Porphyromonas loveana (DSM 28520, NCTC 13658, UQD444)

Name: Porphyromonas loveana (DSM 28520, NCTC 13658, UQD444)
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BacDive ID 133139

Type strain

Strain Designation UQD444, MRK101, UQD 444

Culture col. no. DSM 28520 NCTC 13658 UQD444 MRK101 UQD 444

NCBI tax ID(s) 1884669

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- P. S. Bird, Univ. Queensland, Brisbane; UQD444 <- D. Mikkelsen

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Porphyromonas loveana UQD444 is an obligate anaerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that forms circular colonies and has a brown-black pigmentation.

Gram-negative rod-shaped colony-forming pigmented obligate anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 404330

NCTC 13658,DSM 28520

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:01

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Bacteroidia

Order Bacteroidales

Family Porphyromonadaceae

Genus Porphyromonas

Species Porphyromonas loveana

Full scientific name Porphyromonas loveana Bird et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
24905	negative	rod-shaped
125439	negative		99.504
125438	negative		94.937

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
24905	0.5-1.0 mm	grey	circular	2-7 days	Wilkens Chalgren agar with laked sheep blood

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Color
24905		brown-black

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
24905	Wilkens Chalgren agar with laked sheep blood
64828	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l D-Glucose 4.0 g/l Starch 1.0 g/l Maltose 1.0 g/l Cellobiose 1.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Ethanol 0.19 g/l Vitamin K3 0.05 g/l Hemin 0.005 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Vitamin K1 NaOH Distilled water
64828	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
64828	FASTIDIOUS ANAEROBE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1203)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: FASTIDIOUS ANAEROBE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1203) Composition: Horse blood 100.0 g/l Fastidious Anaerobe Agar 45.7 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
64828	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
24905	obligate anaerobe
125439	facultative anaerobe	91.393

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
24905
125438		92.246
125439		99.945

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
24905	35581 ChEBI	indole	+	fermentation
68380	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	degradation	from API rID32A
24905	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	fermentation
68380	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API rID32A
24905	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	fermentation
68380	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	fermentation	from API rID32A
24905	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	+	energy source
68380	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	+	energy source	from API rID32A
68380	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
24905	35581 ChEBI	indole
68380	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API rID32A

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
24905	35581 ChEBI	indole	+
68380	35581 ChEBI	indole	+	from API rID32A

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
24905	6-phospho-beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.85
24905	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
68380	alanine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.2	from API rID32A
24905	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
68380	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API rID32A
24905	alpha-arabinosidase	-	3.2.1.55
68380	alpha-arabinosidase	-	3.2.1.55	from API rID32A
24905	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
68380	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API rID32A
24905	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
68380	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API rID32A
24905	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
68380	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API rID32A
24905	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
68380	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API rID32A
68380	beta-Galactosidase 6-phosphate	-		from API rID32A
24905	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
68380	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API rID32A
24905	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
68380	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API rID32A
24905	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
24905	chymotrypsin	-	3.4.4.5
24905	esterase	+
24905	esterase lipase (C 8)	+
24905	glutamate decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.15
68380	glutamate decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.15	from API rID32A
24905	glutamyl-glutamate arylamidase	+
68380	glutamyl-glutamate arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	glycin arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	histidine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
24905	L-arginine arylamidase	+
24905	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1
68380	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API rID32A
24905	leucyl glycin arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
68380	leucyl glycin arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API rID32A
24905	lipase (C 14)	-
24905	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52
68380	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52	from API rID32A
24905	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
24905	phenylalanine arylamidase	+
24905	phenylalanine arylamidase	-
68380	phenylalanine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
24905	proline-arylamidase	-	3.4.11.5
68380	proline-arylamidase	-	3.4.11.5	from API rID32A
24905	pyroglutamic acid arylamidase	+
68380	serine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
24905	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
24905	tryptophan deaminase	+	4.1.99.1
68380	tryptophan deaminase	+	4.1.99.1	from API rID32A
24905	tyrosine arylamidase	-
68380	tyrosine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
24905	urease	-	3.5.1.5
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
64828	-	-	-	+/-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+/-	-	+	-	-	+/-	-	+	-	-	+	-
64828	-	-	-	+/-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+/-	-	+	-	-	+/-	-	+	-	-	+	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Host	#Mammals

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
24905	musky rat kangaroo
64828	oral cavity of a musky rat kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus)	Queensland, Brisbane	Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
64828	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM309669v1 assembly for Porphyromonas loveana DSM 28520	scaffold	GCA_003096695	1884669.3	2756170163	1884669	70.51

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
64828	Porphyromonas loveana strain UQD444 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU012300	1492		1884669
124043	Porphyromonas loveana strain DSM 28520 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, complete sequence and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	KU569562	798		1884669

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
64828	50.2	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM309669v1 assembly for Porphyromonas loveana DSM 28520
BV-BRC: 1884669.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	91.39	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	70.73	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.50	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.95	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Porphyromonas loveana DSM 28520
NCBI: GCA_003096695.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	94.94	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	86.62	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	89.94	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.25	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.77	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	88.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Porphyromonas loveana sp. nov., isolated from the oral cavity of Australian marsupials.	Bird PS, Trott DJ, Mikkelsen D, Milinovich GJ, Hillman KM, Burrell PC, Blackall LL	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000898	2016

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 )
#24905	P. S. T. Bird, Darren J.,Mikkelsen, Deirdre,Milinovich, Gabriel J.,Hillman, Kristine M.,Burrell, Paul C.,Blackall, Linda L.: Porphyromonas loveana sp. nov., isolated from the oral cavity of Australian marsupials. IJSEM 66: 3771 - 3778 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000898 , PubMed 27515974 )
#64828	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 28520
#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) .
#68380	Automatically annotated from API rID32A .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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 .
#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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Porphyromonas loveana (DSM 28520, NCTC 13658, UQD444)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API rID32A

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_003096695

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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