Megasphaera geminata (CIP 106856, CCUG 44773, AIP 313-00)

Name: Megasphaera geminata (CIP 106856, CCUG 44773, AIP 313-00)
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BacDive ID 134594

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 106856 CCUG 44773 AIP 313-00

NCBI tax ID(s) 156456

Special Collections CCUG CIP

History CIP <- 2000, J.P. Carlier, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France, strain AIP 313-00 <- Jean-Pierre and Marchandin, Montpellier Hosp., Montpellier, France

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Megasphaera geminata CIP 106856 is an anaerobe, coccus-shaped bacterium of the family Veillonellaceae.

coccus-shaped anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 87790

CCUG 44773,CIP 106856

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:21

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Negativicutes

Order Veillonellales

Family Veillonellaceae

Genus Megasphaera

Species Megasphaera geminata

Full scientific name Megasphaera geminata (Carlier et al. 2002) Heng et al. 2025

Synonyms (1)

Anaeroglobus geminatus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell shape	Motility
33014	coccus-shaped

Colony morphology

33014

Hemolysis ability0

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Composition	Medium link
33014	MEDIUM 6 - Columbia agar with 10 % horse blood	Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Columbia agar (39.000 g);Horseblood (100.000 ml)
33014	CIP Medium 6		Medium recipe at CIP
33014	CIP Medium 20		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
33014	positive	growth	37
56475	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
56475	anaerobe
33014	anaerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
33014	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
33014	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
33014	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
33014	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
68382	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
33014	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
33014	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	-		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	-		from API zym
33014	gelatinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
33014	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
33014	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

56475

Fatty acid	Percentage	ECL
C12:0	12.6	12
C14:0 3OH/C16:1 ISO I	11.5	15.485
C16:0	10.8	16
C17:1 ISO I/C16:0 DMA	7.5	16.481
C14:0	7	14
C18:0	5	18
Unidentified	4.8	10.913
C18:1 ω9c	4.2	17.769
C17:1 ω6c	3.6	16.862
C18:2 ω6,9c/C18:0 ANTE	3.5	17.724
C16:1 ω9c	3.4	15.774
C13:0 iso	3.3	12.612
Unidentified	3.2	14.948
unknown 14.503	3.1	14.503
Unidentified	2.8	16.238
C15:0 ISO	2.7	14.621
C17:0 iso	2.5	16.629
Unidentified	2.5	17.319
Unidentified	2.4	17.102

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
33014	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Human	#Female
#Host Body-Site	#Other	#Wound
#Infection	#Medical environment	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
33014				Montpellier	France	FRA	Europe
56475	Human wound,post-operative,70-yr-old woman	Homo sapiens	2000-06-01	Montpelier	France	FRA	Europe
33014	Human, Gastric fluid	Homo sapiens		Montpellier	France	FRA	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
33014	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
124043	Anaeroglobus geminatus 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	AF338413	1408		156456

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Proteome	Proteomic shifts in multi-species oral biofilms caused by Anaeroglobus geminatus.	Bao K, Bostanci N, Thurnheer T, Belibasakis GN.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-017-04594-9	2017
Phylogeny	Anaeroglobus geminatus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Veillonellaceae.	Carlier JP, Marchandin H, Jumas-Bilak E, Lorin V, Henry C, Carriere C, Jean-Pierre H	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-52-3-983	2002

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 )
#33014	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 106856
#56475	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 44773
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Megasphaera geminata (CIP 106856, CCUG 44773, AIP 313-00)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Fatty acid profile

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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