Cite this strain

Legionella quateirensis (CIP 105271, ATCC 49507, CCUG 44899)

BacDive ID 137047

Type strain

Strain Designation 1335

Culture col. no. CIP 105271 ATCC 49507 CCUG 44899 1335

NCBI tax ID(s) 45072

Special Collections CCUG CIP

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Legionella quateirensis 1335 is a microaerophile, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Legionellaceae.

Gram-negative rod-shaped microaerophile genome sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 42523

ATCC 49507,CIP 105271,CCUG 44899,NCTC 12376

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:56

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella quateirensis

Full scientific name Legionella quateirensis Dennis et al. 1993

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape
36888	negative	rod-shaped
125439	negative
125438	negative

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition
36888	MEDIUM 23 - for Afipia and Legionella		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Legionella agar (37.000 g);Legionella - enrichment mixture (10.000 ml)
36888	CIP Medium 23

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
36888	positive	growth	37
56536	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
56536	microaerophile
125439	obligate aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.929
125438		92.89

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
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
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
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
68382	valine arylamidase	+		from API zym

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

56536

Fatty acid	Percentage	ECL
C16:1 ω7c	41.7	15.819
C16:0 iso	17.1	15.626
C15:0 ANTEISO	6.9	14.711
C16:0	6.6	16
C15:1 ω6c	5	14.856
C18:0	4.8	18
C14:0 ISO	3.7	13.618
C17:0 anteiso	3.6	16.722
C15:0 ISO 3OH	2.8	16.135
C15:0	2	15
C17:0	1.6	17
C20:0	1.4	20
C19:0	1.4	19
Unidentified	1.3	15.927

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

56536

Fatty acid	Percentage	ECL
C16:1 ω7c	38.5	15.819
C16:0 iso	17.8	15.626
C15:0 ANTEISO	10	14.711
C16:0	7.4	16
C15:1 ω6c	5.5	14.856
C14:0 ISO	5.5	13.618
C18:0	3.9	18
C17:0 anteiso	3.2	16.722
C15:0	1.8	15
C20:0	1.2	20
C17:0	1.2	17
C19:0	1	19
C14:0	0.8	14
C14:1 ω5c	0.6	13.899
C15:0 ISO	0.4	14.621
C14:0 ISO 3OH	0.4	15.117
C20:0 ISO	0.3	19.635
Unidentified	0.3	15.933
C18:0 ISO	0.2	17.632

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
36888	-	+	-	+	-	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Built environment	#Indoor
#Engineered	#Built environment	#Water reservoir (Aquarium/pool)

Isolation

@ref	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
36888	Quarteira	Portugal	PRT	Europe
56536	Quarteira	Portugal	PRT	Europe
36888	Quarteira	Portugal	PRT	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
36888	2	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM146795v1 assembly for Legionella quateirensis ATCC 49507	scaffold	GCA_001467955	45072.5	2667527804	45072	51.34

Genome browser: GCA_001467955

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Diaspora project based on:
ASM146795v1 assembly for Legionella quateirensis ATCC 49507
PATRIC: GCA_001467955

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	97.54	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	49.86	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.10	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.93	no

Predictions from Diaspora project based on:
Legionella quateirensis ATCC 49507
NCBI: GCA_001467955.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.39	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.70	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	77.45	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.89	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.48	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	55.12	no

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Draft Genome Sequences of Legionella Presumptive Novel Species Isolated during Environmental Surveillance in Artificial Water Systems.	Girolamini L, Salaris S, Orsini M, Pascale MR, Mazzotta M, Grottola A, Cristino S.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.00307-21	2021
Development and evaluation of Chlamylege, a new commercial test allowing simultaneous detection and identification of Legionella, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae in clinical respiratory specimens by multiplex PCR.	Ginevra C, Barranger C, Ros A, Mory O, Stephan JL, Freymuth F, Joannes M, Pozzetto B, Grattard F.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.43.7.3247-3254.2005	2005
Legionella bononiensis sp. nov., isolated from a hotel water distribution system in northern Italy.	Girolamini L, Pascale MR, Salaris S, Mazzotta M, Orsini M, Grottola A, Zini N, Cristino S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005512	2022

References

#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 )
#36888	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 105271
#56536	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 44899
#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) .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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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Legionella quateirensis (CIP 105271, ATCC 49507, CCUG 44899)

Name and taxonomic classification