Name: Legionella saoudiensis LS-1
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133211

Type strain:

Species: Legionella saoudiensis

Strain Designation: LS-1

Culture col. no.: DSM 101682, CSUR P2101

Strain history: <- S. Khelaifia, Federation de bacteriologie et virologie hygiene hospitaliere, Hopital de la Timone, Marseille; LS-1

NCBI tax ID(s): 1750561 (species)

Section

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	07-12-2022 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	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 properties Morphology

[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 conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

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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
[Ref.: #68994]			growth	37 °C

[Ref.: #25004]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #68994]	Temperature range	mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology 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 conditions Isolation, 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

[Ref.: #68994]	Sample type/isolated from	water from a sewage filtration plant
[Ref.: #68994]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Jeddah
[Ref.: #68994]	Country	Saudi Arabia
[Ref.: #68994]	Country ISO 3 Code	SAU
[Ref.: #68994]	Continent	Asia
[Ref.: #68994]	Geographic location	21.5333°/39.1667°
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered

#Waste

#Sewage sludge

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence LN899829 (>99% sequence identity) for Legionella saoudiensis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	303
Soil Samples	246
Animal Samples	185
Plant Samples	81
Total Samples	815

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.: #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.: #25004]	GC-content	39.42 mol%
[Ref.: #68994]	GC-content	39.42 mol%	sequence analysis

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 101682, CSUR P2101

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Legionella saoudiensis sp. nov., isolated from a sewage water sample.	Bajrai LH, Azhar EI, Yasir M, Jardot P, Barrassi L, Raoult D, La Scola B, Pagnier I	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001357	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 )

#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 , PubMed 27489234 )

#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) .

#68994

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 101682

#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 .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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