Azoarcus olearius (DSM 100663, DQS-4, KCTC 23918)

Name: Azoarcus olearius (DSM 100663, DQS-4, KCTC 23918)
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BacDive ID 130649

Type strain

Strain Designation DQS-4

Culture col. no. DSM 100663 DQS-4 KCTC 23918 LMG 26893

NCBI tax ID(s) 418699

Special Collections DSMZ KCTC

History DSMZ <- KCTC <- M.-H. Chen, Department of Seafood Science, University Kaohsing City; DQS-4

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Azoarcus olearius DQS-4 is a bacterium that was isolated from oil-contaminated soil.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 379390

LMG 26893,BCRC 80407,KCTC 23918,DSM 100663

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:37:25

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Rhodocyclales

Family Zoogloeaceae

Genus Azoarcus

Species Azoarcus olearius

Full scientific name Azoarcus olearius Chen et al. 2013

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	98.523
125438	negative	98.5

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
21488	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)
21488	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	94.784

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.838

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68369	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20NE
68369	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction	from API 20NE
68369	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20NE

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20NE

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API 20NE

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68369	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
68369	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1	from API 20NE
68369	gelatinase	-		from API 20NE

API 20NE

@ref	Reduction of nitratesNO3	TRP	GLU_ Ferm	ADH (Arg)	URE	ESC	GEL	PNPG	GLU_ Assim	ARA	MNE	MAN	NAG	MAL	GNT	CAP	ADI	MLT	CIT	PAC	OX
21488	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	+
21488	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Contamination	#Oil (Fuel)
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
21488	oil-contaminated soil	Kaoshiung City, Chinese Petroleum Corporation refinery	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia	22.7217	120.296 22.7217/120.296

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EF158388 (>99% sequence identity) for Azoarcus olearius subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	798
Soil Samples	619
Animal Samples	216
Plant Samples	426
Total Samples	2059

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
21488	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM168238v1 assembly for Azoarcus olearius DQS-4	complete	GCA_001682385	418699.6	2718217757	418699	97.46

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21488	Azoarcus olearius strain DQS-4 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF158388	1456		418699

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM168238v1 assembly for Azoarcus olearius DQS-4
BV-BRC: 418699.6

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	94.78	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.52	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.84	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	88.09	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Azoarcus olearius DQS-4
NCBI: GCA_001682385.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	84.58	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	68.99	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.77	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.66	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	87.58	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Two-stage enrichment of hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria as biofertilizers.	Zhang W, Li YX, Niu Y, Zhang F, Li YB, Zeng RJ	Chemosphere	10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128932	2020
Metabolism	The oil-contaminated soil diazotroph Azoarcus olearius DQS-4(T) is genetically and phenotypically similar to the model grass endophyte Azoarcus sp. BH72.	Faoro H, Rene Menegazzo R, Battistoni F, Gyaneshwar P, do Amaral FP, Taule C, Rausch S, Goncalves Galvao P, de Los Santos C, Mitra S, Heijo G, Sheu SY, Chen WM, Mareque C, Zibetti Tadra-Sfeir M, Ivo Baldani J, Maluk M, Paula Guimaraes A, Stacey G, de Souza EM, Pedrosa FO, Magalhaes Cruz L, James EK	Environ Microbiol Rep	10.1111/1758-2229.12502	2017
Phylogeny	Azoarcus halotolerans sp. nov., a novel member of Rhodocyclaceae isolated from activated sludge collected in Hong Kong.	Li S, Zhao L, Han J, Liu S, Dai J, Fu G, Qiu D	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004476	2020
Phylogeny	Azoarcus olearius sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from oil-contaminated soil.	Chen MH, Sheu SY, James EK, Young CC, Chen WM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.050609-0	2013

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 )
#21488	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 100663
#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) .
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#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 .
#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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Azoarcus olearius (DSM 100663, DQS-4, KCTC 23918)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API 20NE

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001682385

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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