Name: Ensifer numidicus LMG 24690
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133535

Type strain:

Species: Ensifer numidicus

Culture col. no.: LMG 24690, CIP 109850, ORS 1407

Strain history: CIP <- 2013, P. de Lajudie, Lab. Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, UMR 113 IRD-CIRAD-SupAgro-Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France: strain ORS 1407

NCBI tax ID(s): 680248 (species)

SI-ID 97969

CIP 109850, LMG 24690, LMG 27395

Other strains from Ensifer numidicus

E. numidicus CIP 109858, ORS 1410, LMG 24736

Section

Ensifer numidicus LMG 24690 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Plant, Root nodule, Argyrolobium uniflorum.

Gram-negative
rod-shaped
aerobe
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	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Hyphomicrobiales*
	Family	*Rhizobiaceae*
	Genus	*Ensifer*
	Species	**Ensifer numidicus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Ensifer numidicus Merabet et al. 2010

Synonym

Sinorhizobium numidicum

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #29389]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #121372]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #29389]	Cell shape	rod-shaped
[Ref.: #121372]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #121372]	Motility	yes

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MEDIUM 705 - for Ensifer

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

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Culture medium

CIP Medium 705

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #29389]			growth	28-40 °C
[Ref.: #36543]			growth	30 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #29389]			growth	06-09

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #29389]	Oxygen tolerance	aerobe
[Ref.: #121372]	Oxygen tolerance	obligate aerobe

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Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #29389]		NaCl		growth	01-02	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #29389]	alanine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29389]	aspartate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29389]	gluconate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29389]	histidine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #121372]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #121372]	nitrite ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #29389]	propionate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29389]	succinate ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #121372]		indole ChEBI	no

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #68382]	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	* from API zym
[Ref.: #121372]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #68382]	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	esterase (C 4)	+		* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	esterase lipase (C 8)	-		* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	lipase (C 14)	-		* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		* from API zym
[Ref.: #121372]	oxidase	+
[Ref.: #68382]	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	* from API zym
[Ref.: #121372]	urease	+	3.5.1.5
[Ref.: #68382]	valine arylamidase	-		* from API zym
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API® zym:

Note that the displayed test results represent raw data and therefore may deviate!

	API ID	Control	2-naphthyl phosphateAlkaline phosphatase	2-naphthyl butyrateEsterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	2-naphthyl myristateLipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	N-benzoyl-DL-arginine-2-naphthylamideTrypsin	N-glutaryl-phenylalanine-2-naphthylamidealpha- Chymotrypsin	2-naphthyl phosphateAcid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	6-Br-2-naphthyl-alphaD-galactpyranosidealpha- Galactosidase	2-naphthyl-betaD-galactpyranosidebeta- Galactosidase	Naphthol-AS-BI-betaD-glucuronidebeta- Glucuronidase	2-naphthyl-alphaD-glucopyranosidealpha- Glucosidase	6-Br-2-naphthyl-betaD-glucopyranosidebeta- Glucosidase	1-naphthyl-N-acetyl-betaD-glucosaminideN-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	6-Br-2-naphthyl-alphaD-mannopyranosidealpha- Mannosidase	2-naphthyl-alphaL-fucopyranosidealpha- Fucosidase
[Ref.: #121372]	12160	-	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	-	-

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

[Ref.: #121372]	Sample type/isolated from	Plant, Root nodule, Argyrolobium uniflorum
[Ref.: #121372]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	South
[Ref.: #121372]	Country	Tunisia
[Ref.: #121372]	Country ISO 3 Code	TUN
[Ref.: #121372]	Continent	Africa
[Ref.: #121372]	Isolation date	1993
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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 (French classification)

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

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GC-content

62.8 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

LMG 24690, CIP 109850, ORS 1407

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SI-ID 97969

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Multilocus sequence analysis of root nodule isolates from Lotus arabicus (Senegal), Lotus creticus, Argyrolobium uniflorum and Medicago sativa (Tunisia) and description of Ensifer numidicus sp. nov. and Ensifer garamanticus sp. nov.	Merabet C, Martens M, Mahdhi M, Zakhia F, Sy A, Le Roux C, Domergue O, Coopman R, Bekki A, Mars M, Willems A, de Lajudie P	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.012088-0	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 )

#29389

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 #25796 (see below)

#36543 ; Curators of the CIP;

#68382

Automatically annotated from API zym .

#91491

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-ID97969.1 )

#121372 Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 109850

#25796

IJSEM 664 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.012088-0 , PubMed 19656922 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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