Name: Geodermatophilus africanus CF11/1
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 24058

Type strain:

Species: Geodermatophilus africanus

Strain Designation: CF11/1

Culture col. no.: DSM 45422, CCUG 62969, MTCC 11556

Strain history: <- A. Gorbushina, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Berlin; CF11/1

NCBI tax ID(s): 1137993 (species)

SI-ID 404149

DSM 45422, CCUG 62969

Section

Geodermatophilus africanus CF11/1 is an aerobe, spore-forming, mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from desert sand.

Gram-positive
spore-forming
aerobe
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	*Actinomycetota*
	Class	*Actinomycetes*
	Order	*Geodermatophilales*
	Family	*Geodermatophilaceae*
	Genus	*Geodermatophilus*
	Species	**Geodermatophilus africanus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Geodermatophilus africanus Montero-Calasanz et al. 2013

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	positive Confidence in %100

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Incubation period

1 day

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Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830)

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

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Culture medium

GYM STREPTOMYCES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 65)

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Culture medium growth

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Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #20583]			growth	28 °C
[Ref.: #62918]			growth	30 °C

[Ref.: #20583]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #62918]	Temperature range	mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

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Ability of spore formation

yes Confidence in %99

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

[Ref.: #20583]	Sample type/isolated from	desert sand
[Ref.: #20583]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Sahara, near Ourba (N15.23.905, E22.42.297)
[Ref.: #20583]	Country	Chad
[Ref.: #20583]	Country ISO 3 Code	TCD
[Ref.: #20583]	Continent	Africa
[Ref.: #20583]	Geographic location	15.3984°/22.7049°

[Ref.: #62918]	Sample type/isolated from	Sand,desert
[Ref.: #62918]	Sampling date	2007
[Ref.: #62918]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	near Oudé Cassoni
[Ref.: #62918]	Country	Chad
[Ref.: #62918]	Country ISO 3 Code	TCD
[Ref.: #62918]	Continent	Africa
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Desert
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sandy
#Condition	#Xerophilic	-

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Global distribution of 16S sequence HE654550 (>99% sequence identity) for Geodermatophilus africanus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	72
Soil Samples	1252
Animal Samples	212
Plant Samples	79
Total Samples	1615

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

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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.: #20583]	Geodermatophilus africanus partial 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM 45422, isolate CF 11/1	HE654550	1511	ENA	1137993 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Geodermatophilus africanus DSM 45422	GCA_900107105	scaffold	GenBank	1137993 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Geodermatophilus africanus strain DSM 45422	1137993.4	wgs	PATRIC	1137993 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Geodermatophilus africanus DSM 45422	2599185203	draft	JGI IMG/M	1137993 tax ID	*

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GC-content

74.4 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

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: Geodermatophilus africanus DSM 45422 NCBI: GCA_900107105.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	yes	99	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Geodermatophilus africanus DSM 45422 NCBI: GCA_900107105.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	72.044	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	89.694	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	92.532	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	yes	92.352	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	98.49	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	90.422	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	90.979	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	65.463	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	98.506	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	87.764	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 45422, CCUG 62969, MTCC 11556

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SI-ID 404149

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Geodermatophilus africanus sp. nov., a halotolerant actinomycete isolated from Saharan desert sand.	Montero-Calasanz Mdel C, Goker M, Potter G, Rohde M, Sproer C, Schumann P, Gorbushina AA, Klenk HP	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-013-9939-8	2013	*

References

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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 )

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 45422

#62918 Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 62969

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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) .

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Mukherjee et al.: GEBA: 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. 35: 676 - 683 2017 ( DOI 10.1038/nbt.3886 , PubMed 28604660 )

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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 .

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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) .

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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 )

#88029

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-ID404149.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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