Name: Elstera litoralis Dia-1
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 14027

Type strain:

Species: Elstera litoralis

Strain Designation: Dia-1, Nil

Culture col. no.: DSM 19532, LMG 24234

Strain history: <- M. Rahalkar and B. Schink, Dept. Biol., Univ. Konstanz, Germany; Dia-1

NCBI tax ID(s): 552518 (species)

SI-ID 402368

DSM 19532

Section

Elstera litoralis Dia-1 is a microaerophile, mesophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from biofilm on stones in a lake littoral zone.

Gram-negative
rod-shaped
mesophilic
microaerophile
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	*Rhodospirillales*
	Family	*Azospirillaceae*
	Genus	*Elstera*
	Species	**Elstera litoralis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Elstera litoralis Rahalkar et al. 2012

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #29917]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #29917]	Cell length	3.5 µm

[Ref.: #29917]	Cell width	1 µm

[Ref.: #29917]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #29917]	Motility	no

[Ref.: #29917]

Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #8153]

Culture medium

NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #8153]	growth	25 °C
[Ref.: #29917]	growth	10-25 °C
[Ref.: #29917]	optimum	22.5 °C

[Ref.: #8153]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #29917]	Temperature range	psychrophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #29917]			optimum	6.75
[Ref.: #29917]			growth	5.5-8

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

microaerophile

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #29917]	arabinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29917]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29917]	rhamnose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #29917]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #29917]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

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

[Ref.: #8153]	Sample type/isolated from	biofilm on stones in a lake littoral zone
[Ref.: #8153]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Lake Constance (47° 41' N; 9° 11' E)
[Ref.: #8153]	Country	Germany
[Ref.: #8153]	Country ISO 3 Code	DEU
[Ref.: #8153]	Continent	Europe
[Ref.: #8153]	Geographic location	47.6833°/9.1833°
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Geologic
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Biofilm	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence EU678309 (>99% sequence identity) for Elstera litoralis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2591
Soil Samples	578
Animal Samples	1010
Plant Samples	89
Total Samples	4268

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 (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

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.: #8153]	Elstera litoralis strain Dia-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU678309	1356	ENA	552518 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Elstera litoralis Dia-1	GCA_000963705	contig	GenBank	552518 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Elstera litoralis Dia-1	2636416186	draft	JGI IMG/M	552518 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #8153]	GC-content	61.0 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
[Ref.: #29917]	GC-content	61 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 19532, LMG 24234

[Ref.: #83194]

SI-ID 402368

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Elstera cyanobacteriorum sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from cyanobacterial aggregates in a eutrophic lake.	Cai H, Zeng Y, Wang Y, Jiang H	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002308	2017	*
Phylogeny	Elstera litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from stone biofilms of Lake Constance, Germany.	Rahalkar M, Bahulikar RA, Deutzmann JS, Kroth PG, Schink B	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.026609-0	2011	*

References

#8153

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19532

#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 )

#29917

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 #26288 (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 .

#83194

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-ID402368.1 )

#26288

IJSEM 1750 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.026609-0 , PubMed 21948090 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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