DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS NURUKI COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus nuruki (nu.ru’ki. N.L. gen. n. nuruki of Nuruk, a Korean traditional rice fermentation starter).

Basonym: Lactobacillus nuruki Heo et al. 2018, 3277 VP

Growth is observed between 4 and 40 °C; a wide spectrum of carbohydratesincluding pentoses, hexoses and disaccharides is fermented [142].

The genome size is 2.58 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 34.2.

Isolated from Nuruk, a rice bran fermentation starter.

Thetypestrainis SYF10-1 aT =KACC 18726 T =NBRC 112011 T.

Genome sequence accession number: NIPR00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: MG786754.