Aerococcus suis (DSM 21500, CCUG 52530, CECT 7139)

Name: Aerococcus suis (DSM 21500, CCUG 52530, CECT 7139)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 227

Type strain

Strain Designation 1821/02

Culture col. no. DSM 21500 CCUG 52530 CECT 7139 JCM 18035 1821/02 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 371602

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM CIP Literature strains

History <- CCUG <- A. I. Vela, Univ. Complutense Madrid <- N. García CECT 7139 <-- A. I. Vela 1821/02. CIP <- 2007, CECT <- 2006, A.I. Vela, Complutense Univ., Madrid, Spain: strain 1821/02

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Aerococcus suis 1821/02 is a microaerophile, Gram-positive, coccus-shaped animal pathogen that forms circular colonies and was isolated from swine brain, meningitis.

Gram-positive coccus-shaped colony-forming microaerophile animal pathogen genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 309415

LMG 30638,CCUG 52530,CECT 7139,CIP 109714,JCM 18035,DSM 21500

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:17:49

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Aerococcaceae

Genus Aerococcus

Species Aerococcus suis

Full scientific name Aerococcus suis Vela et al. 2007

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Aerococcus suis** (2)	Type strain
154339	A. suis CCUG 53172
154340	A. suis CCUG 53173

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
22980	positive	coccus-shaped
123377	positive	coccus-shaped
125438			90

Colony morphology

@ref	Type of hemolysis	Hemolysis ability	Colony size	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
22980	alpha	1	<1.0 mm	circular	1 day	blood agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
15679	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
22980	blood agar
40647	MEDIUM 45 - for Columbia agar with sheep blood		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Columbia agar (39.000 g);Sheepblood (100.000 ml)
123377	CIP Medium 45	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
15679	positive	growth	37
22980	positive	growth	37.0
40647	positive	growth	30
59577	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
22980	positive	growth	9.6	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
15679	microaerophile
15679	aerobe
22980	facultative anaerobe
59577	microaerophile
123377	facultative anaerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	99.5

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
22980	NaCl	positive	growth	6.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
22980	16808 ChEBI	2-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	builds acid from
22980	17426 ChEBI	5-dehydro-D-gluconate	+	builds acid from
22980	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from
22980	22605 ChEBI	arabinitol	-	builds acid from
22980	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	-	builds acid from
22980	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	builds acid from
68380	29016 ChEBI	arginine	+	hydrolysis	from API rID32A
22980	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from
22980	23456 ChEBI	cyclodextrin	-	builds acid from
68380	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	fermentation	from API rID32A
22980	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	+	builds acid from
22980	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from
22980	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	builds acid from
22980	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
22980	28757 ChEBI	fructose	-	builds acid from
22980	33984 ChEBI	fucose	-	builds acid from
22980	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from
22980	28260 ChEBI	galactose	-	builds acid from
22980	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from
22980	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	builds acid from
22980	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	builds acid from
22980	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from
22980	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	-	hydrolysis
22980	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from
68380	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	degradation	from API rID32A
22980	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from
22980	25097 ChEBI	lyxose	-	builds acid from
22980	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds acid from
22980	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	-	builds acid from
22980	37684 ChEBI	mannose	-	builds acid from
22980	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from
22980	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from
22980	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	builds acid from
22980	320055 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from
22980	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	-	builds acid from
22980	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from
22980	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	builds acid from
22980	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
68380	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API rID32A
123377	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
123377	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
22980	27941 ChEBI	pullulan	-	builds acid from
22980	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from
68380	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	fermentation	from API rID32A
22980	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	-	builds acid from
22980	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from
22980	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	builds acid from
22980	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from
22980	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	-	builds acid from
22980	27922 ChEBI	sorbose	-	builds acid from
22980	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from
22980	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	builds acid from
68380	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API rID32A
22980	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	builds acid from
22980	16199 ChEBI	urea	+/-	hydrolysis
68380	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A
22980	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from
22980	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-	builds acid from

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
22980	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
68380	35581 ChEBI	indole	from API rID32A
123377	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68380	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API rID32A

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
22980	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
68380	alanine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.2	from API rID32A
22980	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
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
22980	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6
68380	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6	from API rID32A
22980	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
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
22980	catalase	+/-	1.11.1.6
123377	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
22980	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
22980	esterase (C 4)	+
22980	esterase lipase (C 8)	+
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
22980	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
123377	oxidase	-
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	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	from API rID32A
68380	tyrosine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
123377	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68380	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API rID32A

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	81.82	18 of 22
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	72.73	8 of 11
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	serine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	66.67	30 of 45
66794	photosynthesis	64.29	9 of 14
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	NAD metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	purine metabolism	59.57	56 of 94
66794	non-pathway related	52.63	20 of 38
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	starch degradation	50	5 of 10
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	ethanol fermentation	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	phenylalanine metabolism	46.15	6 of 13
66794	proline metabolism	45.45	5 of 11
66794	valine metabolism	44.44	4 of 9
66794	glutathione metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	propanol degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	mevalonate metabolism	42.86	3 of 7
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	cysteine metabolism	38.89	7 of 18
66794	lipid metabolism	38.71	12 of 31
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	38.46	35 of 91
66794	isoleucine metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	histidine metabolism	34.48	10 of 29
66794	alanine metabolism	34.48	10 of 29
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	33.33	2 of 6
66794	d-mannose degradation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	33.33	4 of 12
66794	octane oxidation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	33.33	3 of 9
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	degradation of hexoses	33.33	6 of 18
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	31.25	5 of 16
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	methionine metabolism	30.77	8 of 26
66794	arginine metabolism	29.17	7 of 24
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	28.57	2 of 7
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	26.92	7 of 26
66794	flavin biosynthesis	26.67	4 of 15
66794	tryptophan metabolism	26.32	10 of 38
66794	lysine metabolism	26.19	11 of 42
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	leucine metabolism	23.08	3 of 13
66794	urea cycle	23.08	3 of 13
66794	ascorbate metabolism	22.73	5 of 22
66794	nitrate assimilation	22.22	2 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	22.22	2 of 9
66794	tyrosine metabolism	21.43	3 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	21.43	3 of 14

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
15679	-	+	-	+	-	+/-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Infection	#Disease	#Meningitis
#Host	#Mammals	#Suidae (Pig,Swine)
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Brain

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
15679	swine brain, meningitis		Madrid	Spain	ESP	Europe
22980							Columbia blood agar plates	1 day	37.0
59577	Swine brain,meningitis	2002	Madrid	Spain	ESP	Europe
67770	Brain of a pig with meningitis
123377	Animal, Pigs		Madrid	Spain	ESP	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15679		2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
123377		1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	IMG-taxon 2622736423 annotated assembly for Aerococcus suis DSM 21500	scaffold	GCA_900176325	371602.3	2622736423	371602	63.22

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Aerococcus suis strain CCUG 52530 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence	JN977129	222	371602
15679	Aerococcus suis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain 1821/02T	AM230658	1332	371602
67770	Aerococcus suis JCM 18035 gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	LC521974	1488	371602

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
15679	37.5
67770	37	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
67770	37.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Aerococcus suis DSM 21500
NCBI: GCA_900176325

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	82.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	79.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	73.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Aerococcus suis strain DSM 21500
PATRIC: 371602.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	88.92	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	86.57	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.97	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	89.44	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.47	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	90.00	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Aerococcus kribbianus sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic bacterium isolated from pig faeces.	Bai L, Paek J, Shin Y, Kim H, Kim SH, Shin JH, Kook JK, Chang YH.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006284	2024
Phylogeny	Aerococcus vaginalis sp. nov., isolated from the vaginal mucosa of a beef cow, and emended descriptions of Aerococcus suis, Aerococcus viridans, Aerococcus urinaeequi, Aerococcus urinaehominis, Aerococcus urinae, Aerococcus christensenii and Aerococcus sanguinicola.	Tohno M, Kitahara M, Matsuyama S, Kimura K, Ohkuma M, Tajima K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.058081-0	2014
Phylogeny	Aerococcus suis sp. nov., isolated from clinical specimens from swine.	Vela AI, Garcia N, Latre MV, Casamayor A, Sanchez-Porro C, Briones V, Ventosa A, Dominguez L, Fernandez-Garayzabal JF	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64537-0	2007

References

#15679	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21500
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#22980	A. I. Vela,N. Garcia,M. V. Latre,A. Casamayor,C. Sánchez-Porro,V. Briones,A. Ventosa,L. Domínguez,J. F. Fernandez-Garayzábal: Aerococcus suis sp. nov., isolated from clinical specimens from swine. IJSEM 57: 1291 - 1294 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64537-0 , PubMed 17551045 )
#40647	; Curators of the CIP;
#59577	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 52530
#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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68380	Automatically annotated from API rID32A .
#123377	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 109714
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Aerococcus suis (DSM 21500, CCUG 52530, CECT 7139)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

API rID32A

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900176325

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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