Name: Desulfotignum toluenicum H3
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 3953

Type strain:

Species: Desulfotignum toluenicum

Strain Designation: H3

Culture col. no.: DSM 18732, ATCC BAA-1460

Strain history: <- H. Ommedal, University of Bergen, Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR), Norway; H3 <- H. Ommedal {2005}

NCBI tax ID(s): 423541 (species)

SI-ID 404167

DSM 18732

Section

Desulfotignum toluenicum H3 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from oil-reservoir model column.

Gram-negative
rod-shaped
anaerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Deltaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Desulfobacterales*
	Family	*Desulfobacteraceae*
	Genus	*Desulfotignum*
	Species	**Desulfotignum toluenicum**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Desulfotignum toluenicum Ommedal and Torsvik 2007

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32169]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #32169]	Cell length	1.95 µm

[Ref.: #32169]	Cell width	0.8 µm

[Ref.: #32169]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #32169]	Motility	no

[Ref.: #7677]

Incubation period

3-7 days

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

DESULFOTIGNUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 383a)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #7677]	growth	30 °C
[Ref.: #32169]	growth	16-35 °C
[Ref.: #32169]	optimum	34 °C

[Ref.: #7677]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #32169]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32169]			optimum	7.2
[Ref.: #32169]			growth	6.5-9.0

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #7677]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #32169]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #32169]		NaCl		growth	0.5-5.5	%
[Ref.: #32169]		NaCl		optimum	1.5	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #32169]	4-hydroxybenzoate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32169]	acetate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32169]	decanoate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32169]	pyruvate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32169]	succinate ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #32169]		hydrogen sulfide ChEBI	yes

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #32169]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #7677]	Sample type/isolated from	oil-reservoir model column
[Ref.: #7677]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Univ. Bergen
[Ref.: #7677]	Country	Norway
[Ref.: #7677]	Country ISO 3 Code	NOR
[Ref.: #7677]	Continent	Europe
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Engineered

#Industrial

#Oil reservoir

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

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #7677]	Desulfotignum toluenicum strain H3 clone 7 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF207159	1505	ENA	423541 tax ID
[Ref.: #7677]	Desulfotignum toluenicum strain H3 clone 1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF207157	1505	ENA	423541 tax ID
[Ref.: #7677]	Desulfotignum toluenicum strain H3 clone 4 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF207158	1505	ENA	423541 tax ID

[Ref.: #7677]	GC-content	52.0 mol%
[Ref.: #32169]	GC-content	52 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 18732, ATCC BAA-1460

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SI-ID 404167

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Desulfotignum toluenicum sp. nov., a novel toluene-degrading, sulphate-reducing bacterium isolated from an oil-reservoir model column.	Ommedal H, Torsvik T	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65067-0	2007	*

References

#7677

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18732

#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 )

#32169

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 #28411 (see below)

#73462

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-ID404167.1 )

#28411

IJSEM 2865 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65067-0 , PubMed 18048740 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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