Helcococcus ovis (DSM 21504, ATCC BAA-59, CCUG 37441)

Name: Helcococcus ovis (DSM 21504, ATCC BAA-59, CCUG 37441)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 17991

Type strain

Strain Designation S840-96-1, S-840-96-1

Culture col. no. DSM 21504 ATCC BAA-59 CCUG 37441 CIP 106312 CCM 4944 3 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 72026

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

History DSMZ <- CCUG <- M. D. Collins, IFR, Reading, UK <- G. Foster, SAC Veterinary Services, Inverness, UK CIP <- 1999, CCUG <- M.D. Collins, IFR, Reading, UK <- G. Foster, SAC Veterinary Services, Inverness, UK: strain S-840-96-1

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Helcococcus ovis S840-96-1 is an anaerobe, Gram-positive, coccus-shaped animal pathogen that was isolated from sheep lung, liver and spleen, adult male, post-mortem.

Gram-positive coccus-shaped anaerobe animal pathogen 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 44276

ATCC BAA-59,CCUG 37441,CIP 106312,CCM 4944,NCIMB 13849,DSM 16935,DSM 21504

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Tissierellales

Family Peptoniphilaceae

Genus Helcococcus

Species Helcococcus ovis

Full scientific name Helcococcus ovis Collins et al. 1999

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Helcococcus ovis** (1)	Type strain
136500	H. ovis Sat 1, CIP 106313, CCUG 39041

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
121474	positive	coccus-shaped

Colony morphology

121474

Hemolysis ability0

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
15683	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
39490	MEDIUM 10 - Chocolate medium for Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, Capnocytophaga cynodegmi, Haemophilus and Neisseria		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Columbia agar (39.000 g);Horseblood (100.000 ml);PolyVitex mischung (10.000 ml)
121474	CIP Medium 10	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
15683	positive	growth	37
39490	positive	growth	37
53670	positive	growth	37
121474	positive	growth	30-41
121474	negative	growth	10
121474	negative	growth	25
121474	negative	growth	45

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
15683	anaerobe
53670	anaerobe
53670	microaerophile
121474	anaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
121474	NaCl		growth	6.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68371	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
121474	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
68371	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
121474	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	-	hydrolysis
68371	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
121474	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
121474	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
68371	0 ChEBI	Potassium 2-ketogluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	0 ChEBI	Potassium 5-ketogluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
121474	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
121474	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
68382	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
121474	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
121474	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	-		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
121474	gamma-glutamyltransferase	-	2.3.2.2
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
121474	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
121474	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
121474	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	teichoic acid biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	starch degradation	90	9 of 10
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	86.67	13 of 15
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	77.27	17 of 22
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	serine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	glycolysis	64.71	11 of 17
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	64.44	29 of 45
66794	photosynthesis	64.29	9 of 14
66794	purine metabolism	63.83	60 of 94
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	61.54	56 of 91
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	NAD metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	60	3 of 5
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	60	6 of 10
66794	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	53.85	7 of 13
66794	non-pathway related	52.63	20 of 38
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	50	3 of 6
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	50	5 of 10
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	adipate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	50	4 of 8
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	46.43	13 of 28
66794	methionine metabolism	46.15	12 of 26
66794	degradation of hexoses	44.44	8 of 18
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	44.44	4 of 9
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	citric acid cycle	42.86	6 of 14
66794	mevalonate metabolism	42.86	3 of 7
66794	cellulose degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	degradation of pentoses	39.29	11 of 28
66794	urea cycle	38.46	5 of 13
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	isoleucine metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	37.5	3 of 8
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	36.36	4 of 11
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	d-xylose degradation	36.36	4 of 11
66794	lipid metabolism	35.48	11 of 31
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	valine metabolism	33.33	3 of 9
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	flavin biosynthesis	33.33	5 of 15
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	33.33	4 of 12
66794	cysteine metabolism	33.33	6 of 18
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	arginine metabolism	33.33	8 of 24
66794	tryptophan metabolism	31.58	12 of 38
66794	histidine metabolism	31.03	9 of 29
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	30.77	8 of 26
66794	propionate fermentation	30	3 of 10
66794	threonine metabolism	30	3 of 10
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	28.57	2 of 7
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	28.57	2 of 7
66794	tyrosine metabolism	28.57	4 of 14
66794	degradation of sugar acids	28	7 of 25
66794	alanine metabolism	27.59	8 of 29
66794	ascorbate metabolism	27.27	6 of 22
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	25	4 of 16
66794	biotin biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	sulfate reduction	23.08	3 of 13
66794	leucine metabolism	23.08	3 of 13
66794	chorismate metabolism	22.22	2 of 9
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	22.22	4 of 18
66794	nitrate assimilation	22.22	2 of 9
66794	glutathione metabolism	21.43	3 of 14

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
121474	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

API 50CHac

@ref	ControlQ	GLY	ERY	DARA	LARA	RIB	DXYL	LXYL	ADO	MDX	GAL	GLU	FRU	MNE	SBE	RHA	DUL	INO	MAN	SOR	MDM	MDG	NAG	AMY	ARB	ESC	SAL	CEL	MAL	LAC	MEL	SAC	TRE	INU	MLZ	RAF	AMD	GLYG	XLT	GEN	TUR	LYX	TAG	DFUC	LFUC	DARL	LARL	GNT	2KG	5KG
121474	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+/-	-	-	+/-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Caprinae (Sheep/Goat)
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Liver
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways	#Lung
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Spleen

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
15683	sheep lung, liver and spleen, adult male, post-mortem		Scotland	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe
53670	Sheep lung,liver and spleen,adult male,post-mortem	1996	Inverness	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe
121474	Animal, Sheep, lung		Inverness	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe	1996

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence Y16279 (>99% sequence identity) for Helcococcus ovis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	468
Soil Samples	744
Animal Samples	5527
Plant Samples	116
Total Samples	6855

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15683		2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
121474		1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15683	Helcococcus sp. 16S rRNA gene, strain CCUG 37441	Y16279	1423		72026

GC content

15683

GC-content (mol%)29

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Helcococcus ovis in a patient with an artificial eye: a case report and literature review.	Mao L, Chen Z, Lu Y, Yu J, Zhou Y, Lin Q, Luo Y, Sun Z.	BMC Infect Dis	10.1186/s12879-018-3310-7	2018
Genetics	Sequencing and characterization of Helcococcus ovis: a comprehensive comparative genomic analysis of virulence.	Cunha F, Casaro S, Jones KL, Bisinotto RS, Kariyawasam S, Brown MB, Galvao KN.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/s12864-023-09581-1	2023
Phylogeny	Biological Characteristics and Pathogenicity of Helcococcus ovis Isolated From Clinical Bovine Mastitis in a Chinese Dairy Herd.	Liu K, Deng Z, Zhang L, Gu X, Liu G, Liu Y, Chen P, Gao J, Han B, Qu W	Front Vet Sci	10.3389/fvets.2021.756438	2022
Phylogeny	Helcococcus ovis sp. nov., a gram-positive organism from sheep.	Collins MD, Falsen E, Foster G, Monasterio LR, Dominguez L, Fernandez-Garazabal JF	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-49-4-1429	1999

References

#15683	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21504
#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 )
#39490	; Curators of the CIP;
#53670	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 37441
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#68371	Automatically annotated from API 50CH acid .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#121474	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 106312
#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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Helcococcus ovis (DSM 21504, ATCC BAA-59, CCUG 37441)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

API zym

API 50CHac

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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