Bacteroides faecichinchillae (DSM 26883, CCUG 60873, JCM 17102)

Name: Bacteroides faecichinchillae (DSM 26883, CCUG 60873, JCM 17102)
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BacDive ID 22936

Type strain

Strain Designation ST37

Culture col. no. DSM 26883 CCUG 60873 JCM 17102 ST37 KCTC 15666

NCBI tax ID(s) 1236513 871325

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM KCTC Literature strains

History <- JCM M. Kitahara ST37.

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Bacteroides faecichinchillae ST37 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from chinchilla feces.

Gram-negative rod-shaped anaerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 399194

JCM 17102,DSM 26883,CCUG 60873

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:23:37

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Bacteroidia

Order Bacteroidales

Family Bacteroidaceae

Genus Bacteroides

Species Bacteroides faecichinchillae

Full scientific name Bacteroides faecichinchillae Kitahara et al. 2012

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Bacteroides faecichinchillae** (1)	Type strain
169634	B. faecichinchillae NM45_B5, DSM 110161

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
30294	negative	2.5 µm	1.4 µm	rod-shaped
125438	negative				94.854
125439	negative				99.6

Colony morphology

@ref	Incubation period
19140	1-2 days
62473	1 day

Pigmentation

30294

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
19140	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
19140	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
19140	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
30294	positive	optimum	37	mesophilic
62473	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
19140	anaerobe
30294	anaerobe
62473	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe	90.6

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
30294
125438		92.348
125439		99.7

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-9, MK-10

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68380	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A
30294	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
68367	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68380	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	fermentation	from API rID32A
68367	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
30294	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
68367	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20A
68367	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20A
30294	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
68367	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68380	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	degradation	from API rID32A
68367	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
30294	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
68367	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
30294	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
68367	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
30294	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
30294	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
68367	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68380	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API rID32A
30294	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
68380	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	fermentation	from API rID32A
68367	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
30294	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
30294	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	carbon source
68367	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	-	builds acid from	from API 20A
68367	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
30294	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
68367	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from	from API 20A
68380	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API rID32A
68380	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A
68367	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20A

Metabolite production

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

Metabolite tests

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

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
30294	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
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
68367	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API 20A
68380	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API rID32A
68367	gelatinase	-		from API 20A
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	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	from API rID32A
68380	tyrosine arylamidase	-		from API rID32A
68380	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API rID32A
68367	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20A

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	100	8 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	100	8 of 8
66794	vitamin K metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	glycogen metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	100	14 of 14
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	starch degradation	90	9 of 10
66794	d-mannose degradation	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	87.5	7 of 8
66794	propanol degradation	85.71	6 of 7
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	NAD metabolism	83.33	15 of 18
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	82.22	37 of 45
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	81.82	9 of 11
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	80	4 of 5
66794	threonine metabolism	80	8 of 10
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	O-antigen biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	alanine metabolism	79.31	23 of 29
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	citric acid cycle	78.57	11 of 14
66794	serine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	purine metabolism	77.66	73 of 94
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	flavin biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	71.43	5 of 7
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	71.43	20 of 28
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	70	7 of 10
66794	propionate fermentation	70	7 of 10
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	70	7 of 10
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	68.75	11 of 16
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-xylose degradation	63.64	7 of 11
66794	degradation of hexoses	61.11	11 of 18
66794	non-pathway related	60.53	23 of 38
66794	cellulose degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	hydrogen production	60	3 of 5
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	57.69	15 of 26
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	57.14	4 of 7
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	55.56	5 of 9
66794	histidine metabolism	55.17	16 of 29
66794	proline metabolism	54.55	6 of 11
66794	leucine metabolism	53.85	7 of 13
66794	methionine metabolism	53.85	14 of 26
66794	lysine metabolism	52.38	22 of 42
66794	lipid metabolism	51.61	16 of 31
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	50	3 of 6
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	degradation of pentoses	50	14 of 28
66794	adipate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	dolichol and dolichyl phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	polyamine pathway	47.83	11 of 23
66794	tryptophan metabolism	47.37	18 of 38
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	cysteine metabolism	44.44	8 of 18
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	43.96	40 of 91
66794	arginine metabolism	41.67	10 of 24
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	41.67	5 of 12
66794	ascorbate metabolism	40.91	9 of 22
66794	degradation of sugar acids	40	10 of 25
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	bacilysin biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	urea cycle	38.46	5 of 13
66794	sulfate reduction	38.46	5 of 13
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	tyrosine metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	glutathione metabolism	28.57	4 of 14
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	alginate biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	23.08	3 of 13
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	22.22	4 of 18

API 20A

@ref	IND	URE	GLU	MAN	LAC	SAC	MAL	SAL	XYL	ARA	GEL	ESC	GLY	CEL	MNE	MLZ	RAF	SOR	RHA	TRE	CAT	Spores presentSPOR	GramGRAM	Morphology coccus="+" rod="-"COCC
19140	not determinedn.d.	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.

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
19140	-	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	+	+	+	+	+/-	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Rodentia (Other)
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
19140	chinchilla feces		Japan	JPN	Asia
62473	Chinchilla feces,healthy (Chinchilla lanigera)	Musashino	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Feces of a chinchilla

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB574480 (>99% sequence identity) for Bacteroides faecichinchillae subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	13
Soil Samples	10
Animal Samples	3217
Plant Samples
Total Samples	3240

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
19140	1	Risk group (German 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 2695420934 annotated assembly for Bacteroides faecichinchillae DSM 26883	contig	GCA_900129065	871325.5	2695420934	871325	61.67
67770	ASM61414v1 assembly for Bacteroides faecichinchillae JCM 17102	contig	GCA_000614145	1236513.3	2585427860	1236513	41.62

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
19140	Bacteroides faecichinchillae gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB574480	1486		1236513

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
19140	41.0	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
30294	41
67770	41	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: Bacteroides faecichinchillae JCM 17102
NCBI: GCA_000614145

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	90.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	79.30	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.70	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Bacteroides faecichinchillae JCM 17102
PATRIC: 1236513.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	94.85	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	83.31	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.35	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	91.47	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.20	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	86.50	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Influence of the densities and nutritional components of bacterial colonies on the culture-enriched gut bacterial community structure.	Gu Y, Yan D, Wu M, Li M, Li P, Wang J, Chang Y, Yang F, Di S, Ni S, Yang M, Liu J.	AMB Express	10.1186/s13568-021-01240-6	2021
	Bacteroides faecium sp. nov. isolated from human faeces.	Kim J, Song HS, Kim JY, Whon TW, Chung WH, Nam YD, Choi YE, Roh SW.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005666	2023
Phylogeny	Bacteroides stercorirosoris sp. nov. and Bacteroides faecichinchillae sp. nov., isolated from chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) faeces.	Kitahara M, Sakamoto M, Tsuchida S, Kawasumi K, Amao H, Benno Y, Ohkuma M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.032706-0	2011
Phylogeny	Bacteroides faecalis sp. nov., isolated from human faeces.	Yu SY, Kim JS, Oh BS, Park SH, Kang SW, Park JE, Choi SH, Han KI, Lee KC, Eom MK, Suh MK, Lee DH, Yoon H, Kim BY, Yang SJ, Lee JS, Lee JH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003690	2019

References

#19140	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 26883
#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 )
#26635	IJSEM 1145 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.032706-0 , PubMed 21724955 )
#30294	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 #26635
#62473	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 60873
#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;
#68367	Automatically annotated from API 20A .
#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 .
#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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Bacteroides faecichinchillae (DSM 26883, CCUG 60873, JCM 17102)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

API 20A

API rID32A

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900129065

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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