Anaerotignum lactatifermentans (DSM 14214, LMG 20954, G17)

Name: Anaerotignum lactatifermentans (DSM 14214, LMG 20954, G17)
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BacDive ID 2806

Type strain

Strain Designation G17

Culture col. no. DSM 14214 LMG 20954 G17

NCBI tax ID(s) 1121323 160404

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- P. W. J. J. van der Wielen; G17 <- G. Rovers and P. W. J. J. van der Wielen {1998}

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Anaerotignum lactatifermentans G17 is an anaerobe, chemoorganotroph, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from caeca of broiler chicken.

Gram-positive rod-shaped anaerobe chemoorganotroph mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 84993

LMG 20954,DSM 14214

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:23

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Lachnospiraceae

Genus Anaerotignum

Species Anaerotignum lactatifermentans

Full scientific name Anaerotignum lactatifermentans (van der Wielen et al. 2002) Ueki et al. 2017

Synonyms (1)

Clostridium lactatifermentans

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Anaerotignum lactatifermentans** (1)	Type strain
160539	A. lactatifermentans Cla-CZ-174, DSM 109233

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43524	positive	2.8-7.5 µm	0.6-1.3 µm	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5253	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)	Range
5253	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
5253	anaerobe
43524	obligate anaerobe
125439	anaerobe	99.1

Nutrition type

43524

Typechemoorganotroph

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43524	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	-	assimilation
43524	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+/-	assimilation
43524	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	+	assimilation
43524	17191 ChEBI	L-isoleucine	+/-	assimilation
43524	15603 ChEBI	L-leucine	+/-	assimilation
43524	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	+	assimilation
43524	16857 ChEBI	L-threonine	+	assimilation
43524	16414 ChEBI	L-valine	+/-	assimilation
43524	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	assimilation

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
43524	30089 ChEBI	acetate
43524	17968 ChEBI	butyrate
43524	48944 ChEBI	isobutyrate
43524	48942 ChEBI	isovalerate
43524	17272 ChEBI	propionate

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Large intestine
#Host	#Birds	#Chicken
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Caecal content

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5253	caeca of broiler chicken	Leusden	Netherlands	NLD	Europe
43524	chicken caeca

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5253	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	IMG-taxon 2585428190 annotated assembly for Anaerotignum lactatifermentans DSM 14214	scaffold	GCA_900142265	1121323.3	2585428190	1121323	43.34

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5253	Clostridium lactatifermentans 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY033434	1497		160404

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43524	46	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
5253	44.6	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Anaerotignum lactatifermentans DSM 14214
NCBI: GCA_900142265

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.10	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	79.40	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	70.40	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	74.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Anaerotignum lactatifermentans DSM 14214 DSM 14214
NCBI: GCA_900142265.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	66.32	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	87.72	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	97.39	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	52.84	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	89.30	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	86.11	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Sequence similarity network analysis of drug- and dye-modifying azoreductase enzymes found in the human gut microbiome.	Long AR, Mortara EL, Mendoza BN, Fink EC, Sacco FX, Ciesla MJ, Stack TMM.	Arch Biochem Biophys	10.1016/j.abb.2024.110025	2024
Phylogeny	Dominant gut Prevotella copri in gastrectomised non-obese diabetic Goto-Kakizaki rats improves glucose homeostasis through enhanced FXR signalling.	Pean N, Le Lay A, Brial F, Wasserscheid J, Rouch C, Vincent M, Myridakis A, Hedjazi L, Dumas ME, Grundberg E, Lathrop M, Magnan C, Dewar K, Gauguier D.	Diabetologia	10.1007/s00125-020-05122-7	2020
Phylogeny	Conventional culture methods with commercially available media unveil the presence of novel culturable bacteria.	Ito T, Sekizuka T, Kishi N, Yamashita A, Kuroda M.	Gut Microbes	10.1080/19490976.2018.1491265	2019
	Anaeropeptidivorans aminofermentans gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic proteolytic salt-tolerant bacterium isolated from a laboratory-scale biogas fermenter, and emended description of Clostridium colinum.	Koller N, Hahnke S, Zverlov V, Wibberg D, Klingl A, Busche T, Klocke M, Puhler A, Schluter A, Liebl W, Maus I.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005668	2022
Phylogeny	Description of Anaerotignum aminivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor, and reclassification of Clostridium propionicum, Clostridium neopropionicum and Clostridium lactatifermentans as species of the genus Anaerotignum.	Ueki A, Goto K, Ohtaki Y, Kaku N, Ueki K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002268	2017

References

#5253	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14214
#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 )
#43524	Atsuko Ueki, Kazushi Goto, Yoshimi Ohtaki, Nobuo Kaku, Katsuji Ueki: Description of Anaerotignum aminivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor, and reclassification of Clostridium propionicum, Clostridium neopropionicum and Clostridium lactatifermentans as species of the genus Anaerotignum. IJSEM 67: 4146 - 4153 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002268 , PubMed 28905695 )
#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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Anaerotignum lactatifermentans (DSM 14214, LMG 20954, G17)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900142265

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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