Empedobacter brevis (CIP 103081)

Name: Empedobacter brevis (CIP 103081)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 137227

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 103081

NCBI tax ID(s) 247

Special Collections CIP

Links

Empedobacter brevis CIP 103081 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Weeksellaceae.

Gram-negative rod-shaped obligate aerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 395694

CIP 103081

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:50

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Weeksellaceae

Genus Empedobacter

Species Empedobacter brevis

Full scientific name Empedobacter brevis (Holmes and Owen 1982 ex Lustig 1890) Vandamme et al. 1994

Synonyms (2)

"Flavobacterium brevis"
Flavobacterium breve

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Empedobacter brevis** (30)	Type strain
138772	E. brevis CL 88-76, CIP 103104, ATCC 43319, CCM 3299, ... (type strain)
134412	E. brevis CIP 103060
135104	E. brevis B68189, 14-74, CIP 78.46
135183	E. brevis CIP 103067
135866	E. brevis CIP 103061
135982	E. brevis CIP 102965
136020	E. brevis 539-85, CIP 101742
136166	E. brevis CIP 103077
136167	E. brevis CIP 103083
137225	E. brevis CIP 103046
137588	E. brevis 24-74, 90 809, CIP 79.25, NCTC 11307
137597	E. brevis 25-79, CIP 79.41, NCTC 11380
137979	E. brevis CIP 102377
138770	E. brevis CIP 103076
139061	E. brevis 68-78, 8 A, CIP 78.68, NCTC 11308
139489	E. brevis CIP 111032
139517	E. brevis CIP 111072, CIP 200682
142681	E. brevis CCUG 13901, NCTC 11163
142743	E. brevis CCUG 14337 A
142744	E. brevis CCUG 14338
142789	E. brevis CCUG 14815
143498	E. brevis CCUG 19540 B
143857	E. brevis CCUG 21606
143971	E. brevis CCUG 22174
144647	E. brevis CCUG 26050
145353	E. brevis CCUG 28266
165416	E. brevis JCM 6810
165417	E. brevis JCM 6811
171316	E. brevis R528, CIP 109971
171317	E. brevis R563, Legall, CIP 109974

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
37112	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
37112	MEDIUM 72- for trypto casein soja agar		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Trypto casein soy agar (40.000 g)
37112	CIP Medium 72			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
37112	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

37112

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
37112	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
37112	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
37112	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
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
37112	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
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
37112	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	from API zym
37112	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
37112	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
37112	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 )
#37112	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103081
#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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