Granulicatella balaenopterae (DSM 15827, ATCC 700813, CCUG 37380)

Name: Granulicatella balaenopterae (DSM 15827, ATCC 700813, CCUG 37380)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 2276

Type strain

Strain Designation M1975/96/1

Culture col. no. DSM 15827 ATCC 700813 CCUG 37380 CIP 105938 M1975/96/1

NCBI tax ID(s) 137733

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

History <- CCUG <- M. D. Collins <- G. Foster CIP <- 1999, CCUG <- M.D. Collins, IFR, Reading, UK: strain M1975/96/1 <- G. Foster, UK

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Granulicatella balaenopterae M1975/96/1 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that was isolated from minke whale .

Gram-positive coccus-shaped anaerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 46256

ATCC 700813,CCUG 37380,CIP 105938,DSM 15827,NCIMB 13829

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:15

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Carnobacteriaceae

Genus Granulicatella

Species Granulicatella balaenopterae

Full scientific name Granulicatella balaenopterae (Lawson et al. 1999) Collins and Lawson 2000

Synonyms (1)

Abiotrophia balaenopterae

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
116712	positive	coccus-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Incubation period
53634	2 days
116712

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
6039	PYG MEDIUM (MODIFIED) (DSMZ Medium 104)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PYG MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 104) Composition: Yeast extract 10.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Trypticase peptone 5.0 g/l Beef extract 5.0 g/l Glucose 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l NaHCO3 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.08 g/l K2HPO4 0.04 g/l KH2PO4 0.04 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.02 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.01 g/l Hemin 0.005 g/l Ethanol 0.0038 g/l Resazurin 0.001 g/l Tween 80 Vitamin K1 NaOH Distilled water
6039	CHOCOLATE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 429b)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOCOLATE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 429b) Composition: Horse blood 100.0 g/l Sheep blood 100.0 g/l Columbia agar base
40244	MEDIUM 6 - Columbia agar with 10 % horse blood		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Columbia agar (39.000 g);Horseblood (100.000 ml)
116712	CIP Medium 10	Medium recipe at CIP
116712	CIP Medium 6	Medium recipe at CIP
116712	CIP Medium 85	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
6039	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
40244	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
116712	positive	growth	25-37	mesophilic
116712	negative	growth	10
116712	negative	growth	41
116712	negative	growth	45

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
6039	anaerobe
6039	microaerophile
53634	microaerophile
116712	facultative anaerobe
125439	microaerophile	96.9

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
116712	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	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	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	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	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	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
116712	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
68371	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
116712	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	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
116712	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
116712	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
68371		Potassium 2-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	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	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
116712	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
116712	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
116712	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
116712	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
116712	gamma-glutamyltransferase	-	2.3.2.2
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
116712	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
116712	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
116712	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	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	90.91	10 of 11
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	77.27	17 of 22
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	70	7 of 10
66794	purine metabolism	68.09	64 of 94
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	degradation of hexoses	66.67	12 of 18
66794	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	62.5	5 of 8
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	62.22	28 of 45
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	NAD metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	60	6 of 10
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	60	3 of 5
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	starch degradation	60	6 of 10
66794	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	54.55	6 of 11
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	52.75	48 of 91
66794	non-pathway related	52.63	20 of 38
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	50	8 of 16
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	degradation of pentoses	50	14 of 28
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	46.43	13 of 28
66794	serine metabolism	44.44	4 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	44.44	4 of 9
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	mevalonate metabolism	42.86	3 of 7
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	alanine metabolism	41.38	12 of 29
66794	threonine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	cellulose degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	38.46	5 of 13
66794	methionine metabolism	38.46	10 of 26
66794	urea cycle	38.46	5 of 13
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	37.5	3 of 8
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	isoleucine metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	d-xylose degradation	36.36	4 of 11
66794	ascorbate metabolism	36.36	8 of 22
66794	proline metabolism	36.36	4 of 11
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	33.33	4 of 12
66794	octane oxidation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	arginine metabolism	29.17	7 of 24
66794	lipid metabolism	29.03	9 of 31
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	28.57	2 of 7
66794	glutathione metabolism	28.57	4 of 14
66794	degradation of sugar acids	28	7 of 25
66794	cysteine metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	27.27	3 of 11
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	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	histidine metabolism	24.14	7 of 29
66794	leucine metabolism	23.08	3 of 13
66794	sulfate reduction	23.08	3 of 13
66794	nitrate assimilation	22.22	2 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	22.22	2 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	22.22	2 of 9
66794	tyrosine metabolism	21.43	3 of 14
66794	lysine metabolism	21.43	9 of 42

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
116712	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-

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
116712	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+/-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+/-	+/-	-	+/-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+/-	+/-	-	+/-	+/-	-	+/-	-	-	-	-	+/-	-	+/-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Aquatic mammal

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Continent	Country	Country ISO 3 Code
6039	minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)	Balaenoptera acutorostrata	North west coast	Europe
53634	Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)			Europe	United Kingdom	GBR
116712	Minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata			Europe	United Kingdom	GBR

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6039	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
116712		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
66792	IMG-taxon 2684622850 annotated assembly for Granulicatella balaenopterae DSM 15827	scaffold	GCA_900111135	137733.3	2684622850	137733	48.77

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Granulicatella balaenopterae strain CCUG 37380 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, complete sequence	JQ012776	204		137733
6039	Granulicatella balaenopterae 16S rRNA gene, strain CCUG 37380	Y16547	1383		137733

GC content

6039

GC-content (mol%)37

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Granulicatella balaenopterae DSM 15827
NCBI: GCA_900111135

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	80.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	76.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	89.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	microaerophile	96.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Granulicatella balaenopterae DSM 15827
NCBI: GCA_900111135.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	84.71	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	82.28	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	97.08	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	78.96	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.50	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	87.50	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Identification of clinically relevant viridans streptococci by an oligonucleotide array.	Chen CC, Teng LJ, Kaiung S, Chang TC.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.43.4.1515-1521.2005	2005
Phylogeny	Abiotrophia balaenopterae sp. nov., isolated from the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata).	Lawson PA, Foster G, Falsen E, Sjoden B, Collins MD	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-49-2-503	1999

References

#6039	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15827
#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 )
#40244	; Curators of the CIP;
#53634	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 37380
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#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 .
#116712	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 105938
#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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Granulicatella balaenopterae (DSM 15827, ATCC 700813, CCUG 37380)

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

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900111135

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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