Cutibacterium granulosum (DSM 20458, ATCC 11829, NCTC 10387)

Name: Cutibacterium granulosum (DSM 20458, ATCC 11829, NCTC 10387)
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BacDive ID 12646

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 20458 ATCC 11829 NCTC 10387 IMET 10516 STI10516

NCBI tax ID(s) 33011

Special Collections DSMZ JMRC

History DSMZ <- NCTC; NCTC 10387 <- ATCC; ATCC 11829 <- H. Seeliger; (Corynebacterium parvum) <- A. Prevot;

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Cutibacterium granulosum DSM 20458 is an anaerobe human pathogen of the family Propionibacteriaceae.

anaerobe human pathogen Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 66612

ATCC 11829,NCTC 10387,DSM 20458,CCM 3439,VKM Ac-1451,IMET 10516,CNCTC 7016

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:27:51

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Propionibacteriales

Family Propionibacteriaceae

Genus Cutibacterium

Species Cutibacterium granulosum

Full scientific name Cutibacterium granulosum (Prévot 1938) Scholz and Kilian 2016

Synonyms (2)

Propionibacterium granulosum
"Corynebacterium granulosum"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Cutibacterium granulosum** (8)	Type strain
12645	C. granulosum DSM 20700, ATCC 25564, CIP 110009, JCM 6498, ... (type strain)
128366	C. granulosum STI10517, NCTC 10390
142793	C. granulosum CCUG 14831, CCM 3341, LMG 16723
151304	C. granulosum CCUG 43704
154065	C. granulosum CCUG 52208
156298	C. granulosum CCUG 61092
156934	C. granulosum CCUG 67158
165409	C. granulosum JCM 6497, ATCC 25746, BCRC 16147, CCUG 4945

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
8829	PYG MEDIUM (MODIFIED) (DSMZ Medium 104)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PYG MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 104) Composition: Yeast extract 10.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Trypticase peptone 5.0 g/l Beef extract 5.0 g/l Glucose 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l NaHCO3 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.08 g/l K2HPO4 0.04 g/l KH2PO4 0.04 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.02 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.01 g/l Hemin 0.005 g/l Ethanol 0.0038 g/l Resazurin 0.001 g/l Tween 80 Vitamin K1 NaOH Distilled water
8829	COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693) Composition: Defibrinated sheep blood 50.0 g/l Columbia agar base

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
8829	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

8829

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
8829	A41.01	A3gamma LL-Dpm-Gly

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68380	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A
68380	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	fermentation	from API rID32A
68380	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	degradation	from API rID32A
68380	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API rID32A
68380	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	fermentation	from API rID32A
68380	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API rID32A
68380	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68380	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API rID32A

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68380	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API rID32A

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68380	alanine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.2	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-arabinosidase	-	3.2.1.55	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	from API rID32A
68380	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API rID32A
68380	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API rID32A
68380	beta-Galactosidase 6-phosphate	-		from API rID32A
68380	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API rID32A
68380	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API rID32A
68380	glutamate decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.15	from API rID32A
68380	glutamyl-glutamate arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	glycin arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	histidine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	L-arginine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API rID32A
68380	leucyl glycin arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API rID32A
68380	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API rID32A
68380	proline-arylamidase	+	3.4.11.5	from API rID32A
68380	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3	from API rID32A
68380	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	from API rID32A
68380	tyrosine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API rID32A

API rID32A

@ref	URE	ADH (Arg)	alpha GAL	beta GAL	beta-Galactosidase 6-phosphatebeta GP	alpha GLU	beta GLU	alpha ARA	beta GUR	beta-N-Acetyl-beta-glucosaminidasebeta NAG	MNE	RAF	GDC	alpha FUC	Reduction of nitrateNIT	IND	PAL	L-arginine arylamidaseArgA	ProA	LGA	Phenylalanine arylamidasePheA	Leucine arylamidaseLeuA	PyrA	Tyrosine arylamidaseTyrA	Alanine arylamidaseAlaA	Glycin arylamidaseGlyA	Histidine arylamidaseHisA	Glutamyl-glutamate arylamidaseGGA	Serine arylamidaseSerA
8829	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	+/-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	+/-
8829	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8829			2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

8829

GC-content (mol%)59.0

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Clinical and Biological Features of Cutibacterium (Formerly Propionibacterium) avidum, an Underrecognized Microorganism.	Corvec S.	Clin Microbiol Rev	10.1128/cmr.00064-17	2018
Enzymology	Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of ribosomal proteins from Propionibacterium acnes and granulosum.	Dekio S, Hashimoto K, Makino M	Zentralbl Bakteriol	10.1016/s0934-8840(89)80103-3	1989
Phylogeny	Mitogenic activity of the cell walls of mycobacteria, nocardia, corynebacteria and anaerobic coryneforms.	Azuma I, Taniyama T, Sugimura K, Aladin A, Yamamura Y	Jpn J Microbiol	10.1111/j.1348-0421.1976.tb00987.x	1976

References

#8829	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 20458
#20215	Parte, 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 DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#20216	Curators of the JMRC: Jena Microbial Resource Collection (JMRC):
#68380	Automatically annotated from API rID32A .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Cutibacterium granulosum (DSM 20458, ATCC 11829, NCTC 10387)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Murein

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API rID32A

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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