Mesotoga infera (DSM 25546, JCM 18154, meso xx)

Name: Mesotoga infera (DSM 25546, JCM 18154, meso xx)
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BacDive ID 24816

Type strain

Strain Designation meso xx, VNs100

Culture col. no. DSM 25546 JCM 18154 meso xx VNs100

NCBI tax ID(s) 1236046

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History DSMZ <- M. L. Fardeau, Lab. Microbiol. de l'IRD/ESIL, Univ. de Provence et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France; VNs100 <- W.B. Hania and M. L. Fardeau {2011} JCM <-- M.-L. Fardeau VNs100.

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Mesotoga infera meso xx is an anaerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from anoxic water of a deep gas storage aquifer.

Gram-negative rod-shaped anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407060

JCM 18154,DSM 25546

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:30:42

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermotogota

Class Thermotogae

Order Kosmotogales

Family Kosmotogaceae

Genus Mesotoga

Species Mesotoga infera

Full scientific name Mesotoga infera Ben Hania et al. 2013

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
30940	negative	3 µm	1.5 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

21238

Incubation period2-3 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
21238	DEFLUVIITOGA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1328)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DEFLUVIITOGA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1328; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Sulfur 10.0 g/l Na2-fumarate 3.2 g/l D-Xylose 3.0 g/l Yeast extract 2.0 g/l Na2CO3 1.0 g/l NaCl 1.0 g/l NH4Cl 1.0 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.5 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.3 g/l KH2PO4 0.3 g/l Na-acetate 0.2 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.1 g/l KCl 0.1 g/l HCl 0.0025 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.0015 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00019 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.0001 g/l ZnCl2 7e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.6e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.4e-05 g/l H3BO3 6e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 2e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
21238	positive	growth	45
30940	positive	growth	30-50
30940	positive	optimum	45
67770	positive	growth	45

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
30940	positive	optimum	7.4

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
21238	anaerobe
30940	anaerobe

Spore formation

30940

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30940	NaCl	positive	optimum	0.2 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30940	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
30940	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
30940	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
30940	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
30940	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
30940	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
30940	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
30940	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
30940	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
30940	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
30940	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
30940	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
30940	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic
#Condition	#Anoxic (anaerobic)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
21238	anoxic water of a deep gas storage aquifer	Parisien Basin at a depth of 830 m	France	FRA	Europe
67770	Anoxic water sample of a deep aquifer formation near Paris		France	FRA	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence HE818616 (>99% sequence identity) for Mesotoga infera subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	5318
Soil Samples	386
Animal Samples	805
Plant Samples	328
Total Samples	6837

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
21238	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Mesotoga infera VNs100	complete	2590828825	1236046	98.58

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21238	Mesotoga infera partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain VNs100T, copy 1	HE818616	1478		1236046

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
21238	47.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
30940	47.5

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Mesotoga infera sp. nov., a mesophilic member of the order Thermotogales, isolated from an underground gas storage aquifer.	Ben Hania W, Postec A, Aullo T, Ranchou-Peyruse A, Erauso G, Brochier-Armanet C, Hamdi M, Ollivier B, Saint-Laurent S, Magot M, Fardeau ML	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.047993-0	2013

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 )
#21238	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 25546
#27270	IJSEM 3003 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.047993-0 , PubMed 23378116 )
#30940	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 #27270
#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) .
#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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Mesotoga infera (DSM 25546, JCM 18154, meso xx)

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

Genome sequences

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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