Acidocella aquatica (DSM 104037, NBRC 112502, Ok2G)

Name: Acidocella aquatica (DSM 104037, NBRC 112502, Ok2G)
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BacDive ID 158255

Type strain

Strain Designation Ok2G

Culture col. no. DSM 104037 NBRC 112502 Ok2G

NCBI tax ID(s) 1922313

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Acidocella aquatica Ok2G is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from water from a freshwater lake.

Gram-negative rod-shaped aerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407945

NBRC 112502,DSM 104037

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:07:59

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Acetobacteraceae

Genus Acidocella

Species Acidocella aquatica

Full scientific name Acidocella aquatica Okamoto et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
65256	negative	1-2.8 µm	0.6-0.8 µm	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
64913	ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERRIVORANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1234)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERRIVORANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1234; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: (NH4)2SO4 2.9703 g/l Na2SO4 1.38614 g/l D-Glucose 0.29703 g/l KCl 0.0990099 g/l K2HPO4 0.049505 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.029703 g/l Ca(NO3)2 x 4 H2O 0.019802 g/l (NH4)2Ni(SO4)2 x 6 H2O 0.019802 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0148515 g/l NaCl 0.00990099 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00495049 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00178218 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00178218 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.000990099 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00029703 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.00019802 g/l H3BO3 9.90099e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.90099e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.90099e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.9604e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.9703e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
64913	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
65256	positive	growth	4-35
65256	positive	optimum	28	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
65256	positive	optimum	4.5
65256	positive	growth	3-6.2	acidophile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

65256

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Type of spore	Spore formation
65256	endospore

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
65256	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	-	growth
65256	22743 ChEBI	benzyl alcohol	+	growth
65256	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	growth
65256	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	+	growth
65256	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	growth
65256	28260 ChEBI	galactose	-	growth
65256	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	growth
65256	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	growth
65256	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	growth
65256	37684 ChEBI	mannose	-	growth
65256	17790 ChEBI	methanol	-	growth
65256	15882 ChEBI	phenol	-	growth
65256	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	growth
65256	32954 ChEBI	sodium acetate	-	growth
65256	113455 ChEBI	sodium benzoate	-	growth
65256	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	growth
65256	75228 ChEBI	sodium lactate	-	growth
65256	132106 ChEBI	sodium propionate	-	growth
65256	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	growth
65256	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	growth
65256		tryptone	+	growth
65256	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-	growth
65256		yeast extract	+	growth

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
65256	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
65256	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

65256

Fatty acid	Percentage
C18:1ω7c and/or C18:1ω6c	73.4
C16:0 3OH	6.2
C16:1ω7c and/or C16:1ω6c	6
C16:0	5.3
C12:0	2.4
C18:0 3OH	1.8
C18:0	1.5
cyclo C19:0ω8c	1.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Enrichment culture temperature	Isolation procedure
64913	water from a freshwater lake	Hokkaido, Chitose, Lake Okotanpe	Japan	JPN	Asia
65256	water sample 10 m depth from the lake surface	Freshwater lake (Lake Okotanpe) in Hokkaido	Japan	JPN	Asia	synthetic liquid medium	(l-1): 0.5 g glucose, 0.3 g MgSO4 x 7H2O, 0.1 g CaCl2 x 2H2O, 0.1 g KCl, 0.2 g NaNO3 , 0.1 g methylphosphonic acid and 1 ml trace element solution SL-10	15	An aliquot of the sample (0.5 ml) was inoculated into 10 ml of a synthetic liquid medium. The culture was incubated under aerobic conditionsin the dark at 15°C. A pure culture of strain Ok2G T was obtained by repeated serial dilution in the same medium.

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence LC199502 (>99% sequence identity) for Acidocella aquatica subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	270
Soil Samples	1392
Animal Samples	47
Plant Samples	139
Total Samples	1848

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
64913	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3016063v1 assembly for Acidocella aquatica NBRC 112502	scaffold	GCA_030160635	1922313.3	8118502161	1922313	51.04

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
64913	Acidocella aquatica gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	LC199502	1413		1922313

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
64913	62.6	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Acidocella aquatica sp. nov., a novel acidophilic heterotrophic bacterium isolated from a freshwater lake.	Okamoto R, Kojima H, Fukui M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002376	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 )
#64913	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 104037
#65256	Rei Okamoto, Hisaya Kojima, Manabu Fukui: Acidocella aquatica sp. nov., a novel acidophilic heterotrophic bacterium isolated from a freshwater lake. IJSEM 67: 4773 - 4776 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002376 , PubMed 28950932 )
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Acidocella aquatica (DSM 104037, NBRC 112502, Ok2G)

Name and taxonomic classification