Lactobacillus helveticus (CIP 104343, ATCC 10812, IFO 3809)

Name: Lactobacillus helveticus (CIP 104343, ATCC 10812, IFO 3809)
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BacDive ID 137173

Type strain

Strain Designation J5

Culture col. no. CIP 104343 ATCC 10812 IFO 3809 NCDO 100 ATCC 13866 5 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1587

Special Collections JCM CIP

History JCM <-- ATCC 13866 <-- IFO 3809 ("Lactobacillus jugurt") <-- Lepetit Labs. (Lactobacillus bulgaricus). CIP <- 1995, F. Gasser, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain J5 <- NCDO <- 1954, M.E. Sharpe, NIRD <- J.M. Sherman, Cornell Univ., UK, "Lactobacillus jugurt"

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Lactobacillus helveticus J5 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Lactobacillaceae.

Gram-positive rod-shaped facultative anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 3306

LMG 11447,ATCC 10812,ATCC 13866,CECT 403,IFO 3809,NCFB 100,NCIMB 8589,NCDO 100,NCIB 8589,CIP 104343,JCM 1555,NCIMB 10552,CCRC 14021,NBRC 3809,BCRC 14021,NCIM 2366

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:58

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Lactobacillaceae

Genus Lactobacillus

Species Lactobacillus helveticus

Full scientific name Lactobacillus helveticus (Orla-Jensen 1919) Bergey et al. 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

Lactobacillus suntoryeus
"Thermobacterium helveticum"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Lactobacillus helveticus** (23)	Type strain
6471	L. helveticus 12, Lh12, DSM 20075, ATCC 15009, CCUG 30139, ... (type strain)
6525	L. helveticus CBP1, DSM 3748
134852	L. helveticus CIP 76.19, ATCC 521, JCM 1003, NCDO 87, NCIMB ...
136298	L. helveticus H2, CIP 104345, ATCC 10386, NCDO 261, NCIMB ...
136299	L. helveticus J2, CIP 104346
136381	L. helveticus 5, CIP 53.165, ATCC 7995, JCM 11039
137106	L. helveticus H-80, CIP 57.15, ATCC 12046, JCM 1554, NCDO ...
139090	L. helveticus B2, CIP 104344, NCDO 99, JCM 1004, LMG 11446, ...
139247	L. helveticus CIP 104436, ATCC 7993
153568	L. helveticus CCUG 50205, NCIMB 14005, JCM 30912, BCRC ...
154986	L. helveticus CCUG 55959
160849	L. helveticus JCM 1005, ATCC 8001, CECT 404, NCFB 103, ...
160853	L. helveticus JCM 1006, LMG 18174
160862	L. helveticus JCM 1007, ATCC 10797, LMG 11474
160865	L. helveticus JCM 1008, ATCC 8018, CECT 414, LMG 11449, ...
161004	L. helveticus JCM 1062, BCRC 14035, LMG 18182
161122	L. helveticus JCM 1103, LMG 18183
162696	L. helveticus JCM 20023, ATU L-21, IAM 1042
162913	L. helveticus JCM 20397, IAM 12090
172918	L. helveticus 61 BZ, CRBIP24.47
172919	L. helveticus 60 A, CRBIP24.54
172920	L. helveticus 60 B, CRBIP24.55
172921	L. helveticus 64 AB, CRBIP24.65

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
37043	positive	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
37043	MEDIUM 40- for Lactobacillus and Leuconostoc		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Man Rogosa Sharp agar (68.000 g)
37043	CIP Medium 40			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
37043	positive	growth	37
37043	positive	growth	25-37
37043	negative	growth	10
37043	negative	growth	15
37043	negative	growth	45
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

37043

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Observation

67770

ObservationAssay of Orotic acid

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
37043	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
37043	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	respiration
37043	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
37043	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
37043	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
37043	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
37043	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
37043	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
37043	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
37043	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
37043	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
124043	Lactobacillus helveticus gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: NBRC 3809.	AB680137	1489		1587

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
DNA Probe for Lactobacillus delbrueckii.	Delley M, Mollet B, Hottinger H.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.56.6.1967-1970.1990	1990

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 )
#37043	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 104343
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Lactobacillus helveticus (CIP 104343, ATCC 10812, IFO 3809)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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