Lactobacillus acidophilus (CIP 103600, VPI 11473)

Name: Lactobacillus acidophilus (CIP 103600, VPI 11473)
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BacDive ID 137096

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 103600 VPI 11473

NCBI tax ID(s) 1579

Special Collections CIP

History 1992, F. Gasser, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain VPI 11473, Lactobacillus acidophilus, group A1 CIP <- 1992, F. Gasser, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain VPI 11473, Lactobacillus acidophilus, group A1

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Lactobacillus acidophilus CIP 103600 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Lactobacillaceae.

Gram-positive rod-shaped facultative anaerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 68988

CIP 103600,BCRC 16099,CCRC 16099

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:48

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Lactobacillaceae

Genus Lactobacillus

Species Lactobacillus acidophilus

Full scientific name Lactobacillus acidophilus (Moro 1900) Hansen and Mocquot 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

"Bacillus acidophilus"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Lactobacillus acidophilus** (35)	Type strain
6404	L. acidophilus L917, Scav, DSM 20079, ATCC 4356, NCDO 1748, ... (type strain)
6403	L. acidophilus A 16, DSM 9126, ATCC 13651, NCDO 1360
6405	L. acidophilus DSM 20242, JCM 2124
135119	L. acidophilus CIP 104455
135293	L. acidophilus R-1-1, CIP 103596, ATCC 4355, JCM 1021, KCTC ...
135306	L. acidophilus 4B, CIP 103597, ATCC 832, NCDO 1, NCTC 1723, ...
135307	L. acidophilus 43, CIP 103598, ATCC 314, JCM 2121
136312	L. acidophilus CIP 104457, ATCC 11975, NCDO 2, NCTC 1899, ...
137247	L. acidophilus A18, CIP 103601
137642	L. acidophilus Pak, CIP 103595, ATCC 4357, NCDO 1697, NCIMB ...
137667	L. acidophilus 65 AC, CIP 104463
137731	L. acidophilus 184.85, CIP 101490
137879	L. acidophilus 174-86, CIP 102104
137884	L. acidophilus 219-86, CIP 102108
138689	L. acidophilus CIP 102079
141878	L. acidophilus CCUG 8032
142532	L. acidophilus CCUG 12853, LMG 8151
145069	L. acidophilus CCUG 27599
145073	L. acidophilus CCUG 27603
145405	L. acidophilus CCUG 28373
145772	L. acidophilus CCUG 29549 B
146144	L. acidophilus CCUG 30451
146219	L. acidophilus CCUG 30632
147334	L. acidophilus CCUG 33386 A
147807	L. acidophilus CCUG 34264
149472	L. acidophilus CCUG 37804
160902	L. acidophilus JCM 1028, KCTC 3145, LMG 18178
160907	L. acidophilus JCM 1033, KCTC 3150
160908	L. acidophilus JCM 1034, KCTC 3151
160915	L. acidophilus JCM 1035, KCTC 3152
161124	L. acidophilus JCM 11047
161209	L. acidophilus JCM 1229, KCTC 3168
165573	L. acidophilus JCM 7711
170959	L. acidophilus 61N, CRBIP24.117
170960	L. acidophilus A31, CRBIP24.142

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
36951	positive	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
36951	MEDIUM 40- for Lactobacillus and Leuconostoc		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Man Rogosa Sharp agar (68.000 g)
36951	CIP Medium 40			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
36951	positive	growth	37
36951	positive	growth	30-45
36951	negative	growth	10
36951	negative	growth	15

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

36951

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Spore formation

36951

Spore formationno

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
36951	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
36951	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	respiration
36951	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
36951	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
36951	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
36951	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
36951	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
36951	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
36951	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
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
36951	-	+	-	+	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	+	-	-

API biotype100

@ref	ControlQ	D-glucose as carbon sourceGLU	D-fructose as carbon sourceFRU	D-galactose as carbon sourceGAL	D-trehalose as carbon sourceTRE	D-mannose as carbon sourceMNE	L-sorbose as carbon sourceSBE	D-melibiose as carbon sourceMEL	sucrose as carbon sourceSAC	D-raffinose as carbon sourceRAF	maltotriose as carbon sourceMTE	maltose as carbon sourceMAL	lactose as carbon sourceLAC	lactulose as carbon sourceLTE	1-O-methyl-beta-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGa	1-O-methyl-alpha-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMaGa	D-cellobiose as carbon sourceCEL	gentiobiose as carbon sourceGEN	1-O-methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGu	esculin as carbon sourceESC	D-ribose as carbon sourceRIB	L-arabinose as carbon sourceARA	D-xylose as carbon sourceXYL	palatinose as carbon sourcePLE	L-rhamnose as carbon sourceRHA	L-fucose as carbon sourceFUC	D-melezitose as carbon sourceMLZ	D-arabitol as carbon sourceDARL	L-arabitol as carbon sourceLARL	xylitol as carbon sourceXLT	dulcitol as carbon sourceDUL	D-tagatose as carbon sourceTAG	glycerol as carbon sourceGLY	myo-inositol as carbon sourceINO	D-mannitol as carbon sourceMAN	maltitol as carbon sourceMTL	D-turanose as carbon sourceTUR	D-sorbitol as carbon sourceSOR	adonitol as carbon sourceADO	hydroxyquinoline-beta-glucuronide as carbon sourceHBG	D-lyxose as carbon sourceLYX	i-erythritol as carbon sourceERY	1-O-methyl-alpha-D-glucoside as carbon sourceMDG	3-O-methyl-D-glucose as carbon source3MDG	D-saccharate as carbon sourceSAT	mucate as carbon sourceMUC	L-tartrate as carbon sourceLTAT	D-tartrate as carbon sourceDTAT	meso-tartrate as carbon sourceMTAT	D-malate as carbon sourceDMLT	L-malate as carbon sourceLMLT	cis-aconitate as carbon sourceCATE	trans-aconitate as carbon sourceTATE	tricarballylate as carbon sourceTTE	citrate as carbon sourceCIT	D-glucuronate as carbon sourceGRT	D-galacturonate as carbon sourceGAT	2-ketogluconate as carbon source2KG	5-ketogluconate as carbon source5KG	tryptophan as carbon sourceTRY	N-acetyl-D-glucosamine as carbon sourceNAG	D-gluconate as carbon sourceGNT	phenylacetate as carbon sourcePAC	protocatechuate as carbon sourcePAT	4-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcepOBE	quinate as carbon sourceQAT	gentisate as carbon sourceGTE	3-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcemOBE	benzoate as carbon sourceBAT	3-phenylpropionate as carbon sourcePPAT	m-coumarate as carbon sourceCMT	trigonelline as carbon sourceTGE	betaine as carbon sourceBET	putrescine as carbon sourcePCE	4-aminobutyrate as carbon sourceABT	histamine as carbon sourceHIN	DL-lactate as carbon sourceLAT	caprate as carbon sourceCAP	caprylate as carbon sourceCYT	L-histidine as carbon sourceHIS	succinate as carbon sourceSUC	fumarate as carbon sourceFUM	glutarate as carbon sourceGRE	DL-glycerate as carbon sourceGYT	5-aminovalerate as carbon sourceAVT	ethanolamine as carbon sourceETN	tryptamine as carbon sourceTTN	D-glucosamine as carbon sourceGLN	itaconate as carbon sourceITA	3-hydroxybutyrate as carbon source3OBU	L-aspartate as carbon sourceAPT	L-glutamate as carbon sourceGTT	L-proline as carbon sourcePRO	D-alanine as carbon sourceDALA	L-alanine as carbon sourceLALA	L-serine as carbon sourceSER	malonate as carbon sourceMNT	propionate as carbon sourcePROP	L-tyrosine as carbon sourceTYR	2-ketoglutarate as carbon source2KT
36951	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
36951		Cincinnati, OH	USA	USA	North America
36951	Food, Sweet acidophilus milk	Cincinnati, Ohio	United States of America	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
36951	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Development of a High-Resolution Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Strain-Typing Assay Using Whole Genome-Based Analyses for the Lactobacillus acidophilus Probiotic Strain.	Huang CH, Chen CC, Chiu SH, Liou JS, Lin YC, Lin JS, Huang L, Watanabe K.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms8091445	2020

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 )
#36951	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103600
#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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Lactobacillus acidophilus (CIP 103600, VPI 11473)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API biotype100

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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