DESCRIPTIONOF LEVILACTOBACILLUS YONGINENSIS COMB. NOV.

Levilactobacillus yonginensis (yong.in.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. yonginensis of Yongin, the city in Korea where the organism was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus yonginensis Yi et al. 2013, 3278 VP

Characteristics of the species are as described [303]; ginsenoside Rb1 is hydrolysed to Rdby β-glucosidase activity. The genome size of the type strain is 2.69 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 47.8.

Isolatedfrom kimchi.

Thetypestrainis THK-V8 T = KACC 16236 T = JCM 18023 T =ATCC 16236 T.

Genome sequence accession number: RHNO00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: JN128640.