Limosilactobacillus reuteri, 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 : 2833

DESCRIPTION OF LIMOSILACTOBACILLUS REUTERI COMB. NOV.

Limosilactobacillus reuteri (reu′ te.ri. N.L. gen. n. reuteri , of Reuter; named for G. Reuter, a German bacteriologist).

Basonym: Lactobacillus reuteri Kandler et al. 1982 , 266 VL Prior to 1980, strains of the species were classified as L. fermentum Biotype II [ 268]. The species has been studied as model species to determine host-adaptation of intestinal lactobacilli, and co-adaptation of Limosilactobacillus and Lactobacillus species (e.g. L. taiwanensis ) that coexist in biofilms in intestinal ecosystems and preferentially different substrates [ 55, 56, 269]. L. reuteri is divided in host-adapted lineages that are equivalent to the taxonomic rank of subspecies [ 269, 270] and differ in their ability to form biofilms in the mouse forestomach [ 271]. Few strains of L. reuteri produce the antimicrobial compound reutericyclin with a polyketide synthase, which is a unique ability among lactobacilli [ 272]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.94 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 38.6.

Isolated as dominant members of the intestinal microbiota of rodents, birds, swine, and in other intestinal ecosystems; also occurs in cereal fermentations, particularly type II sourdoughs [ 58]. Food isolates are of intestinal origin [ 273].

The type strain of the species is F 275 T = ATCC 23272 T = DSM 20016 T = JCM 1112 T = LMG 9213 T = LMG 13557 T .

Genome sequence accession number: AZDD00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AP007281 .