Name: Persephonella atlantica MO1340
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 164712

Type strain:

Species: Persephonella atlantica

Strain Designation: MO1340

Culture col. no.: JCM 34026, UBOCG M-3359, UBOCC M-3359

Strain history: A. Godfroy; LMEE, Ifremer, France; MO1340.

NCBI tax ID(s): 2699429 (species)

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Persephonella atlantica MO1340 is a microaerophile, chemolithoautotroph, Gram-negative bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from Deep-sea hydrothermal chimney collected from the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

colony-forming
Gram-negative
motile
rod-shaped
chemolithoautotroph
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	*Aquificota*
	Class	*Aquificia*
	Order	*Aquificales*
	Family	*Hydrogenothermaceae*
	Genus	*Persephonella*
	Species	"Persephonella atlantica"
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Persephonella atlantica Francois et al. 2020

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69646]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #69646]	Cell length	1.4-2.2 µm

[Ref.: #69646]	Cell width	0.5-0.8 µm

[Ref.: #69646]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #69646]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #69646]	Flagellum arrangement	monotrichous, polar

[Ref.: #69646]	Colony size	1 mm
[Ref.: #69646]	Colony color	orange
[Ref.: #69646]	Colony shape	circular

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	70 °C
[Ref.: #69646]			growth	45-80 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #69646]			optimum	6.5
[Ref.: #69646]			growth	5.3-7.0

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

microaerophile

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Nutrition type

chemolithoautotroph

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #69646]		NaCl		growth	1.5-3.5	%(w/v)
[Ref.: #69646]		NaCl		optimum	2.5	%(w/v)

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #69646]	dihydrogen ChEBI	+	electron acceptor
[Ref.: #69646]	elemental sulfur ChEBI	+	electron acceptor
[Ref.: #69646]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #69646]	nitrite ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #69646]	thiosulfate ChEBI	+	electron acceptor

	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #69646]		dinitrogen ChEBI	yes
[Ref.: #69646]		sulfate ChEBI	yes

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

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Deep-sea hydrothermal chimney collected from the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

[Ref.: #69646]	Sample type/isolated from	Black smoker chimney
[Ref.: #69646]	Sampling date	2008-08-12
[Ref.: #69646]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Lucky Strike hydrothermal field
[Ref.: #69646]	Country	Atlantic Ocean
[Ref.: #69646]	Geographic location	37.2890°/-32.2756°
[Ref.: #69646]	Enrichment culture composition	per liter: NaCl (24.3 g), MgCl2.6H2O (10 g), CaCl2.2H2O (1.5 g), KCl (0.66 g). Trace elements were provided by SL-10 solution (1 mL), Selenite-Wolfram solution (0.2 mL), and 1 mL of KBr (0.84 M), H3BO3 (0.4 M), SrCl2 (0.15 M), NH4Cl (0.4 M), KH2PO4 (0.04 M) and NaF (0.07 M) solutions
[Ref.: #69646]	Enrichment culture duration	12 days
[Ref.: #69646]	Enrichment culture temperature	30 ̊C
[Ref.: #69646]	Isolation date	2018-01-29
[Ref.: #69646]	Isolation/enrichment procedure	microaerophilic
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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.: #67770]	Persephonella atlantica strain MO1340 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MT376293	1444	GenBank ENA	2699429 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Persephonella atlantica MO1340	GCA_016617615	contig	GenBank ENA	2699429 tax ID
[Ref.: #69646]	Whole genome shotgun	JAACYA000000000		GenBank ENA	2699429 tax ID

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GC-content

37.1 mol%

genome sequence analysis

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

JCM 34026, UBOCG M-3359, UBOCC M-3359

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Persephonella atlantica sp. nov.: How to adapt to physico-chemical gradients in high temperature hydrothermal habitats.	Francois DX, Godfroy A, Mathien C, Aube J, Cathalot C, Lesongeur F, L'Haridon S, Philippon X, Roussel EG	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126176	2020	*

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 )

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#69646

David X. François, Anne Godfroy, Clémentine Mathien, Johanne Aubé, Cécile Cathalot, Françoise Lesongeur, Stéphane L'Haridon, Xavier Philippon, Erwan G. Roussel: Persephonella atlantica sp. nov.: How to adapt to physico-chemical gradients in high temperature hydrothermal habitats. Syst Appl Microbiol. 44: 2021 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126176 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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