DSMZ 1085 . HOWARDELLA MEDIUM

Official DSMZ medium: This medium was manually curated by experts from the DSMZ.

Culture medium recipe

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Equipment needed: Hungate tubes Filter Autoclave Gassing station
Compound Amount Unit Conc. [g/L] Conc. [mM]
Casitone
(BD Bacto)
20.00 g 20 -
Yeast extract
(BD Bacto)
5.00 g 5 -
Na2HPO4 5.00 g 5 35.221
MgCl2 x 6 H2O 1.10 g 1.1 5.411
Sodium resazurin
(0.1% w/v)
0.50 ml 5.0e-4 -
Urea 1.00 g 1 16.651
Na-thioglycolate 0.75 g 0.75 6.573
Distilled water 1000.00 ml - -
1 Dissolve ingredients (except urea and thioglycolate), boil medium for 1 min, then cool to room temperature under 80% N2 and 20% CO2 gas mixture. Add thioglycolate, dispense medium under same gas atmosphere into anoxic Hungate-type tubes or serum vials and autoclave. After autoclaving add urea from a 10% (w/v) stock solution sterilized by filtration and stored under 100% N2 gas. Adjust pH of complete medium to 7.4.

Metadata

Last modified: 12.04.22
Source: DSMZ
Taxonomic range:  Bacteria
Medium type: Complex medium
Final pH: 7.4
Equipment needed: Autoclave, Filter, Gassing station, Hungate tubes
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Gas composition

  • 80 % N2
  • 20 % CO2

Detailed instructions for the cultivation of anaerobes including important warnings can be found in the cultivation instructions .

Associated strains

All strains for this medium: 1

Molecular composition

Compound Conc. [g/L] Conc. [mM]
Casitone 20 -
Na2HPO4 5 35.221
Yeast extract 5 -
MgCl2 x 6 H2O 1.1 5.411
Urea 1 16.651
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Cultivation metadata from 1 strains BacDive

phyla 1 1 strain
oxygen anaerobe 1 strain
temperature mesophilic 1 strain