Lactobacillus curvatus CAU 1479

Kang, Heeyoung, Kim, Haneul, Bae, Jin-Woo, Lee, Soon Dong, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Myung Kyum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Yi, Hana, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Seung Bum & Joh, Chi Nam Seong and Kiseong, 2019, A report of 38 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea within the classes Bacilli and Deinococci isolated from various sources, Journal of Species Research 8 (2), pp. 176-190 : 186

Description of Lactobacillus curvatus CAU 1479

Cells are Gram-stain-positive and coccus-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, transparent, and cream colored after incubation for two days on MRS at 30℃. Aesculin is hydrolyzed. Oxidase activity is negative. Enzyme activity for arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase and β -galactosidase is negative. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not assimilated. Nitrate is not reduced to nitrite. Indole is not produced. Glucose is fermented. Strain CAU 1479 (= NIBRBAC000501229) was isolated from kimchi, Seoul, Republic of Korea (37°33 ʹ 04.9 ʺ N 126°57 ʹ 48.9 ʺ E) .