Lactobacillus (Lacticaseibacillus) chiayiensis
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Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
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Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Lactobacillales, Family Lactobacillaceae, Genus Lactobacillus, Lactobacillus
chiayiensis Huang, Liou, Lee, Tseng, Miyashita, Huang and Watanabe 2018.
Homotypic synonym: Lacticaseibacillus chiayiensis (Huang et al. 2018) Zheng et al. 2020.
Gram-positive rods, 0.4-0.8 / 3.2-8.0 µm. Non-motile.
Colonies are opaque, white, convex, rough, circular to slightly irregular, 2 mm in
diameter after 2 days at 37 ºC on MRS agar. Grows at 15-45 ºC, at pH 4.0-8.5% and
2-8% NaCl. Facultative anaerobic.
Isolated from cow manure, Taiwan.
Undetermined.
- Huang CH, Liou JS, Lee AY, Tseng M, Miyashita M, Huang L and Watanabe K, 2018. Polyphasic characterization of a novel
species in the Lactobacillus casei group from cow manure of Taiwan: Description of L. chiayiensis sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 41
(4), 270-278.
- Zheng J, Wittouck S, Salvetti E, Franz MAP et al., 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.
Int J Syst Microbiol. 70, 2782-2858.
Description is based mostly on API 50 CHL and API ZYM (bioMerieux) results.
Positive results for acid and alkaline phosphatase, cystine arylamidase, alpha-chymotrypsin, esculin hydrolysis, esterase (C4),
esterase lipase (C8), alpha-glucosidase, beta-galactosidase, leucine arylamidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase,
naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase, valine arylamidase, fermentation of amygdalin, arbutin, L- fucose, D-fructose, galactose,
gentiobiose, glucose (without gas production), gluconate (without gas production), N-acetylglucosamine, mannitol, mannose,
rhamnose, ribose, salicin, sorbitol, D-tagatose, and trehalose.
Negative results for arginine deamination, catalase, alpha-fucosidase, beta-glucosidase, beta-glucuronidase, lipase (C14),
alpha-mannosidase, nitrate reduction, oxidase, trypsin, fermentation of D- and L-arabinose, L-arabitol, cellobiose, erythritol, esculin,
D-fucose, 5-ketogluconate, glycerol, glycogen, inositol, inulin, D-lyxose, maltose, melibiose, methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside, methyl
alpha-D-mannopyranoside, methyl alpha-D-xyloside, raffinose, L-sorbose, starch, turanose, methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside, xylitol D-
and L-xylose,
Variable results for alpha-galactosidase, fermentation of D-adonitol, D- arabitol, dulcitol, 2- ketogluconate, lactose, and melezitose.
(c) Costin Stoica