Photorhabdus kleinii (DSM 23513, ATCC BAA-2104, NRRL B-59419)

Name: Photorhabdus kleinii (DSM 23513, ATCC BAA-2104, NRRL B-59419)
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BacDive ID 5054

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 23513 ATCC BAA-2104 NRRL B-59419 KMD 37

NCBI tax ID(s) 768034

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- P. Grewal, Entomology Dept., Ohio State Univ., USA; KMD37 <- R. An and P. S. Grewal

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Photorhabdus kleinii DSM 23513 is an animal pathogen that was isolated from nematode Heterorhabditis georgiana.

animal pathogen genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407454

ATCC BAA-2104,DSM 23513

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:52

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Enterobacterales

Family Morganellaceae

Genus Photorhabdus

Species Photorhabdus kleinii

Full scientific name Photorhabdus kleinii (An and Grewal 2011) Machado et al. 2018

Synonyms (1)

Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. kleinii

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	100

Multimedia

@ref:	17251
multimedia content:	DSM_23513.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/photos/DSM_23513.jpg
intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17251	REACTIVATION WITH LIQUID MEDIUM 1 (DSMZ Medium 1a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: REACTIVATION WITH LIQUID MEDIUM 1 (DSMZ Medium 1a; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17251	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		92.753

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Invertebrates (Other)	#Nematoda

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17251	nematode Heterorhabditis georgiana	Heterorhabditis georgiana	Ohio	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17251		1	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	ASM2538488v1 assembly for Photorhabdus kleinii DSM 23513	contig	GCA_025384885	768034.3	768034	42.14

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. kleinii strain DSM23513 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JX513408	1467	768034
17251	Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. kleinii strain KMD37 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	HM072284	1320	768034
124043	Photorhabdus kleinii strain DSM 23513 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	MK039079	1349	768034

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Photorhabdus kleinii DSM 23513
NCBI: GCA_025384885.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	100.00	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	99.12	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	66.98	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.75	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.80	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	75.05	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Small molecule produced by Photorhabdus interferes with ubiquinone biosynthesis in Gram-negative bacteria.	Bargabos R, Iinishi A, Hawkins B, Privalsky T, Pitt N, Son S, Corsetti R, Gates MF, Miller RD, Lewis K.	mBio	10.1128/mbio.01167-24	2024
Phylogeny	Photorhabdus antumapuensis sp. nov., a novel symbiotic bacterial species associated with Heterorhabditis atacamensis entomopathogenic nematodes.	Castaneda-Alvarez C, Machado RAR, Morales-Montero P, Boss A, Muller A, Prodan S, Zamorano A, San-Blas E, Puza V, Aballay E	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005525	2022

References

#17251	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 23513
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#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) .
#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 )
#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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Photorhabdus kleinii (DSM 23513, ATCC BAA-2104, NRRL B-59419)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_025384885

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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