Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis (DSM 20073, ATCC 14933, 14-1)

Name: Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis (DSM 20073, ATCC 14933, 14-1)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 6452

Type strain

Strain Designation 14-1, L 889

Culture col. no. DSM 20073 ATCC 14933 14-1 L 889

NCBI tax ID(s) 29397

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Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis 14-1 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from saliva.

anaerobe mesophilic genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49579

DSM 20073,ATCC 14933

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:48:19

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Lactobacillaceae

Genus Lactobacillus

Species Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis

Full scientific name Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis (Orla-Jensen 1919) Weiss et al. 1984

Synonyms (2)

"Thermobacterium lactis"
Lactobacillus lactis

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis** (15)	Type strain
6451	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis L 110, DSM 20072, ATCC 12315, NCDO 1438, ... (type strain)
6453	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis 326, F 59, DSM 20076, ATCC 4797, CCM 2344, ...
6454	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis 313, Ld 5, Ld5, DSM 20355, ATCC 7830, NCDO ...
135973	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis CIP 101810
137310	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis MB 367, CIP 105924, ATCC 10697, JCM 1107, ...
139021	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis 103-76, CIP 110109
139036	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis CIP 57.5, ATCC 8000, IAM 1173, JCM 1105, ...
142103	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis CCUG 10909
145767	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis CCUG 29538
150308	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis CCUG 39595
155777	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis CCUG 59286
160874	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis JCM 1010, BCRC 14032
160882	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis JCM 1016
161008	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis JCM 1063, BCRC 14033
161126	L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis JCM 1106

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Motility	Confidence
125438		95.5
125438		94.248

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
8501	MRS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 11)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MRS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 11) Composition: Glucose 20.0 g/l Casein peptone 10.0 g/l Meat extract 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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
8501	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
8501	anaerobe
8501	microaerophile
125439	anaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		96

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
8501	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
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
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

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
8501	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body Product	#Oral cavity and Airways	#Saliva

Isolation

8501

Sample typesaliva

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8501	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2113453v1 assembly for Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis DSM 20073	scaffold	GCA_021134535	29397.137	29397	47.13

Genome browser: GCA_021134535

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis DSM 20073
NCBI: GCA_021134535

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	96.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	71.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	72.40	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: Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis DSM 20073
NCBI: GCA_021134535.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	94.25	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	78.01	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	97.74	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.83	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.00	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	95.50	no

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Lactic Acid Production from Sugarcane Bagasse Hydrolysates by Lactiplantibacillus Strains.	Xavier MCA, Dias GS, Hernalsteens S, Franco TT.	ACS Omega	10.1021/acsomega.5c08221	2025
Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis from Milk Products and Other Habitats.	Shani N, Oberhaensli S, Berthoud H, Schmidt RS, Bachmann HP.	Foods	10.3390/foods10123145	2021
Analyzing the influence of microstructured surfaces on the lactic acid production of Lactobacillus delbrueckii lactis in a flow-through cell system.	Schlegel C, Chodorski J, Huster M, Davoudi N, Huttenlochner K, Bohley M, Reichenbach I, Buhl S, Breuninger P, Muller-Renno C, Ziegler C, Aurich J, Antonyuk S, Ulber R.	Eng Life Sci	10.1002/elsc.201700045	2017
Genotypic characterization and safety assessment of lactic acid bacteria from indigenous African fermented food products.	Adimpong DB, Nielsen DS, Sorensen KI, Derkx PM, Jespersen L.	BMC Microbiol	10.1186/1471-2180-12-75	2012
Competitive selection of lactic acid bacteria that persist in the human oral cavity.	Snel J, Marco ML, Kingma F, Noordman WM, Rademaker J, Kleerebezem M.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.06043-11	2011
Plantaricins S and T, Two New Bacteriocins Produced by Lactobacillus plantarum LPCO10 Isolated from a Green Olive Fermentation.	Jimenez-Diaz R, Rios-Sanchez RM, Desmazeaud M, Ruiz-Barba JL, Piard JC.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.59.5.1416-1424.1993	1993

References

#8501	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 20073
#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 )
#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) .
#68371	Automatically annotated from API 50CH acid .
#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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Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis (DSM 20073, ATCC 14933, 14-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Murein

Metabolite utilization

API 50CHac

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_021134535

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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