Name: Rhodococcus rhodochrous DSM 363
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 10897

Type strain:

Species: Rhodococcus rhodochrous

Culture col. no.: DSM 363, ATCC 4276, DSM 43202, JCM 20420, IAM 12123, ICPB 4414, LMG 4067

Strain history: IAM 12123 <-- ATCC 4276 ("Nocardia opaca") <-- H. J. Conn ("Mycobacterium crystallophagum") <-- P. H. H. Gray.

NCBI tax ID(s): 1829 (species)

SI-ID 4883

LMG 4067, ATCC 4276, DSM 363, DSM 43202, IAM 12123, IMET 7022, JCM 20420

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Section

Rhodococcus rhodochrous DSM 363 is a human pathogen.

human pathogen
16S sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Genus	*Rhodococcus*
	Species	**Rhodococcus rhodochrous**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Rhodococcus rhodochrous (Zopf 1891) Tsukamura 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

	Synonym	"Staphylococcus* rhodochrous"*
	Synonym	Rhodococcus roseus

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #153]

Culture medium

TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #153]			growth	28 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	37 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #153]	Name of produced compound	3 keto¹^,⁴steroids
[Ref.: #153]	Name of produced compound	restriction endonuclease RroI (SalI)

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #69479]

Global distribution of 16S sequence KF208468 (>99% sequence identity) for Rhodococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	660
Soil Samples	1489
Animal Samples	1166
Plant Samples	195
Total Samples	3510

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #153]	Pathogenicity (human)	yes, in single cases
[Ref.: #153]	Biosafety level	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Rhodococcus rhodochrous strain IEGM 66 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KF208468	1124	GenBank ENA	1829 tax ID	*

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #153]

Culture collection no.

DSM 363, ATCC 4276, DSM 43202, JCM 20420, IAM 12123, ICPB 4414, LMG 4067

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SI-ID 4883

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Brevibacterium linens pBL33 and Rhodococcus rhodochrous pRC1 cryptic plasmids replicate in Rhodococcus sp. R312 (formerly Brevibacterium sp. R312).	Bigey F, Grossiord B, Chan Kuo Chion CK, Arnaud A, Galzy P	Gene	10.1016/0378-1119(94)00886-w	1995	*

References

#153	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 363

#20215

Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#69479

João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .

#80152

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID4883.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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