| lactobacillus capillatus sp. nov., a motile bacterium isolated from stinky tofu brine. | three gram-positive, catalase-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacteria were isolated from fermented stinky tofu brine. these strains, designated yit 11306(t), yit 11317 and yit 11318, were discriminated from five isolates on the basis of randomly amplified polymorphic dna profiles. they produced l-lactic acid as the main end product from glucose without gas formation, synthesized dextran from sucrose and hydrolysed aesculin. ammonia was not produced from arginine. comparative 16s rrna gene sequence ... | 2008 | 18984692 |