Boudabousia tangfeifanii (DSM 103436, CGMCC 4.7369, VUL4_3)

Name: Boudabousia tangfeifanii (DSM 103436, CGMCC 4.7369, VUL4_3)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 158436

Type strain

Strain Designation VUL4_3

Culture col. no. DSM 103436 CGMCC 4.7369 VUL4_3

NCBI tax ID(s) 1912795

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- X. Meng, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing , China; VUL4_3

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Boudabousia tangfeifanii VUL4_3 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from faeces of vulture.

Gram-positive rod-shaped facultative anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 403390

DSM 103436

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:38:19

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Actinomycetales

Family Actinomycetaceae

Genus Boudabousia

Species Boudabousia tangfeifanii

Full scientific name Boudabousia tangfeifanii (Meng et al. 2018) Yang et al. 2021

Synonyms (1)

Actinomyces tangfeifanii

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
66727	positive	0.9-1.3 µm	0.6-0.8 µm	rod-shaped
125438						93

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Incubation period	Medium used
66727	0.6-1 mm	greyish white	2 days	BHI-sheep-blood agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
65112	BBL ACTINOMYCES BROTH (DSMZ Medium 1029)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BBL ACTINOMYCES BROTH (DSMZ Medium 1029) Composition: Infusion Broth 1.425 g/l Potassium Phosphate 0.855 g/l Dextrose 0.285 g/l Yeast extract 0.285 g/l Pancreatic digest of casein 0.228 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.057 g/l Starch 0.057 g/l Ammonium Sulfate 0.057 g/l Magnesium sulfate 0.0114 g/l Calcium Chloride 0.00057 g/l Distilled water
66727	BHI-sheep-blood agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
65112	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

66727

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Spore formation

66727

Spore formationno

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
66727	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from
66727	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	builds acid from
66727	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from
66727	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	builds acid from
66727	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	builds acid from
66727	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
66727	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from
66727	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	builds acid from
66727	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
66727	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	-	builds acid from
66727	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	builds acid from
66727	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	builds acid from
66727	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	builds acid from
66727	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	builds acid from
66727	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from
66727	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	builds acid from
66727	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from
66727		esculin ferric citrate	-	builds acid from
66727	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from
66727	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
66727	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from
66727	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	builds acid from
66727	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from
66727	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from
66727	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from
66727	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from
66727	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	builds acid from
66727	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from
66727	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	builds acid from
66727	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from
66727	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	builds acid from
66727	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from
66727	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from
66727	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from
66727	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from
66727	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	builds acid from
66727	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	-	builds acid from
66727	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from
66727	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	builds acid from
66727	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
66727		potassium 2-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	builds acid from
66727		potassium 5-dehydro-D-gluconate	+	builds acid from
66727	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	-	builds acid from
66727	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from
66727	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from
66727	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from
66727	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	builds acid from
66727	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from
66727	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	builds acid from
66727	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	builds acid from
66727	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
66727	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
66727	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
66727	alpha-fucosidase	+	3.2.1.51
66727	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
66727	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
66727	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
66727	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
66727	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
66727	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
66727	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
66727	beta-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.25
66727	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
66727	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
66727	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
66727	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
66727	lipase	-
66727	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52
66727	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
66727	pyrazinamidase	-	3.5.1.B15
66727	pyroglutamic acid arylamidase	-
66727	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3
66727	tripeptide aminopeptidase	+	3.4.11.4
66727	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
66727	urease	-	3.5.1.5
66727	valine arylamidase	+

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	starch degradation	100	10 of 10
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	threonine metabolism	80	8 of 10
66794	vitamin K metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	80	4 of 5
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	77.27	17 of 22
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	75	6 of 8
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	71.11	32 of 45
66794	purine metabolism	70.21	66 of 94
66794	NAD metabolism	66.67	12 of 18
66794	glycolysis	64.71	11 of 17
66794	photosynthesis	64.29	9 of 14
66794	cellulose degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	methionine metabolism	57.69	15 of 26
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	57.14	4 of 7
66794	d-mannose degradation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	54.95	50 of 91
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	53.85	14 of 26
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	53.85	7 of 13
66794	non-pathway related	52.63	20 of 38
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	cysteine metabolism	50	9 of 18
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	50	3 of 6
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	adipate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	isoleucine metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	46.15	6 of 13
66794	proline metabolism	45.45	5 of 11
66794	lipid metabolism	45.16	14 of 31
66794	alanine metabolism	44.83	13 of 29
66794	serine metabolism	44.44	4 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	44.44	4 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	44.44	4 of 9
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	42.86	3 of 7
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	tyrosine metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	40	4 of 10
66794	degradation of hexoses	38.89	7 of 18
66794	lysine metabolism	38.1	16 of 42
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	37.5	6 of 16
66794	tryptophan metabolism	36.84	14 of 38
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	degradation of sugar acids	36	9 of 25
66794	citric acid cycle	35.71	5 of 14
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	35.71	10 of 28
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	acetoin degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	flavin biosynthesis	33.33	5 of 15
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	leucine metabolism	30.77	4 of 13
66794	propionate fermentation	30	3 of 10
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	30	3 of 10
66794	glutathione metabolism	28.57	4 of 14
66794	propanol degradation	28.57	2 of 7
66794	histidine metabolism	27.59	8 of 29
66794	d-xylose degradation	27.27	3 of 11
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	27.27	3 of 11
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	27.27	3 of 11
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	25	3 of 12
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	arginine metabolism	25	6 of 24
66794	degradation of pentoses	25	7 of 28
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	urea cycle	23.08	3 of 13
66794	ascorbate metabolism	22.73	5 of 22
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	22.22	4 of 18
66794	allantoin degradation	22.22	2 of 9
66794	heme metabolism	21.43	3 of 14

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)
#Host	#Birds	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Isolation procedure
65112	faeces of vulture	Qinghai province	China	CHN	Asia
66727	rectal swab sample of a wild vulture (Aegypius monachus)	Tibetan autonomous region, Qinghai province	China	CHN	Asia	brain-heart infusion-sheep blood agar	Three Aegypius monachus vultures were captured from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and their rectal swabs were separately dispensed in 2 ml sterile tubes containing Luria-Bertani medium (20 % glycerol added). During screening of the gut microbiota of Aegypius monachus, a novel strain, VUL4_3T, was isolated from one of the diluted samples (from the 10-1 and 10-2 dilutions) that were aerobically incubated in the presence of 5 % CO2 on brain-heart infusion-sheep blood agar.

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KY039943 (>99% sequence identity) for Boudabousia liubingyangii subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	38
Soil Samples	25
Animal Samples	843
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	908

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM185668v1 assembly for Boudabousia tangfeifanii VUL4_3	complete	GCA_001856685	2718217975	1912795	98.28

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
66727	Boudabousia tangfeifanii 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KY039943	1457		1912795

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
65112	51.9
66727	51.9	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Boudabousia tangfeifanii VUL4_3
NCBI: GCA_001856685.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	88.47	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	78.82	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	85.45	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	86.97	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.55	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	93.00	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Actinomyces tangfeifanii sp. nov., isolated from the vulture Aegypius monachus.	Meng X, Lai XH, Lu S, Liu S, Chen C, Zhou D, Yang J, Jin D, Xu J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003013	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 )
#65112	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 103436
#66727	Xiangli Meng, Xin-He Lai, Shan Lu, Sha Liu, Cuixia Chen, Donggen Zhou, Jing Yang, Dong Jin, Jianguo Xu: Actinomyces tangfeifanii sp. nov., isolated from the vulture Aegypius monachus. IJSEM 68: 3701 - 3706 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.003013 , PubMed 30351263 )
#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) .
#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 )
#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 )
#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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Boudabousia tangfeifanii (DSM 103436, CGMCC 4.7369, VUL4_3)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001856685

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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