Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 159984

Type strain: No

Species: Bacteroides fragilis

Strain Designation: BF8

Strain history: <- K. Foerster-Fromme, Curetis GmbH, Holzgerlingen, Germany; BF8 <- Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

NCBI tax ID(s): 817 (species)

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General

@ref: 66888

BacDive-ID: 159984

DSM-Number: 103647

keywords: genome sequence, Bacteria, mesophilic

description: Bacteroides fragilis BF8 is a mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from septicaemic blood.

NCBI tax id

  • NCBI tax id: 817
  • Matching level: species

strain history

  • @ref: 66888
  • history: <- K. Foerster-Fromme, Curetis GmbH, Holzgerlingen, Germany; BF8 <- Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

doi: 10.13145/bacdive159984.20230509.8.1

Name and taxonomic classification

LPSN

  • @ref: 20215
  • description: domain/bacteria
  • keyword: phylum/bacteroidota
  • domain: Bacteria
  • phylum: Bacteroidota
  • class: Bacteroidia
  • order: Bacteroidales
  • family: Bacteroidaceae
  • genus: Bacteroides
  • species: Bacteroides fragilis
  • full scientific name: Bacteroides fragilis (Veillon and Zuber 1898) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

  • synonyms

    • @ref: 20215
    • synonym: Bacillus fragilis

@ref: 66888

domain: Bacteria

phylum: Bacteroidetes

class: Bacteroidia

order: Bacteroidales

family: Bacteroidaceae

genus: Bacteroides

species: Bacteroides fragilis

full scientific name: Bacteroides fragilis (Veillon and Zuber 1898) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016

strain designation: BF8

type strain: no

Culture and growth conditions

culture medium

@refnamegrowthlinkcomposition
66888FASTIDIOUS ANAEROBE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 1203a)yeshttps://mediadive.dsmz.de/medium/1203aName: FASTIDIOUS ANAEROBE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 1203a) Composition: Fastidious Anaerobe Basal Broth 35.4 g/l Distilled water
66888COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)yeshttps://mediadive.dsmz.de/medium/693Name: COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693) Composition: Defibrinated sheep blood 50.0 g/l Columbia agar base

culture temp

  • @ref: 66888
  • growth: positive
  • type: growth
  • temperature: 37
  • range: mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

metabolite utilization

@refChebi-IDmetaboliteutilization activitykind of utilization tested
6838016199urea-hydrolysis
6838029016arginine-hydrolysis
6838016024D-mannose+fermentation
6838016634raffinose+fermentation
6838029985L-glutamate+degradation
6838017632nitrate-reduction
6838027897tryptophan-energy source

metabolite production

  • @ref: 68380
  • Chebi-ID: 35581
  • metabolite: indole
  • production: no

metabolite tests

  • @ref: 68380
  • Chebi-ID: 35581
  • metabolite: indole
  • indole test: -

enzymes

@refvalueactivityec
68380serine arylamidase-
68380glycin arylamidase-
68380alanine arylamidase+3.4.11.2
68380pyrrolidonyl arylamidase-3.4.19.3
68380leucine arylamidase+3.4.11.1
68380leucyl glycin arylamidase+3.4.11.1
68380proline-arylamidase-3.4.11.5
68380L-arginine arylamidase+
68380alkaline phosphatase+3.1.3.1
68380tryptophan deaminase-4.1.99.1
68380alpha-fucosidase+3.2.1.51
68380glutamate decarboxylase+4.1.1.15
68380N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase+3.2.1.52
68380beta-glucuronidase-3.2.1.31
68380alpha-arabinosidase-3.2.1.55
68380beta-glucosidase+3.2.1.21
68380alpha-glucosidase+3.2.1.20
68380beta-Galactosidase 6-phosphate-
68380beta-galactosidase+3.2.1.23
68380alpha-galactosidase+3.2.1.22
68380arginine dihydrolase-3.5.3.6
68380urease-3.5.1.5

API rID32A

@refUREADH Argalpha GALbeta GALbeta GPalpha GLUbeta GLUalpha ARAbeta GURbeta NAGMNERAFGDCalpha FUCNITINDPALArgAProALGAPheALeuAPyrATyrAAlaAGlyAHisAGGASerA
66888--++-++--+++++--++-++/-+-+/-+-+/-+/--

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

isolation

  • @ref: 66888
  • sample type: septicaemic blood
  • geographic location: Stockholm
  • country: Sweden
  • origin.country: SWE
  • continent: Europe
  • latitude: 59.3294
  • longitude: 18.0686

Safety information

risk assessment

  • @ref: 66888
  • biosafety level: 2
  • biosafety level comment: Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

  • @ref: 66792
  • description: Bacteroides fragilis BF8
  • accession: GCA_001695355
  • assembly level: contig
  • database: ncbi
  • NCBI tax ID: 817

Genome-based predictions

predictions

traitpredictionconfidencetraining_data
flagellatedno96.817no
gram-positiveno96.498no
anaerobicyes96.085no
halophileno91.567no
spore-formingno92.641no
glucose-utilyes87.395no
aerobicno95.65no
thermophileno99.695yes
motileno91.347no
glucose-fermentyes61.541no

External links

@ref: 66888

culture collection no.: DSM 103647

straininfo link

  • @ref: 112266
  • straininfo: 403290

Reference

@idauthorstitledoi/urlcatalogue
20215Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ10.1099/ijsem.0.004332
66792Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg OvermannAutomatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information)https://diaspora-project.de/progress.html#genomes
66888Curators of the DSMZhttps://www.dsmz.de/collection/catalogue/details/culture/DSM-103647Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSM 103647)
68380Automatically annotated from API rID32A
112266Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers10.60712/SI-ID403290.1