Legionella saoudiensis | Type strain | LS-1, DSM 101682, CSUR P2101

Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133211

Type strain:

Species: Legionella saoudiensis

Culture col. no.: LS-1 , DSM 101682, CSUR P2101

Section

Name and taxonomic classification
Morphology
Culture and growth conditions
Physiology and metabolism
Isolation, sampling and environmental information
Sequence information

External links

Legionella saoudiensis LS-1 is a mesophilic, gram-negative, motile bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from sewage sample.

colony-forming
gram-negative
motile
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	23-11-2020 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	Bacteria
	Phylum	Proteobacteria
	Class	Gammaproteobacteria
	Order	Legionellales
	Family	Legionellaceae
	Genus	Legionella
	Species	Legionella saoudiensis
	Full Scientific Name (PNU)	Legionella saoudiensis Bajrai et al. 2016

Information on morphological and physiological propertiesMorphology

[Ref.: #25004]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #25004]	Cell length	0.87 µm
[Ref.: #25004]	Cell width	0.61 µm
[Ref.: #25004]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #25004]	Colony size	0.8 mm
[Ref.: #25004]	Colony color	bluish
[Ref.: #25004]	Colony shape	circular
[Ref.: #25004]	Cultivation medium used	BCYE agar

Information on culture and growth conditionsCulture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

BCYE agar

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Culture medium growth

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #25004]			optimum	32 ̊C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolismPhysiology and metabolism

	Metabolite utilization	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #25004]		gelatin ChEBI	-	hydrolysis

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #25004]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #25004]	gelatinase	-
[Ref.: #25004]	hippurate hydrolase	-	3.5.1.32

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditionsIsolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #25004]	Sample type/isolated from	sewage sample
[Ref.: #25004]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Jeddah in the western region of Saudi Arabia
[Ref.: #25004]	Country	Saudi Arabia
[Ref.: #25004]	Country ISO 3 Code	SAU
[Ref.: #25004]	Continent	Asia

Isolation sources categories

#Engineered

#Waste

#Sewage sludge

What are isolation sources categories?

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

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #25004]	16S rRNA	LN899829		GenBank

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Legionella saoudiensis LS-1	GCA_001465875	scaffold	GenBank	1750561 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Legionella sp. LH-SWC	1750561.3	wgs	PATRIC	1750561 tax ID	*

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GC-content

39.42 mol%

Availability in culture collectionsExternal links

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Culture collection no.

LS-1 , DSM 101682, CSUR P2101

References

#20215

Leibniz Institute DSMZ D.Gleim, M.Kracht, N.Weiss et. al.: Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date - compilation of all names of Bacteria and Archaea, validly published according to the Bacteriological Code since 1. Jan. 1980, and validly published nomenclatural changes since .

#25004

L. H. A. Bajrai, E. I.,Yasir, M.,Jardot, P.,Barrassi, L.,Raoult, D.,La Scola, B.,Pagnier, I.: Legionella saoudiensis sp. nov., isolated from a sewage water sample. IJSEM 66: 4367 - 4371 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001357 )

#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) .

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