Ligilactobacillus Explained

Ligilactobacillus is a genus of lactic acid bacteria associated with vertebrate hosts, formed through the 2020 division of the Lactobacillus genus.^[1] 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%.

Species

The genus Ligilactobacillus comprises the following species:^[1]

• 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^[1] and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA sequences using Lactobacillus acidophilus ATCC 4356 as an outgroup.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Genus Ligilactobacillus . November 6, 2022 . . . Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, and Goker M.
2. 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 . 10.1099/ijsem.0.005587 . 1466-5034.