DESCRIPTIONOF LIGILACTOBACILLUS MURINUS COMB. NOV.

Ligilactobacillusmurinus (mu.ri’nus. L. adj. murinus of mice).

Basonym: Lactobacillus murinus Hemme et al., 1982, 384 VP.

L. murinus strains are non-motile rods which slowly ferment ribose and arabinose. L-LDH is activated by FDP and Mn 2+. They do not hydrolyse urea and hippurate; they decarboxylate malate. Riboflavin is a required growth factor [222]. The

genome size of the type strain is 2.20 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 40.1.

Isolated from the intestinal tract of mice and rats and from sourdough.

Thetypestrainis 313 T = ATCC 35020 T =CCUG 33904 T = CIP 104818 T =CNRZ 220 T = DSM 20452 T =IFO (now NBRC) 14221 T = JCM 1717 T = LMG 14189 T.

Genome accession number: AYYN00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ621554.