Murdochiella asaccharolytica (DSM 23919, ATCC BAA-1631, CCUG 55976)

Name: Murdochiella asaccharolytica (DSM 23919, ATCC BAA-1631, CCUG 55976)
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BacDive ID 18084

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 23919 ATCC BAA-1631 CCUG 55976 WAL 1855C

NCBI tax ID(s) 507844

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG Literature strains

History DSMZ <- CCUG <- S. M. Finegold, Dept. Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA; WAL 1855C {2007}

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Murdochiella asaccharolytica DSM 23919 is an anaerobe, Gram-positive, coccus-shaped bacterium that was isolated from sacral pilonidal cyst aspirate from an immunocompetent patient.

Gram-positive coccus-shaped anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 402162

ATCC BAA-1631,DSM 23919,CCUG 55976

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:29:10

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Tissierellales

Family Peptoniphilaceae

Genus Murdochiella

Species Murdochiella asaccharolytica

Full scientific name Murdochiella asaccharolytica Ulger-Toprak et al. 2010

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29561	positive	0.55 µm	coccus-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Type of hemolysis	Hemolysis ability	Incubation period
17425	gamma	0
60812			4 days

Pigmentation

29561

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17425	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
17425	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 78)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 78) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Ethanol 9.5 g/l (optional) K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Haemin 0.005 g/l (optional) Resazurin 0.001 g/l Vitamin K3 0.0005 g/l (optional) Vitamin K1 (optional) NaOH (optional) Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17425	positive	growth	37
60812	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
17425	anaerobe
29561	anaerobe
60812	anaerobe

Observation

29561

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68380	29016 ChEBI	arginine	+	hydrolysis	from API rID32A
68380	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	fermentation	from API rID32A
68380	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	degradation	from API rID32A
68380	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API rID32A
68380	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	fermentation	from API rID32A
68380	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
29561	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
29561	35581 ChEBI	indole	+

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68380	alanine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.2	from API rID32A
68380	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-arabinosidase	-	3.2.1.55	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API rID32A
68380	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API rID32A
68380	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6	from API rID32A
68380	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API rID32A
68380	beta-Galactosidase 6-phosphate	-		from API rID32A
68380	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API rID32A
68380	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API rID32A
17425	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
17425	cytochrome-c oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
68380	glutamate decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.15	from API rID32A
68380	glutamyl-glutamate arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	glycin arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	histidine arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	L-arginine arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API rID32A
68380	leucyl glycin arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API rID32A
68380	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API rID32A
68380	phenylalanine arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	proline-arylamidase	+	3.4.11.5	from API rID32A
68380	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3	from API rID32A
68380	serine arylamidase	+		from API rID32A
68380	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API rID32A

API rID32A

@ref	URE	ADH (Arg)	alpha GAL	beta GAL	beta-Galactosidase 6-phosphatebeta GP	alpha GLU	beta GLU	alpha ARA	beta GUR	beta-N-Acetyl-beta-glucosaminidasebeta NAG	MNE	RAF	GDC	alpha FUC	Reduction of nitrateNIT	IND	PAL	L-arginine arylamidaseArgA	ProA	LGA	Phenylalanine arylamidasePheA	Leucine arylamidaseLeuA	PyrA	Tyrosine arylamidaseTyrA	Alanine arylamidaseAlaA	Glycin arylamidaseGlyA	Histidine arylamidaseHisA	Glutamyl-glutamate arylamidaseGGA	Serine arylamidaseSerA
17425	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+/-	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	+/-	+	+	+	-	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Infection	#Patient	-
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Skin, Nail, Hair
#Host Body Product	#Fluids	#Aspirate

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17425	sacral pilonidal cyst aspirate from an immunocompetent patient	Homo sapiens		California, Los Angeles	USA	USA	North America
60812	Human sacrum pilonidal cyst	Homo sapiens	2007-02-14	CA,Los Angeles	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EU483153 (>99% sequence identity) for Levyella massiliensis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	739
Soil Samples	854
Animal Samples	39549
Plant Samples	171
Total Samples	41313

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17425	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
17425	Murdochiella asaccharolytica strain WAL 1855C 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU483153	1362		507844

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	New anaerobic bacteria causing infection: Bacteremia due to Murdochiellaasaccharolytica.	Cobo F, Perez-Carrasco V, Garcia-Salcedo JA, Navarro-Mari JM.	Anaerobe	10.1016/j.anaerobe.2023.102697	2023
	Symptomatic Calcifications after Mastectomy: A Rare Case Report with a Review of the Literature.	Zatecky J, Coufal O, Sekret D, Peteja M.	Medicina (Kaunas)	10.3390/medicina60030399	2024
Phylogeny	Species-level resolution for the vaginal microbiota with short amplicons.	Qing W, Shi Y, Chen R, Zou Y, Qi C, Zhang Y, Zhou Z, Li S, Hou Y, Zhou H, Chen M.	mSystems	10.1128/msystems.01039-23	2024
	Identifying Anaerobic Bacteria Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry: A Four-Year Experience.	Alcala L, Marin M, Ruiz A, Quiroga L, Zamora-Cintas M, Fernandez-Chico MA, Munoz P, Rodriguez-Sanchez B.	Front Cell Infect Microbiol	10.3389/fcimb.2021.521014	2021
Enzymology	Dynamics of the surgical microbiota along the cardiothoracic surgery pathway.	Romano-Bertrand S, Frapier JM, Calvet B, Colson P, Albat B, Parer S, Jumas-Bilak E.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2014.00787	2014
	Current and past strategies for bacterial culture in clinical microbiology.	Lagier JC, Edouard S, Pagnier I, Mediannikov O, Drancourt M, Raoult D.	Clin Microbiol Rev	10.1128/cmr.00110-14	2015
Phylogeny	Characterization of a novel Gram-stain-positive anaerobic coccus isolated from the female genital tract: Genome sequence and description of Murdochiella vaginalis sp. nov.	Diop K, Diop A, Khelaifia S, Robert C, Pinto FD, Delerce J, Raoult D, Fournier PE, Bretelle F, Fenollar F.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.570	2018
Phylogeny	Murdochiella asaccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-stain-positive, anaerobic coccus isolated from human wound specimens.	Ulger-Toprak N, Liu C, Summanen PH, Finegold SM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.015909-0	2009

References

#17425	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 23919
#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 )
#25956	IJSEM 1013 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.015909-0 , PubMed 19666803 )
#29561	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 #25956
#60812	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 55976
#68380	Automatically annotated from API rID32A .
#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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Murdochiella asaccharolytica (DSM 23919, ATCC BAA-1631, CCUG 55976)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API rID32A

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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