Teredinibacter turnerae (DSM 15152, ATCC 39867, T7902)

Name: Teredinibacter turnerae (DSM 15152, ATCC 39867, T7902)
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BacDive ID 24757

Type strain

Strain Designation T7902

Culture col. no. DSM 15152 ATCC 39867 T7902

NCBI tax ID(s) 2426

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- J. B. Waterbury; T7902. Accodring to the depositor this deposit does not resemble the original strain, but 16S rRNA gene sequencing confirms that this is a strain of Teredinibacter turnerae and the DSM number is used in the publication

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Teredinibacter turnerae T7902 is an aerobe, chemoheterotroph, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from Lyrodus pedicellatus . Laboratory culture, original specimens from Long Beach, CA.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped aerobe chemoheterotroph genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 41577

ATCC 39867,DSM 15152

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:24:03

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Cellvibrionales

Family Cellvibrionaceae

Genus Teredinibacter

Species Teredinibacter turnerae

Full scientific name Teredinibacter turnerae Distel et al. 2002

Synonyms (1)

"Teredinobacter turnirae"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Teredinibacter turnerae** (5)	Type strain
24754	T. turnerae T7901, DSM 15142
24755	T. turnerae T7903, DSM 15143
24756	T. turnerae T8201, DSM 15144
24758	T. turnerae T8602, DSM 15167
24759	T. turnerae T8402, DSM 15175

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Flagellum arrangement	Confidence
43378	negative	3-6 µm	0.4-0.6 µm	rod-shaped	polar
125438	negative					97.333
125439	negative					99.5

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Medium used
43378	translucent, yellow-brown colour with age	SBM agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
20855	TEREDINIBACTER TURNERAE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 967)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TEREDINIBACTER TURNERAE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 967) Composition: HEPES 5.2 g/l Agar 2.0 g/l KH2PO4 0.0153 g/l Na2CO3 0.01 g/l Ferric ammonium citrate 0.003 g/l H3BO3 0.00286 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00181 g/l Na2-EDTA 0.0005 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.00039 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00022 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 7.9e-05 g/l Sea water Distilled water
43378	SBM agar
43378	SBM agar medium

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
20855	positive	growth	28
43378	negative	growth	40
43378	negative	growth	15
43378	positive	optimum	30-35
43378	positive	growth	20-30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43378	positive	optimum	8.5
43378	positive	growth	6-10.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43378

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Nutrition type

43378

Typechemoheterotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		93.208
125439		99.6

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43378	NaCl	positive	growth	0.1-0.6 M
43378	NaCl	positive	optimum	0.3 M

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43378	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	growth
43378	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	+	growth
43378	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	growth
43378	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	builds acid from
43378	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	+	growth
43378	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	+	builds acid from
43378	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	growth
43378	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	builds acid from
43378	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	growth
43378	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	builds acid from
43378	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	growth
43378	17309 ChEBI	pectin	+	growth
43378	17309 ChEBI	pectin	+	builds acid from
43378	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	growth
43378	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	growth
43378	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	builds acid from
43378	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	growth
43378	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	growth
43378	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
43378	37166 ChEBI	xylan	+	growth
43378	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	growth
43378	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	builds acid from
43378		yeast extract	+	growth

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Laboratory	#Lab enrichment
#Host	#Other	#Extracellular
#Host	#Invertebrates (Other)	#Mollusca

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
20855	Lyrodus pedicellatus (gill symbiont). Laboratory culture, original specimens from Long Beach, CA	Lyrodus pedicellatus	CA, Long Beach	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
20855	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3793597v1 assembly for Teredinibacter turnerae T7902	complete	GCA_037935975			2426	97.08
66792	ASM37916v1 assembly for Teredinibacter turnerae T7902	scaffold	GCA_000379165	1056820.3	2513237099	1056820	63.87

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20855	Teredinibacter turnerae 16S small subunit ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY028398	1469		2426

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
20855	49-51
43378	49-51	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Teredinibacter turnerae T7902
NCBI: GCA_000379165

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	82.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.50	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	80.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Teredinibacter turnerae T7902 T7902
NCBI: GCA_000379165.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.33	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	94.43	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	76.45	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.21	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.02	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	83.05	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Closing the genome of Teredinibacter turnerae T7902 by long-read nanopore sequencing.	Gasser MT, Liu A, Flatau R, Altamia MA, Filone CM, Distel DL.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.00484-24	2025
Enzymology	Membrane Vesicles Can Contribute to Cellulose Degradation by Teredinibacter turnerae, a Cultivable Intracellular Endosymbiont of Shipworms.	Gasser MT, Liu A, Altamia MA, Brensinger BR, Brewer SL, Flatau R, Hancock ER, Preheim SP, Filone CM, Distel DL.	Microb Biotechnol	10.1111/1751-7915.70064	2024
Pathogenicity	Shipworm symbiosis ecology-guided discovery of an antibiotic that kills colistin-resistant Acinetobacter.	Miller BW, Lim AL, Lin Z, Bailey J, Aoyagi KL, Fisher MA, Barrows LR, Manoil C, Schmidt EW, Haygood MG.	Cell Chem Biol	10.1016/j.chembiol.2021.05.003	2021
Genetics	The complete genome of Teredinibacter turnerae T7901: an intracellular endosymbiont of marine wood-boring bivalves (shipworms).	Yang JC, Madupu R, Durkin AS, Ekborg NA, Pedamallu CS, Hostetler JB, Radune D, Toms BS, Henrissat B, Coutinho PM, Schwarz S, Field L, Trindade-Silva AE, Soares CA, Elshahawi S, Hanora A, Schmidt EW, Haygood MG, Posfai J, Benner J, Madinger C, Nove J, Anton B, Chaudhary K, Foster J, Holman A, Kumar S, Lessard PA, Luyten YA, Slatko B, Wood N, Wu B, Teplitski M, Mougous JD, Ward N, Eisen JA, Badger JH, Distel DL.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0006085	2009
Phylogeny	Identification and characterization of cellobiose 2-epimerases from various aerobes.	Ojima T, Saburi W, Yamamoto T, Mori H, Matsui H	Biosci Biotechnol Biochem	10.1271/bbb.120742	2013
Enzymology	A novel salt-tolerant endo-beta-1,4-glucanase Cel5A in Vibrio sp. G21 isolated from mangrove soil.	Gao Z, Ruan L, Chen X, Zhang Y, Xu X	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-010-2554-y	2010
Metabolism	CelAB, a multifunctional cellulase encoded by Teredinibacter turnerae T7902T, a culturable symbiont isolated from the wood-boring marine bivalve Lyrodus pedicellatus.	Ekborg NA, Morrill W, Burgoyne AM, Li L, Distel DL	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/AEM.00876-07	2007
Phylogeny	Thalassocella blandensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Cellvibrionaceae.	Lucena T, Arahal DR, Sanz-Saez I, Acinas SG, Sanchez O, Aznar R, Pedros-Alio C, Pujalte MJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003906	2020
Phylogeny	Pseudoteredinibacter isoporae gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from the reef-building coral Isopora palifera.	Chen MH, Sheu SY, Arun AB, Young CC, Chen CA, Wang JT, Chen WM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.024190-0	2010
Phylogeny	Saccharophagus degradans gen. nov., sp. nov., a versatile marine degrader of complex polysaccharides.	Ekborg NA, Gonzalez JM, Howard MB, Taylor LE, Hutcheson SW, Weiner RM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63627-0	2005
Phylogeny	Agarilytica rhodophyticola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from Gracilaria blodgettii.	Ling SK, Xia J, Liu Y, Chen GJ, Du ZJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002193	2017
Phylogeny	Marinibactrum halimedae gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from a marine macroalga.	Nishijima M, Adachi K, Sano H, Yamasato K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000502	2015
Phylogeny	Maricurvus nonylphenolicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a nonylphenol-degrading bacterium isolated from seawater.	Iwaki H, Takada K, Hasegawa Y	FEMS Microbiol Lett	10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02471.x	2011
Phylogeny	Teredinibacter turnerae gen. nov., sp. nov., a dinitrogen-fixing, cellulolytic, endosymbiotic gamma-proteobacterium isolated from the gills of wood-boring molluscs (Bivalvia: Teredinidae).	Distel DL, Morrill W, MacLaren-Toussaint N, Franks D, Waterbury J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-52-6-2261	2002

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 )
#20855	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15152
#43378	Daniel L. Distel, Wendy Morrill, Noelle MacLaren-Toussaint, Dianna Franks, John Waterbury: Teredinibacter turnerae gen. nov., sp. nov., a dinitrogen-fixing, cellulolytic, endosymbiotic gamma-proteobacterium isolated from the gills of wood-boring molluscs (Bivalvia: Teredinidae). IJSEM 52: 2261 - 2269 2002 ( DOI 10.1099/00207713-52-6-2261 , PubMed 12508896 )
#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) .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Teredinibacter turnerae (DSM 15152, ATCC 39867, T7902)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_037935975

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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