Lactobacillus paragasseri

Lactobacillus paragasseri (pa.ra.gas’se.ri. Gr. prep. para, resembling; N.L. gen. n. gasseri, aspecies epithet; N.L. gen. n. paragasseri, resembling Lactobacillus gasseri).

Lactobacillus paragasseri produces both D(−)- and L(+)-lactic acid as end products of glucose fermentation (75:25 ratio). Also ferments maltose, lactose, sucroseand trehalose, but not ribose and raffinose [105]. The genome size is 1.94 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNA is 34.9.

Occurs in the human gastrointestinal tract.

Thetypestrainis M. Rogosa 208 XRT =JCM 5343 T = ATCC 4963 T =LMG 11478 T =NCFB 1375 T =KCTC 3172 T =NCIMB 8931 T =VPI 0334 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AP018549.

16S rRNA gene accession number: LC374363.