Lactobacillus kitasatonis
- 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 kitasatonis
description
Isolated from the intestine of animals including chicken and swine. Thetypestrainis T. Mitsuoka Ch-J- 2 – 1 T = JCM 1039 T = KCTC 3155 T. Genome sequence accession number: AZFU 00000000. 16 S rRNA gene accession number: AB 107638.
discussion
Lactobacillus kitasatonis (ki. ta. sa. to‘nis. L. gen. n. kitasatonis referring to Shibasaburo Kitasato, the founder of Kitasato Institute, the father of Japanese bacteriology). Lactobacillus kitasatonis produces DL-lactic acid from mannose, maltose, galactose, sucrose and fructose while acidis notproduced from arabinose, xylose, ribose, trehalose, melibiose and raffinose [102]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.91 Mbp andthe mol % G + C content of DNA is 37.5.
Name
- Homonyms
- Lactobacillus kitasatonis