Cellulosilyticum lentocellum

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| name = Cellulosilyticum lentocellum

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Bacillota

| classis = Clostridia

| ordo = Eubacteriales

| familia = Lachnospiraceae

| genus = Cellulosilyticum

| species = C. lentocellum

| binomial = Cellulosilyticum lentocellum

| binomial_authority = (Murray et al. 1987) Cai and Dong 2010{{cite journal|last1=Parte|first1=A.C.|title=Cellulosilyticum|journal=LPSN|url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/cellulosilyticum}}

| type_strain = ATCC 49066, DSM 5427, NCIB 11756, NCIMB 11756, RHM5{{cite journal|title=Cellulosilyticum lentocellum Taxon Passport - StrainInfo|website=www.straininfo.net|url=http://www.straininfo.net/taxa/379083|language=en|access-date=2017-12-24|archive-date=2017-12-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225034855/http://www.straininfo.net/taxa/379083|url-status=dead}}

| subdivision =

| synonyms = Clostridium lentocellum{{cite journal|title=Cellulosilyticum lentocellum|website=www.uniprot.org|url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/29360|language=en}}

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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.{{cite journal|title=Details: DSM-5427|website=www.dsmz.de|url=https://www.dsmz.de/catalogues/details/culture/DSM-5427.html|language=en}}{{cite journal|last1=Miller|first1=DA|last2=Suen|first2=G|last3=Bruce|first3=D|last4=Copeland|first4=A|last5=Cheng|first5=JF|last6=Detter|first6=C|last7=Goodwin|first7=LA|last8=Han|first8=CS|last9=Hauser|first9=LJ|last10=Land|first10=ML|last11=Lapidus|first11=A|last12=Lucas|first12=S|last13=Meincke|first13=L|last14=Pitluck|first14=S|last15=Tapia|first15=R|last16=Teshima|first16=H|last17=Woyke|first17=T|last18=Fox|first18=BG|last19=Angert|first19=ER|last20=Currie|first20=CR|title=Complete genome sequence of the cellulose-degrading bacterium Cellulosilyticum lentocellum|journal=Journal of Bacteriology|date=May 2011|volume=193|issue=9|pages=2357–8|doi=10.1128/JB.00239-11|pmid=21398547|pmc=3133088}} C. lentocellum produces cellobiose 2-epimerase.{{cite book|last1=Illanes|first1=Andrés|last2=Guerrero|first2=Cecilia|last3=Vera|first3=Carlos|last4=Wilson|first4=Lorena|last5=Conejeros|first5=Raúl|last6=Scott|first6=Felipe|title=Lactose-Derived Prebiotics: A Process Perspective|date=2016|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=9780128027455|language=en}}