Kytococcus sedentarius (CIP 82.62, ATCC 27574, CCM 2697)

Name: Kytococcus sedentarius (CIP 82.62, ATCC 27574, CCM 2697)
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BacDive ID 137347

Type strain

Strain Designation PM 450

Culture col. no. CIP 82.62 ATCC 27574 CCM 2697 PM 450

NCBI tax ID(s) 1276

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1982, CCM, Micrococcus sedentarius <- W.E. Kloos: strain PM 450

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Kytococcus sedentarius PM 450 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-positive, coccus-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Human, Skin.

Gram-positive coccus-shaped obligate aerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 9319

LMG 14229,ATCC 27574,CCM 2697,VKM B-1825,CIP 82.62,VKM Ac-2223

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:52

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Micrococcales

Family Kytococcaceae

Genus Kytococcus

Species Kytococcus sedentarius

Full scientific name Kytococcus sedentarius (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Stackebrandt et al. 1995

Synonyms (1)

Micrococcus sedentarius

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Kytococcus sedentarius** (5)	Type strain
3928	K. sedentarius 541, 54, CCUG 33030, DSM 20547, ATCC 14392, ... (type strain)
3927	K. sedentarius DM 51, DSM 20317, CCM 2699, CCUG 33031, LMG ...
154013	K. sedentarius CCUG 51978 A
156446	K. sedentarius CCUG 61828
157028	K. sedentarius CCUG 68742

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
37318	positive	coccus-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Composition	Medium link
37318	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar	Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
37318	CIP Medium 3		Medium recipe at CIP
37318	CIP Medium 72		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
37318	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

37318

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
37318	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
37318	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
37318	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
37318	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
37318	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
37318	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
37318	-	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

37318

Sample typeHuman, Skin

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
37318	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 )
#37318	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 82.62
#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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