Alterococcus agarolyticus (CIP 106113, CCRC 19135, ADT3)

Name: Alterococcus agarolyticus (CIP 106113, CCRC 19135, ADT3)
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Type strain

Strain Designation ADT3

Culture col. no. CIP 106113 CCRC 19135 ADT3

NCBI tax ID(s) 78554

Special Collections CIP

History 1999, W.Y. Shieh, Inst. Oceanog., Taipei, Taiwan: strain ADT3 CIP <- 1999, W.Y. Shieh, Inst. Oceanog., Taipei, Taiwan: strain ADT3

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Alterococcus agarolyticus ADT3 is a Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Opitutaceae.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 67256

CIP 106113,CCRC 19135,CCRC17102,BCRC 17102,BCRC 19135

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Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:06

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Verrucomicrobiota

Class Opitutia

Order Opitutales

Family Opitutaceae

Genus Alterococcus

Species Alterococcus agarolyticus

Full scientific name Alterococcus agarolyticus Shieh and Jean 1999

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
39475	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
39475	MEDIUM 327 - for Alterococcus		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Sodium chloride (20.000 g);Magnesium sulphate heptahydrate (0.500 g);Calcium chloride dihydrate (0.010 g);Agar (15.000 g);Yeast extract (2.000 g);Peptone (4.000 g);MOPSO(3-[N-Mopholino]-2-hydroxypropanesulfonic aci
39475	CIP Medium 327			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
39475	positive	growth	45
39475	positive	growth	41-45
39475	negative	growth	5
39475	negative	growth	10
39475	negative	growth	30
39475	negative	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
39475	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
39475	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
39475	15792 ChEBI	malonate	-	assimilation
39475	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
39475	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
39475	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
39475	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
39475	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
39475	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
39475	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
39475	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
39475	gelatinase	-
39475	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
39475	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
39475	oxidase	+
39475	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
39475	tryptophan deaminase	-
39475	urease	-	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
39475		Lutao	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia
39475	Environment, Coastal hot spring water	Lutao	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia	1996

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
39475	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 )
#39475	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 106113
#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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