Allostella vacuolata (DSM 5901, ATCC 43931, AUCM B-1552)

Name: Allostella vacuolata (DSM 5901, ATCC 43931, AUCM B-1552)
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Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 5901 ATCC 43931 AUCM B-1552 BKM B-1552 DSM 3699 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1123295 217070

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Allostella vacuolata DSM 5901 is a microaerophile, chemoorganotroph, mesophilic prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from horse manure and sewage sludge of a piggery.

Gram-negative star-shaped colony-forming microaerophile chemoorganotroph mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 42131

ATCC 43931,VKM B-1552,DSM 5901,DSM 3699

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:46:46

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Allostellaceae

Genus Allostella

Species Allostella vacuolata

Full scientific name Allostella vacuolata (Vasilyeva 1985) Deshmukh and Oren 2025

Synonyms (1)

Stella vacuolata

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape	Motility
23248	negative	1.9-2.5 µm	star-shaped
125438	negative

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape
23248	2.5 mm	milky white	circular

Multimedia

@ref:	2353
multimedia content:	DSM_5901.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/photos/DSM_5901.jpg
caption:	Micrograph of DSM 5901. Scale bar represent 5 um.
intellectual property rights:	Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
2353	ANCALOMICROBIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 603)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ANCALOMICROBIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 603) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.588119 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.247525 g/l Glucose 0.247525 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.19802 g/l Na2HPO4 0.070297 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0660396 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00108416 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00049505 g/l Na-EDTA 0.000247525 g/l (NH4)6Mo7O24 x 4 H2O 0.000183168 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.000152475 g/l Calcium pantothenate 4.95049e-05 g/l Nicotinamide 4.95049e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.95049e-05 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 4.95049e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 3.88119e-05 g/l Co(NO3)2 x 6 H2O 2.45545e-05 g/l Biotin 1.9802e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.9802e-05 g/l Na2B4O7 x 10 H2O 1.75248e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 9.90099e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
2353	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
23248	positive	optimum	28	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
23248	positive	growth	7

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
23248	microaerophile
125439	obligate aerobe

Nutrition type

23248

Typechemoorganotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		92.9

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
23248	NaCl	positive	growth	1 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
23248	30916 ChEBI	2-oxoglutarate	+	growth
23248	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	growth
23248	17968 ChEBI	butyrate	-	growth
23248	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	-	hydrolysis
23248	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	growth
23248	15570 ChEBI	D-alanine	+	growth
23248	15740 ChEBI	formate	+	growth
23248	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	+	growth
23248	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
23248	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	growth
23248	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	+	growth
23248	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	growth
23248	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	+	growth
23248	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	-	growth
23248	17561 ChEBI	L-cysteine	+	growth
23248	16283 ChEBI	L-cystine	+	growth
23248	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	growth
23248	18050 ChEBI	L-glutamine	+	growth
23248	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	-	growth
23248	18019 ChEBI	L-lysine	-	growth
23248	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	-	growth
23248	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	-	growth
23248	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	growth
23248	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	growth
23248	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	growth
23248	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
23248	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	growth
23248	26986 ChEBI	threonine	-	growth
23248	31011 ChEBI	valerate	-	growth

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Waste	#Sewage sludge
#Host	#Mammals	#Equidae (Horse)
#Host	#Mammals	#Suidae (Pig,Swine)
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
23248	horse manure and sewage sludge of a piggery	Leningrad region	Russia	RUS	Europe
2353	horse manure		Russia	RUS	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ535711 (>99% sequence identity) for Stella vacuolata from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	90
Soil Samples	27
Animal Samples	12
Plant Samples	7
Total Samples	136

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
2353	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	ASM673905v1 assembly for Allostella vacuolata ATCC 43931	complete	GCA_006739055	217070.3	2883517513	217070	72.08

Genome browser: GCA_006739055

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Stella vacuolata 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM5901	AJ535711	1447		217070

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
23248	73.50	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Stella vacuolata strain ATCC 43931
PATRIC: 217070.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	92.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	57.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	86.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Stella vacuolata ATCC 43931
NCBI: GCA_006739055.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.33	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.20	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	73.67	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	82.19	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.05	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	65.18	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	An integrated phylogenomic approach toward pinpointing the origin of mitochondria.	Wang Z, Wu M.	Sci Rep	10.1038/srep07949	2015
Phylogeny	Proposal of Allobogoriella gen. nov., Allobogoriella caseilytica comb. nov., Allostella gen. nov., Allostella humosa comb. nov. and Allostella vacuolata comb. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic names Bogoriella, Bogoriella caseilytica, Stella, Stella humosa and Stella vacuolata, respectively.	Deshmukh UB, Oren A.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006930	2025
	The Neolithic site "La Marmotta": DNA metabarcoding to identify the microbial deterioration of waterlogged archeological wood.	Beccaccioli M, Moricca C, Faino L, Reale R, Mineo M, Reverberi M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1129983	2023
Phylogeny	Characterization of bacteria expectorated during forced salivation of the Phlebotomus papatasi: A neglected component of sand fly infectious inoculums.	Maleki-Ravasan N, Ghafari SM, Najafzadeh N, Karimian F, Darzi F, Davoudian R, Farshbaf Pourabad R, Parvizi P.	PLoS Negl Trop Dis	10.1371/journal.pntd.0012165	2024
Genetics	Complete Genome Sequences of Three Star-Shaped Bacteria, Stella humosa, Stella vacuolata, and Stella Species ATCC 35155.	Shibai A, Maeda T, Kawada M, Kotani H, Sakata N, Furusawa C	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/MRA.00719-19	2019
Phylogeny	Phylogenetic relationships of the genera Stella, Labrys and Angulomicrobium within the 'Alphaproteobacteria' and description of Angulomicrobium amanitiforme sp. nov.	Fritz I, Strompl C, Abraham WR	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02746-0	2004

References

#2353	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 5901
#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 )
#23248	L. V. VASILYEVA: Stella, a New Genus of Soil Prosthecobacteria, with Proposals for Stella humosa sp. nov. and Stella vacuolata sp. nov.. IJSEM 35: 518 - 521 1985 ( DOI 10.1099/00207713-35-4-518 )
#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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Allostella vacuolata (DSM 5901, ATCC 43931, AUCM B-1552)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_006739055

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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