Cutibacterium acnes (CCUG 36661)

Name: Cutibacterium acnes (CCUG 36661)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 148971

Type strain

Culture col. no. CCUG 36661

NCBI tax ID(s) 1747

Special Collections CCUG

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Cutibacterium acnes CCUG 36661 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Human blood.

anaerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 56376

CCUG 36661

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:05:44

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
139636	C. acnes CIP 53.119
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
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

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
53305	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

53305

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68380	29016 ChEBI	arginine	+	hydrolysis	from API rID32A
68380	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	fermentation	from API rID32A
68380	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	degradation	from API rID32A
68380	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction	from API rID32A
68380	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	fermentation	from API rID32A
68380	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	+	energy source	from API rID32A
68380	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68380	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API rID32A

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68380	35581 ChEBI	indole	+	from API rID32A

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68380	alanine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.2	from API rID32A
68380	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-arabinosidase	-	3.2.1.55	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API rID32A
68380	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6	from API rID32A
68380	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API rID32A
68380	beta-Galactosidase 6-phosphate	-		from API rID32A
68380	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API rID32A
68380	beta-glucuronidase	+	3.2.1.31	from API rID32A
68380	glutamate decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.15	from API rID32A
68380	glutamyl-glutamate arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	glycin arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	histidine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	L-arginine arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API rID32A
68380	leucyl glycin arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API rID32A
68380	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52	from API rID32A
68380	phenylalanine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	proline-arylamidase	+	3.4.11.5	from API rID32A
68380	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3	from API rID32A
68380	serine arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	tryptophan deaminase	+	4.1.99.1	from API rID32A
68380	tyrosine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API rID32A

API rID32A

@ref	URE	ADH (Arg)	alpha GAL	beta GAL	beta-Galactosidase 6-phosphatebeta GP	alpha GLU	beta GLU	alpha ARA	beta GUR	beta-N-Acetyl-beta-glucosaminidasebeta NAG	MNE	RAF	GDC	alpha FUC	Reduction of nitrateNIT	IND	PAL	L-arginine arylamidaseArgA	ProA	LGA	Phenylalanine arylamidasePheA	Leucine arylamidaseLeuA	PyrA	Tyrosine arylamidaseTyrA	Alanine arylamidaseAlaA	Glycin arylamidaseGlyA	Histidine arylamidaseHisA	Glutamyl-glutamate arylamidaseGGA	Serine arylamidaseSerA
53305	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Human	-
#Host Body Product	#Fluids	#Blood

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
53305	Human blood	1996-08-01	Gävle	Sweden	SWE	Europe

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Laser-assisted microbial culturomics.	Qu T, Koch L, Mukherjee R, Tu Y, Seidel AL, Puttmann LD, Winkel A, Yang I, Grischke J, Liu D, Wolkers WF, Kittler S, Chichkov B, Stiesch M, Szafranski SP.	Nat Commun	10.1038/s41467-025-66804-7	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 )
#53305	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 36661
#68380	Automatically annotated from API rID32A .
#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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Cutibacterium acnes (CCUG 36661)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API rID32A

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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