Leuconostoc mesenteroides

Leuconostoc mesenteroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Division: Firmicutes
Class: Bacilli
Order: Lactobacillales
Family: Leuconostocaceae
Genus: Leuconostoc
Species: L. mesenteroides
Binomial name
Leuconostoc mesenteroides
(Tsenkovskii 1878) van Tieghem 1878 [1]
Synonyms

Ascococcus mesenteroides Tsenkovskii 1878
Betacoccus arabinosaceus Orla-Jensen 1919

Leuconostoc mesenteroides is a bacterial species sometimes associated with fermentation, under conditions of salinity and low temperatures (such as lactic acid production in fermented sausages). When grown in sucrose solution, it converts the sugar to dextrans having mostly alpha 1,6 linkages, but 1,2, 1,3, and 1,4 linkages are also present.

Taxonomy

L. mesenteroides is divided into several subspecies.

L. m. subsp. cremoris (Knudsen and Sørensen 1929) Garvie 1983
L. m. subsp. dextranicum (Beijerinck 1912) Garvie 1983
L. m. subsp. mesenteroides (Tsenkovskii 1878) Garvie 1983
L. m. subsp. suionicum Gu et al. 2012

References

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