Name: Leptospira alstonii ATCC
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133935

Type strain:

Species: Leptospira alstonii

Strain Designation: ATCC, BAA-2439, 79601

Culture col. no.: ATCC , BAA-2439

NCBI tax ID(s): 28452 (species)

Section

Leptospira alstonii ATCC is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from frog.

Gram-negative
motile
spiral-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	*Spirochaetota*
	Class	*Spirochaetia*
	Order	*Leptospirales*
	Family	*Leptospiraceae*
	Genus	*Leptospira*
	Species	**Leptospira alstonii**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Leptospira alstonii Smythe et al. 2013

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #30912]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #30912]	Cell shape	spiral-shaped

[Ref.: #30912]	Motility	yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #30912]			growth	12-36 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #30912]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

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

[Ref.: #30912]	Sample type/isolated from	frog
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Isolation sources categories

#Host

#Amphibia

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AY631881 (>99% sequence identity) for Leptospira from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	158
Soil Samples	263
Animal Samples	64
Plant Samples	91
Total Samples	576

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.: #30912]	Leptospira genomosp. 1 serovar Sichuan strain 79601 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY631881	1431	GenBank	1218563 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Leptospira alstonii serovar Sichuan str. 79601	GCA_000347175	contig	GenBank	1218565 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Leptospira alstoni serovar Sichuan str. 79601	1218565.3	wgs	PATRIC	1218565 tax ID	*

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GC-content

39 mol%

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

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Leptospira alstoni serovar Sichuan str. 79601 PATRIC: 1218565.3
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	86.252	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	98.453	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	94.117	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	76.237	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	93.178	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	86.837	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	91.364	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	69.617	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	79.793	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	88.241	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

ATCC , BAA-2439

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Classification of Leptospira genomospecies 1, 3, 4 and 5 as Leptospira alstonii sp. nov., Leptospira vanthielii sp. nov., Leptospira terpstrae sp. nov. and Leptospira yanagawae sp. nov., respectively.	Smythe L, Adler B, Hartskeerl RA, Galloway RL, Turenne CY, Levett PN, The International Committee On Systematics Of Prokaryotes Subcommittee On The Taxonomy Of	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.047324-0	2012	*

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 )

#30912

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 #27242 (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) .

#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) .

#27242

IJSEM 1859 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.047324-0 , PubMed 22984140 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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