Name: Meiothermus cateniformans CGMCC 1.6990
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133487

Type strain:

Species: Meiothermus cateniformans

Culture col. no.: CGMCC 1.6990, JCM 15151, LY 1

Strain history: X.-Q. Zhang LY1.

NCBI tax ID(s): 172827 (species)

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Meiothermus cateniformans CGMCC 1.6990 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from hot spring.

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

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Deinococcota*
	Class	*Deinococci*
	Order	*Thermales*
	Family	*Thermaceae*
	Genus	*Meiothermus*
	Species	**Meiothermus cateniformans**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Meiothermus cateniformans Zhang et al. 2010

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #29173]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #29173]	Cell length	1.75 µm

[Ref.: #29173]	Cell width	0.5 µm

[Ref.: #29173]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #29173]	Motility	no

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

		Temperature
[Ref.: #29173]	growth	55-67 °C
[Ref.: #29173]	optimum	57.5 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	55 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #29173]			optimum	8.25
[Ref.: #29173]			growth	5.5-10

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

[Ref.: #29173]	Ability of spore formation	no
[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %97

[Ref.: #29173]	Observation	aggregates in chains
[Ref.: #67770]	Observation	quinones: MK-7

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #29173]	arginine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	asparagine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	esculin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #29173]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	galactose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	glutamate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	mannitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	proline ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	pyruvate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	serine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	sorbitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29173]	xylose ChEBI	+	carbon source
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	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #29173]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #29173]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #29173]	gelatinase	+

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

[Ref.: #29173]	Sample type/isolated from	hot spring

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Hot spring in Qianshan
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Anshan
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	China
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	CHN
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence EU247891 (>99% sequence identity) for Meiothermus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	132
Soil Samples	4
Animal Samples	70
Plant Samples	6
Total Samples	212

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.: #29173]	Meiothermus cateniformans strain LY1 16S ribosomal RNA (rrnA) gene, partial sequence	EU247891	1455	GenBank ENA	482825 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Meiothermus taiwanensis JCM 15151	GCA_003574045	contig	GenBank ENA	172827 tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Meiothermus cateniformans strain JCM 15151	482825.3	wgs	PATRIC	482825 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #29173]	GC-content	61.5 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	61.5 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Meiothermus cateniformans strain JCM 15151 PATRIC: 482825.3
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	97	no

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Meiothermus cateniformans strain JCM 15151 PATRIC: 482825.3
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	74.039	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	89.934	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	72.556	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	83.805	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	65.668	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	74.877	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

CGMCC 1.6990, JCM 15151, LY 1

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Meiothermus luteus sp. nov., a slightly thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring.	Habib N, Khan IU, Hussain F, Zhou EM, Xiao M, Dong L, Zhi XY, Li WJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002040	2017	*
Phylogeny	Meiothermus cateniformans sp. nov., a slightly thermophilic species from north-eastern China.	Zhang XQ, Zhang WJ, Wei BP, Xu XW, Zhu XF, Wu M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.007914-0	2009	*

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 )

#29173

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 #25597 (see below)

#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) .

#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 .

#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) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#25597

IJSEM 840 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.007914-0 , PubMed 19661497 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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