Legionella drancourtii (ATCC 50991, LLAP 12)

Name: Legionella drancourtii (ATCC 50991, LLAP 12)
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BacDive ID 133640

Type strain

Culture col. no. ATCC 50991 LLAP 12

NCBI tax ID(s) 168933

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Legionella drancourtii ATCC 50991 is a Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Amoebae Cytoplasm.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132020

ATCC 50991,CCUG 0111

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella drancourtii

Full scientific name Legionella drancourtii La Scola et al. 2004

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
29892	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
29892	positive	growth	25-37
29892	positive	optimum	31

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Other	#Intracellular
#Host	#Protozoa	-

Isolation

29892

Sample typeAmoebae Cytoplasm

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence X97366 (>99% sequence identity) for Legionella drancourtii subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	149
Soil Samples	87
Animal Samples	39
Plant Samples	11
Total Samples	286

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
29892	Legionella drancourtii 16S rRNA gene, type strain LLAP12	X97366	1348		658187

GC content

29892

GC-content (mol%)39.4

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Cell extract-containing medium for culture of intracellular fastidious bacteria.	Singh S, Kowalczewska M, Edouard S, Eldin C, Perreal C, Weber P, Azza S, Raoult D.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.00719-13	2013
	Application of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in the Etiological Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis During the Perioperative Period of Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study.	Zeng X, Wu J, Li X, Xiong W, Tang L, Li X, Zhuang J, Yu R, Chen J, Jian X, Lei L.	Front Cardiovasc Med	10.3389/fcvm.2022.811492	2022
	Multiple infections of zoonotic pathogens in wild Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii).	Guo Y, Li Z, Dong S, Si X, Ta N, Liang H, Xu L.	Vet Med Sci	10.1002/vms3.1214	2023
	Amoebae as training grounds for microbial pathogens.	Price CTD, Hanford HE, Al-Quadan T, Santic M, Shin CJ, Da'as MSJ, Abu Kwaik Y.	mBio	10.1128/mbio.00827-24	2024
	Seasonal variation of Legionella in Taiwan's reservoir and its relationships with environmental factors.	Kao PM, Hsu BM, Chang TY, Hsu TK, Tzeng KJ, Huang YL.	Environ Sci Pollut Res Int	10.1007/s11356-014-3819-2	2015
	Genome analysis of microorganisms living in amoebae reveals a melting pot of evolution	Moliner C, Fournier PE, Raoult D.	FEMS microbiology reviews.		2010
Genetics	Genome analysis of microorganisms living in amoebae reveals a melting pot of evolution.	Moliner C, Fournier PE, Raoult D.	FEMS Microbiol Rev	10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00209.x	2010
Enzymology	Survey of pathogenic free-living amoebae and Legionella spp. in mud spring recreation area.	Hsu BM, Lin CL, Shih FC.	Water Res	10.1016/j.watres.2009.04.002	2009
	Cellular cholesterol licenses Legionella pneumophila intracellular replication in macrophages.	Ondari E, Wilkins A, Latimer B, Dragoi AM, Ivanov SS.	Microb Cell	10.15698/mic2023.01.789	2023
Genetics	Insight into cross-talk between intra-amoebal pathogens.	Gimenez G, Bertelli C, Moliner C, Robert C, Raoult D, Fournier PE, Greub G.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/1471-2164-12-542	2011
Phylogeny	Legionella spp. All Ears? The Broad Occurrence of Quorum Sensing Elements outside Legionella pneumophila.	Herran B, Greve P, Berjeaud JM, Bertaux J, Crepin A.	Genome Biol Evol	10.1093/gbe/evab032	2021
	Evidence that the intra-amoebal Legionella drancourtii acquired a sterol reductase gene from eukaryotes.	Moliner C, Raoult D, Fournier PE.	BMC Res Notes	10.1186/1756-0500-2-51	2009
Metabolism	Lpg0393 of Legionella pneumophila is a guanine-nucleotide exchange factor for Rab5, Rab21 and Rab22.	Sohn YS, Shin HC, Park WS, Ge J, Kim CH, Lee BL, Heo WD, Jung JU, Rigden DJ, Oh BH.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0118683	2015
Metabolism	Structural analyses of Legionella LepB reveal a new GAP fold that catalytically mimics eukaryotic RasGAP.	Yu Q, Hu L, Yao Q, Zhu Y, Dong N, Wang DC, Shao F.	Cell Res	10.1038/cr.2013.54	2013
	Investigation of potential pathogenicity of Willaertia magna by investigating the transfer of bacteria pathogenicity genes into its genome.	Hasni I, Chelkha N, Baptiste E, Mameri MR, Lachuer J, Plasson F, Colson P, La Scola B.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-019-54580-6	2019
	Comparative Genomic Analysis of Acanthamoeba Endosymbionts Highlights the Role of Amoebae as a "Melting Pot" Shaping the Rickettsiales Evolution.	Wang Z, Wu M.	Genome Biol Evol	10.1093/gbe/evx246	2017
Enzymology	Surveillance of parasitic Legionella in surface waters by using immunomagnetic separation and amoebae enrichment.	Hsu TK, Wu SF, Hsu BM, Kao PM, Tao CW, Shen SM, Ji WT, Huang WC, Fan CW.	Pathog Glob Health	10.1179/2047773215y.0000000034	2015
Phylogeny	Taxon-specific aerosolization of bacteria and viruses in an experimental ocean-atmosphere mesocosm.	Michaud JM, Thompson LR, Kaul D, Espinoza JL, Richter RA, Xu ZZ, Lee C, Pham KM, Beall CM, Malfatti F, Azam F, Knight R, Burkart MD, Dupont CL, Prather KA.	Nat Commun	10.1038/s41467-018-04409-z	2018
Genetics	Phylogenomic analysis of Odyssella thessalonicensis fortifies the common origin of Rickettsiales, Pelagibacter ubique and Reclimonas americana mitochondrion.	Georgiades K, Madoui MA, Le P, Robert C, Raoult D.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0024857	2011
	Evolutionary origin of insect-Wolbachia nutritional mutualism.	Nikoh N, Hosokawa T, Moriyama M, Oshima K, Hattori M, Fukatsu T.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.1409284111	2014
	Polyphasic analysis of a middle ages coprolite microbiota, Belgium.	Appelt S, Armougom F, Le Bailly M, Robert C, Drancourt M.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0088376	2014
	The genealogic tree of mycobacteria reveals a long-standing sympatric life into free-living protozoa.	Lamrabet O, Merhej V, Pontarotti P, Raoult D, Drancourt M.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0034754	2012
Phylogeny	The Flagellar Regulon of Legionella-A Review.	Appelt S, Heuner K.	Front Cell Infect Microbiol	10.3389/fcimb.2017.00454	2017
Metabolism	The Dot/Icm effector SdhA is necessary for virulence of Legionella pneumophila in Galleria mellonella and A/J mice.	Harding CR, Stoneham CA, Schuelein R, Newton H, Oates CV, Hartland EL, Schroeder GN, Frankel G.	Infect Immun	10.1128/iai.00296-13	2013
Enzymology	Characterization and quantitation of a novel beta-lactamase gene found in a wastewater treatment facility and the surrounding coastal ecosystem.	Uyaguari MI, Fichot EB, Scott GI, Norman RS.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02732-10	2011
Enzymology	The diversity of prokaryotic DDE transposases of the mutator superfamily, insertion specificity, and association with conjugation machineries.	Guerillot R, Siguier P, Gourbeyre E, Chandler M, Glaser P.	Genome Biol Evol	10.1093/gbe/evu010	2014
	Evolution of Pentameric Ligand-Gated Ion Channels: Pro-Loop Receptors.	Jaiteh M, Taly A, Henin J.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0151934	2016
Metabolism	The Legionella pneumophila GTPase activating protein LepB accelerates Rab1 deactivation by a non-canonical hydrolytic mechanism.	Mishra AK, Del Campo CM, Collins RE, Roy CR, Lambright DG.	J Biol Chem	10.1074/jbc.m113.470625	2013
Metabolism	Multiple Legionella pneumophila Type II secretion substrates, including a novel protein, contribute to differential infection of the amoebae Acanthamoeba castellanii, Hartmannella vermiformis, and Naegleria lovaniensis.	Tyson JY, Pearce MM, Vargas P, Bagchi S, Mulhern BJ, Cianciotto NP.	Infect Immun	10.1128/iai.00045-13	2013
Genetics	Comparative genomics suggests an independent origin of cytoplasmic incompatibility in Cardinium hertigii.	Penz T, Schmitz-Esser S, Kelly SE, Cass BN, Muller A, Woyke T, Malfatti SA, Hunter MS, Horn M.	PLoS Genet	10.1371/journal.pgen.1003012	2012
Genetics	Babela massiliensis, a representative of a widespread bacterial phylum with unusual adaptations to parasitism in amoebae.	Pagnier I, Yutin N, Croce O, Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Benamar S, Raoult D, Koonin EV, La Scola B.	Biol Direct	10.1186/s13062-015-0043-z	2015
Metabolism	The Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm-secreted effector PlcC/CegC1 together with PlcA and PlcB promotes virulence and belongs to a novel zinc metallophospholipase C family present in bacteria and fungi.	Aurass P, Schlegel M, Metwally O, Harding CR, Schroeder GN, Frankel G, Flieger A.	J Biol Chem	10.1074/jbc.m112.426049	2013
	Computational modeling and experimental validation of the Legionella and Coxiella virulence-related type-IVB secretion signal.	Lifshitz Z, Burstein D, Peeri M, Zusman T, Schwartz K, Shuman HA, Pupko T, Segal G.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.1215278110	2013
Phylogeny	A bacterial genome in transition--an exceptional enrichment of IS elements but lack of evidence for recent transposition in the symbiont Amoebophilus asiaticus.	Schmitz-Esser S, Penz T, Spang A, Horn M.	BMC Evol Biol	10.1186/1471-2148-11-270	2011
	Protein kinase LegK2 is a type IV secretion system effector involved in endoplasmic reticulum recruitment and intracellular replication of Legionella pneumophila.	Hervet E, Charpentier X, Vianney A, Lazzaroni JC, Gilbert C, Atlan D, Doublet P.	Infect Immun	10.1128/iai.00805-10	2011
	Circadian clock proteins in prokaryotes: hidden rhythms?	Loza-Correa M, Gomez-Valero L, Buchrieser C.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2010.00130	2010
Genetics	Legionella pneumophila strain 130b possesses a unique combination of type IV secretion systems and novel Dot/Icm secretion system effector proteins.	Schroeder GN, Petty NK, Mousnier A, Harding CR, Vogrin AJ, Wee B, Fry NK, Harrison TG, Newton HJ, Thomson NR, Beatson SA, Dougan G, Hartland EL, Frankel G.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.00778-10	2010
Metabolism	Computational identification of novel biochemical systems involved in oxidation, glycosylation and other complex modifications of bases in DNA.	Iyer LM, Zhang D, Burroughs AM, Aravind L.	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/gkt573	2013
	Current and past strategies for bacterial culture in clinical microbiology.	Lagier JC, Edouard S, Pagnier I, Mediannikov O, Drancourt M, Raoult D.	Clin Microbiol Rev	10.1128/cmr.00110-14	2015
Pathogenicity	Gene flow and biological conflict systems in the origin and evolution of eukaryotes.	Aravind L, Anantharaman V, Zhang D, de Souza RF, Iyer LM.	Front Cell Infect Microbiol	10.3389/fcimb.2012.00089	2012
Metabolism	Polymorphic toxin systems: Comprehensive characterization of trafficking modes, processing, mechanisms of action, immunity and ecology using comparative genomics.	Zhang D, de Souza RF, Anantharaman V, Iyer LM, Aravind L.	Biol Direct	10.1186/1745-6150-7-18	2012
Phylogeny	Legionella drancourtii sp. nov., a strictly intracellular amoebal pathogen.	Scola B, Birtles RJ, Greub G, Harrison TJ, Ratcliff RM, Raoult D	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02455-0	2004

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 )
#26265	IJSEM 699 2004 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.02455-0 , PubMed 15143011 )
#29892	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26265
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#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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Legionella drancourtii (ATCC 50991, LLAP 12)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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References

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