Acinetobacter modestus (CIP 110444, NIPH 236, CCUG 67964)

Name: Acinetobacter modestus (CIP 110444, NIPH 236, CCUG 67964)
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BacDive ID 139492

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 110444 NIPH 236 CCUG 67964 CCM 8639

NCBI tax ID(s) 1776740

Special Collections CCUG CIP Literature strains

History 2012, A. Nemec, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain NIPH 236 CIP <- 2012, A. Nemec, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain NIPH 236

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Acinetobacter modestus CIP 110444 is an obligate aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that forms circular colonies.

Gram-negative coccus-shaped colony-forming obligate aerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 408702

CCUG 67964,CIP 110444

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:22

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Pseudomonadales

Family Moraxellaceae

Genus Acinetobacter

Species Acinetobacter modestus

Full scientific name Acinetobacter modestus Nemec et al. 2016

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acinetobacter modestus** (9)	Type strain
139536	A. modestus CIP 110493, ANC 3862
157172	A. modestus CCUG 70030
173183	A. modestus CM11G, CIP 111671
173184	A. modestus CM31.3, CIP 111743
173185	A. modestus CM31.5, CIP 111744
173186	A. modestus CM31.6, CIP 111745
173187	A. modestus CM37.1, CIP 111747
173188	A. modestus CM37.2, CIP 111748
175339	A. modestus Dres_AcMod_01, DSM 108301

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
43666	negative	coccus-shaped
125438	negative		99.5
125439	negative		95.8
41737	negative	oval-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43666	1-1.5 mm	Grey-white, slightly opaque	circular	1 day	Tryptic Soy Agar
63447				1 day

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Composition	Medium link
41737	MEDIUM 72- for trypto casein soja agar	Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Trypto casein soy agar (40.000 g)
43666	BHI
43666	Tryptic Soy Agar
41737	CIP Medium 72		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
41737	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
43666	positive	growth	15-37
63447	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
43666	obligate aerobe
63447	aerobe
125438	aerobe	90.937
125439	obligate aerobe	99.5

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		93.992
125439		98.9

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43666	62064 ChEBI	2,3-butanediol	-	growth
43666	17879 ChEBI	4-hydroxybenzoate	-	growth
43666	39150 ChEBI	4-oxopentanoate	-	growth
43666	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	growth
43666	78208 ChEBI	azelaate	-	growth
43666	16150 ChEBI	benzoate	+	carbon source
43666	16958 ChEBI	beta-alanine	-	growth
43666	30719 ChEBI	citraconate	-	growth
43666	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	growth
43666	18391 ChEBI	D-gluconate	-	growth
43666	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	builds acid from
43666	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	growth
43666	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	growth
43666	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	+	carbon source
43666	16865 ChEBI	gamma-aminobutyric acid	-	growth
43666	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
43666	58044 ChEBI	gentisate	-	growth
43666	17859 ChEBI	glutaric acid	-	growth
43666	18295 ChEBI	histamine	-	growth
43666	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	growth
43666	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	+	carbon source
43666	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	-	growth
43666	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	carbon source
43666	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	+	carbon source
43666	15603 ChEBI	L-leucine	-	growth
43666	15729 ChEBI	L-ornithine	-	growth
43666	17295 ChEBI	L-phenylalanine	-	growth
43666	30924 ChEBI	L-tartrate	-	growth
43666	24996 ChEBI	lactate	-	growth
43666	15792 ChEBI	malonate	-	growth
43666	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	-	growth
43666	17148 ChEBI	putrescine	-	growth
43666	15708 ChEBI	trans-aconitate	-	growth
43666	62517 ChEBI	tricarballylate	-	growth
43666	18123 ChEBI	trigonelline	+	carbon source
43666	16765 ChEBI	tryptamine	-	growth

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43666	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43666	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Human	#Female
#Host Body Product	#Fluids	#Urine

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date	Sampling date
41737		Pfibram	Czech Republic	CZE	Europe
43666	The urine of a female injured in a traffic accident	Piribram Regional Hospital	Czech Republic	CZE	Europe	1993
63447	Human urine,female patient	Pribram	Czech Republic	CZE	Europe		1993
41737	Human, Urine	Pfibram	Czech Republic	CZE	Europe	1993

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
41737	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Acin_sp_NIPH_236_V1 assembly for Acinetobacter modestus NIPH 236	scaffold	GCA_000367965	1217711.3	2565956686	1776740	72.92
66792	ASM1463609v1 assembly for Acinetobacter modestus CCM 8639	scaffold	GCA_014636095	1776740.3	8109709917	1776740	72.22

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
43666	Acinetobacter modestus strain NIPH 236 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KT997474

GC content

43666

GC-content (mol%)41.24

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Acinetobacter modestus CCM 8639
NCBI: GCA_014636095

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.50	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	95.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	58.90	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Acinetobacter modestus CCM 8639
NCBI: GCA_014636095.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.50	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.27	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	90.94	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.99	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	98.00	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	74.46	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Biocontrol potential of bacteria associated with Asian walnut moth Erschoviella musculana Erschoff (Lepidoptera: Nolidae) on walnut pests.	Salvarci HB, Gencer D, Eski A, Bozkurt V, Demir I.	Int Microbiol	10.1007/s10123-025-00674-3	2025
	Characterization of a colistin resistant, hypervirulent hospital isolate of Acinetobacter courvalinii from Canada.	Sykes EME, Mateo-Estrada V, Muzaleva A, Zhanel G, Dettman J, Chapados J, Gerdis S, Akineden O, Castillo-Ramirez S, Khan IUH, Kumar A.	Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis	10.1007/s10096-024-04873-0	2024
	Emergence of colistin-resistant Acinetobacter modestus harbouring the intrinsic phosphoethanolamine transferase EptA.	Sakuma M, Hashimoto M, Nishi K, Tohya M, Hishinuma T, Shimojima M, Tada T, Kirikae T.	J Glob Antimicrob Resist	10.1016/j.jgar.2023.02.023	2023
	Predominance of Acinetobacter pseudolwoffii among Acinetobacter species in domestic animals in the Czech Republic.	Sladecek V, Senk D, Stolar P, Bzdil J, Holy O.	Vet Med (Praha)	10.17221/65/2023-vetmed	2023
	Multidrug-resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in residential aged care facilities: An emerging threat.	Sapula SA, Hart BJ, Siderius NL, Amsalu A, Blaikie JM, Venter H.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.1409	2024
Genetics	Comparative genomic analysis of Acinetobacter strains isolated from murine colonic crypts.	Saffarian A, Touchon M, Mulet C, Tournebize R, Passet V, Brisse S, Rocha EPC, Sansonetti PJ, Pedron T.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/s12864-017-3925-x	2017
	Differentiation of Taxonomically Closely Related Species of the Genus Acinetobacter Using Raman Spectroscopy and Chemometrics.	Teixeira AM, Nemec A, Sousa C.	Molecules	10.3390/molecules24010168	2019
	Structural Characteristics and Functional Implications of PM_2.5 Bacterial Communities During Fall in Beijing and Shanghai, China.	Pan Y, Pan X, Xiao H, Xiao H.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.02369	2019
	UV and bacteriophages as a chemical-free approach for cleaning membranes from anaerobic bioreactors.	Scarascia G, Fortunato L, Myshkevych Y, Cheng H, Leiknes T, Hong PY.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.2016529118	2021
Metabolism	Lipopolysaccharide from Crypt-Specific Core Microbiota Modulates the Colonic Epithelial Proliferation-to-Differentiation Balance.	Naito T, Mulet C, De Castro C, Molinaro A, Saffarian A, Nigro G, Berard M, Clerc M, Pedersen AB, Sansonetti PJ, Pedron T.	mBio	10.1128/mbio.01680-17	2017
Phylogeny	Taxonomy of haemolytic and/or proteolytic strains of the genus Acinetobacter with the proposal of Acinetobacter courvalinii sp. nov. (genomic species 14 sensu Bouvet & Jeanjean), Acinetobacter dispersus sp. nov. (genomic species 17), Acinetobacter modestus sp. nov., Acinetobacter proteolyticus sp. nov. and Acinetobacter vivianii sp. nov.	Nemec A, Radolfova-Krizova L, Maixnerova M, Vrestiakova E, Jezek P, Sedo O	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000932	2016

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 )
#41737	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 110444
#43666	Alexandr Nemec, Lenka Radolfova-Krizova, Martina Maixnerova, Eliska Vrestiakova, Petr Jezek, Ondrej Sedo: Taxonomy of haemolytic and/or proteolytic strains of the genus Acinetobacter with the proposal of Acinetobacter courvalinii sp. nov. (genomic species 14 sensu Bouvet & Jeanjean), Acinetobacter dispersus sp. nov. (genomic species 17), Acinetobacter modestus sp. nov., Acinetobacter proteolyticus sp. nov. and Acinetobacter vivianii sp. nov.. IJSEM 66: 1673 - 1685 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000932 , PubMed 26822020 )
#63447	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 67964
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Acinetobacter modestus (CIP 110444, NIPH 236, CCUG 67964)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000367965

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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