Name: Rickettsia fournieri R153
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 157747

Type strain:

Species: Rickettsia fournieri

Strain Designation: R153, AUS118

Culture col. no.: DSM 28985, CSUR R501

Strain history: <- O. Mediannikov, URMITE, Univ. Méditerranée, Marseille, France; AUS118

NCBI tax ID(s): 1436798 (species)

SI-ID 403162

DSM 28985

Section

Rickettsia fournieri R153 is a mesophilic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Argas lagenoplastis collected in abandoned nests of Petrochelidon ariel.

Gram-negative
rod-shaped
mesophilic
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	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Rickettsiales*
	Family	*Rickettsiaceae*
	Genus	*Rickettsia*
	Species	**Rickettsia fournieri**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Rickettsia fournieri Diop et al. 2018

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #66765]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.981

[Ref.: #66765]	Cell length	1.5 µm

[Ref.: #66765]	Cell width	0.3 µm

[Ref.: #66765]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

CULTIVATION MEDIUM FOR CHLAMYDIAE (DSMZ Medium 1193)

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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

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #64316]			growth	30 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %100
[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %100

[Ref.: #66765]	Observation	Obligately intracellular. Observed both in the cytoplasm and the nucleus of infected cells.
[Ref.: #66765]	Observation	Growth obtained in XTC-2 cells at 28°C in L-15 (Leibovitz) medium supplemented with 5 % (w/v) foetal calf serum (FCS), 5 % tryptose phosphate and 2 mmol l-1 L-glutamine as well as in L929 cells at 32°C in minimal essential medium supplemented with 2 % heat-inactivated foetal calf serum and 2 mM L-glutamine.

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

[Ref.: #64316]	Sample type/isolated from	Argas lagenoplastis collected in abandoned nests of Petrochelidon ariel
[Ref.: #64316]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Western Queensland
[Ref.: #64316]	Country	Australia
[Ref.: #64316]	Country ISO 3 Code	AUS
[Ref.: #64316]	Continent	Australia and Oceania
[Ref.: #64316]	Geographic location	-28.1023°/144.1610°

[Ref.: #66765]	Sample type/isolated from	Argas lagenoplastis tick collected from the nest of a Petrochelidon ariel
[Ref.: #66765]	Sampling date	2013
[Ref.: #66765]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Queensland
[Ref.: #66765]	Country	Australia
[Ref.: #66765]	Country ISO 3 Code	AUS
[Ref.: #66765]	Continent	Australia and Oceania
[Ref.: #66765]	Geographic location	-28.1022°/144.1610°
[Ref.: #66765]	Isolation/enrichment procedure	The isolation of rickettsial strains from ticks was performed in the XTC-2 cells line using the shell-vial technique.
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Built environment	#Animal habitation (Nest,Burrow)
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Tick
#Host	#Birds	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence KF666475 (>99% sequence identity) for Rickettsia from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1126
Soil Samples	494
Animal Samples	2180
Plant Samples	561
Total Samples	4361

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.: #66765]	Rickettsia sp. AUS118 16S ribosomal RNA (rrs) gene, partial sequence	KF666475	1421	ENA	1436798 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Rickettsia fournieri AUS118	GCA_900243065	scaffold	GenBank	1436798 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Rickettsia fournieri AUS118	2834762790	draft	JGI IMG/M	1436798 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #64316]	GC-content	32.4 mol%	sequence analysis
[Ref.: #66765]	GC-content	32.4 mol%	genome sequence analysis

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

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Rickettsia fournieri AUS118 NCBI: GCA_900243065.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	100	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Rickettsia fournieri AUS118 NCBI: GCA_900243065.1
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	98.299	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	98.008	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	96.139	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	89.095	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	74.221	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	96.815	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	94.062	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	no	60.899	no
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	91.406	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	77.293	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 28985, CSUR R501

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SI-ID 403162

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Rickettsia fournieri sp. nov., a novel spotted fever group rickettsia from Argas lagenoplastis ticks in Australia.	Diop A, Barker SC, Eberhard M, Barker D, Nguyen TT, Di Pinto F, Raoult D, Mediannikov O	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003057	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 )

#64316

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 28985

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Awa Diop, Stephen C. Barker, Mey Eberhard, Dayana Barker, Thi Tien Nguyen, Fabrizio Di Pinto, Didier Raoult, Oleg Mediannikov: Rickettsia fournieri sp. nov., a novel spotted fever group rickettsia from Argas lagenoplastis ticks in Australia. IJSEM 68: 3781 - 3784 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.003057 , PubMed 30307387 )

#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) .

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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 .

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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) .

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Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#110614

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-ID403162.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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