General

@ref: 2120

BacDive-ID: 17935

DSM-Number: 151

keywords: Bacteria, anaerobe, mesophilic

description: Rubrivivax gelatinosus Dr 2 is an anaerobe, mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from ditch.

NCBI tax id

• NCBI tax id: 28068
• Matching level: species

strain history

• @ref: 2120
• history: <- N. Pfennig <- J.H. Klemme, Dr 2.

doi: 10.13145/bacdive17935.20230509.8.1

Name and taxonomic classification

LPSN

• @ref: 20215
• description: domain/bacteria
• keyword: phylum/pseudomonadota
• domain: Bacteria
• phylum: Pseudomonadota
• class: Betaproteobacteria
• order: Burkholderiales
• family: Comamonadaceae
• genus: Rubrivivax
• species: Rubrivivax gelatinosus
• full scientific name: Rubrivivax gelatinosus (Molisch 1907) Willems et al. 1991

• synonyms

  @ref	synonym
  20215	Rhodocyclus gelatinosus
  20215	Rhodopseudomonas gelatinosa
  20215	Rhodocystis gelatinosa

@ref: 2120

domain: Bacteria

phylum: Proteobacteria

class: Betaproteobacteria

order: Burkholderiales

family: Comamonadaceae

genus: Rubrivivax

species: Rubrivivax gelatinosus

full scientific name: Rubrivivax gelatinosus (Molisch 1907) Willems et al. 1991

strain designation: Dr 2

type strain: no

Culture and growth conditions

culture medium

• @ref: 2120
• name: RHODOSPIRILLACEAE MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 27)
• growth: yes
• link: https://mediadive.dsmz.de/medium/27
• composition: Name: RHODOSPIRILLACEAE MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 27) Composition: Disodium succinate 1.0 g/l KH2PO4 0.5 g/l Ammonium acetate 0.5 g/l NaCl 0.4 g/l NH4Cl 0.4 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.4 g/l Yeast extract 0.3 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.3 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.05 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.005 g/l Resazurin 0.005 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0002 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0001 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 3e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 Distilled water

culture temp

• @ref: 2120
• growth: positive
• type: growth
• temperature: 25
• range: mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

oxygen tolerance

• @ref: 2120
• oxygen tolerance: anaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

isolation

• @ref: 2120
• sample type: ditch

isolation source categories

• Cat1: #Environmental
• Cat2: #Terrestrial

Safety information

risk assessment

• @ref: 2120
• biosafety level: 1
• biosafety level comment: Risk group (German classification)

External links

@ref: 2120

culture collection no.: DSM 151, CCUG 15842

straininfo link

• @ref: 86924
• straininfo: 4931

literature

• topic: Genetics
• Pubmed-ID: 8020505
• title: Structural and spectral characterisation of the antenna complexes of Rhodocyclus gelatinosus. Indications of a hairpin-like-arranged antenna apoprotein with an unusually high alanine content.
• authors: Brunisholz RA, Suter F, Zuber H
• journal: Eur J Biochem
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb18911.x
• year: 1994
• mesh: *Alanine, Amino Acid Sequence, Apoproteins/*chemistry, Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/isolation & purification, Centrifugation, Density Gradient, Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, Detergents, Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes, Mass Spectrometry, Molecular Sequence Data, *Protein Conformation, *Protein Structure, Secondary, Rhodospirillales/*chemistry, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
• topic2: Enzymology

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