Biology:Companilactobacillus kimchii

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Short description: Species of bacterium

Companilactobacillus kimchii
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Lactobacillales
Family: Lactobacillaceae
Genus: Companilactobacillus
Species:
C. kimchii
Binomial name
Companilactobacillus kimchii
(Yoon et al. 2000) Zheng et al. 2020[1]
Synonyms
  • Lactobacillus kimchii Yoon et al. 2000[2]

Companilactobacillus kimchii is a bacteriocin-producing lactic acid bacterium of the genus Companilactobacillus. It is named for and found in the Korean fermented-vegetable food kimchi.[3]

The cells of C. kimchii are short, slender and rod-shaped. The bacterium is Gram-positive, non-spore-forming and non-motile.[2]

References

  1. "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 Evol Microbiol 70 (4): 2782–2858. 2020. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004107. PMID 32293557. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Lactobacillus kimchii sp. nov., a new species from kimchi.". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50 (5): 1789–95. September 2000. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-5-1789. PMID 11034488. 
  3. "Companilactobacillus kimchii". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). https://lpsn.dsmz.de/species/companilactobacillus-kimchii. 

Further reading

Pang, Huili; Kitahara, Maki; Tan, Zhongfang; Wang, Yanping; Qin, Guangyong; Ohkuma, Moriya; Cai, Yimin (18 November 2011). "Reclassification of Lactobacillus kimchii and Lactobacillus bobalius as later subjective synonyms of Lactobacillus paralimentarius". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 62 (Part 10): 2383–2387. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.035329-0. PMID 22140166. 


Wikidata ☰ Q636883 entry