Lactobacillus intestinalis

Lactobacillus intestinalis (in.tes.tina’lis. N.L. masc. adj. intestinalis, pertaining to the intestine).

Lactobacillus intestinalis produces DL-lactic acid from glucose, mannose, fructose, galactose, sucrose and mannitol, but not from arabinose, xylose, rhamnose and trehalose [96]. The genome size is 2.01 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.4.

Isolated from the intestines of rats, mice and pigs.

Thetypestrainis Th4 T =ATCC 49335 T =CCUG 30727 T =CIP 104793 T =DSM 6629 T =JCM 7548 T =LMG 14196 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZGN00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ306299.