Albidiferax ferrireducens (DSM 15236, ATCC BAA-621, T118)

Name: Albidiferax ferrireducens (DSM 15236, ATCC BAA-621, T118)
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BacDive ID 3028

Type strain

Strain Designation T118

Culture col. no. DSM 15236 ATCC BAA-621 T118

NCBI tax ID(s) 192843

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- D. R. Lovely; T118 <- UMass, Amherst Microbiology Dept. <- K. T. Finneran

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Albidiferax ferrireducens T118 is a bacterium that was isolated from coastal aquifer sediment.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 100908

ATCC BAA-621,DSM 15236

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:36

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Comamonadaceae

Genus Albidiferax

Species Albidiferax ferrireducens

Full scientific name Albidiferax ferrireducens corrig. (Finneran et al. 2003) Ramana and Sasikala 2009

Synonyms (2)

Rhodoferax ferrireducens
Albidoferax ferrireducens

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	98

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5775	BASAL MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1001)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BASAL MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1001) Composition: NaHCO3 2.5 g/l NaH2PO4 x H2O 0.6 g/l NH4Cl 0.25 g/l KCl 0.1 g/l MgSO4 0.03 g/l NTA 0.015 g/l NaCl 0.01 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.005 g/l ZnCl2 0.0013 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.001 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.001 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.001 g/l Na2MoO4 0.00025 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 0.00025 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00024 g/l H3BO3 0.0001 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.0001 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.0001 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.0001 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 5e-05 g/l Thioctic acid 5e-05 g/l Riboflavin 5e-05 g/l Thiamine 5e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 5e-05 g/l Pantothenic acid 5e-05 g/l Biotin 2e-05 g/l Folic acid 2e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 1e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5775	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5775	coastal aquifer sediment	VA, Oyster Bay	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF435948 (>99% sequence identity) for Rhodoferax ferrireducens subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	16
Soil Samples	0
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	18

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5775	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	ASM1360v1 assembly for Rhodoferax ferrireducens T118 DSM 15236	complete	GCA_000013605	338969.11	637000235	338969	98.25

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5775	Rhodoferax ferrireducens 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF435948	1470		338969

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Rhodoferax ferrireducens T118 DSM 15236
NCBI: GCA_000013605.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.00	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	83.15	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	68.11	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.63	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.96	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	85.89	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Rhodoferax koreense sp. nov, an obligately aerobic bacterium within the family Comamonadaceae, and emended description of the genus Rhodoferax.	Farh ME, Kim YJ, Singh P, Jung SY, Kang JP, Yang DC	J Microbiol	10.1007/s12275-017-7033-z	2017
Phylogeny	Rhodoferax ferrireducens sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, facultatively anaerobic bacterium that oxidizes acetate with the reduction of Fe(III).	Finneran KT, Johnsen CV, Lovley DR	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02298-0	2003

References

#5775	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15236
#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) .
#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 .
#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 )
#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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Albidiferax ferrireducens (DSM 15236, ATCC BAA-621, T118)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

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16S sequences

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