Lentilactobacillus kefiri, Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O’Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, 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, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70, pp. 2782-2858 : 2845

DESCRIPTIONOF LENTILACTOBACILLUS KEFIRI COMB. NOV.

Lentilactobacillus kefiri (ke.fi’ri. N.L. gen. n. kefiri , of kefir, referring to the source of isolation).

Basonym: Lactobacillus kefir Kandler and Kunath 1983 , 672 VL

Characteristics are described in [ 332]. Growth is observed at 15 but not at 45 °C; the genome size of the type strain is 2.23 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 41.7.

Isolated from kefir as part of the core microbiota. Thetypestrainis A/KT=ATCC 35411 T =CIP 103006 T = DSM 20587 T =JCM 5818 T =LMG 9480 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYYV00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ621553 .