Bacillus benzoevorans (CIP 103482, B5)

Name: Bacillus benzoevorans (CIP 103482, B5)
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BacDive ID 136211

Type strain

Strain Designation B5

Culture col. no. CIP 103482 B5

NCBI tax ID(s) 1456

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Bacillus benzoevorans B5 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 67321

CIP 103482

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:02:31

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
135257	B. benzoevorans Pobh 7, CIP 103492
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
35556	positive	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition
35556	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar		Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
35556	CIP Medium 3

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
35556	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
35556	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
35556	negative	growth	45
35556	negative	growth	55

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

35556

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Spore formation

35556

Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
35556	NaCl	positive	growth	0 %
35556	NaCl		growth	2 %
35556	NaCl		growth	4 %
35556	NaCl		growth	6 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
35556	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
35556	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
35556	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
35556	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
35556	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
35556	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
35556	gelatinase	-
35556	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
35556	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
35556	oxidase	+
35556	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
35556	Marseille	France	FRA	Europe
35556	Marseille	France	FRA	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
35556	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 )
#35556	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103482
#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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