Enterobacter ludwigii (DSM 15213, EK4)

Name: Enterobacter ludwigii (DSM 15213, EK4)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 4365

Type strain

Strain Designation EK4

Culture col. no. DSM 15213 EK4

NCBI tax ID(s) 299767

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- E. Katsivela; EK4

Links

Enterobacter ludwigii EK4 is a bacterium that was isolated from soil from a landfarm for treatment of refinery waste sludge.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 144473

DSM 15213

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:42

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Enterobacterales

Family Enterobacteriaceae

Genus Enterobacter

Species Enterobacter ludwigii

Full scientific name Enterobacter ludwigii Hoffmann et al. 2005

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Enterobacter ludwigii** (11)	Type strain
4372	E. ludwigii EN-119, CCUG 51323, DSM 16688, CCM 8602, ... (type strain)
4364	E. ludwigii EK3.1, DSM 15156
144102	E. ludwigii CCUG 23050
153847	E. ludwigii CCUG 51354
153848	E. ludwigii CCUG 51355
153849	E. ludwigii CCUG 51356
153850	E. ludwigii CCUG 51357
154170	E. ludwigii CCUG 52656
154471	E. ludwigii CCUG 53745
156736	E. ludwigii CCUG 64644
176845	E. ludwigii NiuAA4, DSM 114484

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	95.7
125438	negative	99.5

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5760	COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 693) Composition: Defibrinated sheep blood 50.0 g/l Columbia agar base
5760	TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5760	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		90.2

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68368	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	29016 ChEBI	arginine	+	hydrolysis	from API 20E
68368	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	assimilation	from API 20E
68368	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E
68368	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	25094 ChEBI	lysine	-	degradation	from API 20E
68368	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	+	degradation	from API 20E
68368	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	fermentation	from API 20E
68368	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20E
68368	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
68368	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	from API 20E
68368	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide	from API 20E
68368	35581 ChEBI	indole	from API 20E

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Indole test
68368	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	+		from API 20E
68368	35581 ChEBI	indole		-	from API 20E

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68368	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6	from API 20E
68368	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API 20E
68368	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1	from API 20E
68368	gelatinase	-		from API 20E
68368	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18	from API 20E
68368	ornithine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.17	from API 20E
68368	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	from API 20E
68368	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20E

API 20E

@ref	ONPG	ADH (Arg)	LDC (Lys)	ODC	CIT	H2S productionH2S	URE	TDA (Trp)	IND	Acetoin production (Voges Proskauer test)VP	GEL	GLU	MAN	INO	Sor	RHA	SAC	MEL	AMY	ARA	OX	Nitrite productionNO2	Reduction to N2N2	MotilityMOB	Growth on MacConkey mediumMAC	OF-O	OF-F
5760	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Agriculture	-
#Engineered	#Waste	-
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Mud (Sludge)
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5760	soil from a landfarm for treatment of refinery waste sludge	Korinthos	Greece	GRC	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5760	2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Enterobacter ludwigii strain FDAARGOS_1475	complete		299767.225	299767	99.47
66792	Enterobacter ludwigii strain FDAARGOS_1475	complete		299767.235	299767	99.47
66792	Enterobacter ludwigii strain FDAARGOS_1475	complete		299767.215	299767	99.47
124043	ASM1993096v1 assembly for Enterobacter ludwigii FDAARGOS_1475	complete	GCA_019930965	299767.207	299767	99.3

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5760	Enterobacter sp. EK4 partial 16S rRNA gene, isolate EK4	AJ457062	481		192167

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Enterobacter ludwigii strain FDAARGOS_1475
PATRIC: 299767.207

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	90.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	72.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	95.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	89.10	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Enterobacter ludwigii strain FDAARGOS_1475 strain Not applicable
PATRIC: 299767.207

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.30	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.14	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	66.97	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	100.00	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	78.61	no

Literature

References

#5760	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15213
#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) .
#68368	Automatically annotated from API 20E .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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