Helicobacter baculiformis (LMG 23839, CCUG 53816, M50)

Name: Helicobacter baculiformis (LMG 23839, CCUG 53816, M50)
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BacDive ID 134274

Type strain

Strain Designation M50

Culture col. no. LMG 23839 CCUG 53816 M50

NCBI tax ID(s) 427351

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Helicobacter baculiformis M50 is a microaerophile, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from Gastric mucosa of a cat.

Gram-negative motile spiral-shaped microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 323971

CCUG 53816,LMG 23839

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:17

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Epsilonproteobacteria

Order Campylobacterales

Family Helicobacteraceae

Genus Helicobacter

Species Helicobacter baculiformis

Full scientific name Helicobacter baculiformis Baele et al. 2008

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
32221	negative	10 µm	1 µm	spiral-shaped

Colony morphology

60022

Incubation period2-3 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
32221	positive	growth	37
60022	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
32221	microaerophile
60022	microaerophile
125439	facultative anaerobe	98.918

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
32221
125439		99.916

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32221	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32221	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
32221	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
32221	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
32221	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Felidae (Cat)
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Stomach

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
32221	Gastric mucosa of a cat
60022	Feline gastric mucosa	2004-02-01	Ljubljana	Slovenia	SVN	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EF070342 (>99% sequence identity) for Helicobacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	9
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples	246
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	258

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM4264960v1 assembly for Helicobacter baculiformis CCUG 53816	scaffold	GCA_042649605	427351	57.34

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
32221	Helicobacter baculiformis strain M50 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF070342	1455		427351

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM4264960v1 assembly for Helicobacter baculiformis CCUG 53816
NCBI: GCA_042649605

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	98.92	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	73.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	66.71	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.92	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Diagnosis of Genus Helicobacter through a hemi-nested PCR assay of 16S rRNA.	Qin H, Tang G, Yi P, Pan X, Huang H, Chang R, Shi Z, Ashraf MA.	Saudi Pharm J	10.1016/j.jsps.2016.04.015	2016
Phylogeny	Helicobacter baculiformis sp. nov., isolated from feline stomach mucosa.	Baele M, Decostere A, Vandamme P, Van den Bulck K, Gruntar I, Mehle J, Mast J, Ducatelle R, Haesebrouck F	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65152-0	2008

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 )
#28463	IJSEM 357 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65152-0 , PubMed 18218931 )
#32221	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 #28463
#60022	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 53816
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Helicobacter baculiformis (LMG 23839, CCUG 53816, M50)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_042649605

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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