%0 Journal Article %A Jeon, Hye Hee %A Kim, Kyung Hyun %A Chun, Byung Hee %A Ryu, Byung Hee %A Han, Nam Soo %A Jeon, Che Ok %T A proposal of Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. jonggajibkimchii subsp. nov. and reclassification of Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. suionicum (Gu et al., 2012) as Leuconostoc suionicum sp. nov. based on complete genome sequences %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 7 %P 2225-2230 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001930 %K Leuconotoc mesenteroides subsp. suionicum %K reclassification %K genome %K taxonomy %K Leuconotoc mesenteroides subsp. jonggajibkimchii %I Microbiology Society, %X The type strains of four subspecies of Leuconostocmesenteroides , L. mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides , L. mesenteroides subsp. cremoris , L. mesenteroides subsp. dextranicum and L. mesenteroides subsp. suionicum , and strain DRC1506T, used as a starter culture for commercial kimchi production in Korea, were phylogenetically analyzed on the basis of their complete genome sequences. Although the type strains of the four L. mesenteroides subspecies and strain DRC1506T shared very high 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities (>99.72 %), the results of analysis of average nucleotide identity (ANI), in silico DNA–DNA hybridization (DDH) and core-genome-based relatedness indicated that they could form five different phylogenetic lineages. The type strains of L. mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides , L. mesenteroides subsp. cremoris and L. mesenteroides subsp. dextranicum and DRC1506T shared higher ANI and in silico DDH values than the thresholds (95–96 % and 70 %, respectively) generally accepted for different species delineation, whereas the type strain of L. mesenteroides subsp. suionicum (DSM 20241T) shared lower ANI (<94.1 %) and in silico DDH values (<57.0 %) with the other four L. mesenteroides lineage strains, indicating that DSM 20241T couldn be reclassified as representing a different species. Here, we report that DRC1506T represents a novel subspecies within the species Leuconostoc mesenteroides , for which the name Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. jonggajibkimchii subsp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is DRC1506T (=KCCM 43249T=JCM 31787T). In addition, L. mesenteroides subsp. suionicum is also reclassified as Leuconostoc suionicum. sp. nov. (type strain DSM 20241T=ATCC 9135T=LMG 8159T=NCIMB 6992T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001930