Arcanobacterium wilhelmae (DSM 102162, LMG 29418, 647)

Name: Arcanobacterium wilhelmae (DSM 102162, LMG 29418, 647)
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BacDive ID 140307

Type strain

Strain Designation 647

Culture col. no. DSM 102162 LMG 29418 647

NCBI tax ID(s) 1803177

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

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

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

Gram-positive rod-shaped mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 406925

LMG 29418,DSM 102162

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:35

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Actinomycetales

Family Actinomycetaceae

Genus Arcanobacterium

Species Arcanobacterium wilhelmae

Full scientific name Arcanobacterium wilhelmae Sammra et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43280	positive	1-2 µm	0.5 µm	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
43280	Sheep blood agar
42914	COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693) Composition: Defibrinated sheep blood 50.0 g/l Columbia agar base
42914	PYG MEDIUM (MODIFIED) (DSMZ Medium 104)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PYG MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 104) Composition: Yeast extract 10.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Trypticase peptone 5.0 g/l Beef extract 5.0 g/l Glucose 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l NaHCO3 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.08 g/l K2HPO4 0.04 g/l KH2PO4 0.04 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.02 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.01 g/l Hemin 0.005 g/l Ethanol 0.0038 g/l Resazurin 0.001 g/l Tween 80 Vitamin K1 NaOH Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
42914	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Type of spore	Confidence
43280	spore
125439		93.8
125438		97.308

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43280	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	carbon source
43280	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	carbon source
43280	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	carbon source
43280	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	carbon source
43280	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
43280	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
43280	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
43280	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	carbon source
43280	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
43280	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43280	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43280	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43280	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
43280	amylase	+
43280	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43280	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43280	beta-glucuronidase	+	3.2.1.31
43280	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
43280	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
43280	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
43280	gelatinase	-
43280	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43280	nitrate reductase	-	1.7.99.4
43280	pyrazinamidase	-	3.5.1.B15
43280	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3
43280	urease	-	3.5.1.5

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43280

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

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	-
#Host Body-Site	#Urogenital tract	#Vagina

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Sampling date
42914	vaginal swab of a rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)	Rhinoceros unicornis	Stuttgart, Wilhelma Zoo	Germany	DEU	Europe
43280	genital tract of a female rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)		Stuttgart Zoo Wilhelma, Stuttgart, Germany	Germany	DEU	Europe	2012-01

Taxonmaps

69479

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

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
42914	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2963276v1 assembly for Arcanobacterium wilhelmae DSM 102162	complete	GCA_029632765	1803177.3	8049249153	1803177	94.58
124043	ASM3081150v1 assembly for Arcanobacterium wilhelmae DSM 102162	contig	GCA_030811505	1803177.4	2923642967	1803177	74.6

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
42914	Arcanobacterium sp. 647 partial 16S rRNA gene, isolate 647	LT160960	1495		1803177
124043	Arcanobacterium wilhelmae strain DSM 102162 16S ribosomal RNA gene and 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence.	MG934213	559		1803177

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43280	58.7	Thermal denaturation, fluorometry
42914	58.7	fluorimetric

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Arcanobacterium wilhelmae DSM 102162
IMG: 2923642967

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	93.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	84.90	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	87.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	microaerophile	87.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Arcanobacterium wilhelmae DSM 102162
NCBI: GCA_029632765.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	73.29	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	70.32	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	82.69	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	97.31	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.04	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	88.79	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Complete genome sequence of Arcanobacterium wilhelmae strain DSM 102162 isolated from the genital tract of a Rhinoceros unicornis.	Borowiaka M, Kreitlow A, Malorny B, Lammler C, Rau J, Plotz M, Abdulmawjood A.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.00204-24	2024
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
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

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
#43280	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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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 )

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Arcanobacterium wilhelmae (DSM 102162, LMG 29418, 647)

Name and taxonomic classification