Propionibacterium australiense (DSM 15818, ATCC BAA-264, CCUG 46075)

Name: Propionibacterium australiense (DSM 15818, ATCC BAA-264, CCUG 46075)
Creator: BacDive
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BacDive ID 12657

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 15818 ATCC BAA-264 CCUG 46075 CIP 109961 NML 98A072

NCBI tax ID(s) 119981

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

History <- CCUG <- K. Bernard CIP <- 2009, DSMZ <- CCUG <- K. Bernard, Australia

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Propionibacterium australiense DSM 15818 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive animal pathogen that was isolated from cattle, granulomatus lesions.

Gram-positive rod-shaped anaerobe mesophilic animal pathogen 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 100876

LMG 31296,NCTC 13651,ATCC BAA-264,ATCC BAA-263,CCUG 46075,DSM 15818,CCUG 46174,CCUG 46174 A,CCUG 46076,CIP 109961

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:20:54

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Propionibacteriales

Family Propionibacteriaceae

Genus Propionibacterium

Species Propionibacterium australiense

Full scientific name Propionibacterium australiense Bernard et al. 2002

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Propionibacterium australiense** (1)	Type strain
152229	P. australiense CCUG 46174 A, ATCC BAA-263, CCUG 46076

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
116645	positive	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
6122	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
6122	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 78)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 78) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Ethanol 9.5 g/l (optional) K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Haemin 0.005 g/l (optional) Resazurin 0.001 g/l Vitamin K3 0.0005 g/l (optional) Vitamin K1 (optional) NaOH (optional) Distilled water
34005	MEDIUM 20 - for Anaerobic bacteria		Agar (15.000 g);Glucose (5.000 g);Yeast extract (20.000 g);Tryptone (30.000 g);Cysteine hydrochloride (0.500 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml);Hemin solution -M00149 (25.000 ml)
116645	CIP Medium 20	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
6122	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
34005	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
57048	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
6122	anaerobe
57048	anaerobe
116645	facultative anaerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68380	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A
68367	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68380	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	fermentation	from API rID32A
68367	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20A
68367	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20A
68367	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68380	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	degradation	from API rID32A
68367	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
116645	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
68380	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction	from API rID32A
116645	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
68380	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	fermentation	from API rID32A
68367	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68380	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API rID32A
68367	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20A
68380	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A
68367	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20A

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
68380	35581 ChEBI	indole	from API rID32A
116645	35581 ChEBI	indole
68367	35581 ChEBI	indole	from API 20A

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68380	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API rID32A
68367	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API 20A

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
68380	alanine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.2	from API rID32A
68382	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68380	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-arabinosidase	-	3.2.1.55	from API rID32A
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68380	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API rID32A
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68380	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API rID32A
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68380	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API rID32A
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68380	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API rID32A
68382	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API zym
68380	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API rID32A
68380	beta-Galactosidase 6-phosphate	-		from API rID32A
68382	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68367	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API 20A
68382	beta-glucuronidase	+	3.2.1.31	from API zym
68380	beta-glucuronidase	+	3.2.1.31	from API rID32A
116645	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	-		from API zym
68367	gelatinase	-		from API 20A
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
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68380	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API rID32A
68380	leucyl glycin arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API rID32A
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68380	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API rID32A
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
116645	oxidase	-
68380	phenylalanine arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	proline-arylamidase	+	3.4.11.5	from API rID32A
68380	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3	from API rID32A
68380	serine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
68380	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	from API rID32A
68380	tyrosine arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
116645	urease	+	3.5.1.5
68380	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API rID32A
68367	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20A
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	100	2 of 2
66794	acetoin degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	denitrification	100	2 of 2
66794	teichoic acid biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	vitamin K metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	100	10 of 10
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	isoleucine metabolism	100	8 of 8
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	aerobactin biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	90	9 of 10
66794	starch degradation	90	9 of 10
66794	threonine metabolism	90	9 of 10
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	88.89	8 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	87.5	7 of 8
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	86.67	13 of 15
66794	heme metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	85.71	6 of 7
66794	propanol degradation	85.71	6 of 7
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	85.29	29 of 34
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	81.82	9 of 11
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	81.25	13 of 16
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	citric acid cycle	78.57	11 of 14
66794	valine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	glycolysis	76.47	13 of 17
66794	degradation of sugar acids	76	19 of 25
66794	alanine metabolism	75.86	22 of 29
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	75	21 of 28
66794	flavin biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	73.08	19 of 26
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	72.73	8 of 11
66794	degradation of pentoses	71.43	20 of 28
66794	purine metabolism	70.21	66 of 94
66794	propionate fermentation	70	7 of 10
66794	leucine metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	67.03	61 of 91
66794	serine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	methane metabolism	66.67	2 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	66.67	4 of 6
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	64.44	29 of 45
66794	proline metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	urea cycle	61.54	8 of 13
66794	NAD metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	57.14	4 of 7
66794	nitrate assimilation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	cysteine metabolism	55.56	10 of 18
66794	degradation of hexoses	55.56	10 of 18
66794	histidine metabolism	55.17	16 of 29
66794	d-xylose degradation	54.55	6 of 11
66794	methionine metabolism	53.85	14 of 26
66794	non-pathway related	52.63	20 of 38
66794	tryptophan metabolism	52.63	20 of 38
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	lysine metabolism	50	21 of 42
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	lactate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	toluene degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	ascorbate metabolism	50	11 of 22
66794	dolichol and dolichyl phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	lipid metabolism	48.39	15 of 31
66794	arginine metabolism	45.83	11 of 24
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	tyrosine metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	41.67	5 of 12
66794	methanofuran biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	hydrogen production	40	2 of 5
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	octane oxidation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	31.25	5 of 16
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	30	3 of 10
66794	glutathione metabolism	28.57	4 of 14
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	26.67	4 of 15
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	phenol degradation	25	5 of 20
66794	vitamin E metabolism	25	1 of 4
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	23.53	4 of 17
66794	sulfate reduction	23.08	3 of 13
66794	allantoin degradation	22.22	2 of 9

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
116645	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-

API 20A

@ref	IND	URE	GLU	MAN	LAC	SAC	MAL	SAL	XYL	ARA	GEL	ESC	GLY	CEL	MNE	MLZ	RAF	SOR	RHA	TRE	CAT	Spores presentSPOR	GramGRAM	Morphology coccus="+" rod="-"COCC
6122	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.

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
6122	-	-	-	+	-	-	+/-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Infection	#Inflammation	-
#Host	#Mammals	#Bovinae (Cow, Cattle)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6122	cattle, granulomatus lesions	Queensland	Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania
57048	Cattle,granulomatous lesions	Queensland	Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania
116645	Animal, Cattle, granulomatous lesions		Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6122		2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
116645		1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Propionibacterium australiense strain DSMZ 15818 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY883040	459		119981
6122	Propionibacterium sp. LCDC-98A072 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF225962	1469		119981

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Whole-Genome Sequences of Propionibacterium australiense NML (LCDC) 98A072(T) and NML (LCDC) 98A078, Associated with Granulomatous Bovine Lesions.	Bernier AM, Bernard K	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/MRA.01445-18	2018
Phylogeny	Propionibacterium ruminifibrarum sp. nov., isolated from cow rumen fibrous content.	Vaidya JD, Hornung BVH, Smidt H, Edwards JE, Plugge CM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003544	2019

References

#6122	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15818
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#34005	; Curators of the CIP;
#57048	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 46075
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#68367	Automatically annotated from API 20A .
#68380	Automatically annotated from API rID32A .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#116645	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 109961
#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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Propionibacterium australiense (DSM 15818, ATCC BAA-264, CCUG 46075)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

API zym

API 20A

API rID32A

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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