Alcaligenes faecalis (CIP 102140, 44-86, 3242)

Name: Alcaligenes faecalis (CIP 102140, 44-86, 3242)
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BacDive ID 136764

Type strain

Strain Designation 44-86, 3242

Culture col. no. CIP 102140 44-86 3242

NCBI tax ID(s) 511

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1986, Lab. Ident. Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain 44-86 <- Private Lab., Le Creusot, France: strain 3242

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Alcaligenes faecalis 44-86 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium of the family Alcaligenaceae.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped obligate aerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 67247

CIP 102140

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:52

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Alcaligenaceae

Genus Alcaligenes

Species Alcaligenes faecalis

Full scientific name Alcaligenes faecalis Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Alcaligenes faecalis** (52)	Type strain
326	A. faecalis MT1, DSM 16964
328	A. faecalis CCUG 710, LMG 1230, DSM 30033, ATCC 15554, ...
336	A. faecalis DSM 13644, IMI 358536
136750	A. faecalis CIP 64.15, NBIMCC 156, JCM 20667, IAM 12590, ...
136759	A. faecalis 439, CIP 62.32, ATCC 19018, NBIMCC 154, NCTC ...
136760	A. faecalis Lister, CCUG 535, LMG 3340, LMG 7046, CIP ...
136761	A. faecalis Krier 2, CIP 67.23, JCM 20664, IAM 12587, ...
136762	A. faecalis N28, CIP 71.10, CCEB 569
136763	A. faecalis N46, CIP 71.9, CCEB 568
136805	A. faecalis Ch.mt.2, CIP 71.7, CCEB 015
141201	A. faecalis CCUG 171 A
141238	A. faecalis CCUG 362
141240	A. faecalis CCUG 365
141243	A. faecalis CCUG 368
141281	A. faecalis CCUG 575 B
141282	A. faecalis CCUG 585
141383	A. faecalis CCUG 1325
141425	A. faecalis CCUG 1712
141464	A. faecalis CCUG 2071
141466	A. faecalis CCUG 2074
141490	A. faecalis CCUG 2350, ATCC 19209, NCTC 10388, JCM 20525, ...
141512	A. faecalis CCUG 2493
141515	A. faecalis CCUG 2515, NRRL B-170
141698	A. faecalis CCUG 4978, CCM 267
142157	A. faecalis CCUG 11246
142401	A. faecalis CCUG 12360
142499	A. faecalis CCUG 12699
143557	A. faecalis CCUG 20077
144618	A. faecalis CCUG 25969
146205	A. faecalis CCUG 30599
148153	A. faecalis CCUG 34908
149989	A. faecalis CCUG 38807
151250	A. faecalis CCUG 43542
151946	A. faecalis CCUG 45299
152215	A. faecalis CCUG 46123
153566	A. faecalis CCUG 50196
154446	A. faecalis CCUG 53652
157300	A. faecalis IMI 347326
157301	A. faecalis IMI 347327
157302	A. faecalis IMI 349009
162800	A. faecalis JCM 20175, IAM 1473
162981	A. faecalis JCM 20666, IAM 12589
174956	A. faecalis Dres_AlcFaec_07, DSM 107044
174957	A. faecalis Dres_AlcFaec_08, DSM 107045
174958	A. faecalis Dres_AlcFaec_02, DSM 107046
174959	A. faecalis DSM 108051
174960	A. faecalis Dres_AlcFaec_11, DSM 108181
174961	A. faecalis Dres_AlcFaec_12, DSM 108182
174962	A. faecalis DSM 108185
174963	A. faecalis Dres_AlcFaec_14, DSM 110696
174964	A. faecalis Dres_AlcFaec_15, DSM 117146
177899	A. faecalis 840, SF002785

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
36308	negative	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

36308

Hemolysis ability0

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Composition	Medium link
36308	MEDIUM 72- for trypto casein soja agar	Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Trypto casein soy agar (40.000 g)
36308	CIP Medium 3		Medium recipe at CIP
36308	CIP Medium 72		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
36308	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

36308

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
36308	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
36308	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	+	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
36308	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
36308	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
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
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
36308	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
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
36308	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
36308	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
36308	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
36308	urease	+	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	+		from API zym

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
36308	-	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
36308			Le Creusot	France	FRA	Europe
36308	Human, Feces	Homo sapiens	Le Creusot	France	FRA	Europe	1986

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
36308	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 )
#36308	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 102140
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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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