Levilactobacillus yonginensis, 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 : 2840

DESCRIPTION OF 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 Rd by β-glucosidase activity. The genome size of the type strain is 2.69 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 47.8.

Isolated from kimchi.

The type strain is THK-V8 T = KACC 16236 T = JCM 18023 T = ATCC 16236 T .

Genome sequence accession number: RHNO00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: JN128640 .