Name: Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila W872
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 24145

Type strain:

Species: Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila

Strain Designation: W872

Culture col. no.: DSM 27564, NCTC 12821, WDCM 00205, CCUG 67715

Strain history: <- P. Bracegirdle, NCTC; NCTC 12821 <- J. V. Lee; W872

NCBI tax ID(s): 91891 (subspecies)

SI-ID 115164

NCTC 12821

Other strains from Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila

Section

Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila W872 is a microaerophile, mesophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from Water.

Gram-negative
mesophilic
microaerophile
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	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Legionellales*
	Family	*Legionellaceae*
	Genus	*Legionella*
	Species	**Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila (Brenner et al. 1979) Brenner et al. 1989

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.999

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Incubation period

2-3 days

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #20626]			growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #63428]			growth	37 °C

[Ref.: #20626]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #63428]	Temperature range	mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #20626]	Oxygen tolerance	microaerophile
[Ref.: #63428]	Oxygen tolerance	microaerophile

[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %100
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %99.993

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #20626]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #20626]		cytochrome-c oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

Reference

[Ref.: #63428]

Fatty acid	Percentage	ECL
C16:1 ω7c	35.3	15.819
C16:0 iso	19.7	15.626
C15:0 ANTEISO	11.9	14.711
C14:0 ISO	7	13.618
C16:0	6	16
C16:1 ISO H	5.4	15.461
C15:1 ω6c	4.8	14.856
C17:0 anteiso	2.8	16.722
C14:0 ISO 3OH	1.8	15.117
C17:0 CYCLO	1.5	16.888
C14:1 ω5c	1.5	13.899
Unidentified	1.2	16.313
C15:0	1.1	15

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

[Ref.: #20626]	Sample type/isolated from	Water
[Ref.: #20626]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, South Block
[Ref.: #20626]	Country	United Kingdom
[Ref.: #20626]	Country ISO 3 Code	GBR
[Ref.: #20626]	Continent	Europe

[Ref.: #63428]	Sample type/isolated from	Water
[Ref.: #63428]	Sampling date	1993-01-01
[Ref.: #63428]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre
[Ref.: #63428]	Country	United Kingdom
[Ref.: #63428]	Country ISO 3 Code	GBR
[Ref.: #63428]	Continent	Europe
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental

#Aquatic

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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

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Legionella pneumophila NCTC12821	GCA_900452675	contig	GenBank	446 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Legionella pneumophila strain NCTC12821	446.724	wgs	PATRIC	446 tax ID	*

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: Legionella pneumophila strain NCTC12821 PATRIC: 446.724
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	100	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Legionella pneumophila strain NCTC12821 PATRIC: 446.724
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	98.375	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	98.827	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	86.267	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	94.738	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	65.152	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	89.099	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	74.025	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	98.055	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	78.717	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	86.526	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 27564, NCTC 12821, WDCM 00205, CCUG 67715

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SI-ID 115164

References

#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 )

#20626

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 27564

#63428 Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 67715

#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) .

#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 )

#88103

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-ID115164.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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