Clostridium felsineum (DSM 793, ATCC 17777, NCIMB 10659)

Name: Clostridium felsineum (DSM 793, ATCC 17777, NCIMB 10659)
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BacDive ID 2543

Type strain

Strain Designation 2038, 10022

Culture col. no. DSM 793 ATCC 17777 NCIMB 10659 2038 CIP 104305 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 36839

Special Collections DSMZ CIP

History <- ATCC; ATCC 17777 (Clostridium aurantibutyricum) <- L. S. McClung, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA; 2038 CIP <- 1994, J.P. Carlier, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain 10022 <- NCIB <- L.S. McClung: strain 2038

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Clostridium felsineum 2038 is an anaerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Clostridiaceae.

Gram-positive rod-shaped anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 36725

ATCC 17777,DSM 793,NCIB 10659,NCIMB 10659,CIP 104305,BCRC 14490,CCRC 14490,VTT E-00185

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:18

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium felsineum

Full scientific name Clostridium felsineum (Carbone and Tombolato 1917) Bergey et al. 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (3)

Clostridium roseum
"Bacillus felsineus"
Clostridium aurantibutyricum

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Clostridium felsineum** (3)	Type strain
2586	C. felsineum 541, DSM 794, ATCC 17788, NCIMB 10690, JCM ... (type strain)
2655	C. felsineum Wis 42-A, DSM 6424, NRRL B-575
2656	C. felsineum 653, DSM 7320, ATCC 17797

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
116564	positive	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

116564

Hemolysis ability1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
450	PY + X MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 104b)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PY + X MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 104b) Composition: Yeast extract 10.0 g/l D-Glucose 5.0 g/l Trypticase peptone 5.0 g/l Meat peptone 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l NaHCO3 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.08 g/l KH2PO4 0.04 g/l K2HPO4 0.04 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.02 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.01 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water
35654	MEDIUM 20 - for Anaerobic bacteria		Agar (15.000 g);Glucose (5.000 g);Yeast extract (20.000 g);Tryptone (30.000 g);Cysteine hydrochloride (0.500 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml);Hemin solution -M00149 (25.000 ml)
116564	CIP Medium 20	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
450	positive	growth	37
35654	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
450	anaerobe
116564	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	90.283
125439	facultative anaerobe	98.4

Spore formation

116564

Spore formationno

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
116564	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	degradation
116564	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	+	degradation
116564	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	degradation
116564	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	degradation
116564	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	degradation
116564	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
116564	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	degradation
116564	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	degradation
116564	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
116564	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	respiration
116564	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
116564	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	degradation
116564	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	degradation

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
116564	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
68382	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
116564	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
116564	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
116564	gelatinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	-		from API zym
116564	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
116564	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
116564	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FJ358641 (>99% sequence identity) for Clostridium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1145
Soil Samples	1313
Animal Samples	1392
Plant Samples	134
Total Samples	3984

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
450	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
116564	2	Risk group (French 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	ASM200623v2 assembly for Clostridium felsineum DSM 793	complete	GCA_002006235	36839.6	36839	98.62
66792	Clostridium aurantibutyricum DSM 793	complete			1551	53.25	2687453701
66792	Clostridium aurantibutyricum strain DSM 793	contig		1551.15	1551	35.8

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	16S rRNA [Clostridium aurantibutyricum, NCIMB 10659, rRNA, 1421 nt]	S46736	1421	1551
20218	C.aurantibutyricum (NCIMB10659) rrn gene for 16S rRNA	X68183	1430	1551
450	Clostridium aurantibutyricum strain DSM 793 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	FJ358641	1488	1551

GC content

450

GC-content (mol%)27.0

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Clostridium felsineum DSM 793
NCBI: GCA_002006235

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	87.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	81.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	79.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	98.40	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Clostridium aurantibutyricum strain DSM 793
PATRIC: 1551.15

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	67.25	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	90.28	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	77.51	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	91.48	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	96.22	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	80.22	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

References

#450	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 793
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#35654	; Curators of the CIP;
#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) .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#116564	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 104305
#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 felsineum (DSM 793, ATCC 17777, NCIMB 10659)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_002006235

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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