Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum (DSM 23860, JCM 15510, KCTC 5649)

Name: Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum (DSM 23860, JCM 15510, KCTC 5649)
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BacDive ID 4171

Type strain

Strain Designation SR-1, LS

Culture col. no. DSM 23860 JCM 15510 KCTC 5649 SR-1 LS

NCBI tax ID(s) 1511599

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History <- JCM <- I.M. Castañeda-Carrión, Dept. Botany and Microbiol., Univ. Oklahoma, USA; SR-1 I. N. Castañeda-Carrión SR-1. <- Irma Nydia Castaneda-Carrion, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA

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Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum SR-1 is an anaerobe, motile, vibrio-shaped bacterium that was isolated from subsurface aquifer sediment.

motile vibrio-shaped anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 408171

KCTC 5649,JCM 15510,DSM 23860

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfovibrionaceae

Genus Desulfocurvibacter

Species Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum

Full scientific name Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum (Castañeda-Carrión et al. 2010) Spring et al. 2019

Synonyms (1)

Desulfovibrio africanus subsp. uniflagellum

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Flagellum arrangement	Gram stain
23218	3.5 µm	0.5 µm	vibrio-shaped	polar
67771				monotrichous, polar
67771					negative

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17409	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)
17409	positive	growth	37
23218	positive	growth	20-40
23218	negative	growth	15
23218	negative	growth	45
23218	positive	optimum	37
67770	positive	growth	37
67771	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
23218	positive	optimum	7.0
23218	positive	growth	6.25-7.65

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
17409	anaerobe
67771	anaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
23218	NaCl	positive	growth	0-4.25 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
23218	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	electron acceptor

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Contamination	-
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17409	subsurface aquifer sediment	New Mexico, Shiprock	USA	USA	North America
23218	subsurface sediments of a uranium-contaminated site in Shiprock
67770	Subsurface sediments of a uranium-contaminated site in Shiprock	NM	USA	USA	North America
67771	From subsurface sediments of a uranium contaminated aquifer	New Mexico, Shiprock	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EU659693 (>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
17409	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
23218	Desulfovibrio africanus subsp. uniflagellum strain SR-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU659693

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
17409	62.4
67770	62.4	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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

References

#17409	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 23860
#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 )
#23218	I. Nydia Castaneda-Carrión, Cody S. Sheik, Lee R. Krumholz: Desulfovibrio africanus subsp. uniflagellum subsp. nov., a sulfate-reducing bacterium from a uranium-contaminated subsurface aquifer. IJSEM 60: 880 - 886 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.006668-0 , PubMed 19661495 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#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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Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum (DSM 23860, JCM 15510, KCTC 5649)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

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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