| Brevibacterium linens | |
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| German Romadur cheese, with Brevibacterium linens causing "red smear" on its surface | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
| Class: | Actinomycetia |
| Order: | Micrococcales |
| Family: | Brevibacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Brevibacterium |
| Species: | B. linens |
| Binomial name | |
| Brevibacterium linens (Wolff 1910) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) | |
| Type strain | |
| ATCC 9172 CIP 101125 DSM 20425 HAMBI 2038 IFO 12142 JCM 1327 NBRC 12142 NRRL B-4210 VKM Ac-2112 | |
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Brevibacterium linens is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium. It is the type species of the family Brevibacteriaceae.
Brevibacterium linens is ubiquitously present on the human skin, where it causes foot odor. The familiar odor is due to sulfur-containing compounds known as S-methyl thioesters. The same bacterium is employed to ferment several washed-rind and smear-ripened cheeses, such as Munster, Limburger, Tilsit cheese, Port-Salut, Raclette, Livarot, Pont l'Eveque, Époisses, Wisconsin Brick, Năsal and Pálpusztai. It is also used in the production of blue cheese, in addition to the mold Penicillium roqueforti. Its aroma also attracts mosquitoes.
The first comprehensive proteomic reference map of B. linens was published in 2013.
See also
References
- Breed RS. (1953). "The Brevibacteriaceae fam. nov. of order Eubacteriales". Riassunti delle Communicazioni, VI Congresso Internazionale Microbiologia Roma . 1: 10–15.
- ^ Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Brevibacterium linens". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved May 16, 2022.
- V. B. D. Skerman; Vicki Mcgowan; P. H. A. Sneath (1 January 1980). "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 30 (7038): 225–420. doi:10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
- Bernard Dixon (27 April 1996). "Cheese, toes, and mosquitoes". British Medical Journal. 312 (7038): 1105. doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7038.1105. S2CID 72609132.
- Shabbiri, Khadija; Botting, Catherine H.; Adnan, Ahmad; Fuszard, Matthew (2013). "Charting the cellular and extracellular proteome analysis of Brevibacterium linens DSM 20158 with unsequenced genome by mass spectrometry-driven sequence similarity searches". Journal of Proteomics. 83: 99–118. doi:10.1016/j.jprot.2013.02.029. PMID 23507220.
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