Lactobacillus hamsteri

Lactobacillus hamsteri (ham’ste.ri. N.L. gen. n. hamster of the hamster from which the isolate was derived).

Lactobacillus hamsteri produces DL-lactic acid from glucose, cellobiose, sucrose, mannitol, raffinose and ribose. Noacid is producedfrom melizitose [88]. Thegenome size is 1.84 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNAis 35.1.

Isolated from the intestine of a hamster.

Thetypestrainis Ha5F1 T =ATCC 43851 T = CCUG 30726 T =CIP 103365 T =DSM 5661 T =JCM 6256 T =LMG 10754 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZGI00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ306298.