Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum (DSM 13490, ACM 5076, RWcit2)

Name: Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum (DSM 13490, ACM 5076, RWcit2)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 17778

Type strain

Strain Designation RWcit2

Culture col. no. DSM 13490 ACM 5076 RWcit2

NCBI tax ID(s) 1120987 1120986

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- R. J. Menes, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay; ACM 5076 <- ACM <- G. Rees, University of Canberra, Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; RWcit2

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Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum RWcit2 is an anaerobe, chemoorganotroph, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from production fluid from oil field.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped anaerobe chemoorganotroph genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49477

DSM 13490,ACM 5076

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:29:05

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Synergistota

Class Synergistia

Order Synergistales

Family Synergistaceae

Genus Acetomicrobium

Species Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum

Full scientific name Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum (Rees et al. 1997) Ben Hania et al. 2016

Synonyms (1)

Anaerobaculum thermoterrenum

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
43698	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5065	ANAEROBACULUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 104a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ANAEROBACULUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 104a) Composition: Yeast extract 10.0 g/l Trypticase peptone 5.0 g/l Meat peptone 5.0 g/l Na2S2O3 x 5 H2O 2.5 g/l D-Glucose 1.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l NaHCO3 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.08 g/l K2HPO4 0.04 g/l KH2PO4 0.04 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.02 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.01 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5065	positive	growth	50
43698	positive	growth	28-60
43698	positive	optimum	55

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43698	positive	optimum	7-7.6
43698	positive	growth	5.5-8.6	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
5065	anaerobe
43698	obligate anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	90.69
125439	anaerobe	99.622

Nutrition type

43698

Typechemoorganotroph

Spore formation

43698

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43698	NaCl	positive	growth	0-20 g/L
43698	NaCl	positive	optimum	10 g/L

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43698	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	assimilation
43698	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
43698	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	assimilation
43698	30924 ChEBI	L-tartrate	+	assimilation
43698	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation
43698	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	assimilation
43698	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	assimilation

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43698	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
43698	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Engineered product
#Engineered	#Built environment	#Container (Reservoir)
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Oil reservoir
#Engineered	#Waste	#Wastewater

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5065	production fluid from oil field	Utah, Redwash oil field	USA	USA	North America
43698	Production water of a petroleum reservoir from the Redwash oilfield	Utah	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence U50711 (>99% sequence identity) for Acetomicrobium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	199
Soil Samples	9
Animal Samples	38
Plant Samples	19
Total Samples	265

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5065	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	IMG-taxon 2599185146 annotated assembly for Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum DSM 13490	scaffold	GCA_900107215	1120987.3	2599185146	1120987	73.82

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5065	Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum strain RWcit 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	U50711	1526		1120986

GC content

5065

GC-content (mol%)44

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: IMG-taxon 2599185146 annotated assembly for Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum DSM 13490
BV-BRC: 1120987.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.62	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	61.45	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	62.92	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	40.93	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum DSM 13490 DSM 13490
NCBI: GCA_900107215.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	86.69	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	90.69	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	92.76	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	82.17	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	67.92	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	58.93	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Identification of a Putative CodY Regulon in the Gram-Negative Phylum Synergistetes.	Geng J, Luo S, Shieh HR, Wang HY, Hu S, Chen YM.	Int J Mol Sci	10.3390/ijms23147911	2022
Phylogeny	Reclassification of Anaerobaculum mobile, Anaerobaculum thermoterrenum, Anaerobaculum hydrogeniformans as Acetomicrobium mobile comb. nov., Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum comb. nov. and Acetomicrobium hydrogeniformans comb. nov., respectively, and emendation of the genus Acetomicrobium.	Hania WB, Bouanane-Darenfed A, Cayol JL, Ollivier B, Fardeau ML	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000910	2016
Phylogeny	Description of Anaerobaculum hydrogeniformans sp. nov., an anaerobe that produces hydrogen from glucose, and emended description of the genus Anaerobaculum.	Maune MW, Tanner RS	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.024349-0	2011
Phylogeny	Anaerobaculum mobile sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, moderately thermophilic, peptide-fermenting bacterium that uses crotonate as an electron acceptor, and emended description of the genus Anaerobaculum.	Menes RJ, Muxi L	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-52-1-157	2002
Metabolism	Anaerobaculum thermoterrenum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel, thermophilic bacterium which ferments citrate.	Rees GN, Patel BK, Grassia GS, Sheehy AJ	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-47-1-150	1997

References

#5065	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 13490
#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 )
#43698	Wajdi Ben Hania, Amel Bouanane-Darenfed, Jean-Luc Cayol, Bernard Ollivier, Marie-Laure Fardeau: Reclassification of Anaerobaculum mobile, Anaerobaculum thermoterrenum, Anaerobaculum hydrogeniformans as Acetomicrobium mobile comb. nov., Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum comb. nov. and Acetomicrobium hydrogeniformans comb. nov., respectively, and emendation of the genus Acetomicrobium. IJSEM 66: 1506 - 1509 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000910 , PubMed 26791251 )
#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) .
#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 .
#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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Acetomicrobium thermoterrenum (DSM 13490, ACM 5076, RWcit2)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900107215

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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