Bifidobacterium dentium (DSM 20221, B735, JCM 7135)

Name: Bifidobacterium dentium (DSM 20221, B735, JCM 7135)
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BacDive ID 1703

Type strain

Strain Designation B735

Culture col. no. DSM 20221 B735 JCM 7135 JCM 1258

NCBI tax ID(s) 1689

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- V. Scardovi; B735 T. Mitsuoka IV-135 <-- DSM 20221 <-- V. Scardovi B735.

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Bifidobacterium dentium B735 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from dental caries.

anaerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 9634

LMG 11585,DSM 20221,JCM 7135,JCM 1258

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:09

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Bifidobacteriales

Family Bifidobacteriaceae

Genus Bifidobacterium

Species Bifidobacterium dentium

Full scientific name Bifidobacterium dentium Scardovi and Crociani 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Bifidobacterium dentium** (7)	Type strain
1704	B. dentium B764, DSM 20436, ATCC 27534, BCRC 14662, ... (type strain)
1702	B. dentium DSM 20084, ATCC 15423
143134	B. dentium CCUG 17365
143135	B. dentium CCUG 17366
151364	B. dentium CCUG 43878
151655	B. dentium CCUG 44545
153394	B. dentium CCUG 49431

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
8639	BIFIDOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 58)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BIFIDOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 58) Composition: Glucose 10.0 g/l Casein peptone 10.0 g/l Bacto Soytone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l NaHCO3 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.08 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.05 g/l KH2PO4 0.04 g/l K2HPO4 0.04 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.02 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.01 g/l Tween 80 Resazurin Distilled water
8639	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
8639	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

8639

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
8639	A11.32	A4alpha L-Lys(L-Orn)-D-Asp

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways	#Tooth

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
8639	dental caries
67770	Dental caries

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8639	2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
124043	Bifidobacterium dentium gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 7135.	AB116300	479		1689
124043	Bifidobacterium dentium gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 7135.	AB507096	672		1689

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
8639	61.2
67770	61.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Isolation of a human intestinal anaerobe, Bifidobacterium sp. strain SEN, capable of hydrolyzing sennosides to sennidins.	Akao T, Che QM, Kobashi K, Yang L, Hattori M, Namba T.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.60.3.1041-1043.1994	1994

References

#8639	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 20221
#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 )

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Bifidobacterium dentium (DSM 20221, B735, JCM 7135)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Murein

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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