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Neoheteromita globosa Howe et al.

50780

Product category
Protists
Strain designation
SW
Type strain
No
Isolation source
Surface soil
Geographical isolation
Germany; North Rhine-Westphalia; Huenxe
Product format
Frozen
Mission Collection Item
This is a Mission Collection Item.

Documentation

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ATCC highly recommends that appropriate personal protective equipment is always used when handling vials. For cultures that require storage in liquid nitrogen, it is important to note that some vials may leak when submersed in liquid nitrogen and will slowly fill with liquid nitrogen. Upon thawing, the conversion of the liquid nitrogen back to its gas phase may result in the vial exploding or blowing off its cap with dangerous force creating flying debris. Unless necessary, ATCC recommends that these cultures be stored in the vapor phase of liquid nitrogen rather than submersed in liquid nitrogen.

Detailed product information

Characteristics

Comments
Originally deposited as Heteromita globosa
Revised taxonomy

Handling information

Medium
Instruction for complete medium
ATCC Medium 802 inoculated with Enterobacter aerogenes (ATCC® 13048).
Temperature
25°C
Incubation
Grown with Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae ATCC 700831
Handling notes

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Culture maintenance
1.   Prepare bacterized ATCC medium 802.

2.   Inoculate a T-25 tissue culture flask containing 10.0 ml of bacterized ATCC medium 802 with 0.1 ml from a predominantly encysted Heteromita globosa culture.

3.   Incubate at 25°C with cap screwed on tightly.

4.   For routine maintenance subculture every 10-14 d.

Cryopreservation
1.   Harvest cells from a culture that is at or near peak density by centrifugation at 800 x g for 5 min.

2.  Adjust the concentration of cells to 2 x 106 - 107/ml in fresh medium.

3.  While cells are centrifuging prepare a 20% (v/v) solution of sterile DMSO in fresh medium.

a) Add 2.0 ml of DMSO to an ice cold 20 x 150 mm screw-capped test tube;

b) Place the tube on ice and allow the DMSO to solidify (~5 min) and then add 8.0 ml of ice cold medium;

c) Invert several times to dissolve the DMSO;

d) Allow to warm to room temperature.

4.  Mix the cell preparation and the DMSO in equal portions. Thus, the final concentration will be 106 - 107 and 10% (v/v) DMSO. The time from the mixing of the cell preparation and DMSO stock solution before the freezing process is begun should be no less than 15 min and no longer than 30 min.

5.  Dispense in 0.5 ml aliquots into 1.0 - 2.0 ml sterile plastic screw-capped cryules (special plastic vials for cryopreservation).

6.   Place the vials in a controlled rate freezing unit.  From room temperature cool at -1°C/min to -40°C.  If the freezing unit can compensate for the heat of fusion, maintain rate at        -1°C/min through the heat of fusion.  At -40°C plunge into liquid nitrogen. Alternatively, place the vials in a Nalgene 1°C freezing apparatus.  Place the apparatus at -80°C for 1.5 to 2 hours and then plunge ampules into liquid nitrogen.  (The cooling rate in this apparatus is approximately -1°C/min.)  

7.  The frozen preparations should be stored in either the vapor or liquid phase of a nitrogen refrigerator. Frozen preparations stored below -130°C are stabile indefinitely. Those stored at temperatures above -130°C are progressively less stabile as the storage temperature is elevated. If frozen material is to be stored at temperatures between -130°C and -70°C the shelf life should be empirically tested, i.e., remove stored material at intervals to determine die-off rate.

8. To establish a culture from the frozen state place an ampule in a water bath set at 35°C. Immerse the ampule to a level just above the surface of the frozen material. Do not agitate the ampule.

9. Immediately after thawing, do not leave in the water bath, aseptically remove the contents of the ampule and inoculate a T-25 tissue culture flask containing 10 ml of bacterized ATCC medium 802.

10.          Incubate with the cap screwed on tightly at 25°C.

History

Deposited as
Heteromita globosa Stein
Depositors
RG Mattison
Type of isolate
Environmental
Year of origin
1997
Special collection
NSF - Protistology

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References

Curated Citations

Howe AT, et al. Phylogeny, taxonomy, and astounding genetic diversity of glissomonadida ord. nov., the dominant gliding zooflagellates in soil (Protozoa: Cercozoa). Protist 160: 159-189, 2009. PubMed: 19324594

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