Clostridium acetobutylicum (DSM 1732, NCIMB 2951, Weizman)

Name: Clostridium acetobutylicum (DSM 1732, NCIMB 2951, Weizman)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 2531

Type strain

Strain Designation Weizman

Culture col. no. DSM 1732 NCIMB 2951 Weizman

NCBI tax ID(s) 1488

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- NCIB <- NCTC (Clostridium acetonigenum) <- A. C. Thaysen, Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Bacteriological Laboratory, Holton Heath, U.K.; Weizman

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Clostridium acetobutylicum Weizman is an anaerobe bacterium that produces alcohol.

alcohol production anaerobe genome sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 13619

LMG 5711,DSM 1732,NCIB 2951,NCIMB 2951,NCTC2951

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:29

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium acetobutylicum

Full scientific name Clostridium acetobutylicum McCoy et al. 1926 (Approved Lists 1980)

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Clostridium acetobutylicum** (60)	Type strain
2529	C. acetobutylicum 2291, W, DSM 792, ATCC 824, VKM B-1787, CCUG ... (type strain)
2530	C. acetobutylicum 2289, McClung, T, 2289, McClung, DSM 1731, ...
2532	C. acetobutylicum DSM 1733, NCIMB 6441, Wisconsin B-3
2533	C. acetobutylicum 462, H, DSM 1737, ATCC 3625
2534	C. acetobutylicum McClung 2288, 48, DSM 1738, ATCC 8529
2536	C. acetobutylicum B-11-3, DSM 6228, ATCC 39236
165664	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7960, IAM 19017
165665	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7961, IAM 19018
165666	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7962, IAM 19019
165667	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7963, IAM 19020
165668	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7964, IAM 19021
165669	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7965, IAM 19022
165670	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7966, IAM 19023
165671	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7967, IAM 19024
165672	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7969, IAM 19026
165673	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7970, IAM 19028
165674	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7971, IAM 19029
165675	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7973, IAM 19031
165676	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7975, IAM 19033
165677	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7977, IAM 19036
165678	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7978, IAM 19037
165679	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7979, IAM 19038
165680	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7980, IAM 19039
165681	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7982, IAM 19041
165682	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7983, IAM 19043
165683	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7984, IAM 19044
165684	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7985, IAM 19045
165686	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7987, IAM 19047
165687	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7988, IAM 19048
165688	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7989, IAM 19049
165690	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7991, IAM 19051
165691	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7992, IAM 19053
165692	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7993, IAM 19055
165693	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7994, IAM 19056
165694	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7995, IAM 19058
165695	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7996, IAM 19059
165697	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7998, IAM 19061
165698	C. acetobutylicum JCM 7999, IAM 19062
165699	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8000, IAM 19063
165700	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8001, IAM 19065
165701	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8002, IAM 19066
165702	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8003, IAM 19069
165703	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8004, IAM 19071
165704	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8005, IAM 19073
165705	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8006, IAM 19074
165706	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8007, IAM 19075
165707	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8008, IAM 19078
165708	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8009, IAM 19080
165709	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8010, IAM 19081
165710	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8011, IAM 19083
165711	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8012, IAM 19084
165712	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8013, IAM 19085
165713	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8014, IAM 19087
165714	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8015, IAM 19088
165715	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8016, IAM 19089
165716	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8017, IAM 19090
165717	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8019, IAM 19100
165718	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8020, IAM 19103
165719	C. acetobutylicum JCM 8021, IAM 19104
179141	C. acetobutylicum IMET 10869, STI10869

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
887	CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 411)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 411) Composition: Potato 200.0 g/l D-Glucose 6.0 g/l CaCO3 2.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
887	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
887	anaerobe
125439	facultative anaerobe	96.274

Compound production

@ref	Compound
887	acetone
887	n butanol

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
887	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score	IMG accession
66792	Clostridium acetobutylicum DSM 1732	complete			1488	87.94	2703719304
66792	ASM200642v1 assembly for Clostridium acetobutylicum DSM 1732	contig	GCA_002006425	1488.20	1488	67.11

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM200642v1 assembly for Clostridium acetobutylicum DSM 1732
NCBI: GCA_002006425

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	96.27	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	54.43	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	73.11	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	77.79	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Clostridium acetobutylicum strain DSM 1732
PATRIC: 1488.20

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	71.52	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	84.78	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	82.06	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	96.11	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	91.78	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	79.46	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Microbial solvent formation revisited by comparative genome analysis.	Poehlein A, Solano JDM, Flitsch SK, Krabben P, Winzer K, Reid SJ, Jones DT, Green E, Minton NP, Daniel R, Durre P.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/s13068-017-0742-z	2017
	Energy conservation under extreme energy limitation: the role of cytochromes and quinones in acetogenic bacteria.	Rosenbaum FP, Muller V.	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-021-01241-0	2021
Enzymology	Coenzyme A transferase from Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 and its role in the uptake of acids.	Wiesenborn DP, Rudolph FB, Papoutsakis ET.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.55.2.323-329.1989	1989
	Cloning and expression of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 acetoacetyl-coenzyme A:acetate/butyrate:coenzyme A-transferase in Escherichia coli.	Cary JW, Petersen DJ, Papoutsakis ET, Bennett GN.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.56.6.1576-1583.1990	1990
	Cloning and Expression of a Clostridium acetobutylicum Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene in Escherichia coli.	Youngleson JS, Santangelo JD, Jones DT, Woods DR.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.54.3.676-682.1988	1988
	Expression of Solvent-Forming Enzymes and Onset of Solvent Production in Batch Cultures of Clostridium beijerinckii ("Clostridium butylicum").	Yan RT, Zhu CX, Golemboski C, Chen JS.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.54.3.642-648.1988	1988
	Butanol-Ethanol Dehydrogenase and Butanol-Ethanol-Isopropanol Dehydrogenase: Different Alcohol Dehydrogenases in Two Strains of Clostridium beijerinckii (Clostridium butylicum).	Hiu SF, Zhu CX, Yan RT, Chen JS.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.53.4.697-703.1987	1987

References

#887	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1732
#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 )
#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) .
#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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Clostridium acetobutylicum (DSM 1732, NCIMB 2951, Weizman)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

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Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Compound production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_002006425

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Predictions

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