title: Lactobacillus pantheris sp. nov., isolated from faeces of a jaguar.
abstract: Two novel Lactobacillus strains were isolated from the faeces of a jaguar in Beijing Zoo. They were gram-positive, non-spore-forming, non-motile, rod-shaped organisms that exhibited no catalase activity. The strains fermented cellobiose, D-fructose, galactose, D-glucose, lactose, maltose, D-mannose, salicin, trehalose, N-acetyl glucosamine, beta-gentiobiose and D-tagatose. D(-)-Lactic acid was the exclusive product from glucose fermentation. The G+C content of the DNA of strain A24-2-1T was 52.7 mol %. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rDNA sequence similarity indicated that the strains represented a novel member of the genus Lactobacillus and were most closely related to Lactobacillus manihotivorans LMG 18010T, with 16S rDNA sequence similarity of 95.2%. The DNA-DNA relatedness between them was 13%. The name Lactobacillus pantheris sp. nov. is proposed for the novel strains, with strain A24-2-1T as the type strain (= AS 1.2826T = LMG 21017T).
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo / Q000382:microbiology; D001482:Base Composition; D002335:Carnivora / Q000382:microbiology; D002681:China; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005285:Fermentation; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D009626:Terminology as Topic
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S