%0 Journal Article %A GASSER, FRANCIS %A HONTEBEYRIE, MIREILLE %T Immunological Relationships of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase of Leuconostoc mesenteroides NCDO 768 (= ATCC 12291) %D 1977 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 27 %N 1 %P 6-8 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-27-1-6 %I Microbiology Society, %X An antiserum against the purified glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.49) (G-6-P-DH) of Leuconostoc mesenteroides NCDO 768 has been prepared. Cross-reactions were observed with extracts of other strains of Leuconostoc, comprising named strains of L. lactis, L. mesenteroides, L. dextranicum, L. cremoris, and L. paramesenteroides. Cross-reactions were not obtained with L. oenos. The groups of identical specificity and their order of decreasing similarity toward the homologous enzyme were determined, and the results are consistent with those obtained previously with another G-6-P-DH antiserum from L. lactis NCDO 546. Thus, except for L. oenos, many strains of Leuconostoc comprising multiple (three or more) species might be considered as phenotypically diverse but genetically rather uniform in their line of descent from a common ancestor. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-27-1-6