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Reclassification of Leuconostoc argentinum as a later synonym of Leuconostoc lactis

¹ BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
² Institute of Biology, Romanian Academy, Cell Biology Department, Splaiul Independentei 296, 060031 Bucharest, Romania
³ Dipartimento Scientifico e Tecnologico, Università degli Studi di Verona, Strada le Grazie 15, I-37134 Verona, Italy
⁴ Research Group of Industrial Microbiology, Fermentation Technology and Downstream Processing (IMDO), Department of Applied Biological Sciences and Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

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Marc Vancanneyt
Marc.Vancanneyt{at}UGent.be

Leuconostoc argentinum, Leuconostoc lactis and ten related strains from Romanian dairy products formed a single cluster, clearly separated from other Leuconostoc species, after numerical analysis of repetitive extragenic palindromic-PCR patterns, whole-cell protein profiles (SDS-PAGE) and fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism (FAFLP) band patterns. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis confirmed a very high similarity between both type strains and representative dairy isolates (>99·6 %). DNA–DNA hybridization experiments revealed high relatedness values between the type strains of L. argentinum and L. lactis and between these strains and representative Romanian strains. These data and the lack of phenotypic distinctive characteristics demonstrate that L. argentinum and L. lactis are synonymous.

Published online ahead of print on 16 September 2005 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63898-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of Leuconostoc lactis LMG 22650 and R-21065 are AJ970316 and AJ937759, respectively.

A dendrogram based on (GTG)₅-PCR fingerprints and a table detailing the phenotypic features of Leuconostoc lactis strains are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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