Name: Clostridium tarantellae 87
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 5445

Type strain:

Species: Clostridium tarantellae

Strain Designation: 87

Culture col. no.: DSM 3997, ATCC 29255

Strain history: <- ATCC <- L.R. Udey, 87

NCBI tax ID(s): 39493 (species)

SI-ID 39439

ATCC 29255, DSM 3997

Section

Clostridium tarantellae 87 is an anaerobe, spore-forming, mesophilic animal pathogen that forms rhizoid colonies and was isolated from black mullet brain.

colony-forming
rod-shaped
spore-forming
anaerobe
animal pathogen
mesophilic
16S sequence
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	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Clostridia*
	Order	*Eubacteriales*
	Family	*Clostridiaceae*
	Genus	*Clostridium*
	Species	**Clostridium tarantellae**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Clostridium tarantellae (Udey et al. 1977) Lawson and Rainey 2016

	Synonym	Eubacterium tarantellae
	Synonym	Eubacterium tarantellus

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	positive Confidence in %99.716

[Ref.: #43779]	Cell length	10-17 µm

[Ref.: #43779]	Cell width	1.3-1.6 µm

[Ref.: #43779]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #43779]	Motility	no

[Ref.: #43779]	Type of hemolysis	beta
[Ref.: #43779]	Hemolysis ability	1
[Ref.: #43779]	Cultivation medium used	Sheep blood agar

[Ref.: #43779]	Colony size	2-5 mm
[Ref.: #43779]	Colony color	Translucent, colourless
[Ref.: #43779]	Colony shape	rhizoid
[Ref.: #43779]	Cultivation medium used	BHIA

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

BHIA

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium

Sheep blood agar

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Culture medium growth

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #1565]			growth	25 °C
[Ref.: #43779]			growth	25-37 °C

[Ref.: #1565]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #43779]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #43779]			growth	5.6-8

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #1565]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #69480]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe Confidence in %99.66

[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	yes Confidence in %93
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	yes Confidence in %90.817

[Ref.: #1565]	Murein short key	A41.01
[Ref.: #1565]	Murein types	A3gamma LL-Dpm-Gly

	Metabolite	Antibiotic sensitivity	Concentration
[Ref.: #43779]	chloramphenicol ChEBI	yes	12	µg/mL
[Ref.: #43779]	clindamycin ChEBI	yes	1.6	µg/mL
[Ref.: #43779]	erythromycin ChEBI	yes	3	µg/mL
[Ref.: #43779]	penicillin g ChEBI	yes	2	Unit
[Ref.: #43779]	tetracycline ChEBI	yes	6	µg/mL

	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #43779]		dihydrogen ChEBI	yes

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity
[Ref.: #43779]		DNase	+

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

[Ref.: #1565]	Sample type/isolated from	black mullet (Mugil cephalus) brain
[Ref.: #1565]	Host species	Mugil cephalus

[Ref.: #43779]	Sample type/isolated from	Brains of dead or moribund striped mullet (Mugil cephalus) that had evidence of a neurological disease
[Ref.: #43779]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Biscayne Bay, Florida
[Ref.: #43779]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #43779]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #43779]	Continent	North America
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Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Fishes	-
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Brain

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence FR733677 (>99% sequence identity) for Clostridium tarantellae subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	85
Soil Samples	14
Animal Samples	712
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	813

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

[Ref.: #1565]	Pathogenicity (animal)	yes
[Ref.: #1565]	Biosafety level	2	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.: #1565]	Eubacterium tarantellus 16S ribosomal RNA	L34624	1457	ENA	39493 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Eubacterium tarantellae partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM3997T	FR733677	1497	ENA	39493 tax ID	*

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Clostridium tarantellae DSM 3997	GCA_009295725	contig	GenBank	39493 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Clostridium tarantellae strain DSM 3997	39493.3	wgs	PATRIC	39493 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Clostridium tarantellae DSM 3997	2868229309	draft	JGI IMG/M	39493 tax ID	*

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

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Clostridium tarantellae strain DSM 3997 PATRIC: 39493.3
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	yes	93	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Clostridium tarantellae strain DSM 3997 PATRIC: 39493.3
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	yes	83.858	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	yes	98.718	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	71.894	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	yes	88.443	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	90.987	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	98.049	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	89.257	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	93.163	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	97.292	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	yes	72.094	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 3997, ATCC 29255

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SI-ID 39439

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Genome Sequence of the Fish Brain Bacterium Clostridium tarantellae.	Bano L, Kiel M, Sales G, Doxey AC, Mansfield MJ, Wami HT, Schiavone M, Rossetto O, Pirazzini M, Dobrindt U, Montecucco C	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/MRA.01575-19	2020	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3997

#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 )

#43779

Paul A. Lawson, Fred A. Rainey: Proposal to restrict the genus Clostridium Prazmowski to Clostridium butyricum and related species. IJSEM 66: 1009 - 1016 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000824 , PubMed 26643615 )

#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) .

#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 .

#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) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#74933

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-ID39439.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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