TABLE 2.
Phenotypic characters | References | ||
Strain | Streptococcus thermophilus ST538 | EPS producing strain | This study |
Plasmids | pG+host6 | Thermos-sensitive replicon1 | Maguin et al., 1996 |
pG+epsB | epsB deleted fragment of pG+host6 | This study | |
pG+epsC | epsC deleted fragment of pG+host6 | This study |
1Erthromycin-resistant.