@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65833-0, author = "De Bruyne, Katrien and Franz, Charles M. A. P. and Vancanneyt, Marc and Schillinger, Ulrich and Mozzi, Fernanda and de Valdez, Graciela Font and De Vuyst, Luc and Vandamme, Peter", title = "Pediococcus argentinicus sp. nov. from Argentinean fermented wheat flour and identification of Pediococcus species by pheS, rpoA and atpA sequence analysis", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2008", volume = "58", number = "12", pages = "2909-2916", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65833-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65833-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "TOR, temperature of optimal renaturation", keywords = "FAFLP, fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism", keywords = "LAB, lactic acid bacteria", abstract = "A Gram-positive, small coccus-shaped lactic acid bacterium, strain LMG 23999T, was isolated from Argentinean wheat flour. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that the phylogenetic position of the novel strain was within the genus Pediococcus, with Pediococcus stilesii, Pediococcus pentosaceus and Pediococcus acidilactici as its closest relatives (97.7, 97.3 and 96.9 % gene sequence similarity, respectively). Fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprinting of whole genomes and whole-cell protein electrophoresis confirmed the unique taxonomic status of the novel strain. DNA–DNA hybridizations, DNA G+C content determination, comparative sequence analysis of the pheS, rpoA and atpA genes and physiological and biochemical characterization demonstrated that strain LMG 23999T (=CCUG 54535T=CRL 776T) represents a novel species for which the name Pediococcus argentinicus sp. nov. is proposed. Multi-locus sequence analysis based on pheS, rpoA and atpA genes was found to be a suitable method for the identification of species of the genus Pediococcus.", }