Desulfoconvexum algidum (DSM 21856, JCM 16085, JHA1)

Name: Desulfoconvexum algidum (DSM 21856, JCM 16085, JHA1)
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BacDive ID 22991

Type strain

Strain Designation JHA1

Culture col. no. DSM 21856 JCM 16085 JHA1

NCBI tax ID(s) 453224

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History DSMZ <- M. Könneke, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany; JHA1 <- M. Könneke; {2001} JCM <-- M. Koenneke JHA1.

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Desulfoconvexum algidum JHA1 is an anaerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from permanently cold marine sediment.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 398964

JCM 16085,DSM 21856

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:30:21

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfobacteria

Order Desulfobacterales

Family Desulfobacteraceae

Genus Desulfoconvexum

Species Desulfoconvexum algidum

Full scientific name Desulfoconvexum algidum Könneke et al. 2013

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
30756	negative	2.25 µm	1.5 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

19252

Incubation period>14 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
19252	DESULFOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 383)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 383; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaCl 20.9372 g/l Na2SO4 2.99103 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 2.99103 g/l Na2CO3 0.997009 g/l KCl 0.498504 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.398804 g/l NH4Cl 0.299103 g/l KH2PO4 0.199402 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.149551 g/l HCl 0.00249252 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00149551 g/l NaOH 0.000498504 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000498504 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000189432 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.97009e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.97009e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.97906e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.98504e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.98504e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.98504e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.58923e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.39282e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.99402e-05 g/l Biotin 1.99402e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.98205e-06 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.98804e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.99103e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.99402e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.97009e-07 g/l None Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
19252	positive	growth	15
30756	positive	growth	0-20
30756	positive	optimum	15
67770	positive	growth	15

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
30756	positive	optimum	7.3
30756	positive	growth	5.5-8.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
19252	anaerobe
30756	anaerobe

Spore formation

30756

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30756	NaCl	positive	growth	0-5 %
30756	NaCl	positive	optimum	2.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30756	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
30756	28885 ChEBI	butanol	+	carbon source
30756	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	+	carbon source
30756	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	+	carbon source
30756	15740 ChEBI	formate	+	carbon source
30756	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
30756	15428 ChEBI	glycine	+	carbon source
30756	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
30756	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
30756	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
30756	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
30756	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source
30756	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
30756	31011 ChEBI	valerate	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Condition	#Psychrophilic (<10°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
19252	permanently cold marine sediment	north-west coast of Svalbard, Smeerenburgfjorden	Norway	NOR	Europe	79.7	11.0833 79.7/11.0833
67770	Permanently cold marine sediment of an Arctic fjord on the north-west coast of Svalbard

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EF442984 (>99% sequence identity) for Desulfoconvexum algidum from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1
Soil Samples	0
Animal Samples	0
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	1

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
19252	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
19252	Desulfoconvexum algidum strain JHA1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF442984	1367		453224

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
19252	46	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
30756	46

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Desulfoconvexum algidum gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a permanently cold marine sediment.	Konneke M, Kuever J, Galushko A, Jorgensen BB	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.043703-0	2012

References

#19252	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21856
#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 )
#27087	IJSEM 959 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.043703-0 , PubMed 22659505 )
#30756	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 #27087
#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 .
#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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Desulfoconvexum algidum (DSM 21856, JCM 16085, JHA1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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