Ligilactobacillus, 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, pp. 2782-2858 : 2821

DESCRIPTION OF LIGILACTOBACILLUS GEN. NOV.

Ligilactobacillus (Li.gi.lac.to.ba.cil'lus. L. v. ligare to tie, unite; N.L. masc. n. Lactobacillus a bacterial genus name; N.L. masc. n. Ligilactobacillus a lactobacillus with a host-associated life style).

Species of Ligilactobacillus are homofermentative, their mol% G+C content is between 32.5 and 43.3. Several Ligilactobacillus species include strains that are motile. Most Ligilactobacillus species have been isolated from animals and humans and are adapted to vertebrate hosts. Several strains of Ligilactobacillus express urease, this enzyme is the most powerful bacterial tool to withstand gastric acidity; in lactobacilli, urease activity is associated with a vertebrate host-adapted lifestyle [ 210, 211]. Several Ligilactobacillus species also commonly occur in fermented foods and are used commercially as starter cultures or probiotic cultures.

A phylogenetic tree on the basis of 16S rRNA genes of all species in the genus Ligilactobacillus is provided in Figure S6J.

The type species is Ligilactobacillus salivarius comb. nov.; Ligilactobacillus was previously referred to as L. salivarius group.