Rhodococcus opacus (DSM 43206, ATCC 21499, DSM 441)

Name: Rhodococcus opacus (DSM 43206, ATCC 21499, DSM 441)
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BacDive ID 10999

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 43206 ATCC 21499 DSM 441 CIP 104550 NCIMB 11276

NCBI tax ID(s) 37919

Special Collections DSMZ CIP

History <- R.E. Gordon (Nocardia neoopaca) CIP <- 1995, DSM <- D. Claus, DSM 441 <- R.E. Gordon, Nocardia neopaca

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Rhodococcus opacus DSM 43206 is a bacterium that was isolated from soil.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 37551

ATCC 21499,NCIB 11276,CIP 104550,DSM 43206,DSM 441,NCIMB 11276

@ref 20215

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Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Nocardiaceae

Genus Rhodococcus

Species Rhodococcus opacus

Full scientific name Rhodococcus opacus Klatte et al. 1995

Synonyms (2)

Rhodococcus percolatus
Rhodococcus imtechensis

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Rhodococcus opacus** (29)	Type strain
10998	R. opacus 1b, 18, DSM 43205, ATCC 51881, CIP 104549, ... (type strain)
10996	R. opacus DSM 1069
10997	R. opacus C125, DSM 8531
11000	R. opacus DSM 43250, ATCC 51882
11001	R. opacus DSM 43251
11002	R. opacus Pellegrino 327, DSM 43252, CIP 104626
11003	R. opacus S676, 225, DSM 43280, ATCC 4275, IMET 7025, ...
11004	R. opacus 691-19, DSM 43943, IMET 7363
11005	R. opacus DSM 44072, CBS 330.61
11006	R. opacus DSM 44236
11007	R. opacus MoAcy1, DSM 44186
11008	R. opacus Tue Acy 1, DSM 44188
11010	R. opacus 305-97, L2aT3, PWD5, DSM 44304
11011	R. opacus 307-97, PWD7, S2aT5, S₂aT5, DSM ...
11012	R. opacus 310-97, L1aT1, PWD10, DSM 44307
11013	R. opacus GW-86a, DSM 44311
11014	R. opacus Bie-17, DSM 44312
11015	R. opacus 304-97, H1aT2, PWD4, DSM 44313
11016	R. opacus 315-97, PWD15, S1aT1, DSM 44314
11017	R. opacus 97-319, H3aT3, PWD19, DSM 44315
11018	R. opacus ISO-5, DSM 44600
11019	R. opacus ROL1, DSM 44853
11020	R. opacus ROL2, DSM 44854
11021	R. opacus R1L6, DSM 44855
11022	R. opacus DSM 46027, IMET 7365, NCIB 9702
103557	R. opacus ST033313(HKI),
136650	R. opacus R7, CIP 107348
160415	R. opacus 1CP, DSM 46757, VKM Ac-2638
173346	R. opacus GK 3, GK3, CIP 110889, CCMM B1295

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
10866	PEPTONE MEAT EXTRACT GLYCEROL AGAR (DSMZ Medium 250)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PEPTONE MEAT EXTRACT GLYCEROL AGAR (DSMZ Medium 250) Composition: Agar 20.0 g/l Proteose peptone no. 3 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Glycerol Distilled water
39038	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar		Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
121423	CIP Medium 3	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
10866	positive	growth	28
39038	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
10866	soil
121423	Environment, Soil

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence X80631 (>99% sequence identity) for Rhodococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	116
Soil Samples	425
Animal Samples	152
Plant Samples	113
Total Samples	806

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
10866	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
121423	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Rhodococcus opacus 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM43206T	X80631	1473		37919

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Microcosm enrichment of biphenyl-degrading microbial communities from soils and sediments.	Wagner-Dobler I, Bennasar A, Vancanneyt M, Strompl C, Brummer I, Eichner C, Grammel I, Moore ER.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.64.8.3014-3022.1998	1998
	Utilization of Halogenated Benzenes, Phenols, and Benzoates by Rhodococcus opacus GM-14.	Zaitsev GM, Uotila JS, Tsitko IV, Lobanok AG, Salkinoja-Salonen MS.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.61.12.4191-4201.1995	1995

References

#10866	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 43206
#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 )
#39038	; Curators of the CIP;
#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 .
#121423	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 104550
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Rhodococcus opacus (DSM 43206, ATCC 21499, DSM 441)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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