Rhodococcus opacus (DSM 44186, MoAcy1)

Name: Rhodococcus opacus (DSM 44186, MoAcy1)
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BacDive ID 11007

Type strain

Strain Designation MoAcy1

Culture col. no. DSM 44186 MoAcy1

NCBI tax ID(s) 37919

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- B. Rosner, Universität Konstanz, MoAcy1

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Rhodococcus opacus MoAcy1 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from dry garden soil sample taken near a parking lot.

mesophilic genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 50514

DSM 44186

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:20:25

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
10999	R. opacus DSM 43206, ATCC 21499, DSM 441, CIP 104550, ...
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
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

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence	Motility
125439	positive	98.2
125438		92

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
11584	BHI MEDIUM WITH ADDITIONAL GLUCOSE (DSMZ Medium 215b)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BHI MEDIUM WITH ADDITIONAL GLUCOSE (DSMZ Medium 215b) Composition: Brain heart infusion 37.0 g/l Glucose 5.0 g/l Distilled water
11584	TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
11584	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125438	aerobe	90.813
125439	obligate aerobe	97.8

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Agriculture	#Garden
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
11584	dry garden soil sample taken near a parking lot	Tübingen	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
11584	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Rhodococcus opacus strain DSM 44186	complete		37919.73	37919	98.37
66792	Rhodococcus opacus strain DSM 44186	complete		37919.71	37919	98.37
66792	Rhodococcus opacus strain DSM 44186	complete		37919.68	37919	98.37
66792	ASM1985625v1 assembly for Rhodococcus opacus DSM 44186	complete	GCA_019856255	37919.59	37919	97.53
66792	ASM362649v1 assembly for Rhodococcus opacus DSM 44186	contig	GCA_003626495	37919.28	37919	76.68

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Rhodococcus opacus DSM 44186
NCBI: GCA_019856255

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	56.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	82.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	98.20	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	97.80	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Rhodococcus opacus DSM 44186
NCBI: GCA_019856255.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	86.02	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.59	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	90.81	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	62.09	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.50	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	92.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Acetylenotrophy: a hidden but ubiquitous microbial metabolism?	Akob DM, Sutton JM, Fierst JL, Haase KB, Baesman S, Luther GW, Miller LG, Oremland RS.	FEMS Microbiol Ecol	10.1093/femsec/fiy103	2018
Genetics	Complete Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus opacus Strain MoAcy1 (DSM 44186), an Aerobic Acetylenotroph Isolated from Soil.	Sutton JM, Bushman TJ, Akob DM, Fierst JL	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/MRA.00814-21	2022

References

#11584	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 44186
#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 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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 44186, MoAcy1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_019856255

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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