Common Features and Intra-Species Variation of Cutibacterium modestum Strains, and Emended Description of the Species.

ABSTRACT: Cutibacterium modestum is a new species coined in 2020 as the fifth species of genus Cutibacterium, which includes Cutibacterium acnes. The species is predicted as a minor but common member of skin microbiome and includes a group tentatively named as "Propionibacterium humerusii". The description of the species has been provided only with a single strain. To establish the characteristics of C. modestum and search for possible disease-related subtypes, we investigated the biochemical characteristics of eight live strains and performed in silico comparison of nine genomes. The common features, which included the morphology of Gram-stain positive short rods, the negativity of phenylalanine arylamidase, and several unique MALDI-TOF MS spectral peaks, were considered useful in laboratory identi

SUBMITTER: Dekio I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8620323 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature