Ligilactobacillus

Ligilactobacillus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Lactobacillales
Family:	Lactobacillaceae
Genus:	Ligilactobacillus Zheng et al. 2020 [1]
Type species
Ligilactobacillus salivarius (Rogosa et al. 1953) Zheng et al. 2020 [1]
Species
Ligilactobacillus acidipiscis Ligilactobacillus agilis Ligilactobacillus animalis Ligilactobacillus apodemi Ligilactobacillus araffinosus Ligilactobacillus aviarius Ligilactobacillus ceti Ligilactobacillus equi Ligilactobacillus faecis Ligilactobacillus hayakitensis Ligilactobacillus murinus Ligilactobacillus pabuli Ligilactobacillus pobuzihii Ligilactobacillus ruminis Ligilactobacillus saerimneri Ligilactobacillus salitolerans Ligilactobacillus salivarius

Ligilactobacillus is a genus of lactic acid bacteria associated with vertebrate hosts, formed through the 2020 division of the Lactobacillus genus. ^{[1] [2]} Most of these homofermentative species are motile and express urease to survive gastric acids, making them popular choices for probiotics. The G/C content of this genus varies between 32.5-43.3%. ^[1]

Species

The genus Ligilactobacillus comprises the following species: ^[2]

• Ligilactobacillus acidipiscis (Tanasupawat et al. 2000) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus agilis (Weiss et al. 1982) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus animalis (Dent and Williams 1983) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus apodemi (Osawa et al. 2006) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus araffinosus (Fujisawa et al. 1986) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus aviarius (Fujisawa et al. 1985) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus ceti (Vela et al. 2008) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus equi (Morotomi et al. 2002) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus faecis (Endo et al. 2013) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus hayakitensis (Morita et al. 2007) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus murinus (Hemme et al. 1982) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus pabuli Tohno et al. 2022
• Ligilactobacillus pobuzihii (Chen et al. 2010) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus ruminis (Sharpe et al. 1973) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus saerimneri (Pedersen and Roos 2004) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus salitolerans (Tohno et al. 2019) Zheng et al. 2020
• Ligilactobacillus salivarius (Rogosa et al. 1953) Zheng et al. 2020

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature ^[2] and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA sequences using Lactobacillus acidophilus ATCC 4356 as an outgroup. ^[3]

	Ligilactobacillus Ligilactobacillus pobuzihii Ligilactobacillus acidipiscis Ligilactobacillus pabuli Ligilactobacillus salitolerans Ligilactobacillus saerimneri Ligilactobacillus ceti Ligilactobacillus aviarius Ligilactobacillus araffinosus Ligilactobacillus salivarius Ligilactobacillus hayakitensis Ligilactobacillus agilis Ligilactobacillus equi Ligilactobacillus ruminis Ligilactobacillus faecis Ligilactobacillus apodemi Ligilactobacillus murinus Ligilactobacillus animalis
outgroup	Lactobacillus acidophilus

References

1. Zheng J, Wittouck S, Salvetti E, Franz CM, Harris HM, Mattarelli P, O'Toole PW, Pot B, Vandamme P, Walter J, Watanabe K, Wuyts S, Felis GE, Gänzle MG, Lebeer S (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 Evol Microbiol. 70 (4): 2782–2858. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107 . hdl: 10067/1738330151162165141 . PMID   32293557.
2. Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, and Goker M. "Genus Ligilactobacillus". LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature . Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen . Retrieved November 6, 2022.
3. Tohno, Masanori; Tanizawa, Yasuhiro; Sawada, Hiroyuki; Sakamoto, Mitsuo; Ohkuma, Moriya; Kobayashi, HisamiYR 2022. "A novel species of lactic acid bacteria, Ligilactobacillus pabuli sp. nov., isolated from alfalfa silage". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 72 (10): 005587. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.005587. ISSN   1466-5034.