Sporosarcina contaminans (DSM 22204, CCUG 53915)

Name: Sporosarcina contaminans (DSM 22204, CCUG 53915)
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BacDive ID 12001

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 22204 CCUG 53915

NCBI tax ID(s) 633403

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Sporosarcina contaminans DSM 22204 is an aerobe, spore-forming, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from industrial clean room floor.

spore-forming Gram-positive motile rod-shaped aerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 303578

CCUG 53915,DSM 22204

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:49:44

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Caryophanaceae

Genus Sporosarcina

Species Sporosarcina contaminans

Full scientific name Sporosarcina contaminans Kämpfer et al. 2010

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29501	positive	2.5 µm	0.9 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

29501

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16200	CASO AGAR (MERCK 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CASO AGAR (Merck 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casein peptone 15.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l Soy peptone 5.0 g/l MnSO4 0.01 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
16200	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
29501	positive	growth	15-50
29501	positive	optimum	30	mesophilic
60078	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
29501	positive	optimum	7.5
29501	positive	growth	6.5-10.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
29501	aerobe
60078	aerobe

Spore formation

29501

Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29501	NaCl	positive	growth	<9 %

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
16200	A11.33	A4alpha L-Lys-D-Glu

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29501	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
29501	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29501	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29501	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Built environment	#Clean room
#Engineered	#Industrial	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
16200	industrial clean room floor	Göteborg	Sweden	SWE	Europe
60078	Contaminant,industrial clean room floor		Sweden	SWE	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FN298444 (>99% sequence identity) for Sporosarcina contaminans from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	4
Soil Samples	35
Animal Samples	118
Plant Samples
Total Samples	157

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16200	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM4267904v1 assembly for Sporosarcina contaminans CCUG 53915	contig	GCA_042679045	633403	38.51

Genome browser: GCA_042679045

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
16200	Sporosarcina contaminans partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain CCUG 53915T	FN298444	1463		633403

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Tissue-specific diversity of bacterial endophytes in Mexican husk tomato plants (Physalis ixocarpa Brot. ex Horm.), and screening for their multiple plant growth-promoting activities.	Hernandez-Pacheco CE, Orozco-Mosqueda MDC, Flores A, Valencia-Cantero E, Santoyo G.	Curr Res Microb Sci	10.1016/j.crmicr.2021.100028	2021
Assessment of bacterial and fungal populations in urine from clinically healthy dogs using next-generation sequencing.	Melgarejo T, Oakley BB, Krumbeck JA, Tang S, Krantz A, Linde A.	J Vet Intern Med	10.1111/jvim.16104	2021
Noncontiguous finished genome sequence and description of Planococcus massiliensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from the human gut.	Seck EH, Sankar SA, Khelaifia S, Croce O, Robert C, Couderc C, Di Pinto F, Sokhna C, Fournier PE, Raoult D, Lagier JC.	New Microbes New Infect	10.1016/j.nmni.2015.12.006	2016
Sporosarcina siberiensis sp. nov., isolated from the East Siberian Sea.	Zhang G, Ren H, Chen X, Zhang Y, Yang Y, Wang S, Jiang Y	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-014-0217-1	2014
Sporosarcina contaminans sp. nov. and Sporosarcina thermotolerans sp. nov., two endospore-forming species.	Kampfer P, Falsen E, Lodders N, Schumann P	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.014423-0	2009

References

#16200	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22204
#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 )
#29501	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #25901 (see below)
#60078	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 53915
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Sporosarcina contaminans (DSM 22204, CCUG 53915)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Murein

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_042679045

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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