DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS NANTENSIS COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus nantensis (nan.ten’sis. N.L. masc. adj. nantensis pertaining to Nantes, from where the first stain of this species was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus nantensis Valcheva et al. 2006, 589 VP

Growth occurs at 15 but not at 45 °C; a wide range of carbohydrates including ribose, hexoses and disaccharides are fermented [139]. The genome size is 2.91 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA 36.2.

Isolatedfromatype I sourdough. Thetypestrainis LP33 T =TMW 1.1265 T =CIP 108546 T =DSM 16982 T =JCM 16171 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZFV00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: AY690834.