Rhodococcus ruber (DSM 46853, CECT 8612, EE6)

Name: Rhodococcus ruber (DSM 46853, CECT 8612, EE6)
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BacDive ID 130484

Type strain

Strain Designation EE6

Culture col. no. DSM 46853 CECT 8612 EE6

NCBI tax ID(s) 1830

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- C. Pozo-Llorente, Univ. of Granada, Spain; EE6 <- J. Purswani, Univ. of Granada, Spain

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Rhodococcus ruber EE6 is a bacterium that was isolated from MTBE remediating biofilter groundwater.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 394872

DSM 46853,CECT 8612

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:14

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Nocardiaceae

Genus Rhodococcus

Species Rhodococcus ruber

Full scientific name Rhodococcus ruber (Kruse 1896) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

"Streptothrix rubra"
Rhodococcus electrodiphilus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Rhodococcus ruber** (41)	Type strain
10927	R. ruber M-1, N361, A-0205, CCUG 51069, DSM 43338, ... (type strain)
10921	R. ruber An213, DSM 6264, IMET 7643
10922	R. ruber Sm-1, DSM 7511, ATCC 51239
10923	R. ruber Wrink, DSM 7512
10924	R. ruber Propb, DSM 8425
10925	R. ruber Pellegrino 327, DSM 43232, SN 5101
10926	R. ruber N324, DSM 43335, ATCC 15998, CCUG 23602, ...
10928	R. ruber Pellegrino 330, DSM 43560, SN 5102
10929	R. ruber DSM 43561, SN 5108
10930	R. ruber DSM 43562, SN 5109
10931	R. ruber DSM 43563, SN 5110
10932	R. ruber DSM 43564, SN 5202
10933	R. ruber DSM 43565, SN 5203
10934	R. ruber DSM 43566, SN 5204
10935	R. ruber DSM 43567, SN 5205
10936	R. ruber DSM 43571, CBS 245.53, SN 6000
10937	R. ruber 81 N grün, DSM 43588
10938	R. ruber 81 N Mo, DSM 43589
10939	R. ruber NI, N_I, DSM 43594
10940	R. ruber NIIa, N_I_I_a, ...
10941	R. ruber N453, DSM 43961
10942	R. ruber 219, DSM 44190
10943	R. ruber S679, ES3-T, FH2170, FERM-P 3374, DSM 44319, ...
10944	R. ruber CD4=CD+1-4II, CD4=CD⁺₁-4II, ...
10945	R. ruber CD4, DSM 44495
10946	R. ruber SM 1790, TB1, DSM 44539
10947	R. ruber EH1, SM1789, DSM 44540
10949	R. ruber ES 1-T, FERM-P 2882, DSM 44755, ATCC 31191, ...
10950	R. ruber DSM 44758
10951	R. ruber 373, N 123, DSM 46008, CBS 334.51, CCM 198, ...
10952	R. ruber 906B, Casenuovo, Inst. Sup, Gdf N325, Casenuovo, ...
10953	R. ruber McClung M-122, DSM 46043, CIP 104660, IMET ...
10954	R. ruber B113, DSM 46646, IMET 7358
10955	R. ruber Chol-4, DSM 45280
10956	R. ruber C208, DSM 45332
103875	R. ruber ST004516(HKI),
130482	R. ruber A5, DSM 46851, CECT 8556
130483	R. ruber EE1, DSM 46852, CECT 8555
136328	R. ruber CIP 104637, CCUG 23577, PCM 2171
136331	R. ruber CIP 104640, CCUG 20988
151928	R. ruber CCUG 45236

Morphology

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
21691	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)
21691	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Bioremediation	#Biofilter
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Groundwater

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
21691	MTBE remediating biofilter groundwater	Granada	Spain	ESP	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KJ792868 (>99% sequence identity) for Rhodococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	725
Soil Samples	1219
Animal Samples	950
Plant Samples	247
Total Samples	3141

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
21691	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21691	Rhodococcus ruber strain EE6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KJ792868	1285		1830

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Toxicity and biofilm-based selection for methyl tert-butyl ether bioremediation technology.	Guisado IM, Purswani J, Caton-Alcubierre L, Gonzalez-Lopez J, Pozo C.	Water Sci Technol	10.2166/wst.2016.461	2016
Pathogenicity	An extractive membrane biofilm reactor as alternative technology for the treatment of methyl tert-butyl ether contaminated water.	Guisado IM, Purswani J, Gonzalez-Lopez J, Pozo C	Biotechnol Prog	10.1002/btpr.2311	2016

References

#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 )
#21691	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 46853
#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 .
#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 ruber (DSM 46853, CECT 8612, EE6)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

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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

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