Name: Faecalicatena contorta 113 VI
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 5422

Type strain:

Species: Faecalicatena contorta

Strain Designation: 113 VI

Culture col. no.: DSM 3982, ATCC 25540, CCUG 52236, JCM 6483, VPI 0119

Strain history: Y. Benno <-- T. Mitsuoka <-- ATCC 25540 <-- W. E. C. Moore VPI 0119 <-- A. Prévot 113 VI.

NCBI tax ID(s): 39482 (species)

SI-ID 38586

ATCC 25540, DSM 3982, CCUG 52236

Other strains from Faecalicatena contorta

F. contorta CCUG 31363
F. contorta H1_38, DSM 108235
F. contorta H4_43, DSM 108236
F. contorta JCM 31258

Section

Faecalicatena contorta 113 VI is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from gangrenous appendicitis.

colony-forming
Gram-positive
rod-shaped
anaerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Clostridia*
	Order	*Eubacteriales*
	Family	*Lachnospiraceae*
	Genus	*Faecalicatena*
	Species	**Faecalicatena contorta**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Faecalicatena contorta (Prévot 1947) Sakamoto et al. 2017

	Synonym	"Catenabacterium* contortum"*
	Synonym	Eubacterium contortum

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #43183]	Gram stain	positive

[Ref.: #43183]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #43183]	Motility	no

[Ref.: #43183]	Colony size	1-3 mm
[Ref.: #43183]	Colony color	white to ivory
[Ref.: #43183]	Colony shape	circular
[Ref.: #43183]	Incubation period	4 days
[Ref.: #43183]	Cultivation medium used	Eggerth-Gagnon (EG) agar (Merck)

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110)

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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

Eggerth-Gagnon (EG) agar (Merck)

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Culture medium growth

		Temperature
[Ref.: #1540]	growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #43183]	optimum	37 °C
[Ref.: #43183]	growth	20-40 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	37 °C

[Ref.: #1540]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #43183]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #43183]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #43183]			growth	6.0-8.0

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #1540]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #43183]	Oxygen tolerance	obligate anaerobe

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Ability of spore formation

[Ref.: #43183]	Name of tolerated compound	bile
[Ref.: #43183]	Tolerated concentration	20

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #43183]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43183]	D-mannitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43183]	D-mannose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43183]	D-sorbitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43183]	esculin ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43183]	L-arabinose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43183]	L-rhamnose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43183]	lactose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43183]	maltose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43183]	mannose ChEBI	-	fermentation
[Ref.: #43183]	raffinose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43183]	raffinose ChEBI	-	fermentation
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	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #43183]		hydrogen sulfide ChEBI	no

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #43183]	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
[Ref.: #43183]	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1
[Ref.: #43183]	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
[Ref.: #43183]	arginine arylamidase	-
[Ref.: #43183]	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
[Ref.: #43183]	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
[Ref.: #43183]	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
[Ref.: #43183]	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
[Ref.: #43183]	histidine arylamidase	-
[Ref.: #43183]	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1
[Ref.: #43183]	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
[Ref.: #43183]	phenylalanine arylamidase	-
[Ref.: #43183]	proline-arylamidase	-	3.4.11.5
[Ref.: #43183]	serine arylamidase	-
[Ref.: #43183]	tyrosine arylamidase	-
[Ref.: #43183]	valine arylamidase	-
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Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

Reference

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Fatty acid	Percentage	SD	ECL
C18:1ω9c DMA	36.3	5.1
C18:1ω9c	21.9	0.8
C16:0	15.6	0.4
C14:0	9.3	0.4
unknown / C17:1ω8c	7.6	1.4	17
C18:1ω11t	4.3	2.5
unknown / C18:0ω11c/9t/6t FAME	4	2.3	17834
C16:0 DMA	3.4	1.9
C12:0	3.3	0.2
C19:0 cyclo ω9c DMA	3.1	1.8

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

[Ref.: #1540]	Sample type/isolated from	gangrenous appendicitis

[Ref.: #59480]	Sample type/isolated from	Human gangrenous appendicitis

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Gangrenous appendicitis
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Infection	#Inflammation	-
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	-

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Global distribution of 16S sequence LC071803 (>99% sequence identity) for Faecalicatena from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	110
Soil Samples	35
Animal Samples	10845
Plant Samples	23
Total Samples	11013

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

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

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

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	[Eubacterium] contortum gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 6483	LC071803	1417	ENA	39482 tax ID
[Ref.: #1540]	Eubacterium contortum partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 3982T, clone 1	FR749945	1521	ENA	39482 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Eubacterium contortum 16S ribosomal RNA	L34615	1483	ENA	39482 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Eubacterium contortum partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 3982T, clone 2	FR749946	1524	ENA	39482 tax ID	*

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GC-content

48.7 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 3982, ATCC 25540, CCUG 52236, JCM 6483, VPI 0119

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SI-ID 38586

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Merdimonas faecis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human faeces.	Seo B, Yoo JE, Lee YM, Ko G	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001977	2017	*
Phylogeny	Faecalimonas umbilicata gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human faeces, and reclassification of Eubacterium contortum, Eubacterium fissicatena and Clostridium oroticum as Faecalicatena contorta gen. nov., comb. nov., Faecalicatena fissicatena comb. nov. and Faecalicatena orotica comb. nov.	Sakamoto M, Iino T, Ohkuma M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001790	2017	*

References

#1540

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3982

#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 )

#43183

Mitsuo Sakamoto, Takao Iino, Moriya Ohkuma: Faecalimonas umbilicata gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human faeces, and reclassification of Eubacterium contortum, Eubacterium fissicatena and Clostridium oroticum as Faecalicatena contorta gen. nov., comb. nov., Faecalicatena fissicatena comb. nov. and Faecalicatena orotica comb. nov.. IJSEM 67: 1219 - 1227 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001790 , PubMed 28556772 )

#59480 Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 52236
#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#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 .

#74911

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-ID38586.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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