Desulfovibrio aminophilus (DSM 12254, ALA-3)

Name: Desulfovibrio aminophilus (DSM 12254, ALA-3)
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BacDive ID 4135

Type strain

Strain Designation ALA-3

Culture col. no. DSM 12254 ALA-3

NCBI tax ID(s) 1121440 81425

Special Collections DSMZ

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Desulfovibrio aminophilus ALA-3 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from anaerobic lagoon of dairy wastewater treatment plant.

anaerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49256

DSM 12254

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:44

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfovibrionaceae

Genus Desulfovibrio

Species Desulfovibrio aminophilus

Full scientific name Desulfovibrio aminophilus Baena et al. 1999

Synonyms (2)

"Aminidesulfovibrio aminophilus"
"Aminidesulfovibrio aminophilus"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	97.059

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4656	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)	Range
4656	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

4656

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.658

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Food production	#Dairy product
#Engineered	#Waste	#Water treatment plant
#Condition	#Anoxic (anaerobic)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4656	anaerobic lagoon of dairy wastewater treatment plant	Colombia	COL	Middle and South America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF067964 (>99% sequence identity) for Desulfovibrio aminophilus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	40
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples	2
Plant Samples
Total Samples	43

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4656	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	ASM42256v1 assembly for Desulfovibrio aminophilus DSM 12254	scaffold	GCA_000422565	1121440.3	2524023062	1121440	73.72
66792	ASM2366010v1 assembly for Desulfovibrio aminophilus DSM 12254	contig	GCA_023660105	81425.4	8119120744	81425	45.65

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4656	Desulfovibrio aminophilus 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF067964	1530		81425

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4656	66	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Desulfovibrio aminophilus DSM 12254
NCBI: GCA_000422565

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	82.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	67.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	82.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	87.20	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Desulfovibrio aminophilus DSM 12254 DSM 12254
NCBI: GCA_000422565.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.06	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	81.26	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	88.48	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.66	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	90.56	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	78.51	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Complete genome sequence of Desulfovibrio sp. strain TCA, a sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from river sediment.	Zhou T, Jin H, Shi K, Weng Y, Wang J, Cui Y, Yan J, Li X.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.00202-25	2025
	In situ formed sulfide-mediated aging of polystyrene microplastics and its impact on the fate of heavy metals in anaerobic digestion.	Kim J, Licto AGC, Cho K, Kim EJ.	J Hazard Mater	10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.137995	2025
	The role of gut microbiota and plasma metabolites in osteoporosis: Insights from Mendelian randomization analysis.	Zhu W, Ma S, Zheng X, Yin J.	Medicine (Baltimore)	10.1097/md.0000000000044409	2025
	Independent of direct interspecies electron transfer: Magnetite-mediated sulphur cycle for anaerobic degradation of benzoate under low-concentration sulphate conditions.	Li Y, Dong C, Li Y, Nie W, Wang M, Sun C, Liang L, Zhao Z, Zhang Y.	J Hazard Mater	10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127051	2022
	Substantial defluorination of polychlorofluorocarboxylic acids triggered by anaerobic microbial hydrolytic dechlorination.	Jin B, Liu H, Che S, Gao J, Yu Y, Liu J, Men Y.	Nat Water	10.1038/s44221-023-00077-6	2023
	Anaerobic Limonene Metabolism in a Methanogenic Enrichment Involves a Glycine Radical Enzyme.	Lonsing A, Martens GA, Resteu A, Kizina J, Wilkie I, Bahr A, Harder J.	Environ Microbiol	10.1111/1462-2920.70192	2025
	Color and nitrogen removal from synthetic dye wastewater in an integrated mesophilic hydrolysis/acidification and multiple anoxic/aerobic process.	Gu M, Yin Q, Wang Z, He K, Wu G.	Chemosphere	10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.08.162	2018
	Gallium Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: Polymorphisms and Morphology Impacting Growth in Metals, Antibiotics and Polyfluorinated Compounds.	Ewunkem A, Simpson F, Holland D, Bowers T, Bailey A, Gore J, Iloghalu U, Williams V, Adjei-Fremah S, Kiki L, Justice B.	Appl Microbiol (Basel)	10.3390/applmicrobiol5010032	2025
Metabolism	Inhibition Studies with 2-Bromoethanesulfonate Reveal a Novel Syntrophic Relationship in Anaerobic Oleate Degradation.	Salvador AF, Cavaleiro AJ, Paulo AMS, Silva SA, Guedes AP, Pereira MA, Stams AJM, Sousa DZ, Alves MM.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01733-18	2019
Metabolism	Biological sulphate reduction using food industry wastes as carbon sources.	Martins M, Faleiro ML, Barros RJ, Verissimo AR, Costa MC.	Biodegradation	10.1007/s10532-008-9245-8	2009
Metabolism	Population dynamics of a single-stage sulfidogenic bioreactor treating synthetic zinc-containing waste streams.	Dar SA, Bijmans MF, Dinkla IJ, Geurkink B, Lens PN, Dopson M.	Microb Ecol	10.1007/s00248-009-9509-9	2009
Genetics	Bioreactor microbial ecosystems with differentiated methanogenic phenol biodegradation and competitive metabolic pathways unraveled with genome-resolved metagenomics.	Ju F, Wang Y, Zhang T.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/s13068-018-1136-6	2018
Metabolism	Analysis of propionate-degrading consortia from agricultural biogas plants.	Ahlert S, Zimmermann R, Ebling J, Konig H.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.386	2016
Metabolism	Nitrogen and phosphorus removal from wastewater treatment plant effluent via bacterial sulfate reduction in an anoxic bioreactor packed with wood and iron.	Yamashita T, Yamamoto-Ikemoto R.	Int J Environ Res Public Health	10.3390/ijerph110909835	2014
Phylogeny	Microbial diversity and abundance in the Xinjiang Luliang long-term water-flooding petroleum reservoir.	Gao P, Tian H, Li G, Sun H, Ma T.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.241	2015
Phylogeny	Bacterial Community Dynamics in Dichloromethane-Contaminated Groundwater Undergoing Natural Attenuation.	Wright J, Kirchner V, Bernard W, Ulrich N, McLimans C, Campa MF, Hazen T, Macbeth T, Marabello D, McDermott J, Mackelprang R, Roth K, Lamendella R.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.02300	2017
Metabolism	Life based on phosphite: a genome-guided analysis of Desulfotignum phosphitoxidans.	Poehlein A, Daniel R, Schink B, Simeonova DD.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/1471-2164-14-753	2013
	Nested PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis approach to determine the diversity of sulfate-reducing bacteria in complex microbial communities.	Dar SA, Kuenen JG, Muyzer G.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.71.5.2325-2330.2005	2005
Phylogeny	Characterization of microbial communities in gas industry pipelines.	Zhu XY, Lubeck J, Kilbane JJ.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.69.9.5354-5363.2003	2003
	Gene Expression Correlates with Process Rates Quantified for Sulfate- and Fe(III)-Reducing Bacteria in U(VI)-Contaminated Sediments.	Akob DM, Lee SH, Sheth M, Kusel K, Watson DB, Palumbo AV, Kostka JE, Chin KJ.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2012.00280	2012
Metabolism	Detection and quantification of functional genes of cellulose- degrading, fermentative, and sulfate-reducing bacteria and methanogenic archaea.	Pereyra LP, Hiibel SR, Prieto Riquelme MV, Reardon KF, Pruden A.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01285-09	2010
Metabolism	[Anaerobic bacteria involved in the degradation of aromatic sulfonates to methane].	Shcherbakova VA, Laurinavichyus KS, Chuvil'skaya NA, Ryzhmanova YV, Akimenko VK	Prikl Biokhim Mikrobiol	10.7868/s0555109915020191	2015
Phylogeny	Isolation and characterization of a new Cu-Fe protein from Desulfovibrio aminophilus DSM12254.	Rivas MG, Mota CS, Pauleta SR, Carepo MS, Folgosa F, Andrade SL, Fauque G, Pereira AS, Tavares P, Calvete JJ, Moura I, Moura JJ	J Inorg Biochem	10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2009.04.014	2009
Enzymology	Purification and preliminary characterization of tetraheme cytochrome c3 and adenylylsulfate reductase from the peptidolytic sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio aminophilus DSM 12254.	Lopez-Cortes A, Bursakov S, Figueiredo A, Thapper AE, Todorovic S, Moura JJ, Ollivier B, Moura I, Fauque G	Bioinorg Chem Appl	10.1155/BCA.2005.81	2005
Enzymology	Biochemical and spectroscopic characterization of an aldehyde oxidoreductase isolated from Desulfovibrio aminophilus.	Thapper A, Rivas MG, Brondino CD, Ollivier B, Fauque G, Moura I, Moura JJ	J Inorg Biochem	10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2005.09.013	2005
Genetics	Soehngenia longivitae sp. nov., a Fermenting Bacterium Isolated from a Petroleum Reservoir in Azerbaijan, and Emended Description of the Genus Soehngenia.	Nazina TN, Bidzhieva SK, Grouzdev DS, Sokolova DS, Tourova TP, Parshina SN, Avtukh AN, Poltaraus AB, Talybly AK.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms8121967	2020
Phylogeny	Desulfovibrio idahonensis sp. nov., sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from a metal(loid)-contaminated freshwater sediment.	Sass H, Ramamoorthy S, Yarwood C, Langner H, Schumann P, Kroppenstedt RM, Spring S, Rosenzweig RF.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.016709-0	2009
	Physiological and comparative proteomic characterization of Desulfolithobacter dissulfuricans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, sulfur-disproportionating chemolithoautotroph from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent.	Hashimoto Y, Shimamura S, Tame A, Sawayama S, Miyazaki J, Takai K, Nakagawa S.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2022.1042116	2022
Phylogeny	Desulfovibrio aminophilus sp. nov., a novel amino acid degrading and sulfate reducing bacterium from an anaerobic dairy wastewater lagoon.	Baena S, Fardeau ML, Labat M, Ollivier B, Garcia JL, Patel BK	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/S0723-2020(98)80061-1	1998

References

#4656	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12254
#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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Desulfovibrio aminophilus (DSM 12254, ALA-3)

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_000422565

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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