Name: Bifidobacterium thermophilum RU 326
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 1722

Type strain:

Species: Bifidobacterium thermophilum

Strain Designation: RU 326

Culture col. no.: DSM 20212, ATCC 25866, JCM 1268, KCTC 3471

Strain history: DSM 20212 <-- V. Scardovi RU 326 ("Bifidobacterium ruminale").

NCBI tax ID(s): 1410648 (strain), 33905 (species)

SI-ID 92170

LMG 11574, ATCC 25866, DSM 20212, NCFB 2254, JCM 1268, NCIMB 702254, NCDO2254, KCTC 3471

Special Collections

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Section

Bifidobacterium thermophilum RU 326 is an anaerobe, Gram-positive bacterium that was isolated from bovine rumen.

Gram-positive
anaerobe
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	*Actinomycetota*
	Class	*Actinomycetes*
	Order	*Bifidobacteriales*
	Family	*Bifidobacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Bifidobacterium*
	Species	**Bifidobacterium thermophilum**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Bifidobacterium thermophilum corrig. Mitsuoka 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonym

Bifidobacterium thermophilium

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	no Confidence in %93

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

BIFIDOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 58)

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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.: #8481]			growth	37 °C
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Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

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Ability of spore formation

no Confidence in %100

[Ref.: #8481]	Murein short key	A21.06
[Ref.: #8481]	Murein types	A4ß L-Orn(L-Lys)-D-Glu

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API® 50CH acid:

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	API ID	ControlQ	Acid from glycerolGLY	Acid from erythritolERY	Acid from D-arabinoseDARA	Acid from L-arabinoseLARA	Acid from D-riboseRIB	Acid from D-xyloseDXYL	Acid from L-xyloseLXYL	Acid from D-adonitolADO	Acid from methyl beta-D-xylopyranosideMDX	Acid from D-galactoseGAL	Acid from D-glucoseGLU	Acid from D-fructoseFRU	Acid from D-mannoseMNE	Acid from L-sorboseSBE	Acid from L-rhamnoseRHA	Acid from dulcitolDUL	Acid from inositolINO	Acid from D-mannitolMAN	Acid from D-sorbitolSOR	Acid from methyl alpha-D-mannopyranosideMDM	Acid from methyl alpha-D-glucopyranosideMDG	Acid from N-acetyl-glucosamineNAG	Acid from amygdalinAMY	Acid from arbutinARB	Acid from esculinESC	Acid from salicinSAL	Acid from cellobioseCEL	Acid from maltoseMAL	Acid from lactoseLAC	Acid from melibioseMEL	Acid from sucroseSAC	Acid from trehaloseTRE	Acid from inulinINU	Acid from melezitoseMLZ	Acid from raffinoseRAF	Acid from starchAMD	Acid from glycogenGLYG	Acid from xylitolXLT	Acid from gentiobioseGEN	Acid from turanoseTUR	Acid from D-lyxoseLYX	Acid from D-tagatoseTAG	Acid from D-fucoseDFUC	Acid from L-fucoseLFUC	Acid from D-arabitolDARL	Acid from L-arabitolLARL	Acid from gluconateGNT	Acid from 2-Ketogluconate2KG	Acid from 5-Ketogluconate5KG
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Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #8481]	Sample type/isolated from	bovine rumen

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Bovine rumen
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Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Mammals	#Bovinae (Cow, Cattle)
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Rumen

What are isolation sources categories?

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.: #124043]	Bifidobacterium thermophilum gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 1268.	AB507159	669	GenBank ENA	33905 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #124043]	Bifidobacterium thermophilum gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 1268.	AB116356	478	GenBank ENA	33905 tax ID	*

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Bifidobacterium thermophilum DSM 20212	GCA_000687575	contig	GenBank ENA	1410648 tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Bifidobacterium thermophilum DSM 20212	1410648.3	wgs	PATRIC	1410648 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Bifidobacterium thermophilum DSM 20212	2558860129	draft	JGI IMG/M	1410648 tax ID	*

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GC-content

60.9 mol%

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

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Bifidobacterium thermophilum DSM 20212 PATRIC: 1410648.3
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	100	no

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Bifidobacterium thermophilum DSM 20212 PATRIC: 1410648.3
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	87.124	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	84.181	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.279	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	92.987	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	95.47	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	93	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 20212, ATCC 25866, JCM 1268, KCTC 3471

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SI-ID 92170

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	The effect of nisin on the physiology of Bifidobacterium thermophilum.	Kot E, Murad Y, Bezkorovainy A	J Food Prot	10.4315/0362-028x-64.8.1206	2001	*
Metabolism	Binding of ferric iron to the cell walls and membranes of Bifidobacterium thermophilum: effect of free radicals.	Kot E, Bezkorovainy A	J Agric Food Chem	10.1021/jf990474l	1999	*
Enzymology	Immunological relationships among transaldolases in the genus Bifidobacterium.	Sgorbati B, Scardovi V	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/BF00400786	1979	*

References

#8481

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 20212

#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) .

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

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Automatically annotated from API 50CH acid .

#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 )

#71369

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-ID92170.1 )

#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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