Name: Moorella thermoacetica G-20
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16813

Type strain:

Species: Moorella thermoacetica

Strain Designation: G-20

Culture col. no.: DSM 6867, ATCC 49707

Strain history: <- S. R. Parekh, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA; G-20

NCBI tax ID(s): 1525 (species)

SI-ID 42632

ATCC 49707, DSM 6867

Other strains from Moorella thermoacetica

M. thermoacetica Fontaine, DSM 521, ATCC 35608, ... (type strain)
M. thermoacetica Fontaine, DSM 2955, ATCC 35608 (type strain)
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 G-20 is an anaerobe, spore-forming, thermophilic bacterium that was isolated from horse dung.

motile
spore-forming
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 morphological and physiological properties Morphology

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

[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	yes Confidence in %96.756

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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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 at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #2864]			growth	60 °C

[Ref.: #2864]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #69480]	Temperature range	thermophilic Confidence in %100

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #2864]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #69480]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe Confidence in %99.199

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Ability of spore formation

yes Confidence in %100

[Ref.: #2864]	Name of produced compound	acetic acid
[Ref.: #2864]	Name of produced compound	calcium-magnesium acetate

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

[Ref.: #2864]	Sample type/isolated from	horse dung
* marker position based on {}

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:

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	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Moorella thermoacetica DSM 6867	GCA_001875285	contig	GenBank	1525 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Moorella thermoacetica ATCC 49707	GCA_008121905	contig	GenBank	1525 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Moorella thermoacetica strain ATCC 49707	1525.23	wgs	PATRIC	1525 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Moorella thermoacetica strain DSM 6867	1525.11	wgs	PATRIC	1525 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Moorella thermoacetica DSM 6867	2837637149	draft	JGI IMG/M	1525 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Moorella thermoacetica ATCC 49707	2703719209	draft	JGI IMG/M	1525 tax ID	*

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: Moorella thermoacetica strain DSM 6867 PATRIC: 1525.11
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	54	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Moorella thermoacetica strain ATCC 49707 PATRIC: 1525.23
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	89.393	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	68.658	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	yes	99.085	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	96.318	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	95.15	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	yes	93.852	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	86.208	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	93.567	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	100	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	70.833	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 6867, ATCC 49707

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SI-ID 42632

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	New generation NMR bioreactor coupled with high-resolution NMR spectroscopy leads to novel discoveries in Moorella thermoacetica metabolic profiles.	Xue J, Isern NG, Ewing RJ, Liyu AV, Sears JA, Knapp H, Iversen J, Sisk DR, Ahring BK, Majors PD	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-014-5847-8	2014	*
Metabolism	Fermentation of xylose into acetic acid by Clostridium thermoaceticum.	Balasubramanian N, Kim JS, Lee YY	Appl Biochem Biotechnol	10.1385/abab:91-93:1-9:367	2001	*
Metabolism	Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of cellulosic biomass to acetic acid.	Borden JR, Lee YY, Yoon HH	Appl Biochem Biotechnol	10.1385/abab:84-86:1-9:963	2000	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 6867

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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) .

#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 )

#85825

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-ID42632.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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