DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS GINSENOSIDIMUTANS SP. NOV.

Companilactobacillus ginsenosidimutans (gin.se.no.si.di. mu’tans N.L. neut. n. ginsenosidium, ginsenoside, L. pres. part. mutans transforming, N.L. part. adj. ginsenosidimutans, ginsenoside converting).

Effective publication Jung et al. 2013 as Lactobacillus ginsenosidimutans . C. ginsenosidimutans is a kimchi isolate that converts ginsenosides by β-glucosidase activity [128]. The genome size is 2.59 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 36.7.

Isolatedfrom kimchi.

Thetypestrainis EMML 3041 T =KACC 15420 T =LMG 31607 T =DSM 24154 T.

Genome sequence accession number: CP012034.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: HQ389549.