Amylolactobacillus amylotrophicus, 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 : 2801

DESCRIPTION OF AMYLOLACTOBACILLUS AMYLOTROPHICUS COMB. NOV.

Amylolactobacillus amylotrophicus (a.my.lo.tro’phi.cus. Gr. neut. n. amylon starch; N.L. masc. adj. trophicus from Gr. masc. adj. trophikos nursing, tending; N.L. masc. adj. amylotrophicus growing on starch, pertaining to the ability to ferment starch).

Basonym: Lactobacillus amylotrophicus Naser et al. 2006, 2526 VP.

The classification of A. amylotrophicus as separate species was disputed as the first published genome sequence of the type strain of A. amylotrophicus was virtually identical to the sequence of A. amylophilus [ 14, 16]. The 16S rRNA, pheS and rpoA sequences provided with the new description, however, clearly differentiate A. amylotrophicus from A. amylophilus .

Phenotypic properties that differentiate A. amylotrophicus from A. amylophilus include the production of acid from cellobiose and salicin [ 112]. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 43.5.

Isolated from corn silage.

The type strain is LMG 11400 T = DSM 20534 T = JCM 1124 T = NRRL B-4436 T.

Genome sequence accession number: not available at the time of publication.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AM 236149 .