Howardella ureilytica (DSM 15118, JCM 13267, GPC 589)

Name: Howardella ureilytica (DSM 15118, JCM 13267, GPC 589)
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BacDive ID 17982

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 15118 JCM 13267 GPC 589

NCBI tax ID(s) 404403

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History <- A. R. Cook, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK; GPC 589 <- A. R. Cook {1989} DSM 15118 <-- T. R. Cook GPC 589.

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Howardella ureilytica DSM 15118 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that was isolated from sheep rumen.

Gram-positive coccus-shaped anaerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 323251

DSM 15118,JCM 13267

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:22:21

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Lachnospiraceae

Genus Howardella

Species Howardella ureilytica

Full scientific name Howardella ureilytica Cook et al. 2007

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
32018	positive	0.8 µm	0.64 µm	coccus-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5719	HOWARDELLA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1085)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HOWARDELLA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1085) Composition: Casitone 20.0 g/l Na2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 1.1 g/l Urea 1.0 g/l Na-thioglycolate 0.75 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
5719	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
32018	positive	optimum	37	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
5719	anaerobe
32018	anaerobe

Spore formation

32018

Spore formationno

Observation

32018

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32018	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
32018	16199 ChEBI	urea	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32018	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Caprinae (Sheep/Goat)
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Rumen

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5719	sheep rumen	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe
67770	Rumen fluid of a sheep

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ925472 (>99% sequence identity) for Howardella ureilytica subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	192
Soil Samples	81
Animal Samples	16766
Plant Samples	20
Total Samples	17059

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5719	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5719	Howardella ureilytica strain GPC 589 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ925472	1531		404403

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
5719	34
67770	34	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Exploring the gut microbiota of healthy captive Asian elephants from various locations in Yunnan, China.	Wang Y, Wang Y, Zhou J, Bao M, Shah T, Yang S, Zheng J, Li Q, Hou Y, Wang B, Yuan R.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2024.1403930	2024
	Comprehensive microbial and clinical profiling of functional constipation: A stratified comparative study of age and constipation subtype.	Zhu HT, Wang HF, Zhang Q, Bai JF, Wang M, Du SY, Zhang YL.	World J Gastroenterol	10.3748/wjg.v31.i40.112637	2025
	Divergence in the sow vaginal microbiota is associated with fertility.	Fletcher L, Zhan X, Song Y, Li J.	Reproduction	10.1530/rep-25-0044	2025
	The Oral Microbiome Profile of Water Polo Players Aged 16-20.	Kalabiska I, Annar D, Keki Z, Borbas Z, Bhattoa HP, Zsakai A.	Sports (Basel)	10.3390/sports11110216	2023
Genetics	Involvement of Gut Microbiota in Schizophrenia and Treatment Resistance to Antipsychotics.	Manchia M, Fontana A, Panebianco C, Paribello P, Arzedi C, Cossu E, Garzilli M, Montis MA, Mura A, Pisanu C, Congiu D, Copetti M, Pinna F, Pazienza V, Squassina A, Carpiniello B.	Biomedicines	10.3390/biomedicines9080875	2021
Pathogenicity	Interactions among the mycobiome, bacteriome, inflammation, and diet in people living with HIV.	Gosalbes MJ, Jimenez-Hernandez N, Moreno E, Artacho A, Pons X, Ruiz-Perez S, Navia B, Estrada V, Manzano M, Talavera-Rodriguez A, Madrid N, Vallejo A, Luna L, Perez-Molina JA, Moreno S, Serrano-Villar S.	Gut Microbes	10.1080/19490976.2022.2089002	2022
	Gut microbiota from high-risk men who have sex with men drive immune activation in gnotobiotic mice and in vitro HIV infection.	Li SX, Sen S, Schneider JM, Xiong KN, Nusbacher NM, Moreno-Huizar N, Shaffer M, Armstrong AJS, Severs E, Kuhn K, Neff CP, McCarter M, Campbell T, Lozupone CA, Palmer BE.	PLoS Pathog	10.1371/journal.ppat.1007611	2019
	Featured Gut Microbiomes Associated With the Progression of Chronic Hepatitis B Disease.	Chen Z, Xie Y, Zhou F, Zhang B, Wu J, Yang L, Xu S, Stedtfeld R, Chen Q, Liu J, Zhang X, Xu H, Ren J.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.00383	2020
	Differences in Ureolytic Bacterial Composition between the Rumen Digesta and Rumen Wall Based on ureC Gene Classification.	Jin D, Zhao S, Zheng N, Bu D, Beckers Y, Denman SE, McSweeney CS, Wang J.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.00385	2017
Metabolism	Alkalizing reactions streamline cellular metabolism in acidogenic microorganisms.	Arioli S, Ragg E, Scaglioni L, Fessas D, Signorelli M, Karp M, Daffonchio D, De Noni I, Mulas L, Oggioni M, Guglielmetti S, Mora D.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0015520	2010
	Gene sets for utilization of primary and secondary nutrition supplies in the distal gut of endangered Iberian lynx.	Alcaide M, Messina E, Richter M, Bargiela R, Peplies J, Huws SA, Newbold CJ, Golyshin PN, Simon MA, Lopez G, Yakimov MM, Ferrer M.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0051521	2012
Phylogeny	Howardella ureilytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-positive, coccoid-shaped bacterium from a sheep rumen.	Cook AR, Riley PW, Murdoch H, Evans PN, McDonald IR	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64819-0	2007

References

#5719	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15118
#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 )
#28270	IJSEM 2940 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64819-0 , PubMed 18048754 )
#32018	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #28270
#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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Howardella ureilytica (DSM 15118, JCM 13267, GPC 589)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

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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