Bacillus benzoevorans (CIP 103492, Pobh 7)

Name: Bacillus benzoevorans (CIP 103492, Pobh 7)
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BacDive ID 135257

Type strain

Strain Designation Pobh 7

Culture col. no. CIP 103492 Pobh 7

NCBI tax ID(s) 1456

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Bacillus benzoevorans Pobh 7 is a facultative anaerobe, spore-forming, mesophilic prokaryote of the family Bacillaceae.

spore-forming Gram-positive rod-shaped facultative anaerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 67323

CIP 103492

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:02:15

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Bacillus

Species Bacillus benzoevorans

Full scientific name Bacillus benzoevorans Pichinoty et al. 1987

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Bacillus benzoevorans** (13)	Type strain
1069	B. benzoevorans B1, DSM 5391, ATCC 49005, CCM 3364, LMD 79.7, ... (type strain)
1068	B. benzoevorans DSM 3078
1070	B. benzoevorans B4, DSM 5392, LMD 79.10, NCIB 12556, CIP ...
1071	B. benzoevorans B7, DSM 6385, CIP 104567
1072	B. benzoevorans B8, DSM 6410, CIP 103484
134965	B. benzoevorans B4, CIP 103480
135253	B. benzoevorans B2, CIP 103478
135254	B. benzoevorans B6, CIP 103483
136211	B. benzoevorans B5, CIP 103482
136493	B. benzoevorans B3, CIP 103479
138794	B. benzoevorans CC 4, CIP 103494
151754	B. benzoevorans CCUG 44796 A
152441	B. benzoevorans CCUG 46794

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape
34299	positive	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition
34299	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar		Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
34299	CIP Medium 3

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
34299	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
34299	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
34299	negative	growth	45
34299	negative	growth	55

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

34299

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Spore formation

34299

Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
34299	NaCl	positive	growth	0 %
34299	NaCl		growth	2 %
34299	NaCl		growth	4 %
34299	NaCl		growth	6 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
34299	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
34299	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
34299	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
34299	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	+

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
34299	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
34299	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
34299	gelatinase	-
34299	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
34299	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
34299	oxidase	+
34299	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
34299	Marseille	France	FRA	Europe
34299	Marseille	France	FRA	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
34299	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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 )
#34299	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103492
#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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