Acetivibrio thermocellus (DSM 25992, AD2)

Name: Acetivibrio thermocellus (DSM 25992, AD2)
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BacDive ID 22966

Type strain

Strain Designation AD2

Culture col. no. DSM 25992 AD2

NCBI tax ID(s) 1515

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- R. Lamed, Tel-Aviv Univ., Dept. of Mol. Microbiol. and Biotechnol., Fac. of Life Scs., Israel; AD2 <- R. Lamed {1980}

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Acetivibrio thermocellus AD2 is an anaerobe, thermophilic prokaryote of the family Oscillospiraceae.

anaerobe thermophilic genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 399427

DSM 25992

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:52:32

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Oscillospiraceae

Genus Acetivibrio

Species Acetivibrio thermocellus

Full scientific name Acetivibrio thermocellus (Viljoen et al. 1926) Tindall 2019

Synonyms (3)

Clostridium thermocellum
"Ruminiclostridium thermocellum"
Hungateiclostridium thermocellum

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acetivibrio thermocellus** (6)	Type strain
2729	A. thermocellus DSM 1237, ATCC 27405, JCM 9322, NCIMB 10682, ... (type strain)
2728	A. thermocellus LQ8, DSM 1313
2730	A. thermocellus LQR1, DSM 2360, JCM 9323, ATCC 35609
2731	A. thermocellus JW 20, DSM 4150, ATCC 31549
22965	A. thermocellus YS, DSM 25991
174402	A. thermocellus DSM 29190, BC 1

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
18806	ACETIVIBRIO MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 122)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACETIVIBRIO MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 122) Composition: Cellulose 10.0 g/l (optional) Na2-ß-glycerophosphate x 5 H2O 6.0 g/l K2HPO4 5.5 g/l Cellobiose 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 4.5 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 2.6 g/l KH2PO4 1.43 g/l (NH4)2SO4 1.3 g/l L-Glutathione 0.25 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.13 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0011 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
18806	positive	growth	60	thermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
18806	anaerobe
43429	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	95.236
125439	anaerobe	99.3

Observation

43429

Observationadherance to cellulose after growth on cellobiose medium

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43429	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	+	degradation
43429	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	+	degradation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
18806	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
18806	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	ASM25561v3 assembly for Acetivibrio thermocellus AD2	complete	GCA_000255615	1138384.3	2660238162	1138384	97.77
66792	ASM256408v1 assembly for Acetivibrio thermocellus AD2	contig	GCA_002564085	1138384.4	2645728182	1138384	77.77

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Acetivibrio thermocellus AD2
NCBI: GCA_000255615

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	84.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	81.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	81.50	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Acetivibrio thermocellus AD2 AD2
NCBI: GCA_000255615.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	57.41	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	95.24	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	97.94	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	83.94	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	68.06	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	77.71	no

Literature

References

#18806	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 25992
#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 )
#43429	Edward A. Bayer, Rina Kenig, Raphael Lamed: Adherence of Clostridium thermocellum to Cellulose. J. Bacteriol. 156: 818 - 827 1983
#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) .
#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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