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"Enterobacter timonensis" (DSM 101775, CSUR P2201, mt20)

BacDive ID 131710

Type strain

Strain Designation mt20

Culture col. no. DSM 101775 CSUR P2201 mt20

Special Collections DSMZ Cadoret human gut

"Enterobacter timonensis" mt20 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from stool from healthy person.

mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

DSM 101775 CSUR P2201 mt20

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:19

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Enterobacterales

Family Enterobacteriaceae

Genus Enterobacter

Species "Enterobacter timonensis"

Full scientific name Enterobacter timonensis Takakura et al. 2019

Synonyms (1)

"Enterobacter timonensis"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	98.1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
23506	NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water
23506	TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water
23506	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)	Range
23506	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		94.5

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68368	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	29016 ChEBI	arginine	+	hydrolysis	from API 20E
68368	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	assimilation	from API 20E
68368	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	25094 ChEBI	lysine	-	degradation	from API 20E
68368	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	-	degradation	from API 20E
68368	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20E
68368	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68368	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide		from API 20E
68368	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20E

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68368	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API 20E

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68368	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6	from API 20E
68368	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1	from API 20E
68368	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18	from API 20E
68368	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17	from API 20E
68368	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	from API 20E
68368	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20E

API 20E

@ref	ONPG	ADH (Arg)	LDC (Lys)	ODC	CIT	H2S productionH2S	URE	TDA (Trp)	IND	Acetoin production (Voges Proskauer test)VP	GEL	GLU	MAN	INO	Sor	RHA	SAC	MEL	AMY	ARA	OX	Nitrite productionNO2	Reduction to N2N2	MotilityMOB	Growth on MacConkey mediumMAC	OF-O	OF-F
23506	+	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.
23506	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
23506	stool from healthy person	Marseille	France	FRA	Europe

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Enterobacter timonensis assembly for Pseudenterobacter timonensis mt20	contig	GCA_900021175	2690315786	1755099	77.31

Genome browser: GCA_900021175

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
23506	Enterobacter sp. MT20 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain MT20	LN906632	1503		1755099

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Pseudenterobacter timonensis mt20
NCBI: GCA_900021175

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	94.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	61.90	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.10	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	80.20	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Gut Bacteria Missing in Severe Acute Malnutrition, Can We Identify Potential Probiotics by Culturomics?	Tidjani Alou M, Million M, Traore SI, Mouelhi D, Khelaifia S, Bachar D, Caputo A, Delerce J, Brah S, Alhousseini D, Sokhna C, Robert C, Diallo BA, Diallo A, Parola P, Golden M, Lagier JC, Raoult D.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.00899	2017
	'Khelaifiella massiliensis', 'Niameybacter massiliensis', 'Brachybacterium massiliense', 'Enterobacter timonensis', 'Massilibacillus massiliensis', new bacterial species and genera isolated from the gut microbiota of healthy infants.	Tidjani Alou M, Cadoret F, Brah S, Diallo A, Sokhna C, Mehrej V, Lagier JC, Fournier PE, Raoult D	New Microbes New Infect	10.1016/j.nmni.2017.02.002	2017
Phylogeny	Enterobacter timonensis sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from a fresh human stool specimen.	Takakura T, Anani H, Fadlane A, Fontanini A, Raoult D, Bou Khalil JY	New Microbes New Infect	10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100586	2019

References

#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 )
#23506	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 101775
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#68368	Automatically annotated from API 20E .
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .

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"Enterobacter timonensis" (DSM 101775, CSUR P2201, mt20)

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API 20E

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900021175

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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