Ensifer garamanticus (CIP 109848, LMG 24693, ORS 1401)

Name: Ensifer garamanticus (CIP 109848, LMG 24693, ORS 1401)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 137015

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 109848 LMG 24693 ORS 1401

NCBI tax ID(s) 680247

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 2008, P. de Lajudie, Lab. Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, UMR 113 IRD-CIRAD-SupAgro-Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France: strain ORS 1401

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Ensifer garamanticus CIP 109848 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium of the family Rhizobiaceae.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped obligate aerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 371372

CIP 109848,LMG 24693

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:47

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Rhizobiaceae

Genus Ensifer

Species Ensifer garamanticus

Full scientific name Ensifer garamanticus Merabet et al. 2010

Synonyms (1)

Sinorhizobium garamanticum

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Ensifer garamanticus** (2)	Type strain
133536	E. garamanticus LMG 24692, CIP 109916, ORS 1400 (type strain)
137016	E. garamanticus CIP 109849, LMG 24694, STM 354

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
36841	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
36841	MEDIUM 705 - for Ensifer		Distilled water make up to (1.000 l);Sodium chloride (0.050 g);Magnesiumsulphate heptahydrate (0.200 g);Calcium chloride dihydrate (0.040 g);Agar (15.000 g);Yeast extract (1.000 g);Potassium di-hydrogen phosphate (0.500 g);Sodium glutamate (0.500 g);Ferri
36841	CIP Medium 705			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
36841	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

36841

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
36841	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
36841	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
36841	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
68382	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API zym
68382	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
36841	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	-		from API zym
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	-		from API zym
36841	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	from API zym
36841	urease	+	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	+		from API zym

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
36841	-	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	-	+	-	+	+	+	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
36841		Tunisia	TUN	Africa
36841	Plant, Root nodule, Argyrolobium uniflorum	Tunisia	TUN	Africa	1993

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
36841	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

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 )
#36841	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 109848
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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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