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Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens
Description
Lactobacilluskefiranofaciens
Lactobacilluskefiranofaciens (ke.fi.ra.no.fa'ci.ens. N.L. neut. n. kefiranum, a polysaccharide of kefir grain, kefiran; L. v. facio, produce; N.L. part. adj. kefiranofaciens, kefiran producing).
Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens produces DL-lactic acid with an excess of D(−)-lactic acid from glucose, fructose, galactose, sucrose, maltose, lactose and raffinose, but not from arabinose, ribose, cellobiose or trehalose [99].
Two subspecies are recognised.
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 on page 2798, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/4730536
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lactobacillaceae
- Genus
- Lactobacillus
- Kingdom
- Bacteria
- Order
- Lactobacillales
- Phylum
- Firmicutes
- Species
- kefiranofaciens
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- 99. Fujisawa T, Adachi S, Toba T, Arihara K, Mitsuoka T. Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens sp. nov. isolated from kefir grains. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1988; 38: 12 - 14.