Pangenome and genomic taxonomy analyses of Leuconostoc gelidum and Leuconostoc gasicomitatum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Leuconostoc gelidum and Leuconostoc gasicomitatum have dual roles in foods. They may spoil cold-stored packaged foods but can also be beneficial in kimchi fermentation. The impact in food science as well as the limited number of publicly available genomes prompted us to create pangenomes and perform genomic taxonomy analyses starting from de novo sequencing of the genomes of 37 L. gelidum/L. gasicomitatum strains from our culture collection. Our aim was also to evaluate the recently proposed change in taxonomy as well as to study the genomes of strains with different lifestyles in foods.

Methods

We selected as diverse a set of strains as possible in terms of sources, previous genotyping results and geographical distribution, and included also 10 publicly available

SUBMITTER: Johansson P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9733070 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature