Paenibacillus macerans (DSM 24746, CCTCC AB 2011115, CIP 110636)

Name: Paenibacillus macerans (DSM 24746, CCTCC AB 2011115, CIP 110636)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 11663

Type strain

Strain Designation WP-1

Culture col. no. DSM 24746 CCTCC AB 2011115 CIP 110636 JCM 17693 WP-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 44252

Special Collections DSMZ JCM CIP

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Paenibacillus macerans WP-1 is a thermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from sediment of hot spring.

thermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 406040

JCM 17693,DSM 24746,CIP 110636

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:49:39

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Paenibacillaceae

Genus Paenibacillus

Species Paenibacillus macerans

Full scientific name Paenibacillus macerans (Schardinger 1905) Ash et al. 1994

Synonyms (3)

Paenibacillus thermophilus
"Aerobacillus macerans"
Bacillus macerans

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Paenibacillus macerans** (9)	Type strain
11475	P. macerans 888, NRS-888, DSM 24, ATCC 8244, CCM 2012, ... (type strain)
11472	P. macerans DSM 357, CCM 1610, CCUG 26009, LMG 6325, ...
11473	P. macerans CCUG 26010, LMG 6402, DSM 1574, IAM 1243, ...
11474	P. macerans 8276, 8275, DSM 2892, ATCC 7069, CIP 52.82, ...
136067	P. macerans 231-86, CIP 102268
137751	P. macerans CIP 51.23
150419	P. macerans CCUG 39867
153498	P. macerans CCUG 49775
161343	P. macerans JCM 13340

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17750	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
120734	CIP Medium 72		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
17750	positive	growth	45	thermophilic
67770	positive	growth	45	thermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.079
125439		93.4

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-7

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	threonine metabolism	100	10 of 10
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	glycogen metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	ceramide biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	100	5 of 5
66794	NAD metabolism	100	18 of 18
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	100	11 of 11
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	100	2 of 2
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	95.45	21 of 22
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	92.86	13 of 14
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	starch degradation	90	9 of 10
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	88.89	8 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	86.67	39 of 45
66794	heme metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	citric acid cycle	85.71	12 of 14
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	85.71	6 of 7
66794	photosynthesis	85.71	12 of 14
66794	propanol degradation	85.71	6 of 7
66794	purine metabolism	85.11	80 of 94
66794	1,4-dihydroxy-6-naphthoate biosynthesis	83.33	5 of 6
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	82.14	23 of 28
66794	proline metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	81.25	13 of 16
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	80	8 of 10
66794	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	degradation of sugar acids	80	20 of 25
66794	flavin biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	serine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	methionine metabolism	76.92	20 of 26
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	75	6 of 8
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	75	9 of 12
66794	degradation of pentoses	75	21 of 28
66794	polyamine pathway	73.91	17 of 23
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	degradation of hexoses	72.22	13 of 18
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	non-pathway related	71.05	27 of 38
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	70.33	64 of 91
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	70	7 of 10
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	70	7 of 10
66794	alanine metabolism	68.97	20 of 29
66794	methane metabolism	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	66.67	4 of 6
66794	glycolysis	64.71	11 of 17
66794	d-xylose degradation	63.64	7 of 11
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	63.64	7 of 11
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	leucine metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	61.54	16 of 26
66794	sulfate reduction	61.54	8 of 13
66794	lipid metabolism	61.29	19 of 31
66794	hydrogen production	60	3 of 5
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	lysine metabolism	59.52	25 of 42
66794	histidine metabolism	58.62	17 of 29
66794	arginine metabolism	58.33	14 of 24
66794	tryptophan metabolism	57.89	22 of 38
66794	glutathione metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	cysteine metabolism	55.56	10 of 18
66794	nitrate assimilation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	allantoin degradation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	ascorbate metabolism	54.55	12 of 22
66794	urea cycle	53.85	7 of 13
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	toluene degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	dolichol and dolichyl phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	phenol degradation	45	9 of 20
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	43.75	7 of 16
66794	3-chlorocatechol degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	propionate fermentation	40	4 of 10
66794	creatinine degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	O-antigen biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	40	6 of 15
66794	gallate degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	40	4 of 10
66794	tyrosine metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	33.33	6 of 18
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	33.33	6 of 18
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	29.41	10 of 34
66794	mevalonate metabolism	28.57	2 of 7
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	28.57	2 of 7
66794	aclacinomycin biosynthesis	28.57	2 of 7
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	25	3 of 12
66794	alginate biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	vitamin E metabolism	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17750	sediment of hot spring	Fujian province	China	CHN	Asia
67770	Sediment sample from a hot spring in Fujian Province		China	CHN	Asia
120734	Environment, Sediment of hot spring	Fujian	China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JQ824133 (>99% sequence identity) for Paenibacillus macerans subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples
Soil Samples	10
Animal Samples	10
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	22

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17750	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
120734		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	ASM386443v1 assembly for Paenibacillus macerans JCM 17693	scaffold	GCA_003864435	1181891.4	8112456067	44252	61.73
67770	ASM385110v1 assembly for Paenibacillus macerans DSM 24746	scaffold	GCA_003851105	1181891.3	8112449450	44252	60.15

Genome browser: GCA_003864435

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
17750	Paenibacillus thermophilus strain WP-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JQ824133	1464		1181891
124043	Paenibacillus macerans JCM 17693 gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence.	LC425347	1476		44252

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
17750	52.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Paenibacillus macerans DSM 24746
NCBI: GCA_003851105

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	78.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	89.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	88.30	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	93.40	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Paenibacillus thermophilus strain DSM 24746
PATRIC: 1181891.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	57.18	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	89.22	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	90.08	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	58.13	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.74	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	80.84	no

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Occurrence of vanHAX and Related Genes beyond the Actinobacteria Phylum.	Yushchuk O, Binda E, Fedorenko V, Marinelli F.	Genes (Basel)	10.3390/genes13111960	2022
Reclassification of Paenibacillus thermophilus Zhou et al. 2013 as a later heterotypic synonym of Paenibacillus macerans (Schardinger 1905) Ash et al. 1994.	Kobayashi H, Tanizawa Y, Sakamoto M, Nakamura Y, Ohkuma M, Tohno M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003160	2018
Paenibacillus thermophilus sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from a sediment of hot spring in Fujian province, China.	Zhou Y, Gao S, Wei DQ, Yang LL, Huang X, He J, Zhang YJ, Tang SK, Li WJ	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-012-9755-6	2012

References

#17750	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24746
#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 )
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#120734	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 110636
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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 macerans (DSM 24746, CCTCC AB 2011115, CIP 110636)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Observation

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_003864435

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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