Lactobacillusdelbrueckii subsp. sunkii

Lactobacillusdelbrueckii subsp. sunkii (sun’ki.i. N.L. gen. n. sunkii, of sunki, the name of the non-salted, traditional, Japanese pickle from which the type strain was isolated).

L. delbrueckii subsp. sunkii fermentsglucoseto D(−)-lactic acid and also metabolises sucrose, fructose and mannose, maltose but not lactose [68]. The genome size is 2.0 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 50.1.

Isolated from a traditionally fermented Japanese red turnip.

Thetypestrainis YIT 11221 T =DSM 24966 T =JCM 17838 T.

Genome sequence accession number: CP018217.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB641833.