Cellulosilyticum lentocellum

Cellulosilyticum lentocellum is an anaerobic and spore-forming bacterium from the genus Cellulosilyticum, which has been isolated from sediments from the River Don in Scotland.^[1][3][4][5] C. lentocellum produces cellobiose 2-epimerase.^[6]

Cellulosilyticum lentocellum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Lachnospiraceae
Genus:	Cellulosilyticum
Species:	C. lentocellum
Binomial name
Cellulosilyticum lentocellum (Murray et al. 1987) Cai and Dong 2010[1]
Type strain
ATCC 49066, DSM 5427, NCIB 11756, NCIMB 11756, RHM5[2]
Synonyms
Clostridium lentocellum[3]