Paeniclostridium ghonii (DSM 15049, ATCC 25757, JCM 1400)

Name: Paeniclostridium ghonii (DSM 15049, ATCC 25757, JCM 1400)
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BacDive ID 2810

Type strain

Strain Designation PEV

Culture col. no. DSM 15049 ATCC 25757 JCM 1400 VPI 4897 CCUG 9282 3 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 29358

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM

History <- JCM <- ATCC <- L. D. Smith, VPI <- A. Prevot; PEV ATCC 25757 <-- L. DS. Smith VPI 4897.

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Paeniclostridium ghonii PEV is an anaerobe bacterium of the family Peptostreptococcaceae.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 38656

ATCC 25757,CCUG 9282,JCM 1400,CCRC 14548,NCIMB 10636,DSM 15049,BCRC 14548,VTT E-042451

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:21

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Peptostreptococcales

Family Peptostreptococcaceae

Genus Paeniclostridium

Species Paeniclostridium ghonii

Full scientific name Paeniclostridium ghonii (Prévot 1938) Sasi Jyothsna et al. 2016

Synonyms (3)

Clostridium ghonii
Clostridium ghoni
Paraclostridium ghonii

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5685	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5685	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

5685

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5685	2	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	ASM3081508v1 assembly for Paraclostridium ghonii DSM 15049	contig	GCA_030815085	29358.16	2928400839	29358	69.63

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	[Clostridium] ghonii gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 1400	AB542933	1463		29358
5685	Clostridium ghonii 16S rRNA gene, strain NCIMB 10636	X73451	1501		29358

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
5685	27	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Pathogenicity	Identification and characterization of botulinum neurotoxin-like two-component toxins in Paeniclostridium ghonii.	Lee PG, Yin L, Wei X, Shi J, Masuyer G, Wentz TG, Chen P, Xu Y, Liang J, Zhang H, Persson Kosenina S, Lobb B, Mansfield M, Gill SS, Pellett S, Stenmark P, Doxey AC, Dong M.	Sci Adv	10.1126/sciadv.adx6145	2025
Phylogeny	Paraclostridium benzoelyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment and reclassification of Clostridium bifermentans as Paraclostridium bifermentans comb. nov. Proposal of a new genus Paeniclostridium gen. nov. to accommodate Clostridium sordellii and Clostridium ghonii.	Sasi Jyothsna TS, Tushar L, Sasikala C, Ramana CV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000874	2016

References

#5685	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15049
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Paeniclostridium ghonii (DSM 15049, ATCC 25757, JCM 1400)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_030815085

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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References

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