Companilactobacillus ginsenosidimutans, Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O’Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4), pp. 2782-2858 : 2804

DESCRIPTION OF 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.

Isolated from kimchi.

The type strain is EMML 3041 T = KACC 15420 T = LMG 31607 T = DSM 24154 T .

Genome sequence accession number: CP012034 .

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: HQ389549 .