Aetherobacter rufus (DSM 24628, NCCB 100378, SBSr003)

Name: Aetherobacter rufus (DSM 24628, NCCB 100378, SBSr003)
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BacDive ID 130794

Type strain

Strain Designation SBSr003

Culture col. no. DSM 24628 NCCB 100378 SBSr003

NCBI tax ID(s) 888831

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Aetherobacter rufus SBSr003 is an aerobe, psychrophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from dried soil with decaying plant material.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped colony-forming aerobe psychrophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407149

NCCB 100378,DSM 24628

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:05

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Deltaproteobacteria

Order Polyangiales

Family Polyangiaceae

Genus Aetherobacter

Species Aetherobacter rufus

Full scientific name Aetherobacter rufus Garcia et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
43768	negative	3-6 µm	1-1.2 µm	rod-shaped		gliding

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
43768	Whitish, centre transparent	circular	Yeast agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
43768	Yeast agar
21853	M1DG-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1296)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: M1DG-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1296) Composition: Agar 14.0 g/l Casitone 5.0 g/l Glucose 3.5 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 2.0 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.5 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
21853	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
43768	positive	optimum	22-23	psychrophilic
43768	negative	growth	26
43768	negative	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
43768	positive	optimum	6-7
43768	positive	growth	5-8

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43768

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Compound production

21853

Compoundaetheramide A and B

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43768	NaCl	positive	growth	0-0.2 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43768	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	growth
43768		casein	+	hydrolysis
43768	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	growth
43768	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	-	degradation
43768	17029 ChEBI	chitin	-	degradation
43768	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
43768	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	growth
43768	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	growth
43768	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	growth
43768	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	growth
43768	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	growth
43768	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	growth
43768		skimmed milk	+	hydrolysis
43768	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	growth
43768	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	growth
43768	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
43768	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	growth
43768		tryptone	+	growth
43768	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	-	hydrolysis
43768	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
43768	37166 ChEBI	xylan	+	hydrolysis
43768	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	growth

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.
43768	28971	ampicillin
43768	2790	apramycin
43768	28669	bacitracin	50 µg/mL
43768	3393	carbenicillin
43768	3542	cephalothin	50 µg/mL
43768	71321	fusidate
43768	17833	gentamicin
43768	24753	hygromycin	50 µg/mL
43768	6104	kanamycin
43768	7507	neomycin	50 µg/mL
43768	27701	oxytetracycline
43768	59062	polymyxin	50 µg/mL
43768	28077	rifampicin
43768	9215	spectinomycin
43768	17076	streptomycin	50 µg/mL
43768	27902	tetracycline
43768	29693	thiostrepton
43768	28864	tobramycin	50 µg/mL
43768	45924	trimethoprim	50 µg/mL

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43768	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43768	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43768	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1
43768	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43768	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43768	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
43768	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43768	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
43768	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43768	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43768	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
43768	esterase (C 4)	+
43768	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
43768	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43768	lipase (C 14)	+/-
43768	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43768	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43768	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
43768	valine arylamidase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Decomposing plant
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
21853	dried soil with decaying plant material
43768	Dried soil from the Saarland Centre for Biodocumentation	Landsweiler-Reden, Saarland	Germany	DEU	Europe	2007

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence GU249610 (>99% sequence identity) for Aetherobacter rufus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	193
Soil Samples	1248
Animal Samples	112
Plant Samples	121
Total Samples	1674

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
21853	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21853	Aetherobacter rufus strain SBSr003 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	GU249610	1551		888831

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43768	68	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
21853	68.0	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Aetherobacter fasciculatus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Aetherobacter rufus sp. nov., novel myxobacteria with promising biotechnological applications.	Garcia R, Stadler M, Gemperlein K, Muller R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000813	2015

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 )
#21853	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24628
#43768	Ronald Garcia, Marc Stadler, Katja Gemperlein and Rolf Müller: Aetherobacter fasciculatus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Aetherobacter rufus sp. nov., novel myxobacteria with promising biotechnological applications. IJSEM 66: 928 - 938 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000813 , PubMed 26637815 )
#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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Aetherobacter rufus (DSM 24628, NCCB 100378, SBSr003)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Compound production

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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