Levilactobacillus Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O'Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer 2020, GEN. NOV.
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Levilactobacillus (Le.vi.lac.to.ba.cil'lus. L. v. levare to lift up, release, relieve; N.L. masc. n. Lactobacillus a bacterial genus name; N.L. masc. n. Levilactobacillus a lactobacillus with leavening potential, referring to the occurrence of multiple species in the genus in type I sourdoughs that are used as sole leavening agent).
Gram-positive, rod-shaped, catalase negative, heterofermentative. Most strains grow at 15 °C but not at 45 °C, are acid tolerant, growing generally in the pH range of 4.0–7.0 and produce DL-lactic acid. The genome size ranges from 1.97 Mbp for Levilactobacillus bambusae to 3.38 Mbp for Levilactobacillus cerevisiae, the mol% G+C content ranges from 46.3–55.9 %. Strains in the genus lead a free-living lifestyle and were isolated from sourdough or fermented vegetable products but also occur as spoilage organisms in alcoholic beverages. Strains in the genus generally harbour genes coding for transaldolase/transketolase which mediate metabolism of pentoses to pyruvate. Levilactobacillus brevis is used commercially as starter culture in food and feed applications.
A phylogenetic tree on the basis of 16S rRNA genes of all species in the genus Levilactobacillus is provided in Figure S 6P.
The type species of the genus is Levilactobacillus brevis comb. nov.; Levilactobacillus was previously referred to as L. brevis group.
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- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10133304 (DOI)
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- Journal article: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10114954 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB0FFF2FF8D2171D937FF96FFAF6267 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/0389878AFFBB2147DA0BFE82FC2E66A6 (URL)
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- Scientific name authorship
- Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O'Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer
- Kingdom
- Bacteria
- Phylum
- Firmicutes
- Order
- Lactobacillales
- Family
- Lactobacillaceae
- Genus
- Levilactobacillus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Levilactobacillus Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020