Actinomyces vulturis (DSM 103437, CGMCC 4.7366, VUL7)

Name: Actinomyces vulturis (DSM 103437, CGMCC 4.7366, VUL7)
Creator: BacDive
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BacDive ID 140287

Type strain

Strain Designation VUL7

Culture col. no. DSM 103437 CGMCC 4.7366 VUL7

NCBI tax ID(s) 1857645

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- X. Meng, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China; VUL7

Links

Actinomyces vulturis VUL7 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from faeces of vulture Gyps himalayensis.

Gram-positive rod-shaped colony-forming facultative anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 404005

DSM 103437

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:34

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Actinomycetales

Family Actinomycetaceae

Genus Actinomyces

Species Actinomyces vulturis

Full scientific name Actinomyces vulturis Meng et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
43234	positive	1.0-1.3 µm	0.5-0.8 µm	rod-shaped
125438					91.5
125438	positive				92.661

Colony morphology

@ref	Type of hemolysis	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43234	gamma	<1 mm	grey-white	circular	2 days	sheep-blood agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
43234	sheep-blood agar
42894	BBL ACTINOMYCES BROTH (DSMZ Medium 1029)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BBL ACTINOMYCES BROTH (DSMZ Medium 1029) Composition: Infusion Broth 1.425 g/l Potassium Phosphate 0.855 g/l Dextrose 0.285 g/l Yeast extract 0.285 g/l Pancreatic digest of casein 0.228 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.057 g/l Starch 0.057 g/l Ammonium Sulfate 0.057 g/l Magnesium sulfate 0.0114 g/l Calcium Chloride 0.00057 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
42894	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
43234	positive	growth	4-55

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43234	positive	growth	4-11	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43234

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Type of spore	Spore formation	Confidence
43234	spore
125439			92.8

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43234	NaCl	positive	growth	0-4 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43234	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from
43234	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	builds acid from
43234	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from
43234	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	builds acid from
43234	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	builds acid from
43234	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
43234	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from
43234	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	builds acid from
43234	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
43234	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	-	builds acid from
43234	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	builds acid from
43234	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	builds acid from
43234	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	builds acid from
43234	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	builds acid from
43234	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from
43234	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds acid from
43234	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from
43234	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	builds acid from
43234		esculin ferric citrate	-	builds acid from
43234	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from
43234	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
43234	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from
43234	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	builds acid from
43234	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from
43234	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from
43234	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from
43234	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from
43234	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	builds acid from
43234	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from
43234	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	builds acid from
43234	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from
43234	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	builds acid from
43234	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from
43234	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	+	builds acid from
43234	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	builds acid from
43234	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from
43234	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	builds acid from
43234		methyl alpha-D-xylopyranoside	-	builds acid from
43234	320055 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from
43234	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from
43234	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	builds acid from
43234	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43234		potassium 2-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	builds acid from
43234		potassium 5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	builds acid from
43234	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	-	builds acid from
43234	27941 ChEBI	pullulan	-	builds acid from
43234	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	builds acid from
43234	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from
43234	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from
43234	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	builds acid from
43234	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
43234	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from
43234	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	builds acid from
43234	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43234	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43234	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1
43234	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
43234	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43234	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43234	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
43234	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43234	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6
43234	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
43234	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43234	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43234	beta-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.25
43234	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43234	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
43234	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
43234	esterase (C 4)	+
43234	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
43234	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43234	lipase (C 14)	-
43234	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43234	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43234	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3
43234	tripeptide aminopeptidase	+	3.4.11.4
43234	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
43234	valine arylamidase	-

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43234

Fatty acid	Percentage
C18:1ω9c	36.2
C16:0	30.9
C18:0	9.5
anteiso-C18:0 / C18:2ω6, 9c	6.7
C14:0	6
C16:1ω9c	5.2
C18:1ω7c / C18:1ω6c	3.3
C16:1ω7c / C16:1ω6c	0.9
C12:0	0.9
C17:0	0.6

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Birds	-
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Rectum
#Infection	#Patient	#Swab

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
42894	faeces (rectal swab) of vulture Gyps himalayensis	Gyps himalayensis	Tibet-Qinghai plateau	China	CHN	Asia
43234	rectal swab samples of Gyps himalayensis		Tibet-Qinghai Plateau, China	China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KX360125 (>99% sequence identity) for Actinomyces vulturis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	164
Soil Samples	77
Animal Samples	2526
Plant Samples	11
Total Samples	2778

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
42894	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM168730v1 assembly for Actinomyces vulturis VUL7	scaffold	GCA_001687305	2791355098	1857645	75.58

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
42894	Actinomyces vulturis strain VUL7 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KX360125	1456		1857645

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43234	54.4	genome sequence analysis
42894	54.4	sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Actinomyces vulturis VUL7
NCBI: GCA_001687305

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	92.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	82.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	79.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	microaerophile	84.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Actinomyces vulturis VUL7
NCBI: GCA_001687305.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	92.66	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	81.45	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	81.55	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.27	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.74	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	91.50	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Actinomyces vulturis sp. nov., isolated from Gyps himalayensis.	Meng X, Lu S, Wang Y, Lai XH, Wen Y, Jin D, Yang J, Bai X, Zhang G, Pu J, Lan R, Xu J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001851	2017

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 )
#42894	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 103437
#43234	Xiangli Meng, Shan Lu, Yiting Wang, Xin-He Lai, Yumeng Wen, Dong Jin, Jing Yang, Xiangning Bai, Gui Zhang, Ji Pu, Ruiting Lan and Jianguo Xu: Actinomyces vulturis sp. nov., isolated from Gyps himalayensis. IJSEM 67: 1720 - 1726 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001851 , PubMed 28629509 )
#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 .
#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 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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 )

Rate our new design

Content

About us

Actinomyces vulturis (DSM 103437, CGMCC 4.7366, VUL7)

Name and taxonomic classification