Table 2.

Assignment of some bands of freshly harvested B. animalis subsp. lactis Bb12

Assignment of functional group	Frequency in fresh Bb12 (cm−1)
PO symmetric stretching	1,077.8 ± 0.2
PO asymmetric stretching	1,240.4 ± 0.5
N+(CH3)3 asymmetric stretching	969.1 ± 0.2
CH2 symmetric stretching	2,867.0 ± 0.1
CH2 asymmetric stretching	2,925.9 ± 0.2
Amide II	1,541.2 ± 0.3