Clostridium cylindrosporum (DSM 10162, MJ-6)

Name: Clostridium cylindrosporum (DSM 10162, MJ-6)
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BacDive ID 2579

Type strain

Strain Designation MJ-6

Culture col. no. DSM 10162 MJ-6

NCBI tax ID(s) 1495

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- J. C. Rabinowitz, University of California, Berkeley, USA; MJ-6

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Clostridium cylindrosporum MJ-6 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from soil.

anaerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 48769

DSM 10162

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:30

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium cylindrosporum

Full scientific name Clostridium cylindrosporum (ex Barker and Beck 1942) Andreesen et al. 1985

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Clostridium cylindrosporum** (3)	Type strain
2577	C. cylindrosporum HC-1, DSM 605, ATCC 7905, IMG 1641 (type strain)
2540	C. cylindrosporum MBJ-2, DSM 10160
2581	C. cylindrosporum NOA-2, DSM 10164

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3833	GOTTSCHALKIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 76)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: GOTTSCHALKIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 76) Composition: Uric acid 2.0 g/l Na2CO3 1.5 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l K2HPO4 0.91 g/l KOH 0.67 g/l Na-thioglycolate 0.5 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.25 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.015 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.006 g/l HCl 0.0025 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.0015 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l NaOH 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 Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 4e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 3e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 2e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
3833	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

3833

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Compound production

@ref	Compound
3833	ferredoxin
3833	formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
3833	soil	Moneaque	Jamaica	JAM	Middle and South America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3833	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#3833	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 10162
#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 )
#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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