Cutibacterium acnes subsp. defendens (JCM 18921)

Name: Cutibacterium acnes subsp. defendens (JCM 18921)
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BacDive ID 162347

Type strain

Culture col. no. JCM 18921

NCBI tax ID(s) 1905725

Special Collections JCM

History JCM <-- I. Dekio K145.

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Cutibacterium acnes subsp. defendens JCM 18921 is a bacterium that was isolated from Face skin of normal human.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 393342

JCM 18921

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:44:54

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Propionibacteriales

Family Propionibacteriaceae

Genus Cutibacterium

Species Cutibacterium acnes subsp. defendens

Full scientific name Cutibacterium acnes subsp. defendens (McDowell et al. 2016) Nouioui et al. 2018

Synonyms (1)

Propionibacterium acnes subsp. defendens

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Cutibacterium acnes subsp. defendens** (8)	Type strain
133242	C. acnes subsp. defendens ATCC 11828, JCM 6473, CCUG 6369, BCRC 16146, ... (type strain)
162337	C. acnes subsp. defendens JCM 18911
162339	C. acnes subsp. defendens JCM 18913
162340	C. acnes subsp. defendens JCM 18914
162341	C. acnes subsp. defendens JCM 18915
162346	C. acnes subsp. defendens JCM 18920
162352	C. acnes subsp. defendens JCM 18926
164460	C. acnes subsp. defendens JCM 33136

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species
67770	Face skin of normal human	Homo sapiens

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB777862 (>99% sequence identity) for Cutibacterium acnes from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	7473
Soil Samples	3573
Animal Samples	47966
Plant Samples	1257
Total Samples	60269

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Cutibacterium acnes gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: K145	AB777862	1201		1747

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Classification of Cutibacterium acnes at phylotype level by MALDI-MS proteotyping.	Teramoto K, Okubo T, Yamada Y, Sekiya S, Iwamoto S, Tanaka K.	Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci	10.2183/pjab.95.042	2019

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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#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 subsp. defendens (JCM 18921)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

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