Table 1.
Table summarizing reports on phages infecting genus Leuconostoc.
| Leuconostoc host species | Origin | Life style | Analysis | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ln. citrovorum (Ln. mesenteroides subsp. cremoris) | Dairy | Lytic | Flavor defects | Mosimann and Ritter, 1946 |
| Ln. mesenteroides | Dairy | Lytic | TEM (2 phages) | Sozzi et al., 1978 |
| Ln. mesenteroides subsp. cremoris, subsp dextranicum, and subsp. mesenteroides | Dairy | Lytic (4 phages) | Host range | Shin and Sato, 1979 |
| Ln. mesenteroides subsp. dextranicum and subsp. mesenteroides | Dairy | Temperate | TEM (9 phages) | Shin and Sato, 1979 |
| Ln. mesenteroides subsp. cremoris | Dairy | Lytic (phage Lc-4) | 1-step growth | Shin, 1983 |
| Ln. mesenteroides subsp. cremoris | Dairy | Lytic (4 phages) | Host range, TEM | Saxelin et al., 1986 |
| Ln. mesenteroides subsp. cremoris | Dairy | Lytic (phage PWL-2) | TEM, structural proteins, REN analysis | Neve et al., 1988 |
| Ln. mesenteroides subsp. cremoris and subsp. Ln. lactis | Dairy | Lytic (4 phages) | Host range | Johansen and Kibenich, 1992 |
| Ln. mesenteroides | Dairy, coffee | Lytic (19 phages) | 6 DNA homology groups, structural proteins, TEM, REN analysis, genome sizes | Boizet et al., 1992 |
| Leuconostoc sp. | Dairy | Lytic (4 phages) | 1 DNA homology group, structural proteins, TEM, REN analysis | Davey et al., 1995 |
| Ln. mesenteroides and Leuconostoc sp. | Sauerkraut | Lytic (8 phages) | TEM, Host range | Yoon et al., 2002 |
| Ln. fallax | Sauerkraut | Lytic (6 phages) | TEM, REN analysis, Host range, structural proteins | Barrangou et al., 2002 |
| Ln. mesenteroides, Ln. citreum, Ln. pseudomesenteroides, Ln. fallax | Sauerkraut | Lytic (29 phages) | Host range (all), TEM, REN analysis, structural proteins (6 phages) | Lu et al., 2003 |
| Ln. mesenteroides | Sauerkraut | Lytic (Φ1-A4) | TEM, structural proteins, genome sequence (29.5 kb) | Lu et al., 2010 |
| Ln. pseudomesenteroides | KC04 strain | Temperate (ΦMH1) | TEM, genome sequence (38.7 kb) | Jang et al., 2010 |
| Ln. mesenteroides; Ln. pseudomesenteroides | Dairy | Lytic (77 phages) | Host range, thermal stability and inactivation kinetics, TEM | Atamer et al., 2011 |
| Ln. mesenteroides (pseudomesenteroides) | Dairy | Lytic (phage Lmd1) | TEM, genome sequence (26.2 kb) | Kleppen et al., 2012a |
| Ln. mesenteroides and pseudomesenteroides | Dairy | Lytic (83 phages) | TEM, 2 DNA homology groups, host range, PCR detection | Ali et al., 2013 |
| Ln. pseudomesenteroides | Dairy | Lytic (2 phages) | TEM, receptor binding proteins | Kot et al., 2013 |
| Ln. mesenteroides and Ln. pseudomesenteroides | Dairy | Lytic (9 phages) | TEM, genome sequence, structural proteins, host range | Kot et al., 2014 |
| Ln. mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides | Dairy | Lytic (9 phages) | TEM, stability and inactivation kinetics, REN analysis, host range | Pujato et al., 2014 |
Type of analysis presented in the paper is listed in the column “analysis.” TEM, Transmission electron microscopy, REN, analysis of restriction endonuclease fragments.