Geobacter lovleyi (DSM 17278, ATCC BAA-1151, SZ)

Name: Geobacter lovleyi (DSM 17278, ATCC BAA-1151, SZ)
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BacDive ID 5805

Type strain

Strain Designation SZ

Culture col. no. DSM 17278 ATCC BAA-1151 SZ

NCBI tax ID(s) 313985

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- Y. Sung, Georgia Inst. Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, USA; SZ <- Y. Sung;

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Geobacter lovleyi SZ is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from aquatic sediment material.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 297677

DSM 17278,ATCC BAA-1151

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:03

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfuromonadia

Order Geobacterales

Family Geobacteraceae

Genus Geobacter

Species Geobacter lovleyi

Full scientific name Geobacter lovleyi Sung et al. 2009

Synonyms (1)

Trichlorobacter lovleyi

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	94.941
125439	negative	99.7

Colony morphology

6870

Incubation period8-14 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6870	DEHALOBACTER RESTRICTUS MEDIUM (TCE) (DSMZ Medium 732)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DEHALOBACTER RESTRICTUS MEDIUM (TCE) (DSMZ Medium 732) Composition: NaHCO3 3.7004 g/l K2HPO4 0.644841 g/l Na-acetate 0.45635 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.297619 g/l (NH4)2CO3 0.267857 g/l NaH2PO4 x H2O 0.168651 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.109127 g/l Peptone 0.0992068 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0992064 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00198413 g/l Na2-EDTA 0.000496032 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000496032 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.000297619 g/l Nicotinic acid 0.000198413 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 0.000198413 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000188492 g/l Vitamin B12 9.92064e-05 g/l Calcium pantothenate 9.92064e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.92064e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 7.93651e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.94444e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.96032e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.96032e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.96032e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.96032e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.57143e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.38095e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.98413e-05 g/l D-(+)-biotin 1.98413e-05 g/l Biotin 1.98413e-05 g/l AlCl3 9.92063e-06 g/l H3BO3 5.95238e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.98413e-06 g/l Hexadecane Tetrachloroethene Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6870	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

6870

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6870	aquatic sediment material	Su-Zi, Su-Zi Creek	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY914177 (>99% sequence identity) for Geobacter lovleyi from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	210
Soil Samples	28
Animal Samples	2
Plant Samples	8
Total Samples	248

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6870	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2038v1 assembly for Trichlorobacter lovleyi SZ	complete	GCA_000020385	398767.5	642555130	398767	97.89

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6870	Geobacter lovleyi 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY914177	1478		398767

GC content

6870

GC-content (mol%)56.7

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Trichlorobacter lovleyi SZ
NCBI: GCA_000020385

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	83.10	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative aerobe	69.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Trichlorobacter lovleyi SZ SZ
NCBI: GCA_000020385.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	94.94	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	80.90	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	83.89	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	80.91	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	89.72	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	78.24	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Adaptive responses of Trichlorobacter lovleyi to nitrite detoxification reveal overlooked contributions of Geobacterales to nitrate ammonification.	Tabares M, Kashefi K, Reguera G.	ISME J	10.1093/ismejo/wraf054	2025
Metabolism	Unexpected specificity of interspecies cobamide transfer from Geobacter spp. to organohalide-respiring Dehalococcoides mccartyi strains.	Yan J, Ritalahti KM, Wagner DD, Loffler FE.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01535-12	2012
Metabolism	Detection and quantification of Geobacter lovleyi strain SZ: implications for bioremediation at tetrachloroethene- and uranium-impacted sites.	Amos BK, Sung Y, Fletcher KE, Gentry TJ, Wu WM, Criddle CS, Zhou J, Loffler FE.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01218-07	2007
	Isolation of gene conferring salt tolerance from halophilic bacteria of Lunsu, Himachal Pradesh, India.	Gupta S, Sharma P, Dev K, Sourirajan A.	J Genet Eng Biotechnol	10.1186/s43141-020-00070-6	2020
Metabolism	Graphite electrode as a sole electron donor for reductive dechlorination of tetrachlorethene by Geobacter lovleyi.	Strycharz SM, Woodard TL, Johnson JP, Nevin KP, Sanford RA, Loffler FE, Lovley DR.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.00961-08	2008
Metabolism	Chaperone addiction of toxin-antitoxin systems.	Bordes P, Sala AJ, Ayala S, Texier P, Slama N, Cirinesi AM, Guillet V, Mourey L, Genevaux P.	Nat Commun	10.1038/ncomms13339	2016
Metabolism	Geobacter lovleyi sp. nov. strain SZ, a novel metal-reducing and tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating bacterium.	Sung Y, Fletcher KE, Ritalahti KM, Apkarian RP, Ramos-Hernandez N, Sanford RA, Mesbah NM, Loffler FE.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.72.4.2775-2782.2006	2006

References

#6870	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17278
#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 )
#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 .
#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 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Geobacter lovleyi (DSM 17278, ATCC BAA-1151, SZ)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000020385

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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