Desulfomicrobium baculatum (DSM 2555, H.L21)

Name: Desulfomicrobium baculatum (DSM 2555, H.L21)
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BacDive ID 4050

Type strain

Strain Designation H.L21

Culture col. no. DSM 2555 H.L21

NCBI tax ID(s) 899

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- H.J. Laanbroek, H.L21

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Desulfomicrobium baculatum H.L21 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from anaerobic intertidal sediment.

anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47632

DSM 2555

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:38

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfomicrobiaceae

Genus Desulfomicrobium

Species Desulfomicrobium baculatum

Full scientific name Desulfomicrobium baculatum corrig. (Rozanova and Nazina 1984) Rozanova et al. 1994

Synonyms (2)

Desulfomicrobium baculatus
Desulfovibrio baculatus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Desulfomicrobium baculatum** (3)	Type strain
4051	D. baculatum X, DSM 4028, VKM B-1378, CCUG 34229 (type strain)
4048	D. baculatum 5174, DSM 1742
4049	D. baculatum 9974, DSM 1743

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1122	DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 63)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 63) Composition: MgSO4 x 7 H2O 2.0 g/l Na-DL-lactate 2.0 g/l NH4Cl 1.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na2SO4 1.0 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.1 g/l Na-thioglycolate 0.1 g/l Ascorbic acid 0.1 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1122	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1122

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Tidal flat
#Condition	#Anoxic (anaerobic)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1122	anaerobic intertidal sediment	Ems-Dollard estuary	Netherlands	NLD	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ277895 (>99% sequence identity) for Desulfomicrobium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1917
Soil Samples	172
Animal Samples	82
Plant Samples	72
Total Samples	2243

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1122	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Desulfomicrobium baculatum 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM 2555	AJ277895	1518		899

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Complete genome sequence of Desulfomicrobium baculatum type strain (X).	Copeland A, Spring S, Goker M, Schneider S, Lapidus A, Del Rio TG, Tice H, Cheng JF, Chen F, Nolan M, Bruce D, Goodwin L, Pitluck S, Ivanova N, Mavrommatis K, Ovchinnikova G, Pati A, Chen A, Palaniappan K, Land M, Hauser L, Chang YJ, Jeffries CC, Meincke L, Sims D, Brettin T, Detter JC, Han C, Chain P, Bristow J, Eisen JA, Markowitz V, Hugenholtz P, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Lucas S.	Stand Genomic Sci	10.4056/sigs.13134	2009
Phylogeny	[Biodiversity of sulfate-reducing bacteria growing on objects of heating systems].	Purish LM, Asaulenko LG, Abdulina DR, Iutinskaia GA	Mikrobiol Z		2014
Metabolism	Application of antisera raised against sulfate-reducing bacteria for indirect immunofluorescent detection of immunoreactive bacteria in sediment from the German Baltic Sea.	Lillebaek R	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.61.9.3436-3442.1995	1995

References

#1122	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 2555
#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 )
#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 .
#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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Desulfomicrobium baculatum (DSM 2555, H.L21)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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