Name: Escherichia coli Ec3550
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 169234

Type strain:

Species: Escherichia coli

Strain Designation: Ec3550

Culture col. no.: DSM 112118

Strain history: <- T. Clavel, RWTH Aachen; <- B. Stecher, Max von Pettenkofer-Inst., Munich; Ec3550

NCBI tax ID(s): 562 (species)

SI-ID 401002

DSM 112118

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Section

Escherichia coli Ec3550 is a Gram-negative human pathogen that was isolated from gut content; S. Tm infected, SPF, C57BL/6 mouse.

Gram-negative
human pathogen
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	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Enterobacterales*
	Family	*Enterobacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Escherichia*
	Species	**Escherichia coli**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Escherichia coli (Migula 1895) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonym

"Bacillus coli"

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.75

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)

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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.: #68478]			growth	37 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #68368]	amygdalin ChEBI	-	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	arginine ChEBI	-	hydrolysis	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	citrate ChEBI	-	assimilation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	D-glucose ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	D-mannitol ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	gelatin ChEBI	-	hydrolysis	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	L-arabinose ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	L-rhamnose ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	lysine ChEBI	+	degradation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	melibiose ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	myo-inositol ChEBI	-	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	ornithine ChEBI	+	degradation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	sorbitol ChEBI	+	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	sucrose ChEBI	-	fermentation	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	tryptophan ChEBI	+	energy source	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	urea ChEBI	-	hydrolysis	* from API 20E
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	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #68368]	acetoin ChEBI	no	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	hydrogen sulfide ChEBI	no	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	indole ChEBI	yes	* from API 20E

	Physiological tests	Metabolite	Voges-Proskauer-test	Indole test
[Ref.: #68368]		acetoin ChEBI	-		* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]		indole ChEBI		+	* from API 20E

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #68368]	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	gelatinase	-		* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	lysine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.18	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	ornithine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.17	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	* from API 20E
[Ref.: #68368]	urease	-	3.5.1.5	* from API 20E

API® 20E:

Note that the displayed test results represent raw data and therefore may deviate!

	API ID	beta-GalactosidaseONPG	Arginine dihydrolaseADH (Arg)	Lysine decarboxylaseLDC (Lys)	Ornithine decarboxylaseODC	Citrate utilizationCIT	H2S productionH2S	Urease/urea hydrolysisURE	Tryptophan deaminaseTDA (Trp)	Indole productionIND	Acetoin production (Voges Proskauer test)VP	Gelatinase/gelatin hydrolysisGEL	Fermentation/oxidation of D-glucoseGLU	Fermentation/oxidation of D-mannitolMAN	Fermentation/oxidation of inositolINO	Fermentation/oxidation of sorbitolSor	Fermentation/oxidation of L-rhamnoseRHA	Fermentation/oxidation of sucroseSAC	Fermentation/oxidation of melibioseMEL	Fermentation/oxidation of amygdalinAMY	Fermentation/oxidation of L-arabinoseARA	Cytochrome oxidaseOX	Nitrite productionNO2	Reduction to N2N2	MotilityMOB	Growth on MacConkey mediumMAC	Oxidative catabolisation of D-glucoseOF-O	Fermentation of D-glucoseOF-F
[Ref.: #68478]	18083	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.

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

[Ref.: #68478]	Sample type/isolated from	gut content; S. Tm infected, SPF, C57BL/6 mouse
[Ref.: #68478]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Munich
[Ref.: #68478]	Country	Germany
[Ref.: #68478]	Country ISO 3 Code	DEU
[Ref.: #68478]	Continent	Europe
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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #68478]	Pathogenicity (human)	yes
[Ref.: #68478]	Pathogenicity (animal)	yes
[Ref.: #68478]	Biosafety level	2	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.: #124043]	Escherichia coli strain DSM 112118 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	OM658578	1477	GenBank ENA	562 tax ID	*

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Escherichia coli EC_550	GCA_015160735	scaffold	GenBank ENA	562 tax ID	*

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

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Escherichia coli EC_550 NCBI: GCA_015160735.1
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.75	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.79	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	56.561	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	86.948	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	98.5	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	75.706	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 112118

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SI-ID 401002

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 )

#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) .

#68368

Automatically annotated from API 20E .

#68478

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 112118

#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) .

#115476

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-ID401002.1 )

#124043

Dr. Isabel Schober, Dr. Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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