Clostridium oceanicum (DSM 1290, ATCC 25647, NCIMB 10625)

Name: Clostridium oceanicum (DSM 1290, ATCC 25647, NCIMB 10625)
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BacDive ID 2620

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 1290 ATCC 25647 NCIMB 10625 VPI 3082 LMG 3287 2 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1543

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- ATCC <- L. DS. Smith, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University, Blacksburg, V., USA; VPI 3082 ATCC 25647 <-- L. DS. Smith VPI 3082.

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Clostridium oceanicum DSM 1290 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from marine sediment.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 1957

LMG 3287,ATCC 25647,DSM 1290,NCIB 10625,JCM 1407,CCRC 14482,NCIMB 10625,BCRC 14482

@ref 20215

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Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium oceanicum

Full scientific name Clostridium oceanicum Smith 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Clostridium oceanicum** (1)	Type strain
100270	C. oceanicum STH00034(ZIMET), HKI 0034

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
610	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l D-Glucose 4.0 g/l Starch 1.0 g/l Maltose 1.0 g/l Cellobiose 1.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Ethanol 0.19 g/l Vitamin K3 0.05 g/l Hemin 0.005 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Vitamin K1 NaOH Distilled water
610	WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 339)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 339) Composition: dehydrated Wilkins-Chalgren medium 33.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.3 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
610	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

610

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location
610	marine sediment	Atlantic Ocean
67770	Marine sediment

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LC007108 (>99% sequence identity) for Clostridium oceanicum subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1897
Soil Samples	156
Animal Samples	648
Plant Samples	61
Total Samples	2762

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
610	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3952138v1 assembly for Clostridium oceanicum JCM 1407	contig	GCA_039521385	1543	74.78

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Clostridium oceanicum strain ATCC 25647 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ911254	318	1543
20218	Clostridium oceanicum 16S ribosomal RNA	M59101	1460	1543
610	Clostridium oceanicum partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 1290T, clone 1	FR749923	1560	1543
610	Clostridium oceanicum partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 1290T, clone 2	FR749924	1560	1543
610	Clostridium oceanicum partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 1290T, clone 3	FR749925	1620	1543
610	Clostridium oceanicum partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 1290T, clone 4	FR749926	1597	1543
610	Clostridium oceanicum partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 1290T, clone 5	FR749927	1560	1543
67770	Clostridium oceanicum gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 1407	LC007108	1473	1543
124043	Clostridium oceanicum DSM 1290 gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence.	LC752427	563	1543

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
610	23.0
67770	23	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Partial penetrance facilitates developmental evolution in bacteria.	Eldar A, Chary VK, Xenopoulos P, Fontes ME, Loson OC, Dworkin J, Piggot PJ, Elowitz MB.	Nature	10.1038/nature08150	2009
	Microwave processing for scanning electron microscopy.	Hernandez F, Guillen R.	Eur J Morphol	10.1076/0924-3860(200004)38:2;1-f;ft109	2000
Enzymology	Clostridium oceanicum, sp. n., a sporeforming anaerobe isolated from marine sediments.	Smith LD.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.103.3.811-813.1970	1970
Genetics	The genomic basis for the evolution of a novel form of cellular reproduction in the bacterium Epulopiscium.	Miller DA, Suen G, Clements KD, Angert ER.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/1471-2164-13-265	2012

References

#610	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1290
#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 )
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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 oceanicum (DSM 1290, ATCC 25647, NCIMB 10625)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_039521385

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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