Lactobacillus johnsonii

Lactobacillus johnsonii (john.so'ni.i. N.L. gen. n. johnsonii of Johnson; named for J. L. Johnson, an American microbiologist). Synonymous with L. acidophilus group B2 of Johnson etal. [72].

Lactobacillus johnsonii strains all ferment glucose, mannose, galactose, maltose, sucrose and fructose and produce DLlactic acid. L. johnsonii does not ferment mannitol or ribose [84]. The genome sizeis 1.77 Mbp and the mol% G+C content of DNAis 34.4.

Isolated from humans (gut, vagina) and the faeces of birds, rodents, calves and pigs, and from type II sourdoughs.

Thetypestrainis ATCC 33200 T =CCUG 30725 T =CIP 103620 T =DSM 10533 T =JCM 2012 T =VPI 7960 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZCY00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ002515.