Lactobacillusacidophilus

Lactobacillusacidophilus (a.ci.do’phi.lus. N.L. neut. n. acidum acid; Gr. masc. adj. philos loving; N.L. masc. adj. acidophilus acid-loving).

Lactobacillusacidophilus produces DL-lactic acid from cellobiose, galactose, lactose, maltose, mannose, sucroseand trehalose, but not from mannitol [70 – 72]. Specific strains

have been used as probiotics. The genome size of the type strain is 1.95 Mbp andthe mol% G+C content of DNA is 34.6.

Isolated from the intestinal tract of humans and animals, human mouth, human vagina, sourdough and wine.

Thetypestrainis ATCC 4356 T =CCUG 5917 T =CIP 76.13 T =DSM 20079 T =IFO (now NBRC) 13951 T =JCM 1132 T =LMG 9433 T = LMG 13550 T =NCTC 12980 T =NRRL B-4495 T =VKM B-1660 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZCS00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AY773947.