Mesorhizobium shonense (DSM 29846, AC39a, HAMBI 3295)

Name: Mesorhizobium shonense (DSM 29846, AC39a, HAMBI 3295)
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BacDive ID 132148

Type strain

Strain Designation AC39a

Culture col. no. DSM 29846 AC39a HAMBI 3295 LMG 26966

NCBI tax ID(s) 1209948

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- LMG <- A. Willems, Lab. Microbiology, Ghent Univ., Belgium <- E. Wolde-meskel, Univ. Hawassa, College of Agric. School and Horticultural Scs., Ethiopia

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Mesorhizobium shonense AC39a is a Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from root nodule Acacia abyssinica.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 379939

LMG 26966,HAMBI 3295,DSM 29846

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:37:47

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Bartonellaceae

Genus Mesorhizobium

Species Mesorhizobium shonense

Full scientific name Mesorhizobium shonense Degefu et al. 2013

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
30772	negative	2.59 µm	0.34 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative					93.312

Pigmentation

30772

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
23938	RHIZOBIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 98)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: RHIZOBIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 98) Composition: air-dried garden soil 80.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Mannitol 10.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na2CO3 0.2 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
23938	positive	growth	30
30772	positive	growth	0-35

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
30772	positive	growth	4.5-10.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	96.958

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.948

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68369	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20NE
68369	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
30772	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	+	carbon source
68369	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
30772	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
30772	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source
68369	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API 20NE
30772	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	carbon source
30772	17148 ChEBI	putrescine	+	carbon source
30772	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source
68369	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20NE
30772	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	carbon source
30772	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source
68369	16199 ChEBI	urea	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
30772	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	+	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20NE

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API 20NE

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68369	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
68369	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API 20NE
68369	gelatinase	-		from API 20NE
68369	urease	+	3.5.1.5	from API 20NE

API 20NE

@ref	Reduction of nitratesNO3	TRP	GLU_ Ferm	ADH (Arg)	URE	ESC	GEL	PNPG	GLU_ Assim	ARA	MNE	MAN	NAG	MAL	GNT	CAP	ADI	MLT	CIT	PAC	OX
23938	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+/-	-	-	-	-	+/-	-	-	-	+/-	-	-	not determinedn.d.

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Tree
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Root nodule

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
23938	root nodule Acacia abyssinica	Acacia abyssinica	Ethiopia	ETH	Africa

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence GQ847890 (>99% sequence identity) for Mesorhizobium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	8865
Soil Samples	28701
Animal Samples	7451
Plant Samples	4030
Total Samples	49047

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
23938	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM4054525v1 assembly for Mesorhizobium shonense DSM 29846	contig	GCA_040545255	2928206566	1209948	66.19

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
23938	Mesorhizobium shonense strain AC39a 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	GQ847890	1469		1209948

GC content

30772

GC-content (mol%)62.2

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM4054525v1 assembly for Mesorhizobium shonense DSM 29846
NCBI: GCA_040545255

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	96.96	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	93.31	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	52.56	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.95	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Mesorhizobium shonense sp. nov., Mesorhizobium hawassense sp. nov. and Mesorhizobium abyssinicae sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of different agroforestry legume trees.	Degefu T, Wolde-Meskel E, Liu B, Cleenwerck I, Willems A, Frostegard A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.044032-0	2012

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 )
#23938	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 29846
#27103	IJSEM 1746 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.044032-0 , PubMed 22941297 )
#30772	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 #27103
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Mesorhizobium shonense (DSM 29846, AC39a, HAMBI 3295)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API 20NE

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_040545255

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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