Acetobacter ghanensis (DSM 18895, LMG 23848, 430A)

Name: Acetobacter ghanensis (DSM 18895, LMG 23848, 430A)
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Type strain

Strain Designation 430A, R-29337

Culture col. no. DSM 18895 LMG 23848 430A R-29337

NCBI tax ID(s) 1307907 431306

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History <- L. De Vuyst, Vrije Univ. Brussels, Belgium; 430A <- N. Camu

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Acetobacter ghanensis 430A is a mesophilic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from traditional heap fermentation of Ghanaian cocoa beans.

Gram-negative rod-shaped colony-forming mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 292185

DSM 18895,LMG 23848

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:46:45

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Acetobacteraceae

Genus Acetobacter

Species Acetobacter ghanensis

Full scientific name Acetobacter ghanensis Cleenwerck et al. 2007

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
23237	negative	1.5-2.5 µm	0.8 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative				96.3

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
23237	0.8 mm	beige	circular	4 days	MYP agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
7761	MANNITOL-YEAST EXTRACT-PEPTONE (DSMZ Medium 1087)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MANNITOL-YEAST EXTRACT-PEPTONE (MYP) (DSMZ Medium 1087) Composition: D-Mannitol 25.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Peptone 3.0 g/l Distilled water
23237	MYP agar			2.5 % (w/v) D-mannitol, 0.5 % (w/v) yeast extract and 0.3 % (w/v) bacteriological peptone (Oxoid)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
7761	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		95.5

Tolerance

@ref	Compound	Percentage
23237	Ethanol	10

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
23237	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	+	oxidation
23237	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
23237	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	carbon source
23237	17790 ChEBI	methanol	-	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
23237	16808 ChEBI	2-dehydro-D-gluconate
23237	17426 ChEBI	5-dehydro-D-gluconate
23237	18391 ChEBI	D-gluconate

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Food production	#Food
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Fruit (Seed)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
7761	traditional heap fermentation of Ghanaian cocoa beans	Ghana	GHA	Africa

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB665083 (>99% sequence identity) for Acetobacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	428
Soil Samples	352
Animal Samples	2157
Plant Samples	309
Total Samples	3246

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7761	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	Acetobacter ghanensis assembly for Acetobacter ghanensis LMG 23848T	chromosome	GCA_001499675		2675903422	431306	82.43
66792	ASM1151686v1 assembly for Acetobacter ghanensis LMG 23848	contig	GCA_011516865	431306.8	8114971266	431306	69.75
124043	ASM2599575v1 assembly for Acetobacter ghanensis DSM 18895	contig	GCA_025995755	1307907.3	8117323355	1307907	41.47

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Acetobacter ghanensis gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: LMG 23848	AB665083	1412		431306
7761	Acetobacter ghanensis strain 430A 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF030713	1442		431306

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
7761	57.3
23237	57.30	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 ghanensis LMG 23848
NCBI: GCA_011516865

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	95.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	82.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	96.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	80.40	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Application of a replicative targetable vector system for difficult-to-manipulate streptomycetes.	Gomez-Escribano JP, Zimmermann A, Xia SN, Doppner M, Moschny J, Hughes CC, Mast Y.	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-025-13477-3	2025
	Nontargeted Metabolomics of Streptomyces Sourced from Thailand Reveals the Presence of Bioactive Metabolites.	Sunghanghwa Y, Paemanee A, Do KM, Meethangdee M, Plechata M, Pathom-Aree W, Punsawad C, Morita H, Tangphatsornruang S, Kamenik Z, Jaisi A.	ACS Omega	10.1021/acsomega.5c00669	2025
Metabolism	The key to acetate: metabolic fluxes of acetic acid bacteria under cocoa pulp fermentation-simulating conditions.	Adler P, Frey LJ, Berger A, Bolten CJ, Hansen CE, Wittmann C.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01048-14	2014
	A Review on the Interaction of Acetic Acid Bacteria and Microbes in Food Fermentation: A Microbial Ecology Perspective.	Han D, Yang Y, Guo Z, Dai S, Jiang M, Zhu Y, Wang Y, Yu Z, Wang K, Rong C, Yu Y.	Foods	10.3390/foods13162534	2024
Metabolism	Assessment of the contribution of cocoa-derived strains of Acetobacter ghanensis and Acetobacter senegalensis to the cocoa bean fermentation process through a genomic approach.	Illeghems K, Pelicaen R, De Vuyst L, Weckx S	Food Microbiol	10.1016/j.fm.2016.03.013	2016
Metabolism	Oxidation of metabolites highlights the microbial interactions and role of Acetobacter pasteurianus during cocoa bean fermentation.	Moens F, Lefeber T, De Vuyst L	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/AEM.03344-13	2014
Genetics	Application of comparative genomics of Acetobacter species facilitates genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of the Acetobacter ghanensis LMG 23848(T) and Acetobacter senegalensis 108B cocoa strains.	Pelicaen R, Weckx S, Gonze D, De Vuyst L	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2022.1060160	2022
Phylogeny	Acetobacter ghanensis sp. nov., a novel acetic acid bacterium isolated from traditional heap fermentations of Ghanaian cocoa beans.	Cleenwerck I, Camu N, Engelbeen K, De Winter T, Vandemeulebroecke K, De Vos P, De Vuyst L	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64840-0	2007

References

#7761	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18895
#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 )
#23237	Ilse Cleenwerck, Nicholas Camu, Katrien Engelbeen, Tom De Winter, Katrien Vandemeulebroecke, Paul De Vos, Luc De Vuyst: Acetobacter ghanensis sp. nov., a novel acetic acid bacterium isolated from traditional heap fermentations of Ghanaian cocoa beans. IJSEM 57: 1647 - 1652 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64840-0 , PubMed 17625210 )
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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 ghanensis (DSM 18895, LMG 23848, 430A)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Tolerance

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001499675

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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