International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Vol 52, 1745-1748, Copyright © 2002 by Society for General Microbiology

Lactobacillus pantheris sp. nov., isolated from faeces of a jaguar

B. Liu and X. Dong
Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, PR China

Two novel Lactobacillus strains were isolated from the faeces of a jaguar in Beijing Zoo. They were Gram-positive, non-spore-forming, non-motile, rod-shaped organisms that exhibited no catalase activity. The strains fermented cellobiose, D-fructose, galactose, D-glucose, lactose, maltose, D-mannose, salicin, trehalose, N-acetyl glucosamine, beta-gentiobiose and D-tagatose. D(-)-Lactic acid was the exclusive product from glucose fermentation. The G+C content of the DNA of strain A24-2-1(T) was 52.7 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rDNA sequence similarity indicated that the strains represented a novel member of the genus Lactobacillus and were most closely related to Lactobacillus manihotivorans LMG 18010(T), with 16S rDNA sequence similarity of 95.2%. The DNA--DNA relatedness between them was 13%. The name Lactobacillus pantheris sp. nov. is proposed for the novel strains, with strain A24-2-1(T) as the type strain (=AS 1.2826(T)=LMG 21017(T)).

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