Name: Clostridium nitritogenes TA 20A
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 5436

Type strain:

Species: Clostridium nitritogenes

Strain Designation: TA 20A

Culture col. no.: DSM 3985, ATCC 25547, VPI 0263, JCM 6485

Strain history: T. Mitsuoka <-- ATCC 25547 <-- L. V. Holdeman VPI 0263 <-- A. Prévot TA 20A.

NCBI tax ID(s): 83340 (species)

SI-ID 38590

ATCC 25547, DSM 3985, JCM 6485

Special Collections

DSMZ
JCM

Section

Clostridium nitritogenes TA 20A is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from antarctic soil.

anaerobe
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	*Clostridiaceae*
	Genus	*Clostridium*
	Species	**Clostridium nitritogenes**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Clostridium nitritogenes (Prévot 1940) Bernard et al. 2018

Synonym

Eubacterium nitritogenes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

PYG MEDIUM (MODIFIED) (DSMZ Medium 104)

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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.: #1543]			growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	37 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

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

[Ref.: #1543]	Sample type/isolated from	antarctic soil

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

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Condition	#Psychrophilic (<10°C)	-
#Climate	#Cold	#Polar

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence LC480784 (>99% sequence identity) for Clostridium baratii from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	927
Soil Samples	585
Animal Samples	10123
Plant Samples	218
Total Samples	11853

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]	Clostridium nitritogenes JCM 6485 gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	LC480784	1475	GenBank ENA	83340 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Eubacterium nitritogenes gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB018185	1477	GenBank ENA	83340 tax ID	*

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 3985, ATCC 25547, VPI 0263, JCM 6485

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SI-ID 38590

References

#1543

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3985

#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 )

#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 .

#74924

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-ID38590.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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