Lactobacillus hominis

Lactobacillus hominis (ho’mi.nis. L. gen. n. hominis of a human being).

Lactobacillus hominis produces acid from galactose, glucose, fructose, mannose, cellobiose, maltose, lactose, sucrose, trehalose and raffinose. Mainly D-lactic acid (about 90 %) is produced from glucose [93]. The genome size is 1.93 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.2.

Isolated from the human intestine.

Thetypestrainis 61DT=CRBIP 24.179 T =DSM 23910 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYZP00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: FR681902.