Name: Brucella pinnipedialis BCCN 94-73
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 134291

Type strain:

Species: Brucella pinnipedialis

Culture col. no.: BCCN 94-73, NCTC 12890

NCBI tax ID(s): 120576 (species)

Section

Brucella pinnipedialis BCCN 94-73 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, ovoid-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Spleen of seal.

Gram-negative
ovoid-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	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Hyphomicrobiales*
	Family	*Brucellaceae*
	Genus	*Brucella*
	Species	**Brucella pinnipedialis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Brucella pinnipedialis Foster et al. 2007

Synonym

"Brucella maris"

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32291]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #32291]	Cell length	1.05 µm

[Ref.: #32291]	Cell width	0.6 µm

[Ref.: #32291]	Cell shape	ovoid-shaped

[Ref.: #32291]	Motility	no

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #32291]			growth	20-40 °C
[Ref.: #32291]			optimum	37 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32291]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #32291]			growth	6.6-7.4

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

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Observation

aggregates in chains

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #32291]	glutamate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32291]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #32291]	ribose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #32291]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #32291]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #32291]	urease	+	3.5.1.5

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

[Ref.: #32291]	Sample type/isolated from	Spleen of seal
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Mammals	-
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Spleen

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AM158981 (>99% sequence identity) for Brucellaceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	8164
Soil Samples	8416
Animal Samples	19304
Plant Samples	4266
Total Samples	40150

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.: #32291]	Brucella pinnipediae partial 16S rRNA gene, strain NCTC 12890	AM158981	1430	GenBank	120576 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Brucella pinnipedialis B2/94	520461.3	wgs	PATRIC	520461 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Brucella pinnipedialis B2/94	520461.7	complete	PATRIC	520461 tax ID	*

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

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Brucella pinnipedialis B2/94 PATRIC: 520461.7
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	98.563	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	97.673	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	90.276	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	95.766	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	88.118	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	90.117	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	93.187	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	60.219	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	86.784	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	90.661	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

BCCN 94-73, NCTC 12890

Literature:

	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Brucella ceti sp. nov. and Brucella pinnipedialis sp. nov. for Brucella strains with cetaceans and seals as their preferred hosts.	Foster G, Osterman BS, Godfroid J, Jacques I, Cloeckaert A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65269-0	2007	*
	Experimental Challenge of Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) with a Brucella pinnipedialis Strain from Hooded Seal (Cystophora cristata).	Nymo IH, Seppola M, Al Dahouk S, Bakkemo KR, Jimenez de Bagues MP, Godfroid J, Larsen AK	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0159272	2016	*

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 )

#32291

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 #28531 (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) .

#28531

IJSEM 2688 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65269-0 , PubMed 17978241 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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