Name: Cephaloticoccus primus CAG34
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 140800

Type strain:

Species: Cephaloticoccus primus

Strain Designation: CAG34

Culture col. no.: NCIMB 15004, ATCC TSD-38

NCBI tax ID(s): 1548207 (species)

Section

Cephaloticoccus primus CAG34 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, coccus-shaped bacterium that was isolated from the guts of Cephalotes rohweri.

coccus-shaped
Gram-negative
obligate aerobe
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	07-12-2022 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Verrucomicrobiota*
	Class	*Opitutae*
	Order	*Opitutales*
	Family	*Opitutaceae*
	Genus	"Cephaloticoccus"
	Species	"Cephaloticoccus primus"
	Full Scientific Name (PNU)	Cephaloticoccus primus Lin et al. 2016

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #43581]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #43581]	Cell length	0.5-0.6 µm
[Ref.: #43581]	Cell shape	coccus-shaped
[Ref.: #43581]	Motility	no

[Ref.: #43581]	Colony color	Cream
[Ref.: #43581]	Cultivation medium used	TSA agar

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

Trypticase Soy Agar (TSA)

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Culture medium growth

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #43581]			growth	23-37 °C
[Ref.: #43581]			optimum	37 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH	pH range
[Ref.: #43581]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #43581]			growth	6.9-7.7

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

obligate aerobe

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #43581]		NaCl		growth	0.5-1.5	%(w/v)
[Ref.: #43581]		NaCl		optimum	1	%(w/v)

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #43581]	acetate ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	alpha-lactose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	citrate ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	D-alanine ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	D-arabitol ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	D-fructose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	D-galactose ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	D-glucose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	D-mannitol ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	D-mannose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	D-psicose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	D-serine ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	D-sorbitol ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	DL-carnitine ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	formate ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	L-arabinose ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	L-asparagine ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	L-aspartate ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	L-fucose ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	L-glutamate ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	L-histidine ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	L-leucine ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	L-proline ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	lactate ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	lactulose ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	maltose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	melibiose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	monomethyl succinate ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	propionate ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	raffinose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	succinate ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	sucrose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	trehalose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	turanose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43581]	xylitol ChEBI	-	respiration
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	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #43581]	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
[Ref.: #43581]	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
[Ref.: #43581]	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
[Ref.: #43581]	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
[Ref.: #43581]	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
[Ref.: #43581]	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
[Ref.: #43581]	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
[Ref.: #43581]	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
[Ref.: #43581]	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
[Ref.: #43581]	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
[Ref.: #43581]	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #43581]	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
[Ref.: #43581]	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #43581]	esterase (C 4)	-
[Ref.: #43581]	esterase Lipase (C 8)	-
[Ref.: #43581]	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1
[Ref.: #43581]	lipase (C 14)	-
[Ref.: #43581]	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52
[Ref.: #43581]	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
[Ref.: #43581]	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
[Ref.: #43581]	urease	-	3.5.1.5
[Ref.: #43581]	valine arylamidase	-
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Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #43581]	Sample type/isolated from	the guts of Cephalotes rohweri
[Ref.: #43581]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Tuscon, AZ
[Ref.: #43581]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #43581]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #43581]	Continent	North America
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Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Stomach

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence KM066004 (>99% sequence identity) for Cephaloticoccus primus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	635
Soil Samples	544
Animal Samples	17
Plant Samples	36
Total Samples	1232

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.: #43581]	16S rRNA gene sequence	KM066004		GenBank

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Cephaloticoccus primus CAG34	GCA_001580015	contig	GenBank	1548207 tax ID	*

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GC-content

60.7 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

NCIMB 15004, ATCC TSD-38

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts.	Lin JY, Russell JA, Sanders JG, Wertz JT	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001141	2016	*
Phylogeny	Nibricoccus aquaticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of the family Opitutaceae isolated from hyporheic freshwater.	Baek K, Song J, Cho JC, Chung EJ, Choi A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003198	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 )

#43581

Jonathan Y. Lin, Jacob A. Russell, Jon G. Sanders, John T. Wertz: Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts. IJSEM 66: 3034 - 3040 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001141 , PubMed 27154284 )

#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) .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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