Table 1.

A general overview of the origin and genome statistics of the 20 Lactobacillus genomes.

Genome	Length (bp)	G+C content (%)	Predicted ORFs	Isolated from	Genes assigned to COG	LPXTG genes	Genes encoding signal peptides predicted by SignalP (%)	Genes encoding signal peptides predicted by LocateP (%)	Reference
Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM	1 993 564	34.71	1864	Infant faeces	1433	13	21.03	9.40	Altermann et al. (2005)
Lactobacillus helveticus DPC 4571	2 080 931	37.08	1757	Cheese	1396	2	17.07	6.96	Callanan et al. (2008)
Lactobacillus gasseri ATCC 33323	1 894 360	35.26	1755	Human Gut	1316	14	17.89	6.38	Azcarate‐Peril et al. (2008)
Lactobacillus crispatus ST1	2 043 161	36	2024	Chicken faeces	1499	8	13.58	9.39	Ojala et al. (2010)
Lactobacillus johnsonii FI9785	1 781 645	34.43	1733	Human faeces	1320	12	24.58	6.49	Wegmann et al. (2009)
Lactobacillus johnsonii NCC 533	1 992 676	34.61	1821	Human faeces	1403	18	19.17	7.41	Pridmore et al. (2004)
Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp bulgaricus ATCC BAA 365	1 856 951	49.69	1721	Yoghurt	1196	3	17.49	8.28	Makarova et al. (2006)
Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp bulgaricus ATCC 11842	1 864 998	49.72	2094	Yoghurt	1153	2	16.19	8.69	van de Guchte et al. (2006)
Lactobacillus casei ATCC 334	2 924 325	46.58	2771	Cheese	1959	18	20.39	8.55	Makarova et al. (2006)
Lactobacillus casei BL23	3 079 196	46.34	3044	Cheese	2152	20	20.47	8.40	Mazéet al. (2010)
Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG	3 010 111	46.69	2944	Human Gut	2032	18	30.16	7.83	Kankainen et al. (2009)
Lactobacillus rhamnosus Lc 705	3 033 106	46.68	2992	Cheese	2099	15	31.45	8.34	Kankainen et al. (2009)
Lactobacillus sakei 23k	1 884 661	41.26	1879	Meat	1462	7	19.96	8.46	Chaillou et al. (2005)
Lactobacillus brevis ATCC 367	2 340 228	46.06	2218	Human	1678	12	21.06	9.38	Makarova et al. (2006)
Lactobacillus plantarum JDM1	3 197 759	44.66	2948	Human saliva	2248	34	28.05	7.94	Zhang et al. (2009)
Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1	3 348 625	44.42	3100	Adult Intestine	2305	35	19.87	7.88	Kleerebezem et al. (2003)
Lactobacillus fermentum IFO 3956	2 098 684	51.47	1843	Adult Intestine	1519	5	14.81	5.48	Morita et al. (2008)
Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 20016	1 999 618	38.87	1935	Silage	1529	4	15.76	4.84	A. Copeland, S. Lucas, A. Lapidus, K. Barry, J.C. Detter, T. Glavina del Rio, N. Hammon et al. (unpublished)
Lactobacillus reuteri JCM 1112	2 039 414	38.88	1820	Fermented plant material	1495	5	16.65	5.22	Morita et al. (2008)
Lactobacillus salivarius	2 133 977	33.04	2073	Terminal ileum of human	1476	5	14.52	6.58	Claesson et al. (2007)