Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. africanus (DSM 2603, ATCC 19996, NCIMB 8401)

Name: Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. africanus (DSM 2603, ATCC 19996, NCIMB 8401)
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BacDive ID 4071

Type strain

Strain Designation Benghazi

Culture col. no. DSM 2603 ATCC 19996 NCIMB 8401 VKM B-1757 Benghazi

NCBI tax ID(s) 1121435 873 1511600

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- NCIB <- K. R. Butlin, National Chemical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, U.K.; Benghazi <- M. E. Adams {1950}

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Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. africanus Benghazi is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from well water.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 37214

ATCC 19996,DSM 2603,NCIB 8401,VKM B-1757,NCIMB 8401

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfovibrionaceae

Genus Desulfocurvibacter

Species Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. africanus

Full scientific name Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. africanus (Campbell et al. 1966) Spring et al. 2019

Synonyms (1)

Desulfovibrio africanus subsp. africanus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	99.7
125438	negative	93.977

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1149	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
1149	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)
1149	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1149

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.4

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-
#Engineered	#Built environment	#Water reservoir (Aquarium/pool)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1149	well water	Benghazi	Libya	LBY	Africa

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence X99236 (>99% sequence identity) for Desulfocurvibacter africanus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	198
Soil Samples	228
Animal Samples	197
Plant Samples	100
Total Samples	723

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1149	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	ASM42254v1 assembly for Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. africanus DSM 2603	scaffold	GCA_000422545	1121435.3	2526164711	1121435	70.51

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
1149	D.africanus 16S rRNA gene	X99236	1510		1121435

GC content

1149

GC-content (mol%)61.0

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. africanus DSM 2603
NCBI: GCA_000422545

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.40	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	78.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	86.40	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. africanus DSM 2603 DSM 2603
NCBI: GCA_000422545.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	93.98	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	83.45	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	76.44	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	84.80	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	86.70	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	80.63	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Ecophysiological Features Shape the Distribution of Prophages and CRISPR in Sulfate Reducing Prokaryotes.	Orellana R, Arancibia A, Badilla L, Acosta J, Arancibia G, Escar R, Ferrada G, Seeger M.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms9050931	2021
Genetics	Bioinformatics Investigations of Universal Stress Proteins from Mercury-Methylating Desulfovibrionaceae.	Isokpehi RD, McInnis DS, Destefano AM, Johnson GS, Walker AD, Hall YA, Mapp BW, Johnson MO, Simmons SS.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms9081780	2021
	Novel Insights on Extracellular Electron Transfer Networks in the Desulfovibrionaceae Family: Unveiling the Potential Significance of Horizontal Gene Transfer.	Gonzalez V, Abarca-Hurtado J, Arancibia A, Claverias F, Guevara MR, Orellana R.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms12091796	2024
	Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria That Produce Exopolymers Thrive in the Calcifying Zone of a Hypersaline Cyanobacterial Mat.	Spring S, Sorokin DY, Verbarg S, Rohde M, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.00862	2019
Transcriptome	Transcriptome-wide marker gene expression analysis of stress-responsive sulfate-reducing bacteria.	Jawaharraj K, Peta V, Dhiman SS, Gnimpieba EZ, Gadhamshetty V.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-023-43089-8	2023
Enzymology	Two distinct gut microbial pathways contribute to meta-organismal production of phenylacetylglutamine with links to cardiovascular disease.	Zhu Y, Dwidar M, Nemet I, Buffa JA, Sangwan N, Li XS, Anderson JT, Romano KA, Fu X, Funabashi M, Wang Z, Keranahalli P, Battle S, Tittle AN, Hajjar AM, Gogonea V, Fischbach MA, DiDonato JA, Hazen SL.	Cell Host Microbe	10.1016/j.chom.2022.11.015	2023

References

#1149	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 2603
#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 )
#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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Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. africanus (DSM 2603, ATCC 19996, NCIMB 8401)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000422545

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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