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Lactobacillus plantarum subsp. argentoratensis subsp. nov., isolated from vegetable matrices.

Bringel F, Castioni A, Olukoya DK, Felis GE, Torriani S, Dellaglio F

Laboratoire de Dynamique, Evolution et Expression de Génomes de Microorganismes, Université Louis Pasteur/CNRS FRE 2326, 28 rue Goethe, 67083 Strasbourg, France.

Fourteen strains isolated from vegetable sources and identified as belonging to Lactobacillus plantarum presented an atypical pattern of amplification with a species-specific multiplex-PCR assay. Phylogenetic analysis of two protein-encoding genes, recA (encoding the recombinase A protein) and cpn60 (encoding the GroEL chaperonin), as well as phenotypic and genomic traits revealed a homogeneous group of very closely related strains for which subspecies status is proposed, with the name Lactobacillus plantarum subsp. argentoratensis. The type strain is DKO 22(T) (=CIP 108320(T)=DSM 16365(T)).

Published 14 July 2005 in Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 55: 1629-34.
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