Acetomicrobium faecale (DSM 20678, JCM 30420, St. T)

Name: Acetomicrobium faecale (DSM 20678, JCM 30420, St. T)
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BacDive ID 1579

Type strain

Strain Designation St. T

Culture col. no. DSM 20678 JCM 30420 St. T

NCBI tax ID(s) 937334

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- J. Winter, St. T M.-L. Fardeau; IRD-MIO, Aix-Marseille Univ., France <-- DSM 20678 <-- J. Winter; Univ. Regensburg, Germany; St. T.

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Acetomicrobium faecale St. T is an anaerobe, thermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from sewage sludge.

anaerobe thermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49667

JCM 30420,DSM 20678

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:08

Domain Thermotogati

Phylum Synergistota

Class Synergistia

Order Synergistales

Family Synergistaceae

Genus Acetomicrobium

Species Acetomicrobium faecale

Full scientific name Acetomicrobium faecale corrig. Winter et al. 1988

Synonyms (2)

Acetomicrobium faecalis
Caldicoprobacter faecalis

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
9000	ACETOMICROBIUM FAECALIS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 412)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACETOMICROBIUM FAECALIS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 412) Composition: NaHCO3 6.0 g/l Na-acetate 5.0 g/l Glucose 4.0 g/l Yeast extract 2.0 g/l Trypticase peptone 2.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l KH2PO4 0.255 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.255 g/l K2HPO4 0.225 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.03 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.015 g/l NaCl 0.01 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.005 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0018 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0018 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.001 g/l Resazurin 0.001 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.001 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0003 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.0002 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.0001 g/l H3BO3 0.0001 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.0001 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.0001 g/l Nicotinic acid 5e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 5e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 5e-05 g/l Riboflavin 5e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 5e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 5e-05 g/l Biotin 2e-05 g/l Folic acid 2e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 4e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 3e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 1e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
9000	positive	growth	70	thermophilic
67770	positive	growth	70	thermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
9000	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	92.902
125439	anaerobe	99.8

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
9000	A31	A1gamma m-Dpm-direct

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	cellulose degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	100	2 of 2
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	teichoic acid biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	95.45	21 of 22
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	83.33	5 of 6
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	81.82	9 of 11
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	81.25	13 of 16
66794	threonine metabolism	80	8 of 10
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	80	4 of 5
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	starch degradation	80	8 of 10
66794	valine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	73.33	33 of 45
66794	degradation of hexoses	72.22	13 of 18
66794	photosynthesis	71.43	10 of 14
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	70	7 of 10
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
66794	degradation of pentoses	67.86	19 of 28
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	NAD metabolism	66.67	12 of 18
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	purine metabolism	65.96	62 of 94
66794	glycolysis	64.71	11 of 17
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	64.29	18 of 28
66794	degradation of sugar acids	64	16 of 25
66794	d-xylose degradation	63.64	7 of 11
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	62.5	5 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	methionine metabolism	61.54	16 of 26
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	61.54	16 of 26
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	hydrogen production	60	3 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	58.24	53 of 91
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	57.14	4 of 7
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
66794	serine metabolism	55.56	5 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	55.56	5 of 9
66794	histidine metabolism	55.17	16 of 29
66794	leucine metabolism	53.85	7 of 13
66794	tryptophan metabolism	52.63	20 of 38
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	adipate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	acetate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	heme metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	lactate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	glutathione metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	arginine metabolism	50	12 of 24
66794	cysteine metabolism	50	9 of 18
66794	alanine metabolism	48.28	14 of 29
66794	proline metabolism	45.45	5 of 11
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	44.44	4 of 9
66794	polyamine pathway	43.48	10 of 23
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	lysine metabolism	42.86	18 of 42
66794	citric acid cycle	42.86	6 of 14
66794	lipid metabolism	41.94	13 of 31
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	41.67	5 of 12
66794	propionate fermentation	40	4 of 10
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	urea cycle	38.46	5 of 13
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	37.5	3 of 8
66794	non-pathway related	36.84	14 of 38
66794	tyrosine metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	flavin biosynthesis	33.33	5 of 15
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	ascorbate metabolism	31.82	7 of 22
66794	sulfate reduction	30.77	4 of 13
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	30	3 of 10
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	27.27	3 of 11
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	25	1 of 4

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Waste	#Sewage sludge

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
9000	sewage sludge
67770	Sewage sludge

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FR749983 (>99% sequence identity) for Caldicoprobacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	123
Soil Samples	174
Animal Samples	903
Plant Samples	61
Total Samples	1261

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
9000	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	IMG-taxon 2693429901 annotated assembly for Caldicoprobacter faecalis DSM 20678	scaffold	GCA_900115765	937334.3	2693429901	937334	58.71

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
9000	Acetomicrobium faecale partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 20678T, clone 2	FR749981	1542		937334

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
9000	45.0
67770	45	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Caldicoprobacter faecalis DSM 20678
NCBI: GCA_900115765

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	76.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	72.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	68.40	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.80	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Caldicoprobacter faecalis strain DSM 20678
PATRIC: 937334.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	74.04	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	92.90	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	95.99	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	68.31	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	82.42	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	71.05	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	The Dark Side of the Mushroom Spring Microbial Mat: Life in the Shadow of Chlorophototrophs. I. Microbial Diversity Based on 16S rRNA Gene Amplicons and Metagenomic Sequencing.	Thiel V, Wood JM, Olsen MT, Tank M, Klatt CG, Ward DM, Bryant DA.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2016.00919	2016
Phylogeny	Reclassification of Acetomicrobium faecale as Caldicoprobacter faecalis comb. nov.	Bouanane-Darenfed A, Ben Hania W, Cayol JL, Ollivier B, Fardeau ML	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000409	2015
Phylogeny	Caldicoprobacter guelmensis sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic, xylanolytic bacterium isolated from a hot spring.	Bouanane-Darenfed A, Ben Hania W, Hacene H, Cayol JL, Ollivier B, Fardeau ML	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.043497-0	2012

References

#9000	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 20678
#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 )
#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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Acetomicrobium faecale (DSM 20678, JCM 30420, St. T)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Murein

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900115765

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

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