Lentilactobacillus kefiri (DSM 20588, E 40)

Name: Lentilactobacillus kefiri (DSM 20588, E 40)
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BacDive ID 6478

Type strain

Strain Designation E 40

Culture col. no. DSM 20588 E 40

NCBI tax ID(s) 33962

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- P. Kunath, E 40

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Lentilactobacillus kefiri E 40 is a bacterium that was isolated from drink kefir.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49652

DSM 20588

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:25

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Lactobacillaceae

Genus Lentilactobacillus

Species Lentilactobacillus kefiri

Full scientific name Lentilactobacillus kefiri (Kandler and Kunath 1983) Zheng et al. 2020

Synonyms (2)

Lactobacillus kefir
Lactobacillus kefiri

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Lentilactobacillus kefiri** (5)	Type strain
6477	L. kefiri AK, A-K, DSM 20587, ATCC 35411, VKM B-2244, ... (type strain)
6476	L. kefiri Ke 10, Ke10, DSM 20485, ATCC 8007, NCDO 190, ...
160076	L. kefiri SB 227a, DSM 111810
160077	L. kefiri SB 376, DSM 111831
160078	L. kefiri SB-152, DSM 111833

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
8938	MRS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 11)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MRS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 11) Composition: Glucose 20.0 g/l Casein peptone 10.0 g/l Meat extract 10.0 g/l Na-acetate 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l (NH4)3 citrate 2.0 g/l K2HPO4 2.0 g/l Tween 80 1.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.2 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
8938	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
8938	A11.31	A4alpha L-Lys-D-Asp

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Food production	#Dairy product

Isolation

8938

Sample typedrink kefir

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8938	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

8938

GC-content (mol%)41.5

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#8938	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 20588
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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