Methylorubrum extorquens (DSM 1340, ATCC 8457, NCIB 2879)

Name: Methylorubrum extorquens (DSM 1340, ATCC 8457, NCIB 2879)
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BacDive ID 7145

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 1340 ATCC 8457 NCIB 2879 NCTC 2879 CCUG 1839 9 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 408

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM

History <- NCIB <- NCTC <- L.E. den Dooren de Jong (Protaminobacter ruber) T. Urakami TK 0003 <-- NCIB 2879 <-- NCTC 2879 <-- L. E. den Dooren de Jong 296.

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Methylorubrum extorquens DSM 1340 is a bacterium that was isolated from soil.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 3559

LMG 4250,ATCC 8457,DSM 1340,IAM 1081,IFO 3708,JCM 2804,NCIB 2879,NCTC 2879,CCUG 1839,CCRC 11048,IAM 12630,NCIMB 2879,CCM 4459,NBRC 3708,NRRL B-1048,NCCB 26035,LMD 26.35,BCRC 11048,CDBB 582

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:24

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Methylobacteriaceae

Genus Methylorubrum

Species Methylorubrum extorquens

Full scientific name Methylorubrum extorquens (Urakami and Komagata 1984 ex Bassalik 1913) Green and Ardley 2018

Synonyms (2)

Protomonas extorquens
Methylobacterium extorquens

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methylorubrum extorquens** (29)	Type strain
7142	M. extorquens TK 0001, DSM 1337, ATCC 43645, NCIMB 9399, ... (type strain)
7143	M. extorquens 0355, D355, AM1, DSM 1338, ATCC 14718, NCIB ...
7144	M. extorquens M27, CCUG 2484, JCM 2806, DSM 1339, NCIB ...
7146	M. extorquens DM4, DSM 6343, CIP 106787, VKM B-2191
7147	M. extorquens ID 585-99, isolate F, DSM 13060
7148	M. extorquens PA1, DSM 23939
130397	M. extorquens T2_29, DSM 31003
142639	M. extorquens CCUG 13494
143958	M. extorquens CCUG 22060
146165	M. extorquens CCUG 30489
146708	M. extorquens CCUG 32000
146755	M. extorquens CCUG 32070
151944	M. extorquens CCUG 45294
153710	M. extorquens CCUG 50714
153711	M. extorquens CCUG 50715
154971	M. extorquens CCUG 55903, NCIMB 13688, VKM B-2223
162982	M. extorquens JCM 20693, IAM 12623
163424	M. extorquens JCM 2803, IAM 12639, NCIMB 10409
163425	M. extorquens JCM 2808, ATCC 21612
163426	M. extorquens JCM 2809, ATCC 21613
163428	M. extorquens JCM 2812, NCIMB 10598
163429	M. extorquens JCM 2813, NCIMB 10599
163430	M. extorquens JCM 2814, NCIMB 10600
163433	M. extorquens JCM 2817, NCIMB 10601
163434	M. extorquens JCM 2818, NCIMB 10603
163452	M. extorquens JCM 2826, NCIMB 10605
163460	M. extorquens JCM 2827, ATCC 21438
163505	M. extorquens JCM 2832, NCIMB 11350
163506	M. extorquens JCM 2834, NRRL B-3449

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
530	NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Methanol 10.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
530	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-10

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

44442

Fatty acid	Percentage	ECL
C18:1 ω7c /12t/9t	83.8	17.824
C16:1 ω7c	7.7	15.819
C14:0 3OH/C16:1 ISO I	2.6	15.485
C18:0	2.4	18
C16:0	2	16
C18:0 3OH	1.5	19.551

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
530	soil
44442	Garden soil enriched with sarcosine 30°C

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
530	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Methylobacterium extorquens 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; tRNA-Ile and tRNA-Ala genes, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF338180	1111	408
124043	Methylobacterium extorquens partial 16S rRNA gene, strain IAM 1081	AJ400913	725	408
124043	Methylobacterium extorquens partial 16S rRNA gene, strain IAM 12630	AJ400914	739	408

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	65.6	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#530	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1340
#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 )
#44442	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 1839
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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