| SAG Strain Number: | 84.79 |
| TAXONOMY |
| Genus: | Arthrospira |
| Species: | maxima |
| Taxonomic position: | Cyanobacteria |
| Authority: | Setchell et Gardner |
| Variety: | |
| Formerly called: | Spirulina maxima (Setchell et Gardner) Geitler |
| Authentic: | no |
| Division: | Cyanobacteria |
| Class: | Cyanophyceae |
| ORIGIN |
| General habitat: | freshwater |
| Climatic zone: | |
| Continent: | Africa |
| Country: | Chad |
| Locality: | natron lake |
| Lat. / Long. (Precision): | 14.306969 / 18.581542 (800000m) View on Google Maps |
| Year: | 1963 |
| Isolated by: | M. Lefèvre |
| Strain number by isolator: | received from CNRS as M 132/1 |
| Deposition by: | CNRS CC, Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
| Deposition date: | 12.1979 |
| CULTURE INFORMATION |
| Culture medium: | Spirul |
| Axenic: | bacterial or other types of contamination |
| Strain relatives: | CCAP 1475/9; UTEX 2342 as Spirulina maxima |
| Agitation resistance: | not detected |
| Special properties: | NO known Nagoya Protocol restrictions for this strain; Limnospira fusiformis (Voronichin) Nowicka-Krawczyk, Mühlsteinová et Hauer 2019 |
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| Publication: | Binkanat T.B. et al. (2026) Effects of cultivation temperature on protein production of selected Spirulina strains under photobioreactor conditions. Algal Res. 93:104489 |
| Publication: | Mareš J. et al. (2019) Evolutionary Patterns of Thylakoid Architecture in Cyanobacteria. Front. Microbiol. 10:277 |
| Publication: | Nowicka-Krawczyk P. et al. (2019) Detailed characterization of the Arthrospira type species separating commercially grown taxa into the new genus Limnospira (Cyanobacteria). Sci. Rep. 9:694 |
| Publication: | Mudimu O. et al. (2014) Biotechnological screening of microalgal and cyanobacterial strains for biogas production and antibacterial and antifungal effects. Metabolites 4 (2):373-393 |
| Publication: | Volk R.-B. (2008) Screening of microalgae for species excreting norharmane, a manifold biologically active indole alkaloid. Microbiological Research 163 (1):307-313 |
| Publication: | Volk R.-B. (2005) Screening of microalgal culture media for the presence of algicidal compounds and isolation and identification of two bioactive metabolites, excreted by the cyanobacteria Nostoc insulare and Nodularia harveyana. Journal of Applied Phycology 17 (4):339-347 |
| Publication: | Scheldeman, P. et al. (1999) Arthrospira ('Spirulina') strains from four continents are resolved into only two clusters, based on amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis of the internally transcribed spacer. FEMS Microbiology Letters 172 (2):213-222 |
| Publication: | Nelissen, B. et al. (1994) Phylogenetic relationships among filamentous helical cyanobacteria investigated on the basis of 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequence analysis. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 17:206-211 |
| Publication: | Guglielmi, G. et al. (1993) Main properties that justify the different taxonomic position of Spirulina spp. and Arthrospira spp. among cyanobacteria. Bull Inst Oceanogr Monaco 12:13-23 |
| Publication: | Cohen, Z. et al. (1987) Fatty acid composition of Spirulina strains grown under various environmental conditions. Phytochemistry 26 (8):2255-2258 |
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| SEQUENCE INFORMATION |
| Sequence Accession: | MT792740 Limnospira fusiformis SAG 84.79 ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit (rbcL) gene, partial cds; chaperonin-like protein (rbcX) gene, complete cds; and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase small subunit (rbcS) gene, (802 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | MT767414 Limnospira fusiformis SAG 84.79 DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit gamma (rpoC1) gene, partial cds. (883 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | MT764790 Limnospira fusiformis SAG 84.79 16S ribosomal RNA gene and 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence. (1648 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | MG777409 Arthrospira maxima UTEX LB 2342 C-phycocyanin beta subunit (cpcB) gene, complete cds. (258 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | MG777376 Arthrospira maxima UTEX LB 2342 RNA polymerase subunit gamma (rpoC1) gene, partial cds. (699 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | MG777350 Arthrospira maxima UTEX LB 2342 recombinase subunit A (recA) gene, complete cds. (723 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | MG777236 Arthrospira maxima UTEX LB 2342 DNA gyrase subunit A (gyrA) gene, complete cds. (627 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | MG777211 Arthrospira maxima UTEX LB 2342 gas vesicle protein C (gvpC3) gene, complete cds. (855 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | MG777186 Arthrospira maxima UTEX LB 2342 gas vesicle protein A (gvpA3) gene, complete cds. (219 bp) |
| Sequence Accession: | AJ292323 Arthrospira maxima 16S rRNA gene (partial), tRNA-Ile gene, ITS1, tRNA-Ala gene and 23S rRNA gene (partial), strain SAG 84.79. (475 bp) |
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| CRYO |
| Cryopreservation: | not detected |
| TEACHING |
| Recommended for teaching: | yes |
