The aim of the present work was to evaluate the enzymatic potential manifested by aminopeptidase activity of different thermophilic Lactobacillus biotypes and to measure the influence of cell growth phase on enzyme expression.
Istituto Sperimentale Lattiero-Caseario, Lodi, Italy Dipartimento di Genetica Antropologia Evoluzione, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy. mgatti@ilclodi.191.it