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Background  Psychrotrophic lactic acid bacteria (LAB) species are the dominant species in the microbiota of cold-stored modified-atmosphere-packaged food products and are the main cause of food spoilage. Despite the importance of psychrotrophic LAB, their response to cold or heat has not been studied. Here, we studied the transcriptome-level cold- and heat-shock response of spoilage lactic acid bacteria with time-series RNA-seq for  Le. gelidum, Lc. piscium , and  P. oligofermentans  at 0 °C, 4 °C, 14 °C, 25 °C, and 28 °C.    Results  We observed that the cold-shock protein A ( cspA ) gene was the main cold-shock protein gene in all three species. Our results indicated that DEAD-box RNA helicase genes ( cshA ,  cshB ) also play a critical role in cold-shock response in psychrotrophic LAB. In addition, several RNase genes were involved in cold-shock response in  Lc. piscium  and  P. oligofermentans.  Moreover, gene network inference analysis provided candidate genes involved in cold-shock response. Ribosomal proteins, tRNA modification, rRNA modification, and ABC and efflux MFS transporter genes clustered with cold-shock response genes in all three species, indicating that these genes could be part of the cold-shock response machinery. Heat-shock treatment caused upregulation of Clp protease and chaperone genes in all three species. We identified transcription binding site motifs for heat-shock response genes in  Le. gelidum  and  Lc. piscium.  Finally, we showed that food spoilage-related genes were upregulated at cold temperatures.    Conclusions  The results of this study provide new insights on the cold- and heat-shock response of psychrotrophic LAB. In addition, candidate genes involved in cold- and heat-shock response predicted using gene network inference analysis could be used as targets for future studies.    Supplementary Information  The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12864-020-07338-8.

Transcriptomic time-series analysis of cold- and heat-shock response in psychrotrophic lactic acid bacteria