Corynebacterium belfantii (DSM 105776, FRC 0043, CIP 111412)

Name: Corynebacterium belfantii (DSM 105776, FRC 0043, CIP 111412)
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BacDive ID 158444

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 105776 FRC 0043 CIP 111412

NCBI tax ID(s) 2014537

Special Collections DSMZ CIP Literature strains

History <- S. Brisse, Institut Pasteur, Paris; FRC0043 <- A. Carmi-Leroy, CIP <- 2017, S. Brisse, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain FRC0043 <- 2009, Brives Charensac Lab., Brives Charensac, France

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Corynebacterium belfantii DSM 105776 is a mesophilic, Gram-positive, rod-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from pseudomembrane.

Gram-positive rod-shaped mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 405335

DSM 105776,CIP 111412

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:38:19

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Corynebacteriaceae

Genus Corynebacterium

Species Corynebacterium belfantii

Full scientific name Corynebacterium belfantii Dazas et al. 2018

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
116782	positive	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
65120	COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693) Composition: Defibrinated sheep blood 50.0 g/l Columbia agar base
65120	TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water
66773	tryptose-casein soy agar
116782	CIP Medium 72	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
65120	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
66773	positive	optimum	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
66773	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
68379	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	fermentation	from API Coryne
68379	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
68379	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	fermentation	from API Coryne
68379	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
66773	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
68379	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis	from API Coryne
68379	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API Coryne
66773	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	degradation
68379	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
66773	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	assimilation
68379	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
66773	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
68379	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	fermentation	from API Coryne
66773	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	-	assimilation
68379	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API Coryne
66773	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	assimilation
66773	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	assimilation
68379	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
68379	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API Coryne
66773	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-	assimilation

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
66773	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1
68379	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API Coryne
66773	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
68379	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	from API Coryne
66773	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
68379	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API Coryne
68379	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API Coryne
66773	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
68379	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API Coryne
66773	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68379	catalase	+	1.11.1.6	from API Coryne
66773	gelatinase	-
68379	gelatinase	-		from API Coryne
68379	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API Coryne
66773	N-acetyl-glucosidase	-
66773	nitrate reductase	-	1.7.99.4
66773	pyrazinamidase	-	3.5.1.B15
68379	pyrazinamidase	-	3.5.1.B15	from API Coryne
68379	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3	from API Coryne
66773	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68379	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API Coryne

API coryne

@ref	Reduction of nitrateNIT	PYZ	PYRA	PAL	beta GUR	beta GAL	alpha GLU	beta NAG	ESC	URE	GEL	Control fermentationControl	GLU	RIB	XYL	MAN	MAL	LAC	SAC	GLYG	CAT
65120	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways	#Throat
#Infection	#Patient	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Isolation date
65120	pseudomembrane		Paris	France	FRA	Europe
66773	from a pseudomembrane in the throat of a patient	2009	Paris	France	FRA	Europe	Tinsdale medium agar
116782	Human, Throat		Brives Charensac	France	FRA	Europe		2009-05-06

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LT960553 (>99% sequence identity) for Corynebacterium diphtheriae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	4794
Soil Samples	3296
Animal Samples	29947
Plant Samples	1078
Total Samples	39115

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
116782	2	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
66773	Corynebacterium diphtheriae partial 16S rRNA gene, strain FRC0043	LT960553	1530		2014537

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
65120	53.6	sequence analysis
66773	53.6	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Multi-Omics of Corynebacterium Pseudotuberculosis 12CS0282 and an In Silico Reverse Vaccinology Approach Reveal Novel Vaccine and Drug Targets.	Moller J, Bodenschatz M, Sangal V, Hofmann J, Burkovski A.	Proteomes	10.3390/proteomes10040039	2022
Phylogeny	Corynebacterium rouxii sp. nov., a novel member of the diphtheriae species complex.	Badell E, Hennart M, Rodrigues C, Passet V, Dazas M, Panunzi L, Bouchez V, Carmi-Leroy A, Toubiana J, Brisse S	Res Microbiol	10.1016/j.resmic.2020.02.003	2020
Phylogeny	Taxonomic status of Corynebacterium diphtheriae biovar Belfanti and proposal of Corynebacterium belfantii sp. nov.	Dazas M, Badell E, Carmi-Leroy A, Criscuolo A, Brisse S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003069	2018

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 )
#65120	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 105776
#66773	Melody Dazas, Edgar Badell, Annick Carmi-Leroy, Alexis Criscuolo and Sylvain Brisse: Taxonomic status of Corynebacterium diphtheriae biovar Belfanti and proposal of Corynebacterium belfantii sp. nov. IJSEM 68: 3826 - 3831 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.003069 , PubMed 30355399 )
#68379	Automatically annotated from API Coryne .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#116782	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 111412
#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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Corynebacterium belfantii (DSM 105776, FRC 0043, CIP 111412)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

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Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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