Name: Protochlamydia amoebophila UWE25
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 24298

Type strain:

Species: Protochlamydia amoebophila

Strain Designation: UWE25

Culture col. no.: DSM 27361, ATCC PRA-7

Strain history: <- M. Horn, Univ. Vienna, Dept. Microbial Ecol., Austria; UWE25 <- T. R. Fritsche, Univ. of Washington, Dept. of Lab. Medicine

NCBI tax ID(s): 362787 (species)

Section

Protochlamydia amoebophila UWE25 is a mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from natural bacterial endosymbiont of an Acanthamoeba sp. isolated from soil.

mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Chlamydiota*
	Class	*Chlamydiia*
	Order	*Chlamydiales*
	Family	*Parachlamydiaceae*
	Genus	"Candidatus Protochlamydia"
	Species	"Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila"
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila Collingro et al. 2005

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

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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

ACANTHAMOEBA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1500)

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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.: #19360]			growth	25 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

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

[Ref.: #19360]	Sample type/isolated from	natural bacterial endosymbiont of an Acanthamoeba sp. isolated from soil
[Ref.: #19360]	Host species	Acanthamoeba
[Ref.: #19360]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	western Washington State
[Ref.: #19360]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #19360]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #19360]	Continent	North America
[Ref.: #19360]	Geographic location	47.6000°/-122.3170°
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Host	#Other	#Endosymbiont
#Host	#Microbial	#Bacteria

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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.: #19360]	Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila UWE25 strain UWE25 16S ribosomal RNA, complete sequence	NR_074271	1481	GenBank	264201 tax ID

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 27361, ATCC PRA-7

Literature:

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Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Chlamydia trachomatis transports NAD via the Npt1 ATP/ADP translocase.	Fisher DJ, Fernandez RE, Maurelli AT	J Bacteriol	10.1128/JB.00433-13	2013	*
Metabolism	Proteomic analysis reveals a virtually complete set of proteins for translation and energy generation in elementary bodies of the amoeba symbiont Protochlamydia amoebophila.	Sixt BS, Heinz C, Pichler P, Heinz E, Montanaro J, Op den Camp HJ, Ammerer G, Mechtler K, Wagner M, Horn M	Proteomics	10.1002/pmic.201000510	2011	*
Metabolism	Inclusion membrane proteins of Protochlamydia amoebophila UWE25 reveal a conserved mechanism for host cell interaction among the Chlamydiae.	Heinz E, Rockey DD, Montanaro J, Aistleitner K, Wagner M, Horn M	J Bacteriol	10.1128/JB.00605-10	2010	*
Metabolism	Enlightening energy parasitism by analysis of an ATP/ADP transporter from chlamydiae.	Trentmann O, Horn M, van Scheltinga AC, Neuhaus HE, Haferkamp I	PLoS Biol	10.1371/journal.pbio.0050231	2007	*
Metabolism	Tapping the nucleotide pool of the host: novel nucleotide carrier proteins of Protochlamydia amoebophila.	Haferkamp I, Schmitz-Esser S, Wagner M, Neigel N, Horn M, Neuhaus HE	Mol Microbiol	10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05193.x	2006	*
Genetics	Genome sequence of Rickettsia bellii illuminates the role of amoebae in gene exchanges between intracellular pathogens.	Ogata H, La Scola B, Audic S, Renesto P, Blanc G, Robert C, Fournier PE, Claverie JM, Raoult D	PLoS Genet	10.1371/journal.pgen.0020076	2006	*
Phylogeny	A genomic island present along the bacterial chromosome of the Parachlamydiaceae UWE25, an obligate amoebal endosymbiont, encodes a potentially functional F-like conjugative DNA transfer system.	Greub G, Collyn F, Guy L, Roten CA	BMC Microbiol	10.1186/1471-2180-4-48	2004	*
	Chlamydiae has contributed at least 55 genes to Plantae with predominantly plastid functions.	Moustafa A, Reyes-Prieto A, Bhattacharya D	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0002205	2008	*
	Analyses of six homologous proteins of Protochlamydia amoebophila UWE25 encoded by large GC-rich genes (lgr): a model of evolution and concatenation of leucine-rich repeats.	Eugster M, Roten CA, Greub G	BMC Evol Biol	10.1186/1471-2148-7-231	2007	*

References

#19360

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 27361

#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 )

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