Pseudodesulfovibrio tunisiensis (DSM 19275, JCM 15076, NCIMB 14400)

Name: Pseudodesulfovibrio tunisiensis (DSM 19275, JCM 15076, NCIMB 14400)
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Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 19275 JCM 15076 NCIMB 14400 CCUG 55298 RB 22

NCBI tax ID(s) 1121465 463192

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM Literature strains

History <- Z. Ben Ali Gam; RB22 Z. Ben Ali Gam RB22.

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Pseudodesulfovibrio tunisiensis DSM 19275 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from exhaust water of oil refinery.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 408204

JCM 15076,NCIMB 14400,DSM 19275

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:39

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfovibrionaceae

Genus Pseudodesulfovibrio

Species Pseudodesulfovibrio tunisiensis

Full scientific name Pseudodesulfovibrio tunisiensis (Ben Ali Gam et al. 2009) Waite et al. 2020

Synonyms (1)

Desulfovibrio tunisiensis

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
28900	negative	1.75 µm	0.5 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

60521

Incubation period7 days

Pigmentation

28900

Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
7992	DESULFOBACTER SP. MEDIUM (LACTATE) (DSMZ Medium 195c)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFOBACTER SP. MEDIUM (LACTATE) (DSMZ Medium 195c; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaCl 20.9372 g/l Na2SO4 2.99103 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 2.99103 g/l Na-L-lactate 2.49252 g/l Na2CO3 1.49551 g/l Yeast extract 0.997009 g/l KCl 0.498504 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.398804 g/l NH4Cl 0.299103 g/l KH2PO4 0.199402 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.149551 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 Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.97009e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.97009e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.97906e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.98504e-05 g/l Riboflavin 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 Folic acid 1.99402e-05 g/l Biotin 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)	Range
7992	positive	growth	35	mesophilic
28900	positive	growth	15-45
28900	positive	optimum	37
60521	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
28900	positive	optimum	7
28900	positive	growth	4.5-9	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
7992	anaerobe
28900	anaerobe
60521	anaerobe

Spore formation

28900

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
28900	NaCl	positive	growth	0-7 %
28900	NaCl	positive	optimum	4 %

Observation

28900

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
28900	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
28900	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
28900	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Oil reservoir
#Engineered	#Waste	#Wastewater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Sampling date
7992	exhaust water of oil refinery	Bizerte	Tunisia	TUN	Africa
60521	Wastewater reffinery		Tunisia	TUN	Africa	2007-02-15
67770	Exhaust water of a Tunisian oil refinery

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EF577029 (>99% sequence identity) for Desulfovibrio tunisiensis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	83
Soil Samples	4
Animal Samples	7
Plant Samples	7
Total Samples	101

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7992	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7992	Desulfovibrio tunisiensis strain RB22 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF577029	1541		463192

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
7992	59.6	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
28900	59.6

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Blastococcus deserti sp. nov., isolated from a desert sample.	Yang ZW, Asem MD, Li X, Li LY, Salam N, Alkhalifah DHM, Hozzein WN, Nie GX, Li WJ.	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-018-1604-1	2019
Phylogeny	Paradesulfovibrio onnuriensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a chemolithoautotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from the Onnuri vent field of the Indian Ocean and reclassification of Desulfovibrio senegalensis as Paradesulfovibrio senegalensis comb. nov.	Kim YJ, Yang JA, Lim JK, Park MJ, Yang SH, Lee HS, Kang SG, Lee JH, Kwon KK	J Microbiol	10.1007/s12275-020-9376-0	2020
Phylogeny	Desulfovibrio tunisiensis sp. nov., a novel weakly halotolerant, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from exhaust water of a Tunisian oil refinery.	Ben Ali Gam Z, Oueslati R, Abdelkafi S, Casalot L, Tholozan JL, Labat M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.000943-0	2009

References

#7992	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19275
#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 )
#25340	IJSEM 1059 2009 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.000943-0 , PubMed 19406793 )
#28900	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 #25340
#60521	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 55298
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Pseudodesulfovibrio tunisiensis (DSM 19275, JCM 15076, NCIMB 14400)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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