Name: Fusibacter tunisiensis BELH1
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 18033

Type strain:

Species: Fusibacter tunisiensis

Strain Designation: BELH1

Culture col. no.: DSM 24436, JCM 17481

Strain history: M.-L. Fardeau BELH1.

NCBI tax ID(s): 1008308 (species)

SI-ID 402839

DSM 24436

Section

Fusibacter tunisiensis BELH1 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, motile bacterium that was isolated from anaerobic bioreactor for olive-mill wastewater treatment.

motile
rod-shaped
anaerobe
mesophilic
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	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Clostridia*
	Order	*Eubacteriales*
	Family	[Eubacteriales, not assigned to family]
	Genus	*Fusibacter*
	Species	**Fusibacter tunisiensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Fusibacter tunisiensis Ben Hania et al. 2012

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	positive Confidence in %99.719

[Ref.: #30375]	Cell length	3.5 µm

[Ref.: #30375]	Cell width	0.5 µm

[Ref.: #30375]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #30375]	Motility	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	yes Confidence in %91.271

[Ref.: #17676]

Incubation period

2-3 days

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #17676]

Culture medium

FUSIBACTER TUNISIENSIS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 853a)

[Ref.: #17676]

Culture medium growth

[Ref.: #17676]

Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

[Ref.: #17676]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #17676]	growth	30 °C
[Ref.: #30375]	growth	15-40 °C
[Ref.: #30375]	optimum	30 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	30 °C

[Ref.: #17676]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #30375]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #30375]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #30375]			growth	5.8-8.4

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #17676]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #30375]	Oxygen tolerance	microaerophile
[Ref.: #69480]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe Confidence in %99.999

[Ref.: #30375]	Ability of spore formation	no
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %95.372

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #30375]		NaCl		growth	0-10	%
[Ref.: #30375]		NaCl		optimum	3	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #30375]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30375]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30375]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30375]	trehalose ChEBI	+	carbon source

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

[Ref.: #17676]	Sample type/isolated from	anaerobic bioreactor for olive-mill wastewater treatment
[Ref.: #17676]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Ariana
[Ref.: #17676]	Country	Tunisia
[Ref.: #17676]	Country ISO 3 Code	TUN
[Ref.: #17676]	Continent	Africa

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Digester treating olive-mill wastewater in Tunisia
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Bioreactor	-
#Engineered	#Industrial	-
#Engineered	#Waste	#Industrial wastewater
#Condition	#Anoxic (anaerobic)	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence FR851323 (>99% sequence identity) for Fusibacter tunisiensis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	101
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples	2
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	106

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #17676]

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.: #17676]	Fusibacter tunisiensis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain BELH1T	FR851323	1505	ENA	1008308 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Fusibacter tunisiensis DSM 24436	GCA_016908355	contig	GenBank	1008308 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Fusibacter tunisiensis strain DSM 24436	1008308.3	wgs	PATRIC	1008308 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Fusibacter tunisiensis DSM 24436	2901118534	draft	JGI IMG/M	1008308 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #17676]	GC-content	38.2 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
[Ref.: #30375]	GC-content	38.2 mol%

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: Fusibacter tunisiensis strain DSM 24436 PATRIC: 1008308.3
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	83	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Fusibacter tunisiensis strain DSM 24436 PATRIC: 1008308.3
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	90.406	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	76.16	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	yes	67.047	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	yes	99.462	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	97.972	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	80.996	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	51.907	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	86.205	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	86.01	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	yes	51.66	no

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #17676]

Culture collection no.

DSM 24436, JCM 17481

[Ref.: #87022]

SI-ID 402839

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Fusibacter tunisiensis sp. nov., isolated from an anaerobic reactor used to treat olive-mill wastewater.	Ben Hania W, Fraj B, Postec A, Fadhlaoui K, Hamdi M, Ollivier B, Fardeau ML	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.034603-0	2011	*

References

#17676

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24436

#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 )

#30375

Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26715 (see below)

#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 .

#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 )

#87022

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-ID402839.1 )

#26715

IJSEM 1365 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.034603-0 , PubMed 21828014 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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