Name: Moorella thermoacetica Fontaine
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16812

Type strain:

Species: Moorella thermoacetica

Strain Designation: Fontaine

Variant: Isotype of BacDive ID 16811

Culture col. no.: DSM 2955, ATCC 35608

Strain history: <- J. G. Zeikus, Michigan State University, Center for Microbial Ecology, E. Lansing, USA; Fontaine <- E. McCoy, University of Wisconsin, Departments of Biochemistry and Agricultural Bacteriology, Madison, USA <- F. E. Fontaine

NCBI tax ID(s): 1525 (species)

Other strains from Moorella thermoacetica

M. thermoacetica Fontaine, DSM 521, ATCC 35608, ... (type strain)
M. thermoacetica G-20, DSM 6867, ATCC 49707
M. thermoacetica 6, DSM 11768
M. thermoacetica ET-5a, DSM 12797
M. thermoacetica PT-1, DSM 12993
M. thermoacetica AMP, DSM 21394
M. thermoacetica Inf1, DSM 7417
M. thermoacetica JCM 9320, ATCC 39073

Section

Moorella thermoacetica Fontaine is an anaerobe, thermophilic bacterium that was isolated from horse faeces.

anaerobe
thermophilic
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	*Clostridia*
	Order	*Thermoanaerobacterales*
	Family	*Thermoanaerobacteraceae*
	Genus	*Moorella*
	Species	**Moorella thermoacetica**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Moorella thermoacetica (Fontaine et al. 1942) Collins et al. 1994

	Synonym	Clostridium thermaceticum
	Synonym	Moorella thermoautotrophica
	Synonym	Clostridium thermoautotrophicum
	Synonym	Clostridium thermoaceticum
	Synonym	Clostridium thermautotrophicum

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MOORELLA THERMOACETICA (TYE-CO) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 316)

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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

expand / minimize

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Culture medium

MOORELLA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 60)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #1260]			growth	55 °C

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Temperature range

thermophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

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

[Ref.: #1260]	Sample type/isolated from	horse faeces
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Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Mammals	#Equidae (Horse)
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)

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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

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Moorella thermoacetica DSM 2955	GCA_001267435	complete	GenBank	1525 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Moorella thermoacetica strain DSM 2955	1525.4	complete	PATRIC	1525 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Moorella thermoacetica DSM 2955	2834887756	complete	JGI IMG/M	1525 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Moorella thermoacetica DSM 2955	2627853542	complete	JGI IMG/M	1525 tax ID	*

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GC-content

55.8 mol%

sequence analysis

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Moorella thermoacetica DSM 2955 NCBI: GCA_001267435.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	89.393	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	93.567	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	68.658	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	yes	99.085	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	95.15	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	yes	93.852	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	100	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	86.208	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	96.318	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	70.833	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 2955, ATCC 35608

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Anaerobic thermophilic fermentation for acetic acid production from milk permeate.	Talabardon M, Schwitzguebel JP, Peringer P	J Biotechnol	10.1016/s0168-1656(99)00180-7	2000	*
Phylogeny	Koleobacter methoxysyntrophicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic bacterium isolated from deep subsurface oil field and proposal of Koleobacteraceae fam. nov. and Koleobacterales ord. nov. within the class Clostridia of the phylum Firmicutes.	Sakamoto S, Nobu MK, Mayumi D, Tamazawa S, Kusada H, Yonebayashi H, Iwama H, Ikarashi M, Wakayama T, Maeda H, Sakata S, Tamura T, Nomura N, Kamagata Y, Tamaki H	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126154	2020	*
Genetics	Complete Genome Sequence of the Acetogenic Bacterium Moorella thermoacetica DSM 2955T.	Bengelsdorf FR, Poehlein A, Esser C, Schiel-Bengelsdorf B, Daniel R, Durre P	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.01157-15	2015	*
Metabolism	Old acetogens, new light.	Drake HL, Gossner AS, Daniel SL	Ann N Y Acad Sci	10.1196/annals.1419.016	2008	*
	Oxalate- and Glyoxylate-Dependent Growth and Acetogenesis by Clostridium thermoaceticum.	Daniel SL, Drake HL	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.59.9.3062-3069.1993	1993	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 2955

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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 )

#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) .

#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) .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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