Pleomorphochaeta caudata (DSM 103077, JCM 31475, KU714929)

Name: Pleomorphochaeta caudata (DSM 103077, JCM 31475, KU714929)
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BacDive ID 133341

Type strain

Strain Designation KU714929

Culture col. no. DSM 103077 JCM 31475 KU714929 SEBR 4223

NCBI tax ID(s) 1806370

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History DSMZ <- R. Grimaud, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, IBEAS, Pau, France; SEBR 4223 <- M. Magot {1991} JCM <-- R. Grimaud; Lab. Environ. & Microbiol. (EEM)-IPREM-UMR5254 CNRS, France; SEBR 4223 <-- M. Magot.

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Pleomorphochaeta caudata KU714929 is an obligate anaerobe, chemoorganotroph, Gram-negative bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from production water sample of well number BB325 of the Emeraude off shore oil field.

Gram-negative pleomorphic-shaped colony-forming obligate anaerobe chemoorganotroph 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 396896

JCM 31475,DSM 103077

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:04

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Spirochaetota

Class Spirochaetia

Order Spirochaetales

Family Sphaerochaetaceae

Genus Pleomorphochaeta

Species Pleomorphochaeta caudata

Full scientific name Pleomorphochaeta caudata Arroua et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape	Motility
25202	negative	0.5-0.95 µm	pleomorphic-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
25202	non-pigmented	circular	SEM agar plates

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
25202	basal medium		containing (l-1): 0.5 g NH4Cl, 0.1 g KH2PO4 , 4 g MgCl2.6H2O, 1 g CaCl2.2H2O, 40 g NaCl, 0.15 g cysteine hydrochloride, 1 ml trace mineral element solution [30], 0.5 g yeast extract and 1 ml resazurin solution (0.1 %, w/v)
25202	SEM agar plates		2.5 %, w/v; Noble agar, Difco
64142	PLEOMORPHOCHAETA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1271)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PLEOMORPHOCHAETA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1271) Composition: NaCl 24.9252 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 3.98804 g/l D-Glucose 1.69492 g/l Na2CO3 1.49551 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.997009 g/l Yeast extract 0.997009 g/l NH4Cl 0.498504 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.299103 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.299103 g/l KH2PO4 0.0997009 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00199402 g/l NaOH 0.000498504 g/l Na2-EDTA 0.000498504 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000498504 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000189432 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.97009e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.97009e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.97906e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.98504e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.98504e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.98504e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.58923e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.39282e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.99402e-05 g/l Biotin 1.99402e-05 g/l AlCl3 9.97009e-06 g/l H3BO3 5.98205e-06 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.98804e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.99103e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.99402e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.97009e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
25202	positive	optimum	37
25202	positive	growth	20.0-42.0
64142	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
25202	positive	optimum	7
25202	positive	growth	5.2-8.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

25202

Oxygen toleranceobligate anaerobe

Nutrition type

25202

Typechemoorganotroph

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
25202	NaCl		optimum	40 g/L
25202	NaCl	positive	growth	10.0-60.0 g/L

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
25202	30089 ChEBI	acetate	-	assimilation
25202	27569 ChEBI	arabinogalactan	-	assimilation
25202	17968 ChEBI	butyrate	-	assimilation
25202		casamino acids	-	assimilation
25202	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	assimilation
25202	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation
25202	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	assimilation
25202	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	assimilation
25202	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	assimilation
25202	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
25202	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
25202	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	assimilation
25202	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	assimilation
25202	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	assimilation
25202	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	-	assimilation
25202	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	assimilation
25202	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	assimilation
25202	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	assimilation
25202	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	assimilation
25202	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	assimilation
25202	24996 ChEBI	lactate	-	assimilation
25202	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	assimilation
25202	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
25202	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
25202	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	assimilation
25202	17790 ChEBI	methanol	-	assimilation
25202	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	assimilation
25202		peptone	-	assimilation
25202	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	assimilation
25202	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	assimilation
25202	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	assimilation
25202	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	assimilation
25202	30031 ChEBI	succinate	-	assimilation
25202	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	assimilation
25202	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	assimilation
25202	27338 ChEBI	xylene	-	assimilation
25202	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	+	assimilation
25202		yeast extract	-	assimilation

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
25202	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
25202	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

25202

Fatty acid	Percentage
C14:0	42.3
C14:0 DMA	19.8
C16:1ω7c	9.8
C16:0	8.8
C13:1	4.5
C16:1ω9c	3.9
C14:0 3OH	3.4
C16:0 3OH	2.2
C16:0 DMA	2.2

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Oil reservoir
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature	Isolation procedure	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code
25202	production water sample of well number BB325 of the Emeraude off shore oil field	Africa	SEM agar plates	2.5 %, w/v; Noble agar, Difco	7 days	37	under anoxic conditions
64142	production water from an offshore oil well	Africa						Emeraude offshore oil field, well number BB325	Republic of the Congo	COG
67770	Production water of an offshore Congolese oil field

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KU714929 (>99% sequence identity) for Pleomorphochaeta caudata subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	980
Soil Samples	61
Animal Samples	76
Plant Samples	13
Total Samples	1130

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
64142	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
64142	Pleomorphochaeta caudata strain SEBR 4223 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KU714929	1400		1806370

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
64142	28.7	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Pleomorphochaeta naphthae sp. nov., a new anaerobic fermentative bacterium isolated from an oil field.	Arroua B, Grimaud R, Hirschler-Rea A, Bouriat P, Magot M, Urios L, Ranchou-Peyruse A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003048	2018
Phylogeny	Pleomorphochaeta caudata gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium isolated from an offshore oil well, reclassification of Sphaerochaeta multiformis MO-SPC2T as Pleomorphochaeta multiformis MO-SPC2T comb. nov. as the type strain of this novel genus and emended description of the genus Sphaerochaeta.	Arroua B, Ranchou-Peyruse A, Ranchou-Peyruse M, Magot M, Urios L, Grimaud R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001641	2017

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 )
#25202	B. R.-P. Arroua, A.,Ranchou-Peyruse, M.,Magot, M.,Urios, L.,Grimaud, R.: Pleomorphochaeta caudata gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium isolated from an offshore oil well, reclassification of Sphaerochaeta multiformis MO-SPC2T as Pleomorphochaeta multiformis MO-SPC2T comb. nov. as the type strain of this novel genus and emended description of the genus Sphaerochaeta. IJSEM 67: 417 - 424 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001641 , PubMed 27902274 )
#64142	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 103077
#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 .
#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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Pleomorphochaeta caudata (DSM 103077, JCM 31475, KU714929)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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