Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens (DSM 5017, WT-8, JCM 7446)

Name: Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens (DSM 5017, WT-8, JCM 7446)
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BacDive ID 6623

Type strain

Strain Designation WT-8

Culture col. no. DSM 5017 WT-8 JCM 7446

NCBI tax ID(s) 190905

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- T. Fujisawa <- S. Adachi et al., WT-8 JCM <-- T. Fujisawa <-- S. Adachi WT-8.

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Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens WT-8 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from kefir grains.

anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 13140

LMG 19509,DSM 5017,LMG 19818,JCM 7446

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:27

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Lactobacillaceae

Genus Lactobacillus

Species Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens

Full scientific name Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens (Fujisawa et al. 1988) Vancanneyt et al. 2004

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens** (2)	Type strain
6622	L. kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens WT-2B, CCUG 32248, LMG 9916, CIP 103307, ... (type strain)
160575	L. kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens KR, SB-322b, DSM 111834

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1910	KPL MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 456)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: KPL MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 456) Composition: Skim milk 87.6424 g/l Agar 13.1464 g/l Galactose 8.76424 g/l Glucose 8.76424 g/l White wine Tween 80
1910	LACTOBACILLUS KEFIRANOFACIENS (DSMZ Medium 1253)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: LACTOBACILLUS KEFIRANOFACIENS (DSMZ Medium 1253) Composition: Man Rogosa Sharp broth 54.4016 g/l Maltose 9.8912 g/l Cysteine hydrochloride 0.098912 g/l Hemin 0.0049456 g/l White wine NaOH Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1910	positive	growth	30
1910	positive	growth	28
67770	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
1910	anaerobe
1910	microaerophile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Engineered	#Food production

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
1910	kefir grains
67770	Kefir grains

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1910	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
124043	Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 7446.	AB289183	654		190905

GC content

1910

GC-content (mol%)35.4

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#1910	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 5017
#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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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