Name: Photorhabdus luminescens LN2
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 5030

Type strain:

Species: Photorhabdus luminescens

Strain Designation: LN2

Culture col. no.: DSM 12191

Strain history: <- R.-U. Ehlers; LN2

NCBI tax ID(s): 29488 (species)

SI-ID 49251

DSM 12191

Special Collections

DSMZ

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Section

Photorhabdus luminescens LN2 is a Gram-negative animal pathogen that was isolated from nematode Heterorhabditis indica.

Gram-negative
animal pathogen
Bacteria
genome sequence

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	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Enterobacterales*
	Family	*Morganellaceae*
	Genus	*Photorhabdus*
	Species	**Photorhabdus luminescens**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Photorhabdus luminescens (Thomas and Poinar 1979) Boemare et al. 1993

Synonym

Xenorhabdus luminescens

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.5

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

REACTIVATION WITH LIQUID MEDIUM 1 (DSMZ Medium 1a)

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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

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Culture medium

REACTIVATION WITH LIQUID MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 535b)

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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

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #4639]			growth	28 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Ability of spore formation

no Confidence in %92.263

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #68369]	adipate ChEBI	-	assimilation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	arginine ChEBI	+	hydrolysis	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	D-glucose ChEBI	+	assimilation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	D-glucose ChEBI	-	fermentation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	D-mannitol ChEBI	+	assimilation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	D-mannose ChEBI	+	assimilation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	decanoate ChEBI	+	assimilation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	esculin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	gelatin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	gluconate ChEBI	+	assimilation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	L-arabinose ChEBI	-	assimilation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	malate ChEBI	+	assimilation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	maltose ChEBI	+	assimilation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	N-acetylglucosamine ChEBI	+	assimilation	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	nitrate ChEBI	-	reduction	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	tryptophan ChEBI	+	energy source	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	urea ChEBI	+	hydrolysis	* from API 20NE
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	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #68369]		indole ChEBI	yes	* from API 20NE

	Physiological tests	Metabolite	Indole test
[Ref.: #68369]		indole ChEBI	+	* from API 20NE

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #68369]	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1	* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	gelatinase	+		* from API 20NE
[Ref.: #68369]	urease	+	3.5.1.5	* from API 20NE

API® 20NE:

Note that the displayed test results represent raw data and therefore may deviate!

	API ID	Reduction of nitratesNO3	Indole productionTRP	Fermentation of D-glucoseGLU_ Ferm	Arginine dihydrolaseADH (Arg)	Urease/urea hydrolysisURE	Esculin hydrolysis/beta-GlucosidaseESC	Gelatinase/gelatin hydrolysisGEL	beta-GalactosidasePNPG	Assimilation of D-glucoseGLU_ Assim	Assimilation of L-arabinoseARA	Assimilation of D-mannoseMNE	Assimilation of D-mannitolMAN	Assimilation of N-acetyl-glucosamineNAG	Assimilation of maltoseMAL	Assimilation of gluconateGNT	Assimilation of capric acidCAP	Assimilation adipic acidADI	Assimilation of malic acidMLT	Assimilation of citric acidCIT	Assimilation of phenyl-acetic acidPAC	Cytochrome oxidaseOX
[Ref.: #4639]	24975	-	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	-

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

[Ref.: #4639]	Sample type/isolated from	nematode Heterorhabditis indica
[Ref.: #4639]	Host species	Heterorhabditis indica
[Ref.: #4639]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Coimbatora, Tamil Nadu
[Ref.: #4639]	Country	India
[Ref.: #4639]	Country ISO 3 Code	IND
[Ref.: #4639]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Host

#Invertebrates (Other)

#Nematoda

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

[Ref.: #4639]	Pathogenicity (animal)	yes
[Ref.: #4639]	Biosafety level	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

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

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Photorhabdus luminescens LN2	GCA_000767775	scaffold	GenBank ENA	29488 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Photorhabdus luminescens LN2	29488.3	wgs	PATRIC	29488 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Photorhabdus luminescens LN2	2630968405	draft	JGI IMG/M	29488 tax ID	*

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Photorhabdus luminescens LN2 NCBI: GCA_000767775.1
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.5	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	99.188	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	69.196	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.263	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	98.469	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	76.472	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 12191

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SI-ID 49251

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Molecular identification of Photorhabdus luminescens strains by amplification of specific fragments of the 16S ribosomal DNA.	Ehlers RU, Niemann I	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/S0723-2020(98)80063-5	1998	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12191

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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) .

#68369

Automatically annotated from API 20NE .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#74525

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-ID49251.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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