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biochemical reactions lead to the formation amino acids takes place by bacterial pepti-
of a variety of metabolic end products, which dases, along with endogenous ones (Sanz
are summarized in Table 9.2. et al. 1999a). The proteolytic capacity of
Carbohydrates serve as carbon and energy several lactic acid bacteria and staphylococci
sources for the native microbiota or the added strains isolated from fermented meat prod-
starter culture. Microbial fermentation results ucts has been investigated (Fadda et al. 1998,
in the production of lactic acid, the configura- 1999a, b; Sanz et al. 1999a, b; Mauriello et
tion of which depends upon the dominant al. 2002; Drosinos et al. 2007), and a rather
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