Levilactobacillus hammesii (DSM 16381, CIP 108387, TMW 1.1236)

Name: Levilactobacillus hammesii (DSM 16381, CIP 108387, TMW 1.1236)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 6624

Type strain

Strain Designation LP38

Culture col. no. DSM 16381 CIP 108387 TMW 1.1236 CCUG 51325 LP38 3 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1423753 267633

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM CIP Literature strains

History DSMZ <- M. Korakli, TMW <- R. Valcheva; LP38 CIP <- 2004, M. Korakli, Freising, Germany: strain LP38 JCM <-- CIP 108387 <-- M. Korakli LP38. CIP <- 2004, M. Korakli, Munich Tech. Univ., Freising, Germany: strain LP38

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Levilactobacillus hammesii LP38 is a microaerophile, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from wheat sourdough.

Gram-positive rod-shaped microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 138007

CIP 108387,DSM 16381,LMG 23074,CCUG 51325,VTT E-052829,JCM 16170

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:27

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Lactobacillales

Family Lactobacillaceae

Genus Levilactobacillus

Species Levilactobacillus hammesii

Full scientific name Levilactobacillus hammesii (Valcheva et al. 2005) Zheng et al. 2020

Synonyms (1)

Lactobacillus hammesii

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Levilactobacillus hammesii** (1)	Type strain
6625	L. hammesii LP39, DSM 16382, TMW 1.602

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
31323	positive	3 µm	0.5 µm	rod-shaped
119831	positive			rod-shaped
125438					90
125438	positive				94.018

Colony morphology

59150

Incubation period2 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
6418	MRS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 11)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MRS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 11; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Glucose 20.0 g/l Maltose 10.0 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
38274	MEDIUM 40- for Lactobacillus and Leuconostoc		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Man Rogosa Sharp agar (68.000 g)
119831	CIP Medium 40	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6418	positive	growth	30
31323	positive	growth	15-45
31323	positive	optimum	32.5
38274	positive	growth	30
59150	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	30
119831	positive	growth	15-37
119831	negative	growth	10
119831	negative	growth	45

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
31323	positive	optimum	5.95
31323	positive	growth	4.7-7.2

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
6418	microaerophile
31323	facultative anaerobe
59150	anaerobe
119831	microaerophile
125439	facultative anaerobe	91.972

Spore formation

31323

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31323	NaCl	positive	growth	<6.6 %
31323	NaCl	positive	optimum	1 %

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
6418	A11.31	A4alpha L-Lys-D-Asp

Observation

31323

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68371	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
31323	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
68371	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
31323	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
68371	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	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
31323	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
31323	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
68371	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
31323	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
68371	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
31323	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
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
31323	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
68371	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
31323	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
31323	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
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
31323	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source
119831	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
119831	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	respiration
119831	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
68371	0 ChEBI	Potassium 2-ketogluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	0 ChEBI	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
31323	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
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
31323	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	Metabolite	Is sensitive	Is resistant
119831	0129 (2,4-Diamino-6,7-di-iso-propylpteridine phosphate)

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
119831	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
119831	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
119831	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
68382	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	+	3.2.1.31	from API zym
119831	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
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
119831	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
119831	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
119831	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
119831	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
119831	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-

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
6418	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
119831	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+/-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+/-	-	+	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Food production	#Food

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
6418	wheat sourdough		Pays des la Loire	France	FRA	Europe
59150	Wheat sourdough	2001	Pays de la Loire	France	FRA	Europe
67770	French sourdough
119831	Food, Wheat sourdough		Pays de la Loire	France	FRA	Europe	2001

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LC519851 (>99% sequence identity) for Levilactobacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	119
Soil Samples	117
Animal Samples	507
Plant Samples	178
Total Samples	921

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6418	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
119831	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	ASM143439v1 assembly for Levilactobacillus hammesii DSM 16381	scaffold	GCA_001434395	1423753.3	2700989150	1423753	60.94

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Lactobacillus hammesii strain CIP 108387 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU161595	795	267633
6418	Lactobacillus hammesii partial 16S rRNA gene, strain TMW 1.1236	AJ632219	1549	267633
67770	Lactobacillus hammesii JCM 16170 gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	LC519851	1505	267633

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)
6418	52.6
67770	49.4

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM143439v1 assembly for Levilactobacillus hammesii DSM 16381
NCBI: GCA_001434395

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	91.97	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	67.15	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	41.30	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	68.18	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Lactobacillus hammesii DSM 16381
PATRIC: 1423753.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	94.02	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	82.03	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	82.46	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.08	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	95.35	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	90.00	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Bacterial Degradation of Antinutrients in Foods: The Genomic Insight.	Arsov A, Tsigoriyna L, Batovska D, Armenova N, Mu W, Zhang W, Petrov K, Petrova P.	Foods	10.3390/foods13152408	2024
Genetics	Genus-Wide Assessment of Antibiotic Resistance in Lactobacillus spp.	Campedelli I, Mathur H, Salvetti E, Clarke S, Rea MC, Torriani S, Ross RP, Hill C, O'Toole PW.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01738-18	2019
	Selection of adjunct cultures for the ripening of plant cheese analogues	Xie J, Ganzle MG.	Food Microbiology.		2024
Biotechnology	Selection of adjunct cultures for the ripening of plant cheese analogues.	Xie J, Ganzle MG.	Food Microbiol	10.1016/j.fm.2024.104555	2024
	Conversion of Phytochemicals by Lactobacilli: (Phospho)-beta-glucosidases Are Specific for Glucosylated Phytochemicals Rather than Disaccharides.	Dymarska M, Widenmann A, Low KE, Abbott DW, Guan L, Ganzle MG.	J Agric Food Chem	10.1021/acs.jafc.3c08535	2024
Metabolism	Sourdough yeast-bacteria interactions can change ferulic acid metabolism during fermentation.	Boudaoud S, Aouf C, Devillers H, Sicard D, Segond D.	Food Microbiol	10.1016/j.fm.2021.103790	2021
Genetics	The production of esters by specific sourdough lactic acid bacteria species is limited by the precursor concentrations.	Pradal I, Weckx S, De Vuyst L.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02216-24	2025
Genetics	Diverse Microbial Composition of Sourdoughs From Different Origins.	Comasio A, Verce M, Van Kerrebroeck S, De Vuyst L.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.01212	2020
Biotechnology	Lacticaseibacillus salsurae sp. nov. and Levilactobacillus muriae sp. nov., isolated from traditional Chinese pickle.	Song ST, Wang TY, Zhu XY, Gu CT.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006816	2025
Phylogeny	Lactobacillus yonginensis sp. nov., a lactic acid bacterium with ginsenoside converting activity isolated from Kimchi.	Yi EJ, Yang JE, Lee JM, Park Y, Park SY, Shin HS, Kook M, Yi TH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.045799-0	2013
Phylogeny	Lactobacillus paucivorans sp. nov., isolated from a brewery environment.	Ehrmann MA, Preissler P, Danne M, Vogel RF	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.018077-0	2009
Phylogeny	Lactobacillus senmaizukei sp. nov., isolated from Japanese pickle.	Hiraga K, Ueno Y, Sukontasing S, Tanasupawat S, Oda K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65677-0	2008
Phylogeny	Lactobacillus hammesii sp. nov., isolated from French sourdough.	Valcheva R, Korakli M, Onno B, Prevost H, Ivanova I, Ehrmann MA, Dousset X, Ganzle MG, Vogel RF	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63311-0	2005
Phylogeny	Characterization of two novel pentose-fermenting and GABA-producing species: Levilactobacillus tujiorum sp. nov. and Secundilactobacillus angelensis sp. nov. Isolated from a solid-state fermented zha-chili.	Zhang Z, Wang Y, Dong Y, Xiang F, Zhang Y, Zhang H, Sun Y, Guo Z	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/j.syapm.2022.126344	2022

References

#6418	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16381
#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 )
#27638	IJSEM 763 2005 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63311-0 , PubMed 15774659 )
#31323	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 #27638
#38274	; Curators of the CIP;
#59150	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 51325
#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 .
#119831	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108387
#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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Levilactobacillus hammesii (DSM 16381, CIP 108387, TMW 1.1236)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Murein

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API 50CHac

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001434395

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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