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SUBMITTER: Lee JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3458688 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of bacteriology 20121001 20
Weissella koreensis is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, nonmotile, and facultative anaerobic species belonging to the lactic acid bacteria (LAB). The members of this species have been repeatedly isolated from kimchi (a traditional Korean fermented food) and are known for their beneficial effects on human and animal intestinal microflora through producing various clinically important amino acids such as γ-aminobutyric acid and ornithine. Here we report the genome sequence of the type strain of W. kor ...[more]