Pediococcus pentosaceus ATCC 25745

Pediococcus pentosaceus are Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, non-motile and non-spore-forming members of the industrially important lactic acid bacteria. Like other lactic acid bacteria, P. pentosaceus are acid tolerant, cannot synthesize porphyrins, and possess a strictly fermentative metabolism with lactic acid as the major metabolic end product. P. pentosaceus can be isolated from a variety of plant materials and bacterial ripened cheeses. This organism is used as an acid producing starter culture in sausage fermentations, cucumber and green bean fermentations, soya milk fermentations, and silage. P. pentosaceus are also a typical component of the adventitious or non-starter microflora of most cheese varieties during ripening. In addition, it has been suggested that this organism may have value as an acid-producing starter culture in the dairy fermentations. Pediococcus divide alternatively in 2 perpendicular planes to form tetrads (adapted from http://genome.jgi-psf.org/pedpe/pedpe.home.html). (EBI Integr8)