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"Candidatus Desulfamplus magnetomortis" (DSM 103535, JCM 18010, BW-1)

BacDive ID 140313

Type strain

Strain Designation BW-1

Culture col. no. DSM 103535 JCM 18010 BW-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1073250 1246637

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

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"Candidatus Desulfamplus magnetomortis" BW-1 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from mixed water and mud sample of brackish spring.

mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 402103

JCM 18010,DSM 103535

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:34

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfobacteria

Order Desulfobacterales

Family Desulfobacteraceae

Genus "Candidatus Desulfamplus"

Species "Candidatus Desulfamplus magnetomortis"

Full scientific name Candidatus Desulfamplus magnetomortis Lefèvre et al. 2011

Synonyms (1)

"Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	99.9
125438	negative	93.483

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
42920	DESULFAMPLUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1665)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFAMPLUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1665) Composition: MgCl2 x 6 H2O 5.91133 g/l Na2SO4 2.95567 g/l HEPES 2.36453 g/l NaHCO3 0.985222 g/l Na2-fumarate 0.985222 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.492611 g/l KCl 0.492611 g/l NH4Cl 0.295566 g/l Yeast extract 0.197044 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0591133 g/l NaCl 0.0197044 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.0197044 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00985222 g/l (NH4)2Ni(SO4)2 x 6 H2O 0.00551724 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0035468 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0035468 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00197044 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.00197044 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000492611 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.00035468 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.000197044 g/l H3BO3 0.000197044 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.000197044 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 0.000197044 g/l Na2SeO4 0.000197044 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.85222e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.92611e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.92611e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.92611e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.92611e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.92611e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.92611e-05 g/l Biotin 1.97044e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.97044e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 9.85222e-07 g/l K-phosphate buffer Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
42920	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.8

Compound production

67770

CompoundMagnetite (Fe₃O₄) and greigite (Fe₃S₄)

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-7

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	100	7 of 7
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	propanol degradation	100	7 of 7
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	hydrogen production	100	5 of 5
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	threonine metabolism	100	10 of 10
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	1,4-dihydroxy-6-naphthoate biosynthesis	100	6 of 6
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	lactate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	88.89	8 of 9
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	85.71	6 of 7
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	leucine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	alanine metabolism	82.76	24 of 29
66794	glycolysis	82.35	14 of 17
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	82.14	23 of 28
66794	proline metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	serine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	nitrate assimilation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	75	3 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	polyamine pathway	73.91	17 of 23
66794	histidine metabolism	72.41	21 of 29
66794	NAD metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	lysine metabolism	71.43	30 of 42
66794	citric acid cycle	71.43	10 of 14
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	70.59	24 of 34
66794	purine metabolism	70.21	66 of 94
66794	propionate fermentation	70	7 of 10
66794	methionine metabolism	69.23	18 of 26
66794	lipid metabolism	67.74	21 of 31
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	66.67	4 of 6
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	66.67	6 of 9
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	64.84	59 of 91
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	64.44	29 of 45
66794	heme metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	isoleucine metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	62.5	10 of 16
66794	flavin biosynthesis	60	9 of 15
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	60	3 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	starch degradation	60	6 of 10
66794	non-pathway related	57.89	22 of 38
66794	cysteine metabolism	55.56	10 of 18
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	54.55	6 of 11
66794	arginine metabolism	54.17	13 of 24
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	53.85	14 of 26
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	53.85	7 of 13
66794	tryptophan metabolism	52.63	20 of 38
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	resorcinol degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	50	5 of 10
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	alginate biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	glutathione metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	50	5 of 10
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	denitrification	50	1 of 2
66794	vitamin E metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	urea cycle	46.15	6 of 13
66794	degradation of pentoses	42.86	12 of 28
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	bacilysin biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	O-antigen biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	degradation of hexoses	38.89	7 of 18
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	38.46	5 of 13
66794	sulfate reduction	38.46	5 of 13
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	37.5	6 of 16
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	36.36	4 of 11
66794	tyrosine metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	33.33	4 of 12
66794	methane metabolism	33.33	1 of 3
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	33.33	4 of 12
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	ascorbate metabolism	31.82	7 of 22
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	30	3 of 10
66794	phenol degradation	30	6 of 20
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	28.57	2 of 7
66794	d-xylose degradation	27.27	3 of 11
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	degradation of sugar acids	24	6 of 25

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Brackish
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Mud (Sludge)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Spring

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
42920	mixed water and mud sample of brackish spring	California, Death Valley National Park, Badwater Basin	USA	USA	North America	36.2302	-116.767 36.2302/-116.767
67770	Blackish spring in Death Valley National Park	CA	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JN252194 (>99% sequence identity) for Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	560
Soil Samples	7
Animal Samples	6
Plant Samples	8
Total Samples	581

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	Desulfamplus magnetomortis BW-1 assembly for Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis	scaffold	GCA_900170035	1246637.4	2831563503	1246637	6.32

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
42920	Delta proteobacterium BW-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JN252194	1523		1073250

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
42920	41	sequence analysis
67770	40.72	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis VKM Ac-1403
NCBI: GCA_900170035

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	65.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.90	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	63.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis VKM Ac-1403
NCBI: GCA_900170035.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	93.48	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	85.85	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	88.04	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	83.03	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	88.55	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	73.68	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Experimental analysis of diverse actin-like proteins from various magnetotactic bacteria by functional expression in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense.	Awal RP, Muller FD, Pfeiffer D, Monteil CL, Perriere G, Lefevre CT, Schuler D.	mBio	10.1128/mbio.01649-23	2023
Phylogeny	Genomic expansion of magnetotactic bacteria reveals an early common origin of magnetotaxis with lineage-specific evolution.	Lin W, Zhang W, Zhao X, Roberts AP, Paterson GA, Bazylinski DA, Pan Y.	ISME J	10.1038/s41396-018-0098-9	2018
	A Novel Isolate of Spherical Multicellular Magnetotactic Prokaryotes Has Two Magnetosome Gene Clusters and Synthesizes Both Magnetite and Greigite Crystals.	Cui K, Pan H, Chen J, Liu J, Zhao Y, Chen S, Zhang W, Xiao T, Wu LF.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10050925	2022
Metabolism	From conservation to structure, studies of magnetosome associated cation diffusion facilitators (CDF) proteins in Proteobacteria.	Keren-Khadmy N, Zeytuni N, Kutnowski N, Perriere G, Monteil C, Zarivach R.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0231839	2020
	Detection of interphylum transfers of the magnetosome gene cluster in magnetotactic bacteria.	Uzun M, Koziaeva V, Dziuba M, Leao P, Krutkina M, Grouzdev D.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2022.945734	2022
	Large-Scale Cultivation of Magnetotactic Bacteria and the Optimism for Sustainable and Cheap Approaches in Nanotechnology.	de Souza Cabral A, Verdan M, Presciliano R, Silveira F, Correa T, Abreu F.	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md21020060	2023
	Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells.	Schaible GA, Jay ZJ, Cliff J, Schulz F, Gauvin C, Goudeau D, Malmstrom RR, Ruff SE, Edgcomb V, Hatzenpichler R.	PLoS Biol	10.1371/journal.pbio.3002638	2024
	Structure and evolution of the magnetochrome domains: no longer alone.	Arnoux P, Siponen MI, Lefevre CT, Ginet N, Pignol D.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2014.00117	2014
Metabolism	Interplay between two bacterial actin homologs, MamK and MamK-Like, is required for the alignment of magnetosome organelles in Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1.	Abreu N, Mannoubi S, Ozyamak E, Pignol D, Ginet N, Komeili A.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.01674-14	2014
Metabolism	Magnetite-binding proteins from the magnetotactic bacterium Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis BW-1.	Pohl A, Young SAE, Schmitz TC, Farhadi D, Zarivach R, Faivre D, Blank KG	Nanoscale	10.1039/d1nr04870h	2021
Phylogeny	A species of magnetotactic deltaproteobacterium was detected at the highest abundance during an algal bloom.	Pan H, Dong Y, Teng Z, Li J, Zhang W, Xiao T, Wu LF	FEMS Microbiol Lett	10.1093/femsle/fnz253	2019
Metabolism	Decoding Biomineralization: Interaction of a Mad10-Derived Peptide with Magnetite Thin Films.	Pohl A, Berger F, Sullan RMA, Valverde-Tercedor C, Freindl K, Spiridis N, Lefevre CT, Menguy N, Klumpp S, Blank KG, Faivre D	Nano Lett	10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03560	2019
Metabolism	Periplasmic Bacterial Biomineralization of Copper Sulfide Nanoparticles.	Park Y, Eyal Z, Pekker P, Chevrier DM, Lefevre CT, Arnoux P, Armengaud J, Monteil CL, Gal A, Posfai M, Faivre D	Adv Sci (Weinh)	10.1002/advs.202203444	2022
Metabolism	Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis gen. nov., sp. nov., a magnetotactic bacterium from a brackish desert spring able to biomineralize greigite and magnetite, that represents a novel lineage in the Desulfobacteraceae.	Descamps ECT, Monteil CL, Menguy N, Ginet N, Pignol D, Bazylinski DA, Lefevre CT	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/j.syapm.2017.05.001	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 )
#42920	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 103535
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 )

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"Candidatus Desulfamplus magnetomortis" (DSM 103535, JCM 18010, BW-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Compound production

Observation

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900170035

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

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