Lactobacillusdelbrueckii subsp. lactis

Lactobacillusdelbrueckii subsp. lactis (lac’tis. L. gen. n. lactis, of milk).

L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis includes strains previously designated as L. lactis and L. leichmannii; L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis ferments glucose to D(−)-lactic acid and also metabolises sucrose, fructose and mannose, maltose and trehalose [60]. Thegenome size is 1.87 Mbp andthe mol% G+C content of DNAis 49.9.

Isolatedfrom milk, cheese, compressedyeasts and grain mash.

Thetypestrainis L 110 T =ATCC 12315 T =CCUG 31454 T =CIP 101028 T =DSM 20072 T = JCM 1248 T =LMG 7942 T =NBRC 102622 T =NRRL B-4525 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZDE00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AY050173.