Furfurilactobacillus curtus (JCM 31185, VTT E-94560)

Name: Furfurilactobacillus curtus (JCM 31185, VTT E-94560)
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BacDive ID 140766

Type strain

Culture col. no. JCM 31185 VTT E-94560

NCBI tax ID(s) 1746200

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History JCM <-- Y. Asakawa; Res. Lab. for Alcohol Beverages, Dept. of Brew. Microbiol., Asahi Breweries Ltd., Japan <-- VTT E-94560 (BEL O23).

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Furfurilactobacillus curtus JCM 31185 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from beer.

Gram-positive rod-shaped colony-forming facultative anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 341329

JCM 31185,VTT E-94560

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:39:47

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Lactobacillaceae

Genus Furfurilactobacillus

Species Furfurilactobacillus curtus

Full scientific name Furfurilactobacillus curtus (Asakawa et al. 2017) Zheng et al. 2020

Synonyms (1)

Lactobacillus curtus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43544	positive	0.5-1 µm	0.5 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43544	white	circular	2-3 days	MRS agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43544	MRS agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43544	positive	growth	15-30
43544	positive	optimum	30
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43544	positive	growth	3.5-8.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
43544	facultative anaerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	98.099

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
43544
125439		97.202

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43544	NaCl	positive	growth	5 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43544	16808 ChEBI	2-dehydro-D-gluconate	+	builds acid from
43544	58143 ChEBI	5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	builds acid from
43544	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from
43544	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	-	builds acid from
43544	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	builds acid from
43544	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from
43544	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	+	builds acid from
43544	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
43544	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from
43544	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	builds acid from
43544	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
43544	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	-	builds acid from
43544	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	builds acid from
43544	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	builds acid from
43544	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from
43544	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	builds acid from
43544	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from
43544	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
43544	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from
43544	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	+	builds acid from
43544	15978 ChEBI	glycerol 3-phosphate	-	builds acid from
43544	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from
43544	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from
43544	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from
43544	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	builds acid from
43544	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	builds acid from
43544	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from
43544	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from
43544	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from
43544	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from
43544	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	builds acid from
43544	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from
43544	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	builds acid from
43544	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	-	builds acid from
43544	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	builds acid from
43544	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from
43544	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from
43544	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from
43544	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	builds acid from
43544	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from
43544	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	builds acid from
43544	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	builds acid from
43544	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Food production	#Beverage
#Engineered	#Food production	#Fermented
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Fruit (Seed)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43544	beer	Finland	Finland	FIN	Europe
67770	Beer		Finland	FIN	Europe

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM4586278v1 assembly for Furfurilactobacillus curtus JCM 31185	scaffold	GCA_045862785	1746200	55.49

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Lactobacillus curtus gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	LC093898	1539		1746200
124043	Lactobacillus curtus genes for 16S rRNA, 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer, 23S rRNA, partial and complete sequence, culture_collection: VTT:E-94560.	LC171391	578		1746200

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43544	43	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM4586278v1 assembly for Furfurilactobacillus curtus JCM 31185
NCBI: GCA_045862785

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	77.46	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	81.48	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	97.20	no

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Furfurilactobacillus entadae sp. nov., Isolated from Bark of Entada phaseoloides.	Suzuki S, Okano K, Tamaki M, Tsujii Y, Endo A, Kajikawa A.	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-025-04450-4	2025

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 )
#43544	Yuki Asakawa, Nobuchika Takesue, Shizuka Asano, Satoshi Shimotsu, Kazumaru Iijima, Koji Suzuki, Yasuo Motoyama, Masayuki Aizawa: Lactobacillus curtus sp. nov., isolated from beer in Finland. IJSEM 67: 3899 - 3906 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002220 , PubMed 28895518 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Furfurilactobacillus curtus (JCM 31185, VTT E-94560)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_045862785

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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