Bifidobacterium breve (JCM 7020)

Name: Bifidobacterium breve (JCM 7020)
Creator: BacDive
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BacDive ID 165456

Type strain

Culture col. no. JCM 7020

NCBI tax ID(s) 1685

Special Collections JCM

History Y. Benno <-- T. Mitsuoka IV-20 (29092 I-72-6).

Links

Bifidobacterium breve JCM 7020 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Infant feces.

mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 64958

JCM 7020

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:40:06

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Bifidobacteriales

Family Bifidobacteriaceae

Genus Bifidobacterium

Species Bifidobacterium breve

Full scientific name Bifidobacterium breve Reuter 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Bifidobacterium breve** (35)	Type strain
1695	B. breve S1, DSM 20213, ATCC 15700, NCTC 11815, JCM ... (type strain)
1696	B. breve S50 (Variant a), S50, DSM 20091, ATCC 15698, ...
134790	B. breve 17c, CIP 64.68, ATCC 15699, CCUG 45221
137497	B. breve S46, CIP 64.70, ATCC 15701, JCM 7016, BCRC ...
138672	B. breve 755-84, CIP 101158
141735	B. breve CCUG 5862, NCTC 10471
143052	B. breve CCUG 16568
143053	B. breve CCUG 16569
144929	B. breve CCUG 27171 A
146282	B. breve CCUG 30785
146947	B. breve CCUG 32526 B
147417	B. breve CCUG 33558
147864	B. breve CCUG 34405
148335	B. breve CCUG 35244
148336	B. breve CCUG 35245
150885	B. breve CCUG 42620
150897	B. breve CCUG 42657
151165	B. breve CCUG 43395 A
151166	B. breve CCUG 43395 B
151681	B. breve CCUG 44623
152514	B. breve CCUG 46983
152771	B. breve CCUG 47591
152812	B. breve CCUG 47672
152865	B. breve CCUG 47820
152875	B. breve CCUG 47844
153826	B. breve CCUG 51291
154347	B. breve CCUG 53196
154385	B. breve CCUG 53338
154927	B. breve CCUG 55738
154963	B. breve CCUG 55883
155699	B. breve CCUG 59045
155780	B. breve CCUG 59290
165454	B. breve JCM 7017
165455	B. breve JCM 7019
176408	B. breve HUN447, RP2, DSM 118819

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

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

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

67770

Sample typeInfant feces

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
124043	Bifidobacterium breve gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 7020.	AB116293	480	1685
124043	Bifidobacterium breve gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 7020.	AB507089	663	1685
124043	Bifidobacterium breve strain JCM 7020 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	AF491833	1454	1685

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	In vitro competition with Bifidobacterium strains impairs potentially pathogenic growth of Clostridium perfringens on 2'-fucosyllactose.	Nakajima A, Arzamasov AA, Sakanaka M, Murakami R, Kozakai T, Yoshida K, Katoh T, Ojima MN, Hirose J, Nagao S, Xiao JZ, Odamaki T, Rodionov DA, Katayama T.	Gut Microbes	10.1080/19490976.2025.2478306	2025
Metabolism	Variation in consumption of human milk oligosaccharides by infant gut-associated strains of Bifidobacterium breve.	Ruiz-Moyano S, Totten SM, Garrido DA, Smilowitz JT, German JB, Lebrilla CB, Mills DA.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01843-13	2013
Enzymology	Prophage-like elements in bifidobacteria: insights from genomics, transcription, integration, distribution, and phylogenetic analysis.	Ventura M, Lee JH, Canchaya C, Zink R, Leahy S, Moreno-Munoz JA, O'Connell-Motherway M, Higgins D, Fitzgerald GF, O'Sullivan DJ, van Sinderen D.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.71.12.8692-8705.2005	2005

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;
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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 )

Rate our new design

Content

About us

Bifidobacterium breve (JCM 7020)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

BacDive

Help

Social Media