Methylomicrobium lacus (ATCC BAA-1047, JCM 13284, LW14)

Name: Methylomicrobium lacus (ATCC BAA-1047, JCM 13284, LW14)
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BacDive ID 134110

Type strain

Strain Designation LW14

Culture col. no. ATCC BAA-1047 JCM 13284 LW14

NCBI tax ID(s) 136992

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History M. G. Kalyuzhnaya LW14.

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Methylomicrobium lacus LW14 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, ovoid-shaped bacterium that was isolated from freshwater sediment .

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 281456

ATCC BAA-1047,JCM 13284,DSM 16693

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:06

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Methylococcales

Family Methylococcaceae

Genus Methylomicrobium

Species Methylomicrobium lacus

Full scientific name Methylomicrobium lacus (Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2005) Orata et al. 2019

Synonyms (1)

Methylosarcina lacus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
31362	negative	1.1 µm	0.85 µm	ovoid-shaped
125438	negative					99.5

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
31362	positive	growth	04-35
31362	positive	optimum	29
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31362	positive	optimum	6
31362	positive	growth	04-07	acidophile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

31362

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Observation

31362

Observationaggregates in clumps

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
31362	16183 ChEBI	methane

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31362	catalase	+	1.11.1.6

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Freshwater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Pond (small)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#River (Creek)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
31362	freshwater sediment (river, lake, pond)
67770	Sediment of Lake Washington	Seattle, WA	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY007296 (>99% sequence identity) for Methylomicrobium lacus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1052
Soil Samples	878
Animal Samples	28
Plant Samples	39
Total Samples	1997

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	ASM52709v1 assembly for Methylomicrobium lacus LW14	contig	GCA_000527095	1114263.3	2517093044	1114263	70.7

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
31362	Methylosarcina lacus strain LW14 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY007296	1499		136992

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
31362	53.3
67770	54.67	genome sequence analysis
67770	52.9-53.7	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Methylomicrobium lacus LW14 LW14
NCBI: GCA_000527095.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.50	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	88.06	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	63.92	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	86.75	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.42	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	63.28	yes

Literature

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 )
#27675	IJSEM 2345 2005 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63405-0 , PubMed 16280494 )
#31362	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 #27675
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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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