Name: Borrelia afzelii VS 461
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 14305

Type strain:

Species: Borrelia afzelii

Strain Designation: VS 461

Culture col. no.: DSM 10508, ATCC 51567, CIP 103469

Strain history: <- CIP <- G. Baranton <- Péter

NCBI tax ID(s): 29518 (species)

SI-ID 93003

ATCC 51992, ATCC 51567, CIP 103469, DSM 10508, BCRC 17181, CCRC 17181

Other strains from Borrelia afzelii

B. afzelii P-Ko/1984, DSM 16073

Section

Borrelia afzelii VS 461 is a microaerophile, mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from Ixodes ricinus.

mesophilic
microaerophile
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	*Spirochaetota*
	Class	*Spirochaetia*
	Order	*Spirochaetales*
	Family	*Borreliaceae*
	Genus	*Borrelia*
	Species	**Borrelia afzelii**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Borrelia afzelii Canica et al. 1994

Synonym

Borreliella afzelii

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

BSK-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 403)

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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

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #3953]			growth	37 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

microaerophile

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

[Ref.: #3953]	Sample type/isolated from	Ixodes ricinus
[Ref.: #3953]	Host species	Ixodes ricinus
[Ref.: #3953]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Sion
[Ref.: #3953]	Country	Switzerland
[Ref.: #3953]	Country ISO 3 Code	CHE
[Ref.: #3953]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Host

#Arthropoda

#Tick

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Global distribution of 16S sequence FR733687 (>99% sequence identity) for Borreliella from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	31
Soil Samples	26
Animal Samples	197
Plant Samples
Total Samples	254

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

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Biosafety level

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.: #3953]	Borrelia afzelii partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM10508T	FR733687	1524	ENA	29518 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Borrelia afzelii strain BO23 16S ribosomal RNA (rrs) gene, partial sequence	DQ111061	554	ENA	29518 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Borrelia afzelii strain BO23 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KF607014	391	ENA	29518 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Borrelia afzelii strain VS461 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY342034	1013	ENA	29518 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Borrelia afzelii 16S riboosomal RNA ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	U78151	781	ENA	29518 tax ID	*

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Borreliella afzelii DSM 10508	GCA_014202295	scaffold	GenBank	29518 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Borreliella afzelii strain DSM 10508	29518.17	wgs	PATRIC	29518 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Borrelia afzelii DSM 10508	2861437327	draft	JGI IMG/M	29518 tax ID	*

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

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Borreliella afzelii DSM 10508 NCBI: GCA_014202295.1
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	88.252	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	93.297	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	92.603	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	97.37	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	yes	63.774	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	97.43	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	79.995	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	87.473	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	88.202	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	yes	68.363	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 10508, ATCC 51567, CIP 103469

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SI-ID 93003

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 10508

#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 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

#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) .

#83458

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-ID93003.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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