Desulfomicrobium norvegicum (DSM 1741, NCIMB 8310, Norway 4)

Name: Desulfomicrobium norvegicum (DSM 1741, NCIMB 8310, Norway 4)
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BacDive ID 4058

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 1741 NCIMB 8310 Norway 4

NCBI tax ID(s) 52561

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- H. Biebl and N. Pfennig, Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung, Göttingen, Germany; Norway 4 <- J. Le Gall, C.N.R.S. 31, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Marseille, France; <- J. R. Postgate, Chemical Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Teddington, Middlesex, UK; (Desulfovibrio desulfuricans) {1949}

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Desulfomicrobium norvegicum DSM 1741 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from Oslo Harbour water.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 389477

DSM 1741,NCIB 8310,NCIMB 8310,KCTC 1907,KCTC 5195

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:51

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfomicrobiaceae

Genus Desulfomicrobium

Species Desulfomicrobium norvegicum

Full scientific name Desulfomicrobium norvegicum Genthner et al. 1997

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	94.652
125439	negative	98.984

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
615	DESULFOVIBRIO (MV) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 641)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFOVIBRIO (MV) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 641) Composition: Na-DL-lactate 2.49252 g/l Na2SO4 1.99402 g/l NH4Cl 0.997009 g/l Yeast extract 0.997009 g/l Na2CO3 0.997009 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.997009 g/l Na2S2O3 x 5 H2O 0.997009 g/l KH2PO4 0.498504 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.0997009 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0997009 g/l HCl 0.00249252 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00149551 g/l NaOH 0.000498504 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000498504 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000189432 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.97009e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.97009e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.97906e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.98504e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.98504e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.98504e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.58923e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.39282e-05 g/l Biotin 1.99402e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.99402e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.98205e-06 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.98804e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.99103e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.99402e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.97009e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

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

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
615	anaerobe
125439	obligate anaerobe	96.719

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.943

Compound production

615

Compoundrestriction endonuclease DdeI

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
615	Oslo Harbour water	Norway	NOR	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ277897 (>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
615	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	IMG-taxon 2675903163 annotated assembly for Desulfomicrobium norvegicum DSM 1741	scaffold	GCA_900114595	52561.3	2675903163	52561	66.55

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Desulfomicrobium norvegicum strain DSM 1741 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ834676	523		52561
615	Desulfomicrobium norvegicum 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM 1741T	AJ277897	1517		52561

GC content

615

GC-content (mol%)55.3

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: IMG-taxon 2675903163 annotated assembly for Desulfomicrobium norvegicum DSM 1741
NCBI: GCA_900114595

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate anaerobe	96.72	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.98	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	78.74	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.94	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Desulfomicrobium norvegicum DSM 1741
NCBI: GCA_900114595.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	94.65	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	85.24	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	86.02	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	82.47	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	89.15	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	81.98	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Bacterial cysteate dissimilatory pathway involves a racemase and d-cysteate sulfo-lyase.	Liu C, Ma K, Jiang L, Liu X, Tong Y, Yang S, Jin X, Wei Y, Zhang Y.	J Biol Chem	10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107371	2024
Metabolism	Sulfonates as terminal electron acceptors for growth of sulfite-reducing bacteria (Desulfitobacterium spp.) and sulfate-reducing bacteria: effects of inhibitors of sulfidogenesis.	Lie TJ, Godchaux W, Leadbetter ER.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.65.10.4611-4617.1999	1999
Metabolism	L-cysteate sulpho-lyase, a widespread pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-coupled desulphonative enzyme purified from Silicibacter pomeroyi DSS-3(T).	Denger K, Smits TH, Cook AM.	Biochem J	10.1042/bj20051311	2006
	Rapid detection and quantification of bisulfite reductase genes in oil field samples using real-time PCR.	Agrawal A, Lal B.	FEMS Microbiol Ecol	10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00714.x	2009
Metabolism	Structural insights into dissimilatory sulfite reductases: structure of desulforubidin from desulfomicrobium norvegicum.	Oliveira TF, Franklin E, Afonso JP, Khan AR, Oldham NJ, Pereira IA, Archer M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2011.00071	2011
Pathogenicity	Cadmium accumulation and DNA homology with metal resistance genes in sulfate-reducing bacteria.	Naz N, Young HK, Ahmed N, Gadd GM.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.71.8.4610-4618.2005	2005
Metabolism	Molecular analysis of a sulphate-reducing consortium used to treat metal-containing effluents.	Boothman C, Hockin S, Holmes DE, Gadd GM, Lloyd JR.	Biometals	10.1007/s10534-006-0006-z	2006
Enzymology	Structural evolution of the ancient enzyme, dissimilatory sulfite reductase.	Colman DR, Labesse G, Swapna GVT, Stefanakis J, Montelione GT, Boyd ES, Royer CA.	Proteins	10.1002/prot.26315	2022
Enzymology	Enzymatic reduction of chromate: comparative studies using sulfate-reducing bacteria. Key role of polyheme cytochromes c and hydrogenases.	Michel C, Brugna M, Aubert C, Bernadac A, Bruschi M.	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s002530000467	2001
Phylogeny	Reclassification of Desulfobacterium macestii as Desulfomicrobium macestii comb. nov.	Hippe H, Vainshtein M, Gogotova GI, Stackebrandt E.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02574-0	2003
Metabolism	Chromate reduction at low sulphate concentration in hydrogen-fed bioreactors.	Battaglia-Brunet F, Foucher S, Denamur A, Marggraff M, Morin D, Ignatiadis I.	Environ Technol	10.1080/09593330409355442	2004
	Buildup of polyelectrolyte-protein multilayer assemblies on gold electrodes. Role of the hydrophobic effect.	Lojou E, Bianco P.	Langmuir	10.1021/la030286w	2004
	Amperometric cytochrome c3-based biosensor for chromate determination.	Michel C, Battaglia-Brunet F, Minh CT, Bruschi M, Ignatiadis I.	Biosens Bioelectron	10.1016/s0956-5663(03)00191-x	2003
Metabolism	Proton-assisted two-electron transfer in natural variants of tetraheme cytochromes from Desulfomicrobium Sp.	Correia IJ, Paquete CM, Coelho A, Almeida CC, Catarino T, Louro RO, Frazao C, Saraiva LM, Carrondo MA, Turner DL, Xavier AV.	J Biol Chem	10.1074/jbc.m408763200	2004
Metabolism	Bioremediation of chromate: thermodynamic analysis of the effects of Cr(VI) on sulfate-reducing bacteria.	Chardin B, Dolla A, Chaspoul F, Fardeau ML, Gallice P, Bruschi M.	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-002-1091-8	2002
Metabolism	Reduction of chromate by fixed films of sulfate-reducing bacteria using hydrogen as an electron source.	Battaglia-Brunet F, Foucher S, Denamur A, Ignatiadis I, Michel C, Morin D.	J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1038/sj/jim/7000226	2002
Enzymology	A sequential electron transfer from hydrogenases to cytochromes in sulfate-reducing bacteria.	Aubert C, Brugna M, Dolla A, Bruschi M, Giudici-Orticoni MT.	Biochim Biophys Acta	10.1016/s0167-4838(99)00221-6	2000
Enzymology	Ab initio structure solution of a dimeric cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio gigas containing disulfide bridges.	Frazao C, Sieker L, Sheldrick G, Lamzin V, LeGall J, Carrondo MA.	J Biol Inorg Chem	10.1007/s007750050299	1999
	Crystal structure of the oxidised and reduced acidic cytochrome c3from Desulfovibrio africanus.	Norager S, Legrand P, Pieulle L, Hatchikian C, Roth M.	J Mol Biol	10.1006/jmbi.1999.2917	1999
Metabolism	Linked redox precipitation of sulfur and selenium under anaerobic conditions by sulfate-reducing bacterial biofilms.	Hockin SL, Gadd GM.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.69.12.7063-7072.2003	2003
Metabolism	Fungal formation of selenium and tellurium nanoparticles.	Liang X, Perez MAM, Nwoko KC, Egbers P, Feldmann J, Csetenyi L, Gadd GM.	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-019-09995-6	2019
Enzymology	Defining boundaries for the distribution of microbial communities beneath the sediment-buried, hydrothermally active seafloor.	Yanagawa K, Ijiri A, Breuker A, Sakai S, Miyoshi Y, Kawagucci S, Noguchi T, Hirai M, Schippers A, Ishibashi JI, Takaki Y, Sunamura M, Urabe T, Nunoura T, Takai K.	ISME J	10.1038/ismej.2016.119	2017
Enzymology	Purification and characterization of an iron superoxide dismutase and a catalase from the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio gigas.	Dos Santos WG, Pacheco I, Liu MY, Teixeira M, Xavier AV, LeGall J.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.182.3.796-804.2000	2000
Metabolism	Selenite reduction by the obligate aerobic bacterium Comamonas testosteroni S44 isolated from a metal-contaminated soil.	Zheng S, Su J, Wang L, Yao R, Wang D, Deng Y, Wang R, Wang G, Rensing C.	BMC Microbiol	10.1186/s12866-014-0204-8	2014
Metabolism	The Desulfuromonas acetoxidans triheme cytochrome c7 produced in Desulfovibrio desulfuricans retains its metal reductase activity.	Aubert C, Lojou E, Bianco P, Rousset M, Durand MC, Bruschi M, Dolla A.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.64.4.1308-1312.1998	1998
Metabolism	Dynamics of microbial community composition and function during in situ bioremediation of a uranium-contaminated aquifer.	Van Nostrand JD, Wu L, Wu WM, Huang Z, Gentry TJ, Deng Y, Carley J, Carroll S, He Z, Gu B, Luo J, Criddle CS, Watson DB, Jardine PM, Marsh TL, Tiedje JM, Hazen TC, Zhou J.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01981-10	2011
Metabolism	Cytoplasmic sulfurtransferases in the purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum: evidence for sulfur transfer from DsrEFH to DsrC.	Stockdreher Y, Venceslau SS, Josten M, Sahl HG, Pereira IA, Dahl C.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0040785	2012
Metabolism	Oil field souring control by nitrate-reducing Sulfurospirillum spp. that outcompete sulfate-reducing bacteria for organic electron donors.	Hubert C, Voordouw G.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02332-06	2007
Enzymology	Role of the aromatic ring of Tyr43 in tetraheme cytochrome c(3) from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki F.	Ozawa K, Takayama Y, Yasukawa F, Ohmura T, Cusanovich MA, Tomimoto Y, Ogata H, Higuchi Y, Akutsu H.	Biophys J	10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74756-0	2003
	A novel interdomain consortium from a Costa Rican oil well composed of Methanobacterium cahuitense sp. nov. and Desulfomicrobium aggregans sp. nov.	Dengler L, Meier J, Klingl A, Nissl L, Bellack A, Grohmann D, Rachel R, Huber H.	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-023-03533-9	2023
Enzymology	Characterization of two subsurface H2-utilizing bacteria, Desulfomicrobium hypogeium sp. nov. and Acetobacterium psammolithicum sp. nov., and their ecological roles.	Krumholz LR, Harris SH, Tay ST, Suflita JM.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.65.6.2300-2306.1999	1999

References

#615	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1741
#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 )
#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 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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 norvegicum (DSM 1741, NCIMB 8310, Norway 4)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Compound production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900114595

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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