Catabacter hongkongensis (DSM 18959, CCUG 54229, JCM 17853)

Name: Catabacter hongkongensis (DSM 18959, CCUG 54229, JCM 17853)
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BacDive ID 24768

Type strain

Strain Designation HKU 16, HKU16

Culture col. no. DSM 18959 CCUG 54229 JCM 17853 HKU 16 HKU16 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 270498

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM KCTC

History <- S. K. P. Lau, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, China; HKU16 S. K. P. Lau HKU16.

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Catabacter hongkongensis HKU 16 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from patient with intestinal obstruction and secondary sepsis.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 303645

CCUG 54229,JCM 17853,DSM 18959

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:24:04

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Christensenellaceae

Genus Catabacter

Species Catabacter hongkongensis

Full scientific name Catabacter hongkongensis Lau et al. 2014

Synonyms (2)

"Catabacter hongkongensis"
Christensenella hongkongensis

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Catabacter hongkongensis** (5)	Type strain
149242	C. hongkongensis CCUG 37327 A
155358	C. hongkongensis CCUG 57444
155482	C. hongkongensis CCUG 57840
156916	C. hongkongensis CCUG 67027
156992	C. hongkongensis CCUG 68271

Morphology

Colony morphology

@ref	Incubation period
19060	2-3 days
60112	3 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
19060	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l D-Glucose 4.0 g/l Starch 1.0 g/l Maltose 1.0 g/l Cellobiose 1.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Ethanol 0.19 g/l Vitamin K3 0.05 g/l Hemin 0.005 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Vitamin K1 NaOH Distilled water
19060	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)
19060	positive	growth	37
60112	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
19060	anaerobe
60112	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe	99.3

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	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API rID32A
68380	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API rID32A

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
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
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

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
19060	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
19060	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Infection	#Disease
#Infection	#Patient
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
19060	patient with intestinal obstruction and secondary sepsis	Hong Kong	China	CHN	Asia
60112	Human blood,48-yr-old man,intestinal obstruction	Hongkong	China	CHN	Asia
67770	Blood cultures of patients with acute gastrointestinal compromises or with acute sepsis

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY574991 (>99% sequence identity) for Catabacter hongkongensis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1000
Soil Samples	376
Animal Samples	41354
Plant Samples	204
Total Samples	42934

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM434274v1 assembly for Christensenella hongkongensis DSM 18959	scaffold	GCA_004342745	270498.28	2795385462	270498	69.83
67770	ASM98103v1 assembly for Christensenella hongkongensis HKU16	contig	GCA_000981035	270498.26	2636415467	270498	49.13

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
19060	Catabacter hongkongensis 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY574991	1453		270498
67770	Catabacter hongkongensis gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 17853	AB671763	1497		270498

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
19060	40.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
67770	48.53	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Christensenella hongkongensis DSM 18959
NCBI: GCA_004342745

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	73.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	82.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	69.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Christensenella hongkongensis DSM 18959
NCBI: GCA_004342745.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	64.26	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	88.96	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	94.61	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	53.27	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	83.69	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	68.10	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Peritonitis with bacteremia due to Christensenella hongkongensis identified via ribosomal RNA sequencing in a Japanese patient with advanced colorectal adenocarcinoma: A case report.	Itoh N, Akazawa N, Ishibana Y, Murakami H.	IDCases	10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01797	2023
	First case of human bacteraemia by Catabacter hongkongensis in Scandinavia.	Kaden R, Thelander M, Engstrand L, Herrmann B	New Microbes New Infect	10.1016/j.nmni.2016.09.015	2016
Genetics	Draft Genome Sequence of Catabacter hongkongensis Type Strain HKU16T, Isolated from a Patient with Bacteremia and Intestinal Obstruction.	Lau SK, Teng JL, Huang Y, Curreem SO, Tsui SK, Woo PC	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00531-15	2015
Phylogeny	Caldicoprobacter oshimai gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, xylanolytic, extremely thermophilic bacterium isolated from sheep faeces, and proposal of Caldicoprobacteraceae fam. nov.	Yokoyama H, Wagner ID, Wiegel J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.011379-0	2009
Phylogeny	Catabacter hongkongensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from blood cultures of patients from Hong Kong and Canada.	Lau SK, McNabb A, Woo GK, Hoang L, Fung AM, Chung LM, Woo PC, Yuen KY	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/JCM.01831-06	2006

References

#19060	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18959
#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 )
#60112	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 54229
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Catabacter hongkongensis (DSM 18959, CCUG 54229, JCM 17853)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API rID32A

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_004342745

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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