Lactobacillus taiwanensis
- Dataset
- 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
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Bacteria
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Bacilli
- order
- Lactobacillales
- family
- Lactobacillaceae
- genus
- Lactobacillus
- species
- Lactobacillus taiwanensis
description
Occurs in the mouse gastrointestinal tract [55] but also isolated from silage cattle feed. Thetypestrainis FIRDI 006 T = BCRC 17755 T = DSM 21401 T. Genome sequence accession number: AYZG 00000000. 16 S rRNA gene accession number: EU 487512.
discussion
Lactobacillus taiwanensis (tai. wa. nen’sis. N. L. masc. adj. taiwanensis of Taiwan, referring to the origin of the type strain). L. taiwanensis produces both D- and L-lactic acid enantiomers from glucose fermentation. Fructose, mannose, maltose, lactose, sucrose and trehalose are also fermented. No acid is produced from raffinose or ribose [109]. The genome size is 1.88 Mbp and the mol % G + C content of DNA is 34.0.
Name
- Homonyms
- Lactobacillus taiwanensis