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DSMZ 78b . CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (N2/CO2)

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

Culture medium recipe

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Main sol. 78b #

ml
Equipment needed: Filter Autoclave Hungate tubes Gassing station
Compound Amount Unit Conc. [g/L] Conc. [mM]
Ground beef
(fat free) 		500.0 g 500 -
NaOH
(1 N) 		25.0 ml - -
Casitone 30.0 g 30 -
Yeast extract 5.0 g 5 -
K2HPO4 5.0 g 5 28.707
Sodium resazurin
(0.1% w/v) 		0.5 ml 5.0e-4 0.002
L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g 0.5 2.847
Distilled water 1000.0 ml - -
1 Use lean beef or horse meat. Remove fat and connective tissue before grinding. Mix meat, water and NaOH, then boil for 15 min with stirring. Cool to room temperature, skim fat off surface, and filter, retaining both meat particles and filtrate. To the filtrate add Casitone, yeast extract, hydrogen phosphate and resazurin, then add water to a final volume of 700 ml. Sparge medium with 80% N2 and 20% CO2 gas mixture for 30 - 45 min to make it anoxic, then add cysteine and adjust pH to 7.0. Dispense medium under same gas atmosphere into anoxic Hungate-type tubes containing meat particles (use ca. 7 ml liquid medium for 1 - 2 g meat particles), then autoclave at 121°C for 20 min.
2 In some cases (as indicated in the catalogue) the addition of Haemin and Vitamin K1 or Vitamin K3 is necessary. Add to 1000 ml of medium after autoclaving:
Haemin solution
optional 		10.0 ml - -
Vitamin K1 solution
optional 		10.0 ml - -
Vitamin K3 solution
optional 		1.0 ml - -

Haemin solution #

100
Solution occurs in 15 other media (first defined in Medium 78).
Equipment needed: Filter
Compound Amount Unit Conc. [g/L] Conc. [mM]
Haemin 50 mg 0.5 0.767
NaOH
(1 N) 		1 ml - -
Distilled water 100 ml - -
1 Dissolve 50 mg haemin in 1 ml 1 N NaOH; make up to 100 ml with distilled water and filter sterilize. Store refrigerated.

Vitamin K1 solution #

20
Solution occurs in 12 other media (first defined in Medium 78).
Equipment needed: Filter
Compound Amount Unit Conc. [g/L] Conc. [mM]
Vitamin K1 0.1 ml - -
Ethanol
(95 %) 		20.0 ml 950 20620.8
1 Dissolve 0.1 ml of vitamin K1 in 20 ml 95% ethanol and filter sterilize. Store refrigerated in a brown bottle.

Vitamin K3 solution #

100
Solution occurs in 7 other media (first defined in Medium ).
Compound Amount Unit Conc. [g/L] Conc. [mM]
Vitamin K3 5 mg 0.05 -
Ethanol
(95%) 		1 ml 9.5 206.208
Water 100 ml - -
1 Dissolve 5 mg vitamin K3 in 1 ml 95% ethanol, dilute to 0.05 mg/ml in water and filter sterilize. Store refrigerated in a brown bottle.

Metadata

Last modified: 22.02.22
Source: DSMZ
Taxonomic range:  Bacteria
Medium type: Complex medium
Final pH: 7.0
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]
Ground beef 500 -
Casitone 30 -
K2HPO4 5 28.707
Yeast extract 5 -
L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 2.847
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Cultivation metadata from 1 strains BacDive

pH 6 - 8 1 strain
pH 8 - 10 1 strain
phyla 1 2 strains
oxygen anaerobe 2 strains
temperature mesophilic 1 strain