Acetobacter tropicalis (DSM 15551, IFO 16470, NBRC 16470)

Name: Acetobacter tropicalis (DSM 15551, IFO 16470, NBRC 16470)
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Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 15551 IFO 16470 NBRC 16470 NRIC 0312 LMG 19825 2 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1307920 104102

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- IFO NRIC 0312 <-- P. Lisdiyanti Ni-6b.

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Acetobacter tropicalis DSM 15551 is a bacterium that was isolated from coconut juice, Cioccos nucifera.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 14620

LMG 19825,IFO 16470,JCM 10947,NBRC 16470,DSM 15551,BCRC 17166,CCRC 17166,VTT E-042464

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:17:46

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Acetobacteraceae

Genus Acetobacter

Species Acetobacter tropicalis

Full scientific name Acetobacter tropicalis Lisdiyanti et al. 2001

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acetobacter tropicalis** (1)	Type strain
163303	A. tropicalis JCM 25084, NRIC 0321

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	97.333
125439	negative	98

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5997	ACETIC ACID BACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 989)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACETIC ACID BACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 989) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Glucose 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 1.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5997	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		91.71
125439		97.1

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Fruit (Seed)
#Host Body Product	#Plant	#Juice (natural)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Geographic location
5997	coconut juice, Cioccos nucifera	Cioccos nucifera	Indonesia	IDN	Asia
67770	Coconut juice		Indonesia	IDN	Asia	Yogyakarta

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB032355 (>99% sequence identity) for Acetobacter tropicalis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	25
Soil Samples	101
Animal Samples	218
Plant Samples	77
Total Samples	421

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5997	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM798924v1 assembly for Acetobacter tropicalis NBRC 16470	contig	GCA_007989245	104102.29		104102	38.64
66792	ASM158091v1 assembly for Acetobacter tropicalis LMG 19825	contig	GCA_001580915	104102.11	2724679595	104102	32.57
67770	ASM78763v2 assembly for Acetobacter tropicalis NBRC 16470	scaffold	GCA_000787635	104102.10	2667527850	104102
124043	ASM2599537v1 assembly for Acetobacter tropicalis NRIC 0312	contig	GCA_025995375	1307920.3	8116996472	1307920

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Acetobacter tropicalis gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: NBRC 16470	AB681066	1417	104102
20218	Acetobacter tropicalis gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: NRIC 0312, isolate: No.3	AB032354	1451	104102
5997	Acetobacter tropicalis gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: NRIC 0312, isolate: No.39	AB032355	1443	104102

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	55.9	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Acetobacter tropicalis NBRC 16470
NCBI: GCA_000787635

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	80.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	72.70	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	97.10	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Acetobacter tropicalis strain LMG 19825
PATRIC: 104102.11

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.33	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	89.57	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	91.71	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	85.62	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.45	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	55.68	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Wound Dressing Potential of Bacterial Cellulose Produced by Acetobacter tropicalis NBRC 16470 Strain Isolated from Rotten Fruits.	Bal H.	Curr Pharm Biotechnol	10.2174/0113892010361594250703060501	2025
	Genomic erosion and extensive horizontal gene transfer in gut-associated Acetobacteraceae.	Brown BP, Wernegreen JJ.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/s12864-019-5844-5	2019
Pathogenicity	Bacillus cereus Response to a Proanthocyanidin Trimer, a Transcriptional and Functional Analysis.	Tamura T, Ozawa M, Tanaka N, Arai S, Mura K.	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-016-1032-x	2016
Enzymology	Heterologous expression of membrane-bound alcohol dehydrogenase-encoding genes for glyceric acid production using Gluconobacter sp. CHM43 and its derivatives.	Habe H, Sato Y, Tani H, Matsutani M, Tanioka K, Theeragool G, Matsushita K, Yakushi T	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-021-11535-0	2021
Genetics	Draft Genome Sequence of Acetobacter tropicalis Type Strain NBRC16470, a Producer of Optically Pure d-Glyceric Acid.	Koike H, Sato S, Morita T, Fukuoka T, Habe H	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.01329-14	2014
Enzymology	Membrane-bound alcohol dehydrogenase is essential for glyceric acid production in Acetobacter tropicalis.	Habe H, Sato S, Fukuoka T, Kitamoto D, Yakushi T, Matsushita K, Sakaki K	J Oleo Sci	10.5650/jos.60.489	2011
Metabolism	Microbial production of glyceric acid, an organic acid that can be mass produced from glycerol.	Habe H, Shimada Y, Yakushi T, Hattori H, Ano Y, Fukuoka T, Kitamoto D, Itagaki M, Watanabe K, Yanagishita H, Matsushita K, Sakaki K	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/AEM.01535-09	2009
Metabolism	Biotransformation of glycerol to D-glyceric acid by Acetobacter tropicalis.	Habe H, Fukuoka T, Kitamoto D, Sakaki K	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-008-1737-2	2008
Phylogeny	Acetobacter garciniae sp. nov., an acetic acid bacterium isolated from fermented mangosteen peel in Thailand.	Yukphan P, Charoenyingcharoen P, Kingcha Y, Likhitrattanapisal S, Muangham S, Tanasupawat S, Yamada Y	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005052	2021

References

#5997	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15551
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Acetobacter tropicalis (DSM 15551, IFO 16470, NBRC 16470)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Observation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_007989245

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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