Citrobacter amalonaticus (CRBIP19.236, UPEC_105.165.0411)

Name: Citrobacter amalonaticus (CRBIP19.236, UPEC_105.165.0411)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 171065

Type strain

Strain Designation UPEC_105.165.0411

Culture col. no. CRBIP19.236 UPEC_105.165.0411

NCBI tax ID(s) 35703

History CIP <- 2007, JM. Ghigo, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France: strain UPEC_105.165.0411 <- C. Forestier

Links

Citrobacter amalonaticus UPEC_105.165.0411 is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Gram-negative rod-shaped Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 373107

CRBIP19.236

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:46:59

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Enterobacterales

Family Enterobacteriaceae

Genus Citrobacter

Species Citrobacter amalonaticus

Full scientific name Citrobacter amalonaticus (Young et al. 1971) Brenner and Farmer 1982

Synonyms (1)

Levinea amalonatica

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Citrobacter amalonaticus** (14)	Type strain
4323	C. amalonaticus CCUG 4860, CECT 863, DSM 4593, ATCC 25405, ... (type strain)
130907	C. amalonaticus G, DSM 17342
136361	C. amalonaticus 1444-80, CIP 104932
136366	C. amalonaticus 3314-73, CIP 105011
136525	C. amalonaticus 9542, CIP 106468, ATCC 25406, NCTC 10806
144787	C. amalonaticus CCUG 26551
145874	C. amalonaticus CCUG 29868
145875	C. amalonaticus CCUG 29869
145876	C. amalonaticus CCUG 29870
145879	C. amalonaticus CCUG 29873
145880	C. amalonaticus CCUG 29874
145881	C. amalonaticus CCUG 29875
145882	C. amalonaticus CCUG 29876
145884	C. amalonaticus CCUG 29878

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape
116319	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link
116319	Luria-Bertani Medium
116319	CIP Medium 368		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
116319	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68368	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E
68368	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation	from API 20E
68368	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E
68368	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	25094 ChEBI	lysine	-	degradation	from API 20E
68368	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API 20E
68368	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	-	degradation	from API 20E
68368	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20E
68368	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
68368	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	from API 20E
68368	17997 ChEBI	dinitrogen	from API 20E
68368	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide	from API 20E
68368	35581 ChEBI	indole	from API 20E
68368	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	from API 20E

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Indole test
68368	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-		from API 20E
68368	35581 ChEBI	indole		-	from API 20E

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68368	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20E
68368	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API 20E
68368	gelatinase	-		from API 20E
68368	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18	from API 20E
68368	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17	from API 20E
68368	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	from API 20E
68368	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20E

API 20E

@ref	ONPG	ADH (Arg)	LDC (Lys)	ODC	CIT	H2S productionH2S	URE	TDA (Trp)	IND	Acetoin production (Voges Proskauer test)VP	GEL	GLU	MAN	INO	Sor	RHA	SAC	MEL	AMY	ARA	OX	Nitrite productionNO2	Reduction to N2N2	MotilityMOB	Growth on MacConkey mediumMAC	OF-O	OF-F
116319	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	-	-	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	-	-	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
116319	2	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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 )
#68368	Automatically annotated from API 20E .
#116319	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CRBIP19.236
#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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