Lactococcus formosensis (NBRC 109475, BCRC 80576, 516)

Name: Lactococcus formosensis (NBRC 109475, BCRC 80576, 516)
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BacDive ID 134042

Type strain

Strain Designation 516

Culture col. no. NBRC 109475 BCRC 80576 516 LMG 29105 JCM 31966

NCBI tax ID(s) 1281486 2906461

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History LMG 29105 <-- NBRC 109475 <-- Y.-S. Chen; Ming Chuan Univ., Taiwan; 516.

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Lactococcus formosensis 516 is a Gram-positive, ovoid-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from fermented broccoli stems.

Gram-positive ovoid-shaped genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 391807

JCM 31966,NBRC 109475,BCRC 80576,LMG 29105

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:57

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Streptococcaceae

Genus Lactococcus

Species Lactococcus formosensis

Full scientific name Lactococcus formosensis Chen et al. 2014

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
31125	positive	ovoid-shaped
125438			93.5
125438	positive		91.973

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
31125	positive	growth	20-37
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
31125	positive	optimum	5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	microaerophile	93.2

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31125	NaCl	positive	growth	04-06 %
31125	NaCl	positive	optimum	2 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31125	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
31125	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31125	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Food production	#Vegetable (incl. Grains)
#Engineered	#Food production	#Fermented

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
31125	fermented broccoli stems
67770	Yan-tsai-shin (fermented broccoli stems)	Yan-tsai-shin	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1840374v1 assembly for Lactococcus formosensis NBRC 109475	contig	GCA_018403745	1281486.5	8069379991	1281486	73.04

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
31125	Lactococcus formosensis gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB775178	1515		1281486

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
31125	38.1
67770	38.1	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: Lactococcus formosensis NBRC 109475
NCBI: GCA_018403745

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	microaerophile	93.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	73.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	56.90	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	71.40	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Lactococcus formosensis strain NBRC 109475
PATRIC: 1281486.5

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	91.97	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	90.26	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	81.64	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	97.35	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	98.50	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	93.50	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Proposal of Lactococcus intestinalis Sun et al. 2024 as a Later Heterotypic Synonym of Lactococcus muris Afrizal et al. 2023.	Zhu XY, Gu CT.	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-024-04011-1	2024
Genetics	Antimicrobial susceptibility and genomic characterization of Lactococcus formosensis, Lactococcus garvieae, and Lactococcus petauri in Hong Kong.	Chan Y-X, Cao H, Yau C-Y, Li X, Chow K-H, Ho P-L.	Microbiol Spectr	10.1128/spectrum.00101-25	2025
Genetics	Genomic investigation of Lactococcus formosensis, Lactococcus garvieae, and Lactococcus petauri reveals differences in species distribution by human and animal sources.	Chan Y-X, Cao H, Jiang S, Li X, Fung K-K, Lee C-H, Sridhar S, Chen JH-K, Ho P-L.	Microbiol Spectr	10.1128/spectrum.00541-24	2024
Phylogeny	Proposal of Lactococcus garvieae subsp. bovis Varsha and Nampoothiri 2016 as a later heterotypic synonym of Lactococcus formosensis Chen et al. 2014 and Lactococcus formosensis subsp. bovis comb. nov.	Zhang HX, Tian WL, Gu CT	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004980	2021
	Lactococcus intestinalis sp. nov., a new lactic acid bacterium isolated from intestinal contents in Alzheimer's disease mice.	Sun P, Li X, Shi W, Zhang L, Li M, Su L, Qin C.	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-023-01814-3	2023
Phylogeny	Lactococcus formosensis sp. nov., a lactic acid bacterium isolated from yan-tsai-shin (fermented broccoli stems).	Chen YS, Otoguro M, Lin YH, Pan SF, Ji SH, Yu CR, Liou MS, Chang YC, Wu HC, Yanagida F	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.052811-0	2013

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 )
#27454	IJSEM 146 2014 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.052811-0 , PubMed 24067730 )
#31125	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 #27454
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Lactococcus formosensis (NBRC 109475, BCRC 80576, 516)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_018403745

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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