Name: Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum SR-1
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 4171

Type strain:

Species: Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum

Strain Designation: SR-1, LS

Culture col. no.: DSM 23860, JCM 15510, KCTC 5649

Strain history: <- Irma Nydia Castaneda-Carrion, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA

NCBI tax ID(s): 1511599 (subspecies)

SI-ID 408171

DSM 23860

Section

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

motile
vibrio-shaped
anaerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Deltaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Desulfovibrionales*
	Family	*Desulfovibrionaceae*
	Genus	*Desulfocurvibacter*
	Species	**Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum (Castañeda-Carrión et al. 2010) Spring et al. 2019

Synonym

Desulfovibrio africanus subsp. uniflagellum

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #67771]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #23218]	Cell length	3.5 µm

[Ref.: #23218]	Cell width	0.5 µm

[Ref.: #23218]	Cell shape	vibrio-shaped

[Ref.: #23218]	Motility	yes
[Ref.: #67771]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #23218]	Flagellum arrangement	polar
[Ref.: #67771]	Flagellum arrangement	monotrichous, polar

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 63)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #17409]		growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #23218]		growth	20-40 °C
[Ref.: #23218]	no	growth	15 °C
[Ref.: #23218]	no	growth	45 °C
[Ref.: #23218]		optimum	37 °C
[Ref.: #67770]		growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #67771]		growth	37 °C

[Ref.: #17409]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #23218]	Temperature range	psychrophilic
[Ref.: #23218]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #23218]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67771]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #23218]			optimum	7.0
[Ref.: #23218]			growth	6.25-7.65

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #17409]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #67771]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #23218]		NaCl		growth	0-4.25	%

	Metabolite utilization	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #23218]		nitrate ChEBI	-	electron acceptor

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #17409]	Sample type/isolated from	subsurface aquifer sediment
[Ref.: #17409]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	New Mexico, Shiprock
[Ref.: #17409]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #17409]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #17409]	Continent	North America

[Ref.: #23218]	Sample type/isolated from	subsurface sediments of a uranium-contaminated site in Shiprock

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Subsurface sediments of a uranium-contaminated site in Shiprock
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	NM
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	North America

[Ref.: #67771]	Sample type/isolated from	From subsurface sediments of a uranium contaminated aquifer
[Ref.: #67771]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	New Mexico, Shiprock
[Ref.: #67771]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #67771]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #67771]	Continent	North America
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Contamination	-
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment

What are isolation sources categories?

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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

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #23218]	16S rRNA	EU659693		GenBank
[Ref.: #17409]	Plexaura flexuosa isolate ML-D-41 18S ribosomal RNA gene and internal transcribed spacer 1, partial sequence	EF659693	251	ENA	437162 tax ID

[Ref.: #17409]	GC-content	62.4 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	62.4 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #17409]

Culture collection no.

DSM 23860, JCM 15510, KCTC 5649

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SI-ID 408171

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 .

#73673

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID408171.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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