Name: Corynebacterium diphtheriae AMS 53-A-8
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 3154

Type strain:

Species: Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Strain Designation: AMS 53-A-8

Culture col. no.: DSM 44603, ATCC 9675

Strain history: <- R. Hammann, Becton Dickinson, Heidelberg <- ATCC <- C. C. Campbell; AMS 53-A-8

NCBI tax ID(s): 1717 (species)

SI-ID 35094

ATCC 9675, DSM 44603

Special Collections

DSMZ

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Section

Corynebacterium diphtheriae AMS 53-A-8 is a Gram-positive bacterium of the family Corynebacteriaceae.

Gram-positive
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	*Actinomycetota*
	Class	*Actinomycetes*
	Order	*Mycobacteriales*
	Family	*Corynebacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Corynebacterium*
	Species	**Corynebacterium diphtheriae**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Kruse 1886) Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonym

"Bacillus diphtheriae"

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	positive Confidence in %92.098

[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	no Confidence in %92.5

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #11918]

Culture medium

COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)

[Ref.: #11918]

Culture medium growth

[Ref.: #11918]

Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

[Ref.: #11918]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #11918]			growth	37 °C

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

[Ref.: #11918]

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]	Corynebacterium diphtheriae strain FDAARGOS_1592	1717.767	complete	PATRIC	1717 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Corynebacterium diphtheriae strain FDAARGOS_1592	1717.763	complete	PATRIC	1717 tax ID	*

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

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Corynebacterium diphtheriae strain FDAARGOS_1592 strain Not applicable PATRIC: 1717.767
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	92.098	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	90.765	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	81.67	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	58.693	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	92.5	no

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #11918]

Culture collection no.

DSM 44603, ATCC 9675

[Ref.: #72670]

SI-ID 35094

References

#11918

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 44603

#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) .

#72670

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-ID35094.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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