Faecalispora sporosphaeroides (DSM 1294, ATCC 25781, NCIB 10672)

Name: Faecalispora sporosphaeroides (DSM 1294, ATCC 25781, NCIB 10672)
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BacDive ID 2716

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 1294 ATCC 25781 NCIB 10672 VPI 4527 NCIMB 10672

NCBI tax ID(s) 1549

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- ATCC; ATCC 25781 <- L. DS. Smith, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University (VPI), Blacksburg, V., USA; VPI 4527

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Faecalispora sporosphaeroides DSM 1294 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from Infected wound.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 125562

ATCC 25781,NCIB 10672,DSM 1294,NCIMB 10672,BCRC 14527,CCRC 14527,VTT E-062947,LMG 28907

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:20

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Oscillospiraceae

Genus Faecalispora

Species Faecalispora sporosphaeroides

Full scientific name Faecalispora sporosphaeroides (Soriano and Soriano 1948) Rios-Galicia et al. 2024

Synonyms (1)

Clostridium sporosphaeroides

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
625	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 78)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 78) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Ethanol 9.5 g/l (optional) K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Haemin 0.005 g/l (optional) Resazurin 0.001 g/l Vitamin K3 0.0005 g/l (optional) Vitamin K1 (optional) NaOH (optional) Distilled water
625	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

Culture temp

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

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

625

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Compound production

625

Compoundcitrate lyase

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

625

Sample typeInfected wound

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
625	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM38329v1 assembly for Faecalispora sporosphaeroides DSM 1294 VPI 4527	scaffold	GCA_000383295	1121334.3	2519899647	1121334	71.76

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	C.sporosphaeroides 16S rRNA	X66002	1400		1549
625	Clostridium sporosphaeroides 16S ribosomal RNA	M59116	1460		1549

GC content

625

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] sporosphaeroides DSM 1294 VPI 4527
NCBI: GCA_000383295

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	66.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	55.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	81.20	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate anaerobe	80.20	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: [Clostridium] sporosphaeroides DSM 1294 VPI 4527
NCBI: GCA_000383295.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	57.01	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	88.44	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	98.49	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	53.47	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	91.56	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	64.27	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Gut microbiota mediates the protective effects of SGLT-2 inhibitors on bipolar disorder: An intermediary Mendelian randomization study.	Yang Y, Sun Y, Wang Y.	Physiol Behav	10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.115120	2026
Enzymology	Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Approach for Microbial Shift Analysis in Thermophilic and Mesophilic Anaerobic Digestions.	Pandey P, Chowdhury D, Wang Y.	Gels	10.3390/gels10050339	2024
	Bacterial diversity associated with volatile compound accumulation in pit mud of Chinese strong-flavor baijiu pit.	Shoubao Y, Yonglei J, Qi Z, Shunchang P, Cuie S.	AMB Express	10.1186/s13568-023-01508-z	2023
	Effect of fruits granola (Frugra®) consumption on blood pressure reduction and intestinal microbiome in patients undergoing hemodialysis.	Nagasawa H, Suzuki S, Kobayashi T, Otsuka T, Okuma T, Matsushita S, Amano A, Shimizu Y, Suzuki Y, Ueda S.	Hypertens Res	10.1038/s41440-024-01895-1	2024
Metabolism	Isolation of acetic, propionic and butyric acid-forming bacteria from biogas plants.	Cibis KG, Gneipel A, Konig H.	J Biotechnol	10.1016/j.jbiotec.2016.01.008	2016
Metabolism	Anoxic Biodegradation of Isosaccharinic Acids at Alkaline pH by Natural Microbial Communities.	Rout SP, Charles CJ, Doulgeris C, McCarthy AJ, Rooks DJ, Loughnane JP, Laws AP, Humphreys PN.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0137682	2015
Metabolism	Cytokine response of human mononuclear cells induced by intestinal Clostridium species.	Tuovinen E, Keto J, Nikkila J, Matto J, Lahteenmaki K.	Anaerobe	10.1016/j.anaerobe.2012.11.002	2013
Genetics	Taxonogenomic description of four new Clostridium species isolated from human gut: 'Clostridium amazonitimonense', 'Clostridium merdae', 'Clostridium massilidielmoense' and 'Clostridium nigeriense'.	Alou MT, Ndongo S, Fregere L, Labas N, Andrieu C, Richez M, Couderc C, Baudoin JP, Abrahao J, Brah S, Diallo A, Sokhna C, Cassir N, La Scola B, Cadoret F, Raoult D.	New Microbes New Infect	10.1016/j.nmni.2017.11.003	2018
	Validation of the International Space Station Smart Sample Concentrator for Microbial Monitoring of Low Biomass Water Samples.	Urbaniak C, Mhatre S, Grams T, Parker C, Venkateswaran K.	J Biomol Tech	10.7171/jbt.20-3104-005	2020
Enzymology	Evaluation of procedures for the collection, processing, and analysis of biomolecules from low-biomass surfaces.	Kwan K, Cooper M, La Duc MT, Vaishampayan P, Stam C, Benardini JN, Scalzi G, Moissl-Eichinger C, Venkateswaran K.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02978-10	2011
	Robust cross-cohort gut microbiome associations with COVID-19 severity.	Li J, Li J, Ghosh TS, McCann R, Mallon P, Hill C, Draper L, Schult D, Fanning LJ, Shannon R, Sadlier C, Horgan M, O'Mahony L, O'Toole PW.	Gut Microbes	10.1080/19490976.2023.2242615	2023
Phylogeny	The Association of Gut Microbiota With Idiopathic Central Precocious Puberty in Girls.	Dong G, Zhang J, Yang Z, Feng X, Li J, Li D, Huang M, Li Y, Qiu M, Lu X, Liu P, Zeng Y, Xu X, Luo X, Dai W, Gong S.	Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)	10.3389/fendo.2019.00941	2019
Phylogeny	Modulation of Gut Microbial Community and Metabolism by Dietary Glycyl-Glutamine Supplementation May Favor Weaning Transition in Piglets.	Yan Y, Xu B, Yin B, Xu X, Niu Y, Tang Y, Wang X, Xie C, Yang T, Zhou S, Yan X, Ma L.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.03125	2019
	Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Human Health: From Metabolic Pathways to Current Therapeutic Implications.	Facchin S, Bertin L, Bonazzi E, Lorenzon G, De Barba C, Barberio B, Zingone F, Maniero D, Scarpa M, Ruffolo C, Angriman I, Savarino EV.	Life (Basel)	10.3390/life14050559	2024
	Extensive set of 16S rRNA-based probes for detection of bacteria in human feces.	Harmsen HJ, Raangs GC, He T, Degener JE, Welling GW.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.68.6.2982-2990.2002	2002
	Production of high-concentration n-caproic acid from lactate through fermentation using a newly isolated Ruminococcaceae bacterium CPB6.	Zhu X, Zhou Y, Wang Y, Wu T, Li X, Li D, Tao Y.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/s13068-017-0788-y	2017
Metabolism	Characterization of citrate lyase from Clostridium sporosphaeroides.	Quentmeier A, Antranikian G.	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/bf00446745	1985
	The Isolate Caproiciproducens sp. 7D4C2 Produces n-Caproate at Mildly Acidic Conditions From Hexoses: Genome and rBOX Comparison With Related Strains and Chain-Elongating Bacteria.	Esquivel-Elizondo S, Bagci C, Temovska M, Jeon BS, Bessarab I, Williams RBH, Huson DH, Angenent LT.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.594524	2020
Phylogeny	Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of PCR-amplified gki genes: a new technique for tracking streptococci.	van Vliet MJ, Tissing WJ, de Bont ES, Meessen NE, Kamps WA, Harmsen HJ.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.00089-09	2009
	Microbial community structure elucidates performance of Glyceria maxima plant microbial fuel cell.	Timmers RA, Rothballer M, Strik DP, Engel M, Schulz S, Schloter M, Hartmann A, Hamelers B, Buisman C.	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-012-3894-6	2012
Metabolism	Restricted distribution of the butyrate kinase pathway among butyrate-producing bacteria from the human colon.	Louis P, Duncan SH, McCrae SI, Millar J, Jackson MS, Flint HJ.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.186.7.2099-2106.2004	2004
	Effect of antimicrobial growth promoter administration on the intestinal microbiota of beef cattle.	Reti KL, Thomas MC, Yanke LJ, Selinger LB, Inglis GD.	Gut Pathog	10.1186/1757-4749-5-8	2013
Phylogeny	Bacterial populations colonizing and degrading rice straw in anoxic paddy soil.	Weber S, Stubner S, Conrad R.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.67.3.1318-1327.2001	2001
Phylogeny	Quantification of different Eubacterium spp. in human fecal samples with species-specific 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes.	Schwiertz A, Le Blay G, Blaut M.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.66.1.375-382.2000	2000
Phylogeny	Direct analysis of genes encoding 16S rRNA from complex communities reveals many novel molecular species within the human gut.	Suau A, Bonnet R, Sutren M, Godon JJ, Gibson GR, Collins MD, Dore J.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.65.11.4799-4807.1999	1999
Metabolism	Bile salt degradation by nonfermentative clostridia.	Mahony DE, Meier CE, Macdonald IA, Holdeman LV.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.34.4.419-423.1977	1977
Genetics	Capturing One of the Human Gut Microbiome's Most Wanted: Reconstructing the Genome of a Novel Butyrate-Producing, Clostridial Scavenger from Metagenomic Sequence Data.	Jeraldo P, Hernandez A, Nielsen HB, Chen X, White BA, Goldenfeld N, Nelson H, Alhquist D, Boardman L, Chia N.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2016.00783	2016
	Augmented biohydrogen production from rice mill wastewater through nano-metal oxides assisted dark fermentation.	Rambabu K, Bharath G, Thanigaivelan A, Das DB, Show PL, Banat F.	Bioresour Technol	10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124243	2021
Metabolism	Production of 1,3-propanediol by Clostridium beijerinckii DSM 791 from crude glycerol and corn steep liquor: Process optimization and metabolic engineering.	Wischral D, Zhang J, Cheng C, Lin M, De Souza LMG, Pessoa FLP, Pereira N, Yang ST.	Bioresour Technol	10.1016/j.biortech.2016.04.020	2016
Pathogenicity	An oxidation resistant pediocin PA-1 derivative and penocin A display effective anti-Listeria activity in a model human gut environment.	Kuniyoshi TM, O'Connor PM, Lawton E, Thapa D, Mesa-Pereira B, Abulu S, Hill C, Ross RP, Oliveira RPS, Cotter PD.	Gut Microbes	10.1080/19490976.2021.2004071	2022
Enzymology	H₂ generated by fermentation in the human gut microbiome influences metabolism and competitive fitness of gut butyrate producers.	Campbell A, Gdanetz K, Schmidt AW, Schmidt TM.	Microbiome	10.1186/s40168-023-01565-3	2023
Metabolism	Production of 1,3-Propanediol by Clostridium butyricum VPI 3266 in continuous cultures with high yield and productivity.	Gonzalez-Pajuelo M, Andrade JC, Vasconcelos I.	J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s10295-005-0012-0	2005
Metabolism	Production of 1,3-propanediol by Clostridium butyricum VPI 3266 using a synthetic medium and raw glycerol.	Gonzalez-Pajuelo M, Andrade JC, Vasconcelos I.	J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s10295-004-0168-z	2004
Metabolism	Anaerobic thermophilic fermentation for acetic acid production from milk permeate.	Talabardon M, Schwitzguebel JP, Peringer P.	J Biotechnol	10.1016/s0168-1656(99)00180-7	2000
Metabolism	A New Pathway for Forming Acetate and Synthesizing ATP during Fermentation in Bacteria.	Zhang B, Lingga C, Bowman C, Hackmann TJ.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02959-20	2021
Phylogeny	Variability in DPA and Calcium Content in the Spores of Clostridium Species.	Jamroskovic J, Chromikova Z, List C, Bartova B, Barak I, Bernier-Latmani R.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2016.01791	2016
Metabolism	Molecular characterization of the glycerol-oxidative pathway of Clostridium butyricum VPI 1718.	Raynaud C, Lee J, Sarcabal P, Croux C, Meynial-Salles I, Soucaille P.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.00112-11	2011
Enzymology	Microbial conversion of glycerol to 1,3-propanediol: physiological comparison of a natural producer, Clostridium butyricum VPI 3266, and an engineered strain, Clostridium acetobutylicum DG1(pSPD5).	Gonzalez-Pajuelo M, Meynial-Salles I, Mendes F, Soucaille P, Vasconcelos I.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.72.1.96-101.2006	2006
Metabolism	Production of hexanoic acid from D-galactitol by a newly isolated Clostridium sp. BS-1.	Jeon BS, Kim BC, Um Y, Sang BI	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-010-2827-5	2010
Genetics	'Collinsella phocaeensis' sp. nov., 'Clostridium merdae' sp. nov., 'Sutterella massiliensis' sp. nov., 'Sutturella timonensis' sp. nov., 'Enorma phocaeensis' sp. nov., 'Mailhella massiliensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., 'Mordavella massiliensis' gen. nov., sp. nov. and 'Massiliprevotella massiliensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., 9 new species isolated from fresh stool samples of healthy French patients.	Ndongo S, Cadoret F, Dubourg G, Delerce J, Fournier PE, Raoult D, Lagier JC.	New Microbes New Infect	10.1016/j.nmni.2017.02.005	2017
Genetics	Non contiguous-finished genome sequence and description of Clostridium jeddahense sp. nov.	Lagier JC, Bibi F, Ramasamy D, Azhar EI, Robert C, Yasir M, Jiman-Fatani AA, Alshali KZ, Fournier PE, Raoult D.	Stand Genomic Sci	10.4056/sigs.5571026	2014
Genetics	Genome sequence and description of Anaeromassilibacillus senegalensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gut of patient with kwashiorkor.	Guilhot E, Alou MT, Lagier JC, Labas N, Couderc C, Delerce J, Diallo A, Sokhna C, Fournier PE, Raoult D, Khelaifia S.	New Microbes New Infect	10.1016/j.nmni.2017.01.009	2017
Phylogeny	Clostridium chromiireducens sp. nov., isolated from Cr(VI)-contaminated soil.	Inglett KS, Bae HS, Aldrich HC, Hatfield K, Ogram AV.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.024554-0	2011
Phylogeny	Caproicibacter fermentans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new caproate-producing bacterium and emended description of the genus Caproiciproducens.	Flaiz M, Baur T, Brahner S, Poehlein A, Daniel R, Bengelsdorf FR	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004283	2020
Phylogeny	Caproiciproducens galactitolivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a bacterium capable of producing caproic acid from galactitol, isolated from a wastewater treatment plant.	Kim BC, Seung Jeon B, Kim S, Kim H, Um Y, Sang BI	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000665	2015

References

#625	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1294
#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 )
#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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Faecalispora sporosphaeroides (DSM 1294, ATCC 25781, NCIB 10672)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Compound production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000383295

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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