Lactobacillus_delbrueckii
Lactobacillus delbrueckii
Species of bacterium
Lactobacillus delbrueckii is a species of bacteria in the family Lactobacillaceae. It is part of the microbiota of the lower reproductive tract of women.
 | This article is missing information about subsp. lactis →? Lactobacillus leichmannii: ATCC 7830 has changed its listing. (January 2022) |
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| Lactobacillus delbrueckii subspecies bulgaricus from a sample of Activia brand yogurt | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Lactobacillales |
| Family: | Lactobacillaceae |
| Genus: | Lactobacillus |
| Species: | L. delbrueckii |
| Binomial name | |
| Lactobacillus delbrueckii Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980)[1] | |
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Naming
The species carries the name of Max Delbrück, who lent his name to the Berlin Institute for the Fermentation Industries,[3] where L. delbrueckii and L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus were produced on an industrial scale from about 1896.[4] (Delbrück's Institute was located in East Berlin and around 1967 it was renamed Institut für Gärungsgewerbe und Biotechnologie zu Berlin (IFGB).[5])
Subspecies
A paper published in 1983 by Weiss, Schillinger, and Kandler, described the high degree of shared identity between L. delbrueckii 's subspecies, which had previously been considered separate species.[6]
- Beijerinck MW. (1901). "Sur les ferments lactiques de l'industrie" [On industrial dairy fermentation]. Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles (Section 2) [Dutch Archives of Exact and Natural Sciences (Section 2)]. 6: 212–243.
- Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Lactobacillus delbrueckii". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved July 2, 2021.
- H. Benninga (1990). A History of Lactic Acid Making: A Chapter in the History of Biotechnology.
- Martin Dworkin, et al., eds. (2006). The Prokaryotes: Vol. 1: Symbiotic Associations, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology.
- Philippe Goujon (2001). From Biotechnology to Genomes: The Meaning of the Double Helix.
- Weiss, N; Schillinger, U; Kandler, O (1983). "Lactobacillus lactis, Lactobacillus leichmannii and Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Subjective Synonyms of Lactobacillus delbrueckii, and Description of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis comb. nov. and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus comb. nov". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 4 (4): 556. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(83)80012-5. PMID 23194812.