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FOODS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/foods12010214
Keywords
acetic acid bacteria; Gluconacetobacter; Novacetimonas; Gluconacetobacter entanii; Komagataeibacter; vinegar; acetic acid tolerant bacteria
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Gluconacetobacter entanii is an acetic acid bacterium used in vinegar production. The previous strains of G. entanii have lost their culturable form, so we propose G. entanii AV429 as a new strain for future research.
The bacterial species Gluconacetobacter entanii belongs to a group of acetic acid bacteria. In 2000, it was described as a primary species of submerged spirit vinegar-producing bioreactors with a strict requirement of acetic acid, ethanol, and glucose for growth. Over the years, the type-strain of G. entanii deposited in international culture collections has lost the ability for revitalization and is thus not available any more in a culturable form. Here, we have systematically characterized phenotypic features and genomes of recently isolated G. entanii strains and compared them with characteristics of the type-strain available from published data. Using the functional annotation, genes gmhB and psp were identified as unique for G. entanii genomes among species in the clade Novacetimonas. The genome stability of G. entanii was assessed after 28 and 43 months of preculturing the strain Gluconacetobacter entanii AV429 twice a week. The strain G. entanii AV429 did not accumulate giant insertions or deletions but a few gene mutations. To unify further research into acetic acid bacteria systematics and taxonomy, we propose G. entanii AV429 as the neotype strain.
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