with S. cerevisiae was examined. Among the different inoculation schemes evaluated, the most successful implantation of L. thermotolerans was accomplished by sequential inoculation of S. cerevisiae, i.e., at 1% vol. ethanol. P-HO1produced the highest levels of lactic acid ever recorded in mixed fermentations (10.4 g/L), increasing thereby the acidity and reducing ethanol by 1.6% vol. L. thermotolerans was also associated with increases in ethyl isobutyrate (strawberry aroma), free SO2, organoleptically perceived citric nuances and aftertaste. To start uncovering the molecular mechanisms of lactate biosynthesis in L. thermotolerans, the relative expressions of the three lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) paralogous genes, which encode the key enzyme for lactate biosynthesis, along with the alcohol dehydrogenase paralogs (ADHs) were determined. Present results point to the possible implication of LDH2, but not of other LDH or ADH genes, in the high production of lactic acid in certain strains at the expense of ethanol. Taken together, the important enological features of P-HO1 highlighted here, and potentially of other L. thermotolerans strains, indicate its great importance in modern winemaking, particularly in the light of the upcoming climate change and its consequences in the grape/wine system.
关键词：biological acidification; wine fermentation; yeast starter cultures; Lachancea thermotolerans ; wine chemical profile; volatiles; transcriptional analysis; lactic acid; lactate dehydrogenase; alcohol dehydrogenase biological acidification ; wine fermentation ; yeast starter cultures ; Lachancea thermotolerans ; wine chemical profile ; volatiles ; transcriptional analysis ; lactic acid ; lactate dehydrogenase ; alcohol dehydrogenase