Legionella londiniensis (DSM 21234, ATCC 49505, CCUG 44895)

Name: Legionella londiniensis (DSM 21234, ATCC 49505, CCUG 44895)
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BacDive ID 6763

Type strain

Strain Designation 1477

Culture col. no. DSM 21234 ATCC 49505 CCUG 44895 CIP 105269 NCTC 12374 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 45068

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

History <- CIP; strain 1477 {2008} <- CDC <- W. L. Thacker <- P. J. Dennis CIP <- 1997, CDC <- W.L. thacker: strain 1477 <- P.J. Dennis

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Legionella londiniensis 1477 is a microaerophile, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from office building cooling tower.

Gram-negative rod-shaped microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 46882

ATCC 49505,CIP 105269,CCUG 44895,NCTC 12374,DSM 21234

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:18

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella londiniensis

Full scientific name Legionella londiniensis Dennis et al. 1993

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Legionella londiniensis** (1)	Type strain
161763	L. londiniensis JCM 16338

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
120645	negative	rod-shaped
125438	negative			99.5

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15587	BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BCYE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base
39215	MEDIUM 23 - for Afipia and Legionella			Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Legionella agar (37.000 g);Legionella - enrichment mixture (10.000 ml)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
15587	positive	growth	37
39215	positive	growth	37
56533	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
56533	microaerophile
125439	microaerophile	90.7

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.1
125438		93.567

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
15587	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
15587	cytochrome-c oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	95.45	21 of 22
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	NAD metabolism	83.33	15 of 18
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	80	8 of 10
66794	hydrogen production	80	4 of 5
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	leucine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	flavin biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	proline metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	alanine metabolism	72.41	21 of 29
66794	photosynthesis	71.43	10 of 14
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	71.11	32 of 45
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	lysine metabolism	66.67	28 of 42
66794	methane metabolism	66.67	2 of 3
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	lipid metabolism	64.52	20 of 31
66794	heme metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	64.29	18 of 28
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	63.64	7 of 11
66794	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	isoleucine metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	62.5	5 of 8
66794	histidine metabolism	62.07	18 of 29
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	propionate fermentation	60	6 of 10
66794	purine metabolism	59.57	56 of 94
66794	non-pathway related	57.89	22 of 38
66794	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
66794	glutathione metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	citric acid cycle	57.14	8 of 14
66794	serine metabolism	55.56	5 of 9
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	53.33	8 of 15
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	threonine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	tyrosine metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	50	6 of 12
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	49.45	45 of 91
66794	tryptophan metabolism	47.37	18 of 38
66794	cysteine metabolism	44.44	8 of 18
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	42.86	3 of 7
66794	methionine metabolism	42.31	11 of 26
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	41.18	7 of 17
66794	ascorbate metabolism	40.91	9 of 22
66794	glycogen metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	sulfate reduction	38.46	5 of 13
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	38.46	5 of 13
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	37.5	6 of 16
66794	arginine metabolism	37.5	9 of 24
66794	polyamine pathway	34.78	8 of 23
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	34.62	9 of 26
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	urea cycle	30.77	4 of 13
66794	aclacinomycin biosynthesis	28.57	2 of 7
66794	mevalonate metabolism	28.57	2 of 7
66794	degradation of hexoses	27.78	5 of 18
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	27.27	3 of 11
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	phenol degradation	25	5 of 20
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	25	4 of 16
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	25	2 of 8
66794	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	alginate biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	23.08	3 of 13
66794	nitrate assimilation	22.22	2 of 9
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	22.22	4 of 18
66794	degradation of pentoses	21.43	6 of 28

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

56533

Fatty acid	Percentage	ECL
C16:1 ω7c	35.4	15.819
C17:0 anteiso	17.7	16.722
C16:0	13.4	16
C16:0 iso	10.3	15.626
C15:0 ANTEISO	6.8	14.711
C18:0	3.6	18
C17:0	3	17
C15:1 ω6c	2.5	14.856
C15:0	1.7	15
C19:0	1.1	19
C20:0	1	20
C17:0 iso	1	16.629
C17:1 ω9c ISO	0.7	16.416
C15:0 ISO	0.5	14.621
C14:0	0.4	14
C14:1 ω5c	0.3	13.899
C18:0 ISO	0.3	17.632
C19:0 ANTEISO	0.3	18.729
C14:0 ISO	0.2	13.618

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Built environment	#House
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Cooling tower

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
15587	office building cooling tower		United Kingdom	GBR	Europe
56533	Cooling tower,office building	England,London	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe
120645	Office building cooling tower	London	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15587	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
120645	2	Risk group (French 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	Leg_londiniensis_1477.v1 assembly for Legionella londiniensis 1477	contig	GCA_900639885	45068.7	8110525844	45068	69.2
66792	ASM146782v1 assembly for Legionella londiniensis ATCC 49505	scaffold	GCA_001467825	45068.5	2660237932	45068	63.97

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
15587	Legionella nautarum gene for ribosomal RNA, small subunit	Z49728	1393	45070
15587	Legionella londiniensis 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF129525	671	45068
124043	Legionella londiniensis strain MDC1601 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	JF720423	525	45068

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Legionella londiniensis ATCC 49505
NCBI: GCA_001467825

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	74.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	89.40	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	microaerophile	90.70	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Legionella londiniensis ATCC 49505
NCBI: GCA_001467825.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.07	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	72.36	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.57	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.69	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	79.71	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella londiniensis.	Stallworth C, Steed L, Fisher MA, Nolte FS.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.02182-12	2012
Enzymology	Development and evaluation of Chlamylege, a new commercial test allowing simultaneous detection and identification of Legionella, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae in clinical respiratory specimens by multiplex PCR.	Ginevra C, Barranger C, Ros A, Mory O, Stephan JL, Freymuth F, Joannes M, Pozzetto B, Grattard F.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.43.7.3247-3254.2005	2005
Phylogeny	Isolation of Legionella oakridgensis from two patients with pleural effusion living in the same geographical area.	Lo Presti F, Riffard S, Jarraud S, Le Gallou F, Richet H, Vandenesch F, Etienne J.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.38.8.3128-3130.2000	2000
Pathogenicity	Susceptibility of Legionella strains to the chlorinated biocide, monochloramine.	Jakubek D, Guillaume C, Binet M, Leblon G, DuBow M, Le Brun M.	Microbes Environ	10.1264/jsme2.me12205	2013

References

#15587	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21234
#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 )
#39215	; Curators of the CIP;
#56533	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 44895
#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) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#120645	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 105269
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Legionella londiniensis (DSM 21234, ATCC 49505, CCUG 44895)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900639885

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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