Name: Melghirimyces algeriensis EX
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16788

Type strain:

Species: Melghirimyces algeriensis

Strain Designation: EX, NariEX

Culture col. no.: DSM 45474, CCUG 59620

Strain history: <- M.-L. Fardeau, IRD, Marseille; EX <- N. A. Addou

NCBI tax ID(s): 910412 (species)

SI-ID 399532

DSM 45474, CCUG 59620

Section

Melghirimyces algeriensis EX is an aerobe, spore-forming, thermophilic bacterium that was isolated from soil of salt lake.

Gram-positive
spore-forming
aerobe
thermophilic
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	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Bacilli*
	Order	*Caryophanales*
	Family	*Thermoactinomycetaceae*
	Genus	*Melghirimyces*
	Species	**Melghirimyces algeriensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Melghirimyces algeriensis Addou et al. 2012

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #30067]	Gram stain	positive
[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	positive Confidence in %100

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Incubation period

7 days

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Pigment production

yes

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Caption:

Medium 514 55°C

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Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)

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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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Culture medium

ISP 2 MEDIUM WITH 10% NACL (DSMZ Medium 1261)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium composition

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		Temperature
[Ref.: #17257]	growth	55 °C
[Ref.: #30067]	growth	37-60 °C
[Ref.: #62037]	growth	56 °C

[Ref.: #17257]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #62037]	Temperature range	thermophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #30067]			growth	5-9.5

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #30067]	Oxygen tolerance	aerobe
[Ref.: #62037]	Oxygen tolerance	aerobe

[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	yes Confidence in %100
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	yes Confidence in %100

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #30067]		NaCl		growth	0-21	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #30067]	acetate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	alanine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	asparagine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	aspartate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	glutamate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	glycerol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	glycine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	malate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	myo-inositol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	proline ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	raffinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	rhamnose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	ribose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	succinate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30067]	threonine ChEBI	+	carbon source
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	Pathway	Enzyme coverage	Annotated reactions
	Pathway annotation	Computationally determined by
[Ref.: #66794]	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	100	8 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	100	9 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	enterobactin biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
[Ref.: #66794]	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	lipoate biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	100	5 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
[Ref.: #66794]	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	denitrification	100	2 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
[Ref.: #66794]	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	vitamin K metabolism	100	5 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	glycine betaine biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	92.86	13 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	vitamin B1 metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	myo-inositol biosynthesis	90	9 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	threonine metabolism	90	9 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	valine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	gluconeogenesis	87.5	7 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	heme metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	85.71	6 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	vitamin B12 metabolism	85.29	29 of 34
[Ref.: #66794]	phenylalanine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	leucine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	82.14	23 of 28
[Ref.: #66794]	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	flavin biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
[Ref.: #66794]	factor 420 biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
[Ref.: #66794]	propionate fermentation	80	8 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	serine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	urea cycle	76.92	10 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	ppGpp biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	methionine metabolism	73.08	19 of 26
[Ref.: #66794]	pentose phosphate pathway	72.73	8 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	proline metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	alanine metabolism	72.41	21 of 29
[Ref.: #66794]	NAD metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
[Ref.: #66794]	glutathione metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
[Ref.: #66794]	purine metabolism	70.21	66 of 94
[Ref.: #66794]	Entner Doudoroff pathway	70	7 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	degradation of sugar alcohols	68.75	11 of 16
[Ref.: #66794]	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	arginine metabolism	66.67	16 of 24
[Ref.: #66794]	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	selenocysteine biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
[Ref.: #66794]	histidine metabolism	65.52	19 of 29
[Ref.: #66794]	pyrimidine metabolism	64.44	29 of 45
[Ref.: #66794]	tyrosine metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	citric acid cycle	64.29	9 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	tryptophan metabolism	63.16	24 of 38
[Ref.: #66794]	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	ketogluconate metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	lipid metabolism	61.29	19 of 31
[Ref.: #66794]	cysteine metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
[Ref.: #66794]	polyamine pathway	60.87	14 of 23
[Ref.: #66794]	non-pathway related	60.53	23 of 38
[Ref.: #66794]	oxidative phosphorylation	60.44	55 of 91
[Ref.: #66794]	starch degradation	60	6 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	arachidonate biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	60	3 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	lysine metabolism	59.52	25 of 42
[Ref.: #66794]	isoprenoid biosynthesis	57.69	15 of 26
[Ref.: #66794]	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	d-mannose degradation	55.56	5 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	cholesterol biosynthesis	54.55	6 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	metabolism of disaccharids	54.55	6 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	50	3 of 6
[Ref.: #66794]	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	coenzyme M biosynthesis	50	5 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	pantothenate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
[Ref.: #66794]	lipid A biosynthesis	44.44	4 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	androgen and estrogen metabolism	43.75	7 of 16
[Ref.: #66794]	ubiquinone biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	41.67	5 of 12
[Ref.: #66794]	bacilysin biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	degradation of hexoses	38.89	7 of 18
[Ref.: #66794]	sulfate reduction	38.46	5 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	37.5	3 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	carnitine metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	vitamin B6 metabolism	36.36	4 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	degradation of pentoses	35.71	10 of 28
[Ref.: #66794]	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	33.33	3 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	arachidonic acid metabolism	33.33	6 of 18
[Ref.: #66794]	ascorbate metabolism	31.82	7 of 22
[Ref.: #66794]	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	30	3 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	29.41	5 of 17
[Ref.: #66794]	benzoyl-CoA degradation	28.57	2 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	carotenoid biosynthesis	27.27	6 of 22
[Ref.: #66794]	d-xylose degradation	27.27	3 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	butanoate fermentation	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	23.08	3 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	allantoin degradation	22.22	2 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	nitrate assimilation	22.22	2 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	chlorophyll metabolism	22.22	4 of 18
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Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #17257]	Sample type/isolated from	soil of salt lake
[Ref.: #17257]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Chott Melghir salt lake
[Ref.: #17257]	Country	Algeria
[Ref.: #17257]	Country ISO 3 Code	DZA
[Ref.: #17257]	Continent	Africa

[Ref.: #62037]	Sample type/isolated from	Soil of salt lake
[Ref.: #62037]	Sampling date	2006
[Ref.: #62037]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Chott Melghir(Southeast Algeria)
[Ref.: #62037]	Country	Algeria
[Ref.: #62037]	Country ISO 3 Code	DZA
[Ref.: #62037]	Continent	Africa
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Condition	#Saline	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence HQ383683 (>99% sequence identity) for Melghirimyces algeriensis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	41
Soil Samples	156
Animal Samples	76
Plant Samples	5
Total Samples	278

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

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.: #17257]	Melghirimyces algeriensis strain NariEX 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	HQ383683	1488	ENA	910412 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Melghirimyces algeriensis DSM 45474	GCA_900182565	scaffold	GenBank	910412 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Melghirimyces algeriensis strain DSM 45474	910412.3	wgs	PATRIC	910412 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Melghirimyces algeriensis DSM 45474	2724679802	draft	JGI IMG/M	910412 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #17257]	GC-content	47.3 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
[Ref.: #30067]	GC-content	47.3 mol%

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: Melghirimyces algeriensis DSM 45474 NCBI: GCA_900182565.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	yes	100	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Melghirimyces algeriensis DSM 45474 NCBI: GCA_900182565.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	80.019	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	92.157	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	yes	89.884	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	98.88	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	93.914	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	78.361	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	yes	95.891	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	91.637	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	91.22	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	90.939	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 45474, CCUG 59620

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SI-ID 399532

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Melghirimyces profundicolus sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea sediment.	Li J, Qin S, You ZQ, Long LJ, Tian XP, Wang FZ, Zhang S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.052175-0	2013	*
Phylogeny	Polycladomyces abyssicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic filamentous bacterium isolated from hemipelagic sediment.	Tsubouchi T, Shimane Y, Mori K, Usui K, Hiraki T, Tame A, Uematsu K, Maruyama T, Hatada Y	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.043596-0	2012	*
Phylogeny	Melghirimyces algeriensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Thermoactinomycetaceae, isolated from a salt lake.	Addou AN, Schumann P, Sproer C, Hacene H, Cayol JL, Fardeau ML	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.028985-0	2011	*

References

#17257

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 45474

#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 )

#30067

Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26427 (see below)

#62037 Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 59620

#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 .

#69480

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) .

#69481

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 )

#85804

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-ID399532.1 )

#26427

IJSEM 1491 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.028985-0 , PubMed 21856989 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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