Paenibacillus fonticola (DSM 21315, BCRC 17579, LMG 23577)

Name: Paenibacillus fonticola (DSM 21315, BCRC 17579, LMG 23577)
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BacDive ID 11625

Type strain

Strain Designation ZL

Culture col. no. DSM 21315 BCRC 17579 LMG 23577 ZL CIP 110593 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1122918 379896

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains KCTC CIP

History DSMZ <- LMG <- W.-M. Chen; ZL CIP <- 2013, LMG <- 2006, W.M. Chen, Nat. Kaohsiung Marine Univ., Taiwan, China: strain ZL

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Paenibacillus fonticola ZL is a facultative anaerobe, spore-forming, Gram-variable bacterium that was isolated from warm spring, water.

spore-forming Gram-variable motile rod-shaped facultative anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 290797

LMG 23577,BCRC 17579,CCRC 17579,KCTC 13624,CIP 110593,DSM 21315

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:27:36

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Paenibacillaceae

Genus Paenibacillus

Species Paenibacillus fonticola

Full scientific name Paenibacillus fonticola Chou et al. 2007

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
32045	variable	2.0-12.4 µm	0.8-1 µm	rod-shaped
119419	positive			rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
15505	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
33580	MEDIUM 72- for trypto casein soja agar		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Trypto casein soy agar (40.000 g)
119419	CIP Medium 72	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
15505	positive	growth	30
32045	positive	growth	20-45
32045	positive	optimum	32.5
33580	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
32045	positive	optimum	8.5
32045	positive	growth	07-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
32045	facultative anaerobe
125439	facultative anaerobe	94.594

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
32045
125439		94.031
125438		91.442

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32045	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
32045	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
32045	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
32045	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	+	carbon source
32045	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
32045	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
32045	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
32045	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
32045	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
32045	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
32045	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
32045	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
32045	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
32045	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32045	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
32045	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
15505	warm spring, water	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia
119419	Environment, Warm spring water	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia	2006

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ453131 (>99% sequence identity) for Paenibacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	6
Soil Samples	28
Animal Samples	13
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	49

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15505	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
119419	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
66792	ASM38190v1 assembly for Paenibacillus fonticola DSM 21315	scaffold	GCA_000381905	1122918.3	2519899635	1122918	64.01

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15505	Paenibacillus fonticola strain ZL 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ453131	1464		379896

GC content

15505

GC-content (mol%)49.2

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM38190v1 assembly for Paenibacillus fonticola DSM 21315
NCBI: GCA_000381905

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	74.16	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	94.59	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	87.73	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	94.03	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Paenibacillus fonticola DSM 21315 DSM 21315
NCBI: GCA_000381905.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	55.09	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	89.60	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	65.85	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	91.44	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	91.95	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	84.87	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Antibiofilm Activity of Weissella spp. and Bacillus coagulans Isolated from Equine Skin against Staphylococcus aureus.	Stykova E, Nemcova R, Madar M, Bujnakova D, Mucha R, Gancarcikova S, Requena Domenech F.	Life (Basel)	10.3390/life12122135	2022
	Bacillus amyloliquefaciens-Derived Lipopeptide Biosurfactants Inhibit Biofilm Formation and Expression of Biofilm-Related Genes of Staphylococcus aureus.	Englerova K, Bedlovicova Z, Nemcova R, Kiraly J, Madar M, Hajduckova V, Stykova E, Mucha R, Reiffova K.	Antibiotics (Basel)	10.3390/antibiotics10101252	2021
	Paenibacillus larvae-Directed Bacteriophage HB10c2 and Its Application in American Foulbrood-Affected Honey Bee Larvae.	Beims H, Wittmann J, Bunk B, Sproer C, Rohde C, Gunther G, Rohde M, von der Ohe W, Steinert M.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.00804-15	2015
Genetics	Genome mining: Prediction of lipopeptides and polyketides from Bacillus and related Firmicutes.	Aleti G, Sessitsch A, Brader G.	Comput Struct Biotechnol J	10.1016/j.csbj.2015.03.003	2015
Phylogeny	Paenibacillus fonticola sp. nov., isolated from a warm spring.	Chou JH, Chou YJ, Lin KY, Sheu SY, Sheu DS, Arun AB, Young CC, Chen WM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64872-0	2007

References

#15505	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21315
#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 )
#28295	IJSEM 1346 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64872-0 , PubMed 17551056 )
#32045	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 #28295
#33580	; Curators of the CIP;
#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) .
#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 .
#119419	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 110593
#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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Paenibacillus fonticola (DSM 21315, BCRC 17579, LMG 23577)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000381905

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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