Tetragenococcus muriaticus (DSM 15685, JCM 10006, CCUG 41880)

Name: Tetragenococcus muriaticus (DSM 15685, JCM 10006, CCUG 41880)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 5257

Type strain

Strain Designation X-1

Culture col. no. DSM 15685 JCM 10006 CCUG 41880 CIP 105747 LMG 18498 3 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1123359 64642

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM KCTC CIP

History <- Y. Benno <- T. Fujii; X-1 <- M. Satomi T. Fujii X-1. CIP <- 1998, JCM <- T. Fujii: strain X-1

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Tetragenococcus muriaticus X-1 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that was isolated from japanese local traditional fermented seafood.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 12151

LMG 18498,JCM 10006,CIP 105747,NCIMB 13556,CCUG 41880,DSM 15685,NBRC 100499

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:55

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Enterococcaceae

Genus Tetragenococcus

Species Tetragenococcus muriaticus

Full scientific name Tetragenococcus muriaticus Satomi et al. 1997

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Tetragenococcus muriaticus** (1)	Type strain
137303	T. muriaticus X-2, CIP 105748, JCM 10007

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
121193	positive	coccus-shaped
125438	positive			92.507

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
6045	MRS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 11)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MRS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 11; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaCl 100.0 g/l Glucose 20.0 g/l Meat extract 10.0 g/l Casein peptone 10.0 g/l Na-acetate 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l (NH4)3 citrate 2.0 g/l K2HPO4 2.0 g/l Tween 80 1.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.2 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.05 g/l Distilled water
37226	MEDIUM 290 - for Tetragenococcus		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Sodium chloride (100.000 g);Agar (15.000 g);Man Rogosa Sharp broth (55.000 g)
121193	CIP Medium 290	Medium recipe at CIP
6045	CASO AGAR (MERCK 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CASO AGAR (MERCK 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casein peptone 15.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l Soy peptone 5.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
6045	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
37226	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
55250	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
121193	positive	growth	22-41
121193	negative	growth	10
121193	negative	growth	45

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
55250	anaerobe
121193	facultative anaerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	97.6

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
6045	A11.31	A4alpha L-Lys-D-Asp

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	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	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	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	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
68371	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
121193	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	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	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
121193	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
121193	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
68371		Potassium 2-ketogluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371		Potassium 5-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	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	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	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
121193	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
121193	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
121193	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
121193	amylase	-
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
121193	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
121193	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
121193	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
121193	DNase	-
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	-		from API zym
121193	gamma-glutamyltransferase	-	2.3.2.2
121193	gelatinase	-
121193	lecithinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API zym
121193	lipase	-
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
121193	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
121193	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
121193	oxidase	-
121193	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
121193	tween esterase	-
121193	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

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
121193	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-

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
121193	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

API biotype100

@ref	ControlQ	D-glucose as carbon sourceGLU	D-fructose as carbon sourceFRU	D-galactose as carbon sourceGAL	D-trehalose as carbon sourceTRE	D-mannose as carbon sourceMNE	L-sorbose as carbon sourceSBE	D-melibiose as carbon sourceMEL	sucrose as carbon sourceSAC	D-raffinose as carbon sourceRAF	maltotriose as carbon sourceMTE	maltose as carbon sourceMAL	lactose as carbon sourceLAC	lactulose as carbon sourceLTE	1-O-methyl-beta-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGa	1-O-methyl-alpha-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMaGa	D-cellobiose as carbon sourceCEL	gentiobiose as carbon sourceGEN	1-O-methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGu	esculin as carbon sourceESC	D-ribose as carbon sourceRIB	L-arabinose as carbon sourceARA	D-xylose as carbon sourceXYL	palatinose as carbon sourcePLE	L-rhamnose as carbon sourceRHA	L-fucose as carbon sourceFUC	D-melezitose as carbon sourceMLZ	D-arabitol as carbon sourceDARL	L-arabitol as carbon sourceLARL	xylitol as carbon sourceXLT	dulcitol as carbon sourceDUL	D-tagatose as carbon sourceTAG	glycerol as carbon sourceGLY	myo-inositol as carbon sourceINO	D-mannitol as carbon sourceMAN	maltitol as carbon sourceMTL	D-turanose as carbon sourceTUR	D-sorbitol as carbon sourceSOR	adonitol as carbon sourceADO	hydroxyquinoline-beta-glucuronide as carbon sourceHBG	D-lyxose as carbon sourceLYX	i-erythritol as carbon sourceERY	1-O-methyl-alpha-D-glucoside as carbon sourceMDG	3-O-methyl-D-glucose as carbon source3MDG	D-saccharate as carbon sourceSAT	mucate as carbon sourceMUC	L-tartrate as carbon sourceLTAT	D-tartrate as carbon sourceDTAT	meso-tartrate as carbon sourceMTAT	D-malate as carbon sourceDMLT	L-malate as carbon sourceLMLT	cis-aconitate as carbon sourceCATE	trans-aconitate as carbon sourceTATE	tricarballylate as carbon sourceTTE	citrate as carbon sourceCIT	D-glucuronate as carbon sourceGRT	D-galacturonate as carbon sourceGAT	2-ketogluconate as carbon source2KG	5-ketogluconate as carbon source5KG	tryptophan as carbon sourceTRY	N-acetyl-D-glucosamine as carbon sourceNAG	D-gluconate as carbon sourceGNT	phenylacetate as carbon sourcePAC	protocatechuate as carbon sourcePAT	4-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcepOBE	quinate as carbon sourceQAT	gentisate as carbon sourceGTE	3-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcemOBE	benzoate as carbon sourceBAT	3-phenylpropionate as carbon sourcePPAT	m-coumarate as carbon sourceCMT	trigonelline as carbon sourceTGE	betaine as carbon sourceBET	putrescine as carbon sourcePCE	4-aminobutyrate as carbon sourceABT	histamine as carbon sourceHIN	DL-lactate as carbon sourceLAT	caprate as carbon sourceCAP	caprylate as carbon sourceCYT	L-histidine as carbon sourceHIS	succinate as carbon sourceSUC	fumarate as carbon sourceFUM	glutarate as carbon sourceGRE	DL-glycerate as carbon sourceGYT	5-aminovalerate as carbon sourceAVT	ethanolamine as carbon sourceETN	tryptamine as carbon sourceTTN	D-glucosamine as carbon sourceGLN	itaconate as carbon sourceITA	3-hydroxybutyrate as carbon source3OBU	L-aspartate as carbon sourceAPT	L-glutamate as carbon sourceGTT	L-proline as carbon sourcePRO	D-alanine as carbon sourceDALA	L-alanine as carbon sourceLALA	L-serine as carbon sourceSER	malonate as carbon sourceMNT	propionate as carbon sourcePROP	L-tyrosine as carbon sourceTYR	2-ketoglutarate as carbon source2KT
121193	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Food production	#Seafood
#Engineered	#Food production	#Fermented

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6045	japanese local traditional fermented seafood	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Squid liver sauce, Japanese local traditional fermented seafood	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LC096225 (>99% sequence identity) for Tetragenococcus muriaticus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	321
Soil Samples	200
Animal Samples	3188
Plant Samples	141
Total Samples	3850

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6045	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
121193	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	ASM42378v1 assembly for Tetragenococcus muriaticus DSM 15685	scaffold	GCA_000423785	1123359.3	2524614634	1123359	53.7
124043	ASM3016167v1 assembly for Tetragenococcus muriaticus NBRC 100499	contig	GCA_030161675	64642.10		64642	20.6

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
6045	Tetragenococcus muriaticae DNA for 16S rRNA	D88824	1512	64642
67770	Tetragenococcus muriaticus gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 10006	LC096225	1437	64642
124043	Tetragenococcus muriaticus gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: NBRC 100499.	AB681197	1480	64642
124043	Tetragenococcus muriaticus strain LMG 18498 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	EU689053	1361	64642

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
6045	36.5
67770	36	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Tetragenococcus muriaticus DSM 15685
NCBI: GCA_000423785

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	97.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	69.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	63.60	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	72.40	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Tetragenococcus muriaticus DSM 15685
PATRIC: 1123359.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	92.51	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	89.29	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	80.46	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	93.58	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.50	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	88.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Histamine-producing pathway encoded on an unstable plasmid in Lactobacillus hilgardii 0006.	Lucas PM, Wolken WA, Claisse O, Lolkema JS, Lonvaud-Funel A.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.71.3.1417-1424.2005	2005
	Biology of moderately halophilic aerobic bacteria.	Ventosa A, Nieto JJ, Oren A.	Microbiol Mol Biol Rev	10.1128/mmbr.62.2.504-544.1998	1998
	Contribution of Microorganisms to Biogenic Amine Accumulation during Fish Sauce Fermentation and Screening of Novel Starters.	Ma X, Bi J, Li X, Zhang G, Hao H, Hou H.	Foods	10.3390/foods10112572	2021
	Culture-independent bacterial community analysis of the salty-fermented fish paste products of Thailand and Laos.	Marui J, Boulom S, Panthavee W, Momma M, Kusumoto K, Nakahara K, Saito M.	Biosci Microbiota Food Health	10.12938/bmfh.2014-018	2015
Enzymology	High frequency of histamine-producing bacteria in the enological environment and instability of the histidine decarboxylase production phenotype.	Lucas PM, Claisse O, Lonvaud-Funel A.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01496-07	2008
Phylogeny	Tetragenococcus muriaticus sp. nov., a new moderately halophilic lactic acid bacterium isolated from fermented squid liver sauce.	Satomi M, Kimura B, Mizoi M, Sato T, Fujii T	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-47-3-832	1997

References

#6045	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15685
#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 )
#37226	; Curators of the CIP;
#55250	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 41880
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68371	Automatically annotated from API 50CH acid .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#121193	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 105747
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Tetragenococcus muriaticus (DSM 15685, JCM 10006, CCUG 41880)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Murein

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API 50CHac

API biotype100

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000423785

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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