Cutibacterium acnes (CIP 53.119)

Name: Cutibacterium acnes (CIP 53.119)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 139636

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 53.119

NCBI tax ID(s) 1747

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Cutibacterium acnes CIP 53.119 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote of the family Propionibacteriaceae.

Gram-positive rod-shaped anaerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 69662

CIP 53.119

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:23

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Propionibacteriales

Family Propionibacteriaceae

Genus Cutibacterium

Species Cutibacterium acnes

Full scientific name Cutibacterium acnes (Gilchrist 1900) Scholz and Kilian 2016

Synonyms (2)

Propionibacterium acnes
"Bacillus acnes"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Cutibacterium acnes** (83)	Type strain
12637	C. acnes DSM 16379, KPA 171202
12638	C. acnes FR1-165P, DSM 30738
12639	C. acnes FR2-MS23, DSM 30753
12640	C. acnes K2-18, DSM 30919
100658	C. acnes STI07542(IMET), IMET 7542
100659	C. acnes STI07254(IMET), BU57.1,
100660	C. acnes STI07552(IMET), IMET 7552
134424	C. acnes CIP 110517
134720	C. acnes CIP 110513
135376	C. acnes CIP 110518
135568	C. acnes CIP 110526
135569	C. acnes CIP 110527
137097	C. acnes CIP 110506
137098	C. acnes CIP 110509
137399	C. acnes CIP 110530
137400	C. acnes CIP 110531
138963	C. acnes CIP 110525
139597	C. acnes CIP 110519
139637	C. acnes CIP 54.158
139638	C. acnes CIP 54.166
139639	C. acnes CIP 60.42
139640	C. acnes CIP A179
139641	C. acnes CIP 110371
139642	C. acnes CIP 110503
139643	C. acnes CIP 110504
139644	C. acnes CIP 110505
139645	C. acnes CIP 110510
139646	C. acnes CIP 110511
139647	C. acnes CIP 110512
139648	C. acnes CIP 110514
139649	C. acnes CIP 110515
139650	C. acnes CIP 110516
139651	C. acnes CIP 110520
139652	C. acnes CIP 110521
139653	C. acnes CIP 110523
139654	C. acnes CIP 110529
139655	C. acnes CIP 110533
141766	C. acnes CCUG 6528
141767	C. acnes CCUG 6529
142058	C. acnes CCUG 10171
147123	C. acnes CCUG 32901, LMG 16730
147248	C. acnes CCUG 33192
147253	C. acnes CCUG 33206
147648	C. acnes CCUG 33950
147650	C. acnes CCUG 33951 B
148159	C. acnes CCUG 34938
148493	C. acnes CCUG 35547
148635	C. acnes CCUG 35749
148753	C. acnes CCUG 35900
148938	C. acnes CCUG 36609
148971	C. acnes CCUG 36661
149168	C. acnes CCUG 36986
149215	C. acnes CCUG 37286 B
149692	C. acnes CCUG 38203
149733	C. acnes CCUG 38293
149807	C. acnes CCUG 38453
149870	C. acnes CCUG 38584, ATCC 6922, NCTC 556
151988	C. acnes CCUG 45436
152217	C. acnes CCUG 46136
152639	C. acnes CCUG 47251
152733	C. acnes CCUG 47502
152961	C. acnes CCUG 48138
153010	C. acnes CCUG 48264
153042	C. acnes CCUG 48370
153284	C. acnes CCUG 48996
153647	C. acnes CCUG 50480
153689	C. acnes CCUG 50655
153755	C. acnes CCUG 50865
153995	C. acnes CCUG 51883
154183	C. acnes CCUG 52676
154207	C. acnes CCUG 52753
154208	C. acnes CCUG 52754
154231	C. acnes CCUG 52854
154930	C. acnes CCUG 55746
155481	C. acnes CCUG 57837
157794	C. acnes Z140, DSM 108415
170961	C. acnes CIMB 05-1526, CRBIP17.133
170962	C. acnes CIP 110507
170963	C. acnes CIP 110508
170964	C. acnes CIP 110522
170965	C. acnes CIP 110528
174546	C. acnes AP1, DSM 117891
176486	C. acnes CA02, DSM 117854

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
42222	positive	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
42222	MEDIUM 20 - for Anaerobic bacteria		Agar (15.000 g);Glucose (5.000 g);Yeast extract (20.000 g);Tryptone (30.000 g);Cysteine hydrochloride (0.500 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml);Hemin solution -M00149 (25.000 ml)
42222	CIP Medium 20			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
42222	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

42222

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
42222	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	degradation
42222	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	degradation
42222	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	degradation
42222	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+/-	degradation
42222	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	degradation
42222	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
42222	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	degradation
42222	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	degradation
42222	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
42222	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	respiration
42222	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
42222	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	degradation
42222	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	degradation

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Is antibiotic	Is sensitive	Is resistant
42222	6909	metronidazole

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
42222	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
42222	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
42222	amylase	-
68382	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API zym
42222	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
42222	caseinase	+	3.4.21.50
42222	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
42222	DNase	-
68382	esterase (C 4)	-		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	-		from API zym
42222	gelatinase	+
42222	lecithinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
42222	lipase	-
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
42222	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
42222	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
42222	oxidase	-
42222	protease	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
42222	tween esterase	+/-
42222	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
42222	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
42222	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 )
#42222	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 53.119
#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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