Ectothiorhodospira mobilis (DSM 237, 8112)

Name: Ectothiorhodospira mobilis (DSM 237, 8112)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 4270

Type strain

Strain Designation 8112

Culture col. no. DSM 237 8112

NCBI tax ID(s) 195064

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- H. Trüper, 8112. The 16S rRNA gene sequence X93481 may be unreliable

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Ectothiorhodospira mobilis 8112 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from salt flat.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 42755

ATCC 49921,DSM 237,NBRC 103802

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:41

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Chromatiales

Family Ectothiorhodospiraceae

Genus Ectothiorhodospira

Species Ectothiorhodospira mobilis

Full scientific name Ectothiorhodospira mobilis Pelsh 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

Ectothiorhodospira marismortui

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Ectothiorhodospira mobilis** (4)	Type strain
4271	E. mobilis 8113, DSM 238
4272	E. mobilis 8115, DSM 239
4273	E. mobilis 8815, DSM 240
4275	E. mobilis EG-1, DSM 4180

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	97.994

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
62	PFENNIG'S MEDIUM I (modified 1988, for purple sulfur bacteria) (DSMZ Medium 28)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PFENNIG'S MEDIUM I (DSMZ Medium 28; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaCl 30.0 g/l NaHCO3 1.5 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.592592 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.500001 g/l Ammonium chloride 0.349999 g/l KCl 0.349999 g/l KH2PO4 0.349999 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.25 g/l Yeast extract 0.25 g/l Ammonium acetate 0.25 g/l Pyruvic acid sodium salt 0.25 g/l Dextrose 0.25 g/l Na2-EDTA 0.003 g/l Resazurin 0.00225 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0011 g/l Vitamin B12 0.001 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00019 g/l MnCl2 x 2 H2O 5e-05 g/l ZnCl2 4.2e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.4e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 1.8e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 2e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
62	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
62	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe	97.3

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		90.2

Compound production

Compoundcarotenoids

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	vitamin K metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	photosynthesis	100	14 of 14
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	92.86	13 of 14
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	gluconeogenesis	87.5	7 of 8
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	87.5	7 of 8
66794	isoleucine metabolism	87.5	7 of 8
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	85.71	6 of 7
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	heme metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	serine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	NAD metabolism	77.78	14 of 18
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	76.47	26 of 34
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	flavin biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	71.43	5 of 7
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	71.43	20 of 28
66794	threonine metabolism	70	7 of 10
66794	purine metabolism	69.15	65 of 94
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	citric acid cycle	64.29	9 of 14
66794	proline metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	non-pathway related	63.16	24 of 38
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	62.5	10 of 16
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	62.22	28 of 45
66794	alanine metabolism	62.07	18 of 29
66794	methionine metabolism	61.54	16 of 26
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	61.54	16 of 26
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	propionate fermentation	60	6 of 10
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	glycolysis	58.82	10 of 17
66794	lipid metabolism	58.06	18 of 31
66794	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	55.56	5 of 9
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	54.55	6 of 11
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	50	5 of 10
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	adipate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	lysine metabolism	50	21 of 42
66794	tyrosine metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	arginine metabolism	50	12 of 24
66794	histidine metabolism	48.28	14 of 29
66794	polyamine pathway	47.83	11 of 23
66794	tryptophan metabolism	47.37	18 of 38
66794	leucine metabolism	46.15	6 of 13
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	sulfate reduction	46.15	6 of 13
66794	nitrate assimilation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	cysteine metabolism	44.44	8 of 18
66794	glutathione metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	41.67	5 of 12
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	40.91	9 of 22
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	hydrogen production	40	2 of 5
66794	O-antigen biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	37.5	3 of 8
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	35.16	32 of 91
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	33.33	2 of 6
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	33.33	5 of 15
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	ascorbate metabolism	31.82	7 of 22
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	urea cycle	30.77	4 of 13
66794	mevalonate metabolism	28.57	2 of 7
66794	degradation of hexoses	27.78	5 of 18
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	25	4 of 16
66794	vitamin E metabolism	25	1 of 4
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	phenol degradation	25	5 of 20
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	22.22	4 of 18
66794	allantoin degradation	22.22	2 of 9
66794	degradation of pentoses	21.43	6 of 28

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Terrestrial
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
62	salt flat	Galapagos Islands	Ecuador	ECU	Middle and South America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence HG970164 (>99% sequence identity) for Ectothiorhodospira from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	28
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples
Total Samples	31

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
62	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	ASM1658411v1 assembly for Ectothiorhodospira mobilis DSM 237	scaffold	GCA_016584115	195064.8	3001296702	195064	45.67

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
62	Ectothiorhodospira mobilis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 237T	HG970164	1528		195064
62	Phototrophic bacterium 16S rRNA gene (DSM 237)	X93481	1498		52958

GC content

GC-content (mol%)67.3

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Ectothiorhodospira mobilis DSM 237
NCBI: GCA_016584115

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	90.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	64.90	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	88.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	97.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Ectothiorhodospira mobilis DSM 237
NCBI: GCA_016584115.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.99	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	75.84	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	82.87	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.80	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	88.58	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	74.08	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Genomic Comparison, Phylogeny and Taxonomic Reevaluation of the Ectothiorhodospiraceae and Description of Halorhodospiraceae fam. nov. and Halochlorospira gen. nov.	Imhoff JF, Kyndt JA, Meyer TE.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10020295	2022
Genetics	Osmotic Adaptation and Compatible Solute Biosynthesis of Phototrophic Bacteria as Revealed from Genome Analyses.	Imhoff JF, Rahn T, Kunzel S, Keller A, Neulinger SC.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms9010046	2020
	Microbiomes in a manganese oxide producing ecosystem in the Ytterby mine, Sweden: impact on metal mobility.	Sjoberg S, Stairs CW, Allard B, Homa F, Martin T, Sjoberg V, Ettema TJG, Dupraz C.	FEMS Microbiol Ecol	10.1093/femsec/fiaa169	2020
	First Record of Microbiomes of Sponges Collected From the Persian Gulf, Using Tag Pyrosequencing.	Najafi A, Moradinasab M, Nabipour I.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2018.01500	2018

References

#62	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 237
#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) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#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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Ectothiorhodospira mobilis (DSM 237, 8112)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Compound production

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_016584115

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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