Name: Falcatimonas natans WN011
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 132681

Type strain:

Species: Falcatimonas natans

Strain Designation: WN011

Culture col. no.: DSM 22923, JCM 16476

Strain history: A. Ueki; Fac. of Agric., Yamagata Univ., Japan; WN011.

NCBI tax ID(s): 433279 (species)

SI-ID 397706

DSM 22923

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Falcatimonas natans WN011 is an anaerobe, chemoorganotroph, Gram-negative bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from rice-straw residue in a methanogenic reactor treating waste from cattle farms.

colony-forming
Gram-negative
motile
rod-shaped
anaerobe
chemoorganotroph
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Clostridia*
	Order	*Eubacteriales*
	Family	*Lachnospiraceae*
	Genus	*Falcatimonas*
	Species	**Falcatimonas natans**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Falcatimonas natans Watanabe et al. 2016

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #25038]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #25038]	Cell length	1.3-2.3 µm

[Ref.: #25038]	Cell width	0.4-0.6 µm

[Ref.: #25038]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #25038]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #25038]	Flagellum arrangement	polar

[Ref.: #25038]	Colony size	0.5-1.0 mm
[Ref.: #25038]	Colony shape	circular
[Ref.: #25038]	Cultivation medium used	PY4S agar

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

PY4S agar

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium

PY + X MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 104b)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #24470]	growth	30 °C
[Ref.: #25038]	growth	15-40 °C
[Ref.: #25038]	optimum	35-37 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	30 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #25038]			optimum	6.7
[Ref.: #25038]			growth	5.8-7.5

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

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Nutrition type

chemoorganotroph

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #25038]		NaCl		growth	0-20.0	g/L
[Ref.: #25038]		NaCl		optimum	0	g/L

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #25038]	amygdalin ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	arabinose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	arabinose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #25038]	carboxymethylcellulose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	cellobiose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	cellulose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	esculin ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	esculin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #25038]	galactose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	glucose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	glucose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #25038]	glycogen ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	inulin ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-alanine ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-asparagine ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-aspartate ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-glutamate ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-glutamine ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-histidine ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-isoleucine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-leucine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-lysine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-methionine ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-phenylalanine ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-proline ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-serine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-threonine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-tryptophan ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	L-valine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	lactose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #25038]	maltose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	maltose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #25038]	mannitol ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	mannose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	melezitose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	melibiose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	myo-inositol ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	nitrate ChEBI	-	reduction
[Ref.: #25038]	pectin ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	raffinose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	rhamnose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	ribose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	salicin ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	sorbitol ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	starch ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	sucrose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	sucrose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #25038]	trehalose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	tryptophan ChEBI	-	energy source
[Ref.: #25038]	xylan ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	xylose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #25038]	xylose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
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	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #25038]		indole ChEBI	no

	Physiological tests	Metabolite	Indole test
[Ref.: #25038]		indole ChEBI	-

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #25038]	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #25038]	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #25038]	lecithinase	-
[Ref.: #25038]	lipase	-
[Ref.: #25038]	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #24470]	Sample type/isolated from	rice-straw residue in a methanogenic reactor treating waste from cattle farms
[Ref.: #24470]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Hokkaido, Betsukai-machi
[Ref.: #24470]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #24470]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #24470]	Continent	Asia

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Methanogenic reactor of cattle waste

[Ref.: #25038]	Enrichment culture	peptone/yeast extract (PY)
[Ref.: #25038]	Enrichment culture temperature	30 ̊C
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Bioreactor	-
#Engineered	#Waste	-
#Host	#Mammals	#Bovinae (Cow, Cattle)
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AB298726 (>99% sequence identity) for Falcatimonas natans subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	5900
Soil Samples	362
Animal Samples	3510
Plant Samples	175
Total Samples	9947

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #24470]	Falcatimonas natans gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB298726	1484	GenBank ENA	433279 tax ID

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GC-content

38.8 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 22923, JCM 16476

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SI-ID 397706

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Falcatimonas natans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor of cattle waste.	Watanabe M, Kaku N, Ueki K, Ueki A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001403	2016	*

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 )

#24470

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22923

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M. K. Watanabe, N.,Ueki, K.,Ueki, A.: Falcatimonas natans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor of cattle waste. IJSEM 66: 4639 - 4644 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001403 , PubMed 27506535 )

#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 .

#90989

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID397706.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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