Name: Arcanobacterium wilhelmae 647
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 140307

Type strain:

Species: Arcanobacterium wilhelmae

Strain Designation: 647

Culture col. no.: DSM 102162, LMG 29418

Strain history: <- O. Sammra, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany; 647 <- J. Rau, Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt (CVUA), Stuttgart, Fellbach, Germany

NCBI tax ID(s): 1803177 (species)

SI-ID 406925

DSM 102162

Section

Arcanobacterium wilhelmae 647 is a mesophilic, Gram-positive, rod-shaped animal pathogen that was isolated from vaginal swab of a rhinoceros .

Gram-positive
rod-shaped
animal pathogen
mesophilic
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	*Actinomycetota*
	Class	*Actinomycetes*
	Order	*Actinomycetales*
	Family	*Actinomycetaceae*
	Genus	*Arcanobacterium*
	Species	**Arcanobacterium wilhelmae**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Arcanobacterium wilhelmae Sammra et al. 2017

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #43280]	Gram stain	positive

[Ref.: #43280]	Cell length	1-2 µm

[Ref.: #43280]	Cell width	0.5 µm

[Ref.: #43280]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #43280]	Motility	no

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

Sheep blood agar

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium

COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)

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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

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Culture medium

PYG MEDIUM (MODIFIED) (DSMZ Medium 104)

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Culture medium growth

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Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #43280]	Type of spore	spore
[Ref.: #43280]	Ability of spore formation	no

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #43280]	D-glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43280]	D-mannitol ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43280]	D-ribose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43280]	D-xylose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43280]	esculin ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43280]	gelatin ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43280]	glycogen ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43280]	lactose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43280]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43280]	nitrate ChEBI	-	reduction
[Ref.: #43280]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source
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	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #43280]	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
[Ref.: #43280]	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
[Ref.: #43280]	amylase	+
[Ref.: #43280]	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
[Ref.: #43280]	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
[Ref.: #43280]	beta-glucuronidase	+	3.2.1.31
[Ref.: #43280]	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
[Ref.: #43280]	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #43280]	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #43280]	gelatinase	-
[Ref.: #43280]	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
[Ref.: #43280]	nitrate reductase	-	1.7.99.4
[Ref.: #43280]	pyrazinamidase	-	3.5.1.B15
[Ref.: #43280]	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3
[Ref.: #43280]	urease	-	3.5.1.5
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Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

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Fatty acid	Percentage
C16:0	32.1
C18:0	21.8
C14:0	19.5
C18:1ω9c	18.5
C18:2ω6,9c / anteiso-C18:0	5.7
C12:0	2.5

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

[Ref.: #42914]	Sample type/isolated from	vaginal swab of a rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
[Ref.: #42914]	Host species	Rhinoceros unicornis
[Ref.: #42914]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Stuttgart, Wilhelma Zoo
[Ref.: #42914]	Country	Germany
[Ref.: #42914]	Country ISO 3 Code	DEU
[Ref.: #42914]	Continent	Europe

[Ref.: #43280]	Sample type/isolated from	genital tract of a female rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
[Ref.: #43280]	Sampling date	2012-01
[Ref.: #43280]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Stuttgart Zoo Wilhelma, Stuttgart, Germany
[Ref.: #43280]	Country	Germany
[Ref.: #43280]	Country ISO 3 Code	DEU
[Ref.: #43280]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Mammals	-
#Host Body-Site	#Urogenital tract	#Vagina

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence LT160960 (>99% sequence identity) for Arcanobacterium wilhelmae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	3
Soil Samples	30
Animal Samples	266
Plant Samples	5
Total Samples	304

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #42914]	Pathogenicity (animal)	yes, in single cases
[Ref.: #42914]	Biosafety level	1	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.: #42914]	Arcanobacterium sp. 647 partial 16S rRNA gene, isolate 647	LT160960	1495	ENA	1803177 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Arcanobacterium wilhelmae DSM 102162	2923642967	draft	JGI IMG/M	1803177 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Arcanobacterium wilhelmae DSM 102162	GCA_029632765	complete	GenBank	1803177 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #43280]	GC-content	58.7 mol%	Thermal denaturation, fluorometry
[Ref.: #42914]	GC-content	58.7 mol%	fluorimetric

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

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Arcanobacterium wilhelmae DSM 102162 NCBI: GCA_029632765.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	90.261	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	92.122	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	62.836	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	63.435	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	88.989	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	79.101	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	97.058	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	yes	82.162	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	98.324	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	89.711	yes

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 102162, LMG 29418

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SI-ID 406925

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Arcanobacterium wilhelmae sp. nov., isolated from the genital tract of a rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis).	Sammra O, Rau J, Wickhorst JP, Alssahen M, Hassan AA, Lammler C, Kampfer P, Glaeser SP, Busse HJ, Kleinhagauer T, Knauf-Witzens T, Prenger-Berninghoff E, Abdulmawjood A, Klein G	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001784	2017	*
Phylogeny	Further characteristics of Arcanobacterium pinnipediorum DSM 28752(T) and Arcanobacterium wilhelmae DSM 102162(T), two novel species of genus Arcanobacterium.	Sammra O, Rau J, Wickhorst J, Alssahen M, Hassan AA, Lammler C, Prenger-Berninghoff E, Abdulmawjood A	Folia Microbiol (Praha)	10.1007/s12223-018-0610-7	2018	*

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 )

#42914

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 102162

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Osama Sammra, Jörg Rau, Jörn-Peter Wickhorst, Mazen Alssahen, Abdulwahed Ahmed Hassan, Christoph Lämmler, Peter Kämpfer, Stefanie P. Glaeser, Hans-Jürgen Busse, Tanita Kleinhagauer, Tobias Knauf-Witzens, Ellen Prenger-Berninghoff, Amir Abdulmawjood and Günter Klein: Arcanobacterium wilhelmae sp. nov., isolated from the genital tract of a rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros unicornis ). IJSEM 67: 2093 - 2097 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001784 , PubMed 28073403 )

#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) .

#96612

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-ID406925.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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