Lactobacillus paragasseri
- Dataset
- A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Bacteria
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Bacilli
- order
- Lactobacillales
- family
- Lactobacillaceae
- genus
- Lactobacillus
- species
- Lactobacillus paragasseri
description
Occurs in the human gastrointestinal tract. Thetypestrainis M. Rogosa 208 XRT = JCM 5343 T = ATCC 4963 T = LMG 11478 T = NCFB 1375 T = KCTC 3172 T = NCIMB 8931 T = VPI 0334 T. Genome sequence accession number: AP 018549. 16 S rRNA gene accession number: LC 374363.
discussion
Lactobacillus paragasseri (pa. ra. gas’se. ri. Gr. prep. para, resembling; N. L. gen. n. gasseri, aspecies epithet; N. L. gen. n. paragasseri, resembling Lactobacillus gasseri). Lactobacillus paragasseri produces both D (−) - and L (+) - lactic acid as end products of glucose fermentation (75: 25 ratio). Also ferments maltose, lactose, sucroseand trehalose, but not ribose and raffinose [105]. The genome size is 1.94 Mbp and the mol % G + C content of DNA is 34.9.
Name
- Homonyms
- Lactobacillus paragasseri