Acetobacter xylinus (DSM 2004, ATCC 23768, NCIB 7029)

Name: Acetobacter xylinus (DSM 2004, ATCC 23768, NCIB 7029)
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BacDive ID 87

Type strain

Strain Designation B 4168

Culture col. no. DSM 2004 ATCC 23768 NCIB 7029 B 4168 NCTC 7029 3 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 28448

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Acetobacter xylinus B 4168 is a mesophilic prokaryote that produces polysaccharides and was isolated from Mixed culture NCTC 6716 from a vinegar brew.

polysaccharide production mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 279676

LMG 1521,ATCC 23768,CCM 1809,DSM 2004,NCIB 7029,NCTC 7029,NCIMB 7029,IFO14814,BCRC 14148,CCRC 14148,IAM 14356,ICMP 8607,VTT E-89370,JCM 21169

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

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Acetobacteraceae

Genus Acetobacter

Species Acetobacter xylinus

Full scientific name Acetobacter xylinus corrig. (Brown 1886) Yamada 1984

Synonyms (8)

Acetobacter xylinum
Acetobacter aceti subsp. xylinus
"Komagatabacter xylinus"
"Bacterium xylinum"
Acetobacter aceti subsp. xylinum
Gluconoacetobacter xylinus
Gluconacetobacter xylinus
Komagataeibacter xylinus

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
952	GLUCONOBACTER OXYDANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 105)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: GLUCONOBACTER OXYDANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 105) Composition: Glucose 100.0 g/l CaCO3 20.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 10.0 g/l Distilled water
952	YPM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 360)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: YPM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 360) Composition: Mannitol 25.0 g/l Agar 12.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Peptone 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
952	positive	growth	25	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	25	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

952

Compoundcellulose

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
67770	Mixed culture NCTC 6716 from a vinegar brew
952	vinegar brew

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence GQ240638 (>99% sequence identity) for Komagataeibacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	523
Soil Samples	662
Animal Samples	2327
Plant Samples	555
Total Samples	4067

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
952	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Gluconacetobacter xylinus strain DSM 2004 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	GQ240638	1305		28448

GC content

952

GC-content (mol%)58.9

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Repurposing of waste PET by microbial biotransformation to functionalized materials for additive manufacturing.	Kolitha BS, Jayasekara SK, Tannenbaum R, Jasiuk IM, Jayakody LN.	J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1093/jimb/kuad010	2023
Biotechnology	Use of Industrial Wastes as Sustainable Nutrient Sources for Bacterial Cellulose (BC) Production: Mechanism, Advances, and Future Perspectives.	Kadier A, Ilyas RA, Huzaifah MRM, Harihastuti N, Sapuan SM, Harussani MM, Azlin MNM, Yuliasni R, Ibrahim R, Atikah MSN, Wang J, Chandrasekhar K, Islam MA, Sharma S, Punia S, Rajasekar A, Asyraf MRM, Ishak MR.	Polymers (Basel)	10.3390/polym13193365	2021
	Research progress of the biosynthetic strains and pathways of bacterial cellulose.	Li G, Wang L, Deng Y, Wei Q.	J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1093/jimb/kuab071	2022
Metabolism	Cellulose produced by Gluconacetobacter xylinus strains ATCC 53524 and ATCC 23768: Pellicle formation, post-synthesis aggregation and fiber density.	Lee CM, Gu J, Kafle K, Catchmark J, Kim SH	Carbohydr Polym	10.1016/j.carbpol.2015.06.091	2015
	Bioconversion of Terephthalic Acid and Ethylene Glycol Into Bacterial Cellulose by Komagataeibacter xylinus DSM 2004 and DSM 46604.	Esmail A, Rebocho AT, Marques AC, Silvestre S, Goncalves A, Fortunato E, Torres CAV, Reis MAM, Freitas F	Front Bioeng Biotechnol	10.3389/fbioe.2022.853322	2022
Enzymology	Cloning, sequencing, and expression of UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase gene from Acetobacter xylinum BRC5.	Koo HM, Yim SW, Lee CS, Pyun YR, Kim YS	Biosci Biotechnol Biochem	10.1271/bbb.64.523	2000
Enzymology	Cloning of a gene involved in cellulose biosynthesis in Acetobacter xylinum: complementation of cellulose-negative mutants by the UDPG pyrophosphorylase structural gene.	Valla S, Coucheron DH, Fjaervik E, Kjosbakken J, Weinhouse H, Ross P, Amikam D, Benziman M	Mol Gen Genet	10.1007/BF00330938	1989

References

#952	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 2004
#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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#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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Acetobacter xylinus (DSM 2004, ATCC 23768, NCIB 7029)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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