Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus (DSM 15479, UNIQEM U217, M9)

Name: Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus (DSM 15479, UNIQEM U217, M9)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 4302

Type strain

Strain Designation M9

Culture col. no. DSM 15479 UNIQEM U217 M9

NCBI tax ID(s) 233100

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Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus M9 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from shoreline of soda lake.

mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 403782

DSM 15479

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:46

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Chromatiales

Family Ectothiorhodospiraceae

Genus Ectothiorhodosinus

Species Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus

Full scientific name Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus corrig. Gorlenko et al. 2007

Synonyms (1)

Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicum

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	98.2
125438	negative	97.833

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5949	ECTOTHIORHODOSYNUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1002)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ECTOTHIORHODOSYNUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1002) Composition: NaCl 20.0 g/l NaHCO3 5.0 g/l Na2CO3 5.0 g/l Sodium acetate 1.0 g/l KH2PO4 0.5 g/l NH4Cl 0.5 g/l Na2S2O3 x 5 H2O 0.5 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.2 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.1 g/l CaCl2 0.1 g/l Yeast extract 0.1 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0002 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0001 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 3e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 2e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1e-05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
5949	positive	growth	25-35	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	92.8

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.4
125438		95.96

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	vitamin K metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	photosynthesis	100	14 of 14
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	acetoin degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	92.86	13 of 14
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	isoleucine metabolism	87.5	7 of 8
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	87.5	7 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	87.5	7 of 8
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	85.71	6 of 7
66794	heme metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	79.41	27 of 34
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	flavin biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	NAD metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	citric acid cycle	71.43	10 of 14
66794	purine metabolism	69.15	65 of 94
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	67.86	19 of 28
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	serine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	66.67	4 of 6
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	65.38	17 of 26
66794	proline metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	non-pathway related	63.16	24 of 38
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	methionine metabolism	61.54	16 of 26
66794	threonine metabolism	60	6 of 10
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	60	6 of 10
66794	glycolysis	58.82	10 of 17
66794	alanine metabolism	58.62	17 of 29
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	56.25	9 of 16
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	55.56	5 of 9
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	55.56	25 of 45
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	54.55	6 of 11
66794	arginine metabolism	54.17	13 of 24
66794	leucine metabolism	53.85	7 of 13
66794	propionate fermentation	50	5 of 10
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	50	5 of 10
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	adipate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	50	6 of 12
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	50	9 of 18
66794	lysine metabolism	50	21 of 42
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	glutathione metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	cysteine metabolism	50	9 of 18
66794	lipid metabolism	48.39	15 of 31
66794	histidine metabolism	48.28	14 of 29
66794	tryptophan metabolism	47.37	18 of 38
66794	urea cycle	46.15	6 of 13
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	45.45	10 of 22
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	45.05	41 of 91
66794	polyamine pathway	43.48	10 of 23
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	42.86	3 of 7
66794	propanol degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	40	2 of 5
66794	hydrogen production	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	creatinine degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	sulfate reduction	38.46	5 of 13
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	37.5	3 of 8
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	36.36	4 of 11
66794	tyrosine metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	33.33	5 of 15
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	degradation of hexoses	33.33	6 of 18
66794	ascorbate metabolism	31.82	7 of 22
66794	degradation of sugar acids	28	7 of 25
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	d-xylose degradation	27.27	3 of 11
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	degradation of pentoses	25	7 of 28
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	phenol degradation	25	5 of 20
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	23.08	3 of 13
66794	allantoin degradation	22.22	2 of 9
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	22.22	2 of 9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Coast
#Condition	#Alkaline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5949	shoreline of soda lake	southeastern Mongolia, Lake Dzun-Uldziit-Nur	Mongolia	MNG	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY298904 (>99% sequence identity) for Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	140
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	5
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	146

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5949	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	ASM2240687v1 assembly for Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus DSM 15479	chromosome	GCA_022406875	233100.6	8062516453	233100	84.24
66792	IMG-taxon 2681812864 annotated assembly for Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus M9	contig	GCA_900156225		2681812864	233100	73.53

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5949	Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus strain M9 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY298904	1445		233100

GC content

5949

GC-content (mol%)57.5

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus M9
NCBI: GCA_900156225

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.40	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	76.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.20	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	92.80	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus DSM 15479
NCBI: GCA_022406875.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.83	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	68.09	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	53.47	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	95.96	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	92.89	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	69.78	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

References

#5949	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15479
#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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Ectothiorhodosinus mongolicus (DSM 15479, UNIQEM U217, M9)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_022406875

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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