Anaerotignum aminivorans (JCM 31556, DSM 103575, SH021)

Name: Anaerotignum aminivorans (JCM 31556, DSM 103575, SH021)
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BacDive ID 140747

Type strain

Strain Designation SH021

Culture col. no. JCM 31556 DSM 103575 SH021 KCTC 15705

NCBI tax ID(s) 433287

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Anaerotignum aminivorans SH021 is an obligate anaerobe, chemoorganotroph, Gram-positive prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from a methanogenic reactor treating waste collected from cattle farms.

Gram-positive motile rod-shaped colony-forming obligate anaerobe chemoorganotroph 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 406740

JCM 31556,DSM 103575

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:40

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Lachnospiraceae

Genus Anaerotignum

Species Anaerotignum aminivorans

Full scientific name Anaerotignum aminivorans Ueki et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
43524	positive	2.5-8 µm	0.7 µm	rod-shaped		peritrichous

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43524	0.5-0.7 mm	greyish white	circular	2 days	PY4S agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43524	PY4S agar
64905	PY + X MEDIUM (N2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 104c)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43524	positive	growth	15-40
43524	positive	optimum	35
64905	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
43524	positive	optimum	6.1-7.7
43524	positive	growth	6.1-8.2

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43524

Oxygen toleranceobligate anaerobe

Nutrition type

43524

Typechemoorganotroph

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43524	NaCl	positive	growth	0-20 g/L
43524	NaCl	positive	optimum	0 g/L

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43524	28340 ChEBI	2-aminobutyrate	-	assimilation
43524	37080 ChEBI	acrylate	-	assimilation
43524	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	assimilation
43524	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	-	assimilation
43524	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	assimilation
43524		casamino acids	+/-	assimilation
43524	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	assimilation
43524	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	-	assimilation
43524	35899 ChEBI	crotonate	-	assimilation
43524	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	-	assimilation
43524	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	assimilation
43524	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
43524	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	-	assimilation
43524	28757 ChEBI	fructose	-	assimilation
43524	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	assimilation
43524	28260 ChEBI	galactose	-	assimilation
43524	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
43524	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	assimilation
43524	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	assimilation
43524	15428 ChEBI	glycine	-	assimilation
43524	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	assimilation
43524	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	assimilation
43524	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	+	assimilation
43524	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	assimilation
43524	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	-	assimilation
43524	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	-	assimilation
43524	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	assimilation
43524	18050 ChEBI	L-glutamine	-	assimilation
43524	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	-	assimilation
43524	17191 ChEBI	L-isoleucine	+/-	assimilation
43524	15603 ChEBI	L-leucine	+/-	assimilation
43524	18019 ChEBI	L-lysine	-	assimilation
43524	16643 ChEBI	L-methionine	-	assimilation
43524	17295 ChEBI	L-phenylalanine	-	assimilation
43524	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	-	assimilation
43524	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	+	assimilation
43524	16857 ChEBI	L-threonine	+	assimilation
43524	16828 ChEBI	L-tryptophan	-	assimilation
43524	16414 ChEBI	L-valine	+/-	assimilation
43524	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	assimilation
43524	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	assimilation
43524	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
43524	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation
43524	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	-	assimilation
43524	37684 ChEBI	mannose	-	assimilation
43524	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	assimilation
43524	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	assimilation
43524	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	assimilation
43524	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43524	17309 ChEBI	pectin	-	assimilation
43524	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	assimilation
43524	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	assimilation
43524	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	-	assimilation
43524	33942 ChEBI	ribose	-	assimilation
43524	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	assimilation
43524	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	-	assimilation
43524	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	assimilation
43524	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
43524	30031 ChEBI	succinate	-	assimilation
43524	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	assimilation
43524	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	assimilation
43524	37166 ChEBI	xylan	-	assimilation
43524	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-	assimilation

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
43524	30089 ChEBI	acetate
43524	17968 ChEBI	butyrate
43524	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
43524	35581 ChEBI	indole
43524	48944 ChEBI	isobutyrate
43524	48942 ChEBI	isovalerate
43524	17272 ChEBI	propionate

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43524	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
43524	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
43524	lecithinase	-
43524	lipase (C 14)	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Condition	#Anoxic (anaerobic)
#Engineered	#Bioreactor
#Host	#Mammals
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43524	a methanogenic reactor treating waste collected from cattle farms	Betsukai-machi, Hokkaido	Japan	JPN	Asia
64905	methanogenic reactor treating waste from cattlefarms	Hokkaido	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Methanogenic reactor treating waste from cattle farms		Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB298756 (>99% sequence identity) for Anaerotignum aminivorans subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	71
Soil Samples	16
Animal Samples	477
Plant Samples	33
Total Samples	597

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
64905	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
64905	Anaerotignum aminivorans gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB298756	1471		433287

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
64905	38.2	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Anaerotignum faecicola sp. nov., isolated from human faeces.	Choi SH, Kim JS, Park JE, Lee KC, Eom MK, Oh BS, Yu SY, Kang SW, Han KI, Suh MK, Lee DH, Yoon H, Kim BY, Lee JH, Lee JH, Lee JS, Park SH	J Microbiol	10.1007/s12275-019-9268-3	2019
Phylogeny	Description of Anaerotignum aminivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor, and reclassification of Clostridium propionicum, Clostridium neopropionicum and Clostridium lactatifermentans as species of the genus Anaerotignum.	Ueki A, Goto K, Ohtaki Y, Kaku N, Ueki K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002268	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 )
#43524	Atsuko Ueki, Kazushi Goto, Yoshimi Ohtaki, Nobuo Kaku, Katsuji Ueki: Description of Anaerotignum aminivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor, and reclassification of Clostridium propionicum, Clostridium neopropionicum and Clostridium lactatifermentans as species of the genus Anaerotignum. IJSEM 67: 4146 - 4153 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002268 , PubMed 28905695 )
#64905	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 103575
#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 .
#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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Anaerotignum aminivorans (JCM 31556, DSM 103575, SH021)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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