HQ009762-HQ009795. REP-PCR fingerprinting DNA fingerprinting analysis was performed using (GTG)5 primer as described previously [27, 28]. Amplification reactions contained 0.2 pmol of the (GTG)5 primer, 0.2 mM dNTP mix, 3 mM MgCl2, 0.025 μg/μL BSA and 1 U Taq DNA polymerase (Invitrogen). The PCR thermal program (Seven minutes at 95°C, followed by 30 cycles of 95°C for one minute, 40°C for one minute and 65°C for eight minutes, and a final extension at 65°C for 16 minutes) was used as described previously Gemcitabine research buy [27, 28]. PCR products were checked on a 1.5% agarose gel at 5 V/cm for four hours

in 0.5 × TBE buffer, stained in ethidium bromide. Gel images were recorded using a PhotoCapture™ system. Similarity between patterns was determined by visual inspection. Acknowledgements The authors

are thankful to Prof. J.O.F Morais for his fruitful discussion. This work was supported by grants of the CAPES/PROCAD-NF program and by scholarship programs of the Brazilian funding agencies CAPES, CNPq and FACEPE. The authors also thanks to Genetech Bioproductivity S/A (Recife, Brazil) and the distilleries for their kind help with the industrial samples, and the DNA sequencing platforms of CPqAM/FIOCRUZ (Recife, Brazil) and IB-UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) for the bacterial DNA sequencing analysis. F.L.T. acknowledges funding of FAPERJ, CNPq, and CAPES. Electronic supplementary material Additional file 1: Table 1 Strain list. Strain list with place, date, and source of isolation. (XLS 68 KB) Additional file 2: Table 2 Restriction patterns of SCH 900776 concentration 16S-23S intergenic buy Gefitinib spacer of LAB from bioethanol fermentation process. Patterns of restriction of 16S-23S intergenic spacer of LAB with 12 enzymes. (DOC 66 KB) Additional file 3: Gene sequences. 16S rRNA and pheS gene sequences of several representative LAB (TXT 20 KB) References 1. Amorim HV: Fermentação alcoólica. Ciência e Tecnologia. Fermentec 2005, 448p. 2. Basílio ACM, Araújo PRL, Morais JOF, Silva Filho EA, Morais

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