Name: Acetivibrio thermocellus JW 20
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 2731

Type strain:

Species: Acetivibrio thermocellus

Strain Designation: JW 20

Culture col. no.: DSM 4150, ATCC 31549

Strain history: <- A. Nolte, Universität Göttingen, Institut für Mikrobiologie, Germany; JW 20 <- J. Wiegel

NCBI tax ID(s): 1515 (species)

SI-ID 40118

ATCC 31549, KCTC 1673

Other strains from Acetivibrio thermocellus

A. thermocellus DSM 1237, ATCC 27405, JCM 9322, ... (type strain)
A. thermocellus LQ8, DSM 1313
A. thermocellus LQR1, DSM 2360, JCM 9323, ATCC ...
A. thermocellus YS, DSM 25991
A. thermocellus AD2, DSM 25992

Section

Acetivibrio thermocellus JW 20 is an anaerobe, spore-forming, thermophilic bacterium that produces alcohol and was isolated from cotton.

alcohol production
Gram-positive
spore-forming
anaerobe
thermophilic
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Clostridia*
	Order	*Eubacteriales*
	Family	*Oscillospiraceae*
	Genus	*Acetivibrio*
	Species	**Acetivibrio thermocellus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Acetivibrio thermocellus (Viljoen et al. 1926) Tindall 2019

	Synonym	"Ruminiclostridium* thermocellum"*
	Synonym	Clostridium thermocellum
	Synonym	Hungateiclostridium thermocellum

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	positive Confidence in %99.745

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #1603]

Culture medium

ACETIVIBRIO MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 122)

[Ref.: #1603]

Culture medium growth

[Ref.: #1603]

Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

[Ref.: #1603]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #1603]			growth	60 °C

[Ref.: #1603]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #69480]	Temperature range	thermophilic Confidence in %96.668

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #1603]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #69480]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe Confidence in %99.999

[Ref.: #69480]

Ability of spore formation

yes Confidence in %98.769

[Ref.: #1603]

Name of produced compound

ethanol

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #1603]	Sample type/isolated from	cotton
[Ref.: #1603]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Louisiana
[Ref.: #1603]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #1603]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #1603]	Continent	North America
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Plants	#Shrub (Scrub)
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Engineered product
#Host Body Product	#Plant	#Cotton (other fibres)

What are isolation sources categories?

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #1603]

Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Clostridium thermocellum JW20	492476.4	wgs	PATRIC	492476 tax ID	*

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GC-content

40.0 mol%

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Clostridium thermocellum JW20 PATRIC: 492476.4
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	yes	76	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Clostridium thermocellum JW20 PATRIC: 492476.4
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	52.849	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	yes	99.568	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	95.085	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	yes	90.095	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	83.143	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	99.058	no
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	55.798	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	98.703	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	77.728	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	51.578	no

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #1603]

Culture collection no.

DSM 4150, ATCC 31549

[Ref.: #72259]	SI-ID 40118	*
[Ref.: #72260]	SI-ID 47799	*

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Clostridium thermocellum JW20 (ATCC 31549) is a coculture with Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus.	Erbeznik M, Jones CR, Dawson KA, Strobel HJ	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.63.7.2949-2951.1997	1997	*
Enzymology	Characterization of 13 newly isolated strains of anaerobic, cellulolytic, thermophilic bacteria.	Ozkan M, Desai SG, Zhang Y, Stevenson DM, Beane J, White EA, Guerinot ML, Lynd LR	J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1038/sj.jim.7000082	2001	*
	Characterization of Clostridium thermocellum JW20.	Freier D, Mothershed CP, Wiegel J	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.54.1.204-211.1988	1988	*

References

#1603

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 4150

#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) .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#72259

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID40118.1 )

#72260

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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