Clostridium schirmacherense (DSM 17394, JCM 13289, AP15)

Name: Clostridium schirmacherense (DSM 17394, JCM 13289, AP15)
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BacDive ID 2832

Type strain

Strain Designation AP15

Culture col. no. DSM 17394 JCM 13289 AP15

NCBI tax ID(s) 351628

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History DSMZ <- L. Singh, Biotechnology Division, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, India; AP15 <- S. I. Alam JCM <-- L. Singh AP15.

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Clostridium schirmacherense AP15 is an anaerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium that was isolated from lake sediment.

spore-forming Gram-positive motile rod-shaped anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 290964

DSM 17394,JCM 13289

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:33

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium schirmacherense

Full scientific name Clostridium schirmacherense Alam et al. 2006

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
31559	positive	02-04 µm	0.5-0.7 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

31559

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6946	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)
6946	positive	growth	20
31559	positive	growth	05-35
31559	positive	optimum	05-10
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31559	positive	optimum	8
31559	positive	growth	06-09	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
6946	anaerobe
31559	anaerobe

Spore formation

31559

Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31559	NaCl	positive	growth	0-7.5 %

Observation

31559

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31559	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
31559	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
31559	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
31559	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
31559	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	+	carbon source
31559	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
31559	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity
31559	gelatinase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Geographic location
6946	lake sediment			Australia and Oceania	Schirmacher Oasis
67770	Lake sediment of Schirmacher Oasis	Antarctica	ATA	Antarctica

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AM114453 (>99% sequence identity) for Clostridium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	339
Soil Samples	677
Animal Samples	1770
Plant Samples	100
Total Samples	2886

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6946	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6946	Clostridium schirmacherense partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain AP15T	AM114453	1457		351628
124043	Clostridium schirmacherense JCM:13289 gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence.	LC723850	1375		351628

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
6946	24
67770	24	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Biochemical and genome sequence analyses of Megasphaera sp. strain DISK18 from dental plaque of a healthy individual reveals commensal lifestyle.	Nallabelli N, Patil PP, Pal VK, Singh N, Jain A, Patil PB, Grover V, Korpole S.	Sci Rep	10.1038/srep33665	2016
Phylogeny	Clostridium schirmacherense sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic, proteolytic, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from lake sediment of Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica.	Alam SI, Dixit A, Reddy GSN, Dube S, Palit M, Shivaji S, Singh L	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63808-0	2006

References

#6946	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17394
#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 )
#27849	IJSEM 715 2006 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63808-0 , PubMed 16585682 )
#31559	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #27849
#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 schirmacherense (DSM 17394, JCM 13289, AP15)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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