Actinoalloteichus caeruleus (DSM 43889, IFO 14455, IMET 43868)

Name: Actinoalloteichus caeruleus (DSM 43889, IFO 14455, IMET 43868)
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BacDive ID 13192

Type strain

Strain Designation Y388=As 4.1159, Y-388

Culture col. no. DSM 43889 IFO 14455 IMET 43868 JCM 6095 NBRC 14455 11 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 2893586

Special Collections DSMZ JCM CIP JMRC

History DSMZ <- JCM <- Z. Liu, Y388=As 4.1159 JCM <-- Z. Liu Y388. CIP <- 2000, IFO <- T. Tamura: strain AS 4.1159 <- Z.H. Liu, IMAS: strain Y-388

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Actinoalloteichus caeruleus Y388=As 4.1159 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-positive bacterium that was isolated from soil.

Gram-positive obligate aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 297066

CIP 106755,VKM Ac-1271,IFO 14455,IMET 43868,NRRL B-16252,DSM 43889,JCM 6095,AS 4.1159,NBRC 14455,CGMCC 4.1159

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:27:59

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Pseudonocardiales

Family Pseudonocardiaceae

Genus Actinoalloteichus

Species Actinoalloteichus caeruleus

Full scientific name Actinoalloteichus caeruleus (Baldacci 1944) Teo et al. 2021

Synonyms (3)

"Actinomyces caeruleus"
Streptomyces caeruleus
Actinoalloteichus cyanogriseus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
118827	positive
125439		90.692
125439	positive	96.923
125438		91.082
125438	positive	91.608

Colony morphology

118827

Hemolysis ability0

Multimedia

@ref:	11368
multimedia content:	DSM_43889.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/photos/DSM_43889.jpg
caption:	Medium 535 28°C
intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	66793
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caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	66793
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multimedia.multimedia content:	EM_DSM_43889_2.jpg
caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	66793
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multimedia.multimedia content:	EM_DSM_43889_3.jpg
caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	66793
multimedia content:	EM_DSM_43889_4.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	EM_DSM_43889_4.jpg
caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	66793
multimedia content:	EM_DSM_43889_5.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	EM_DSM_43889_5.jpg
caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
11368	GYM STREPTOMYCES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 65)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: GYM STREPTOMYCES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 65) Composition: Agar 18.0 g/l Malt extract 10.0 g/l Yeast extract 4.0 g/l Glucose 4.0 g/l CaCO3 2.0 g/l Distilled water
11368	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
39572	MEDIUM 366 - for Actinoalloteichus cyanogriseus		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Agar (20.000 g);Glucose (4.000g);Yeast extract (4.000 g);Malt extract (10.000 g)
118827	CIP Medium 366	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
11368	positive	growth	28
39572	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	28
118827	positive	growth	25-41
118827	negative	growth	10
118827	negative	growth	45

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
118827	obligate aerobe
125438	aerobe	90.39
125439	obligate aerobe	97.895

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-9(H₄)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20NE
68369	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
118827	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
68369	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
118827	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	+	hydrolysis
68369	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
118827	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API 20NE
118827	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
68369	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20NE
68369	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	Metabolite	Is sensitive	Is resistant
118827	0129 (2,4-Diamino-6,7-di-iso-propylpteridine phosphate)

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
118827	35581 ChEBI	indole
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20NE

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
118827	15688 ChEBI	acetoin		-
118827	17234 ChEBI	glucose			-
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole	-			from API 20NE

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
118827	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
118827	amylase	-
68369	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
118827	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68369	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API 20NE
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
118827	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
118827	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
118827	DNase	-
118827	gamma-glutamyltransferase	+	2.3.2.2
118827	gelatinase	+/-
68369	gelatinase	+		from API 20NE
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
118827	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52	from API zym
118827	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
118827	oxidase	-
118827	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
118827	tryptophan deaminase	-
118827	tween esterase	-
118827	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68369	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20NE

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
118827	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	+	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	-
11368	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	+/-	-	-	-	+/-	-	+	-	+	-	-

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
11368	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+/-	+/-	+/-	+	+/-	+	+	-	+/-	+	+	-	not determinedn.d.

API biotype100

@ref	ControlQ	D-glucose as carbon sourceGLU	D-fructose as carbon sourceFRU	D-galactose as carbon sourceGAL	D-trehalose as carbon sourceTRE	D-mannose as carbon sourceMNE	L-sorbose as carbon sourceSBE	D-melibiose as carbon sourceMEL	sucrose as carbon sourceSAC	D-raffinose as carbon sourceRAF	maltotriose as carbon sourceMTE	maltose as carbon sourceMAL	lactose as carbon sourceLAC	lactulose as carbon sourceLTE	1-O-methyl-beta-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGa	1-O-methyl-alpha-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMaGa	D-cellobiose as carbon sourceCEL	gentiobiose as carbon sourceGEN	1-O-methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGu	esculin as carbon sourceESC	D-ribose as carbon sourceRIB	L-arabinose as carbon sourceARA	D-xylose as carbon sourceXYL	palatinose as carbon sourcePLE	L-rhamnose as carbon sourceRHA	L-fucose as carbon sourceFUC	D-melezitose as carbon sourceMLZ	D-arabitol as carbon sourceDARL	L-arabitol as carbon sourceLARL	xylitol as carbon sourceXLT	dulcitol as carbon sourceDUL	D-tagatose as carbon sourceTAG	glycerol as carbon sourceGLY	myo-inositol as carbon sourceINO	D-mannitol as carbon sourceMAN	maltitol as carbon sourceMTL	D-turanose as carbon sourceTUR	D-sorbitol as carbon sourceSOR	adonitol as carbon sourceADO	hydroxyquinoline-beta-glucuronide as carbon sourceHBG	D-lyxose as carbon sourceLYX	i-erythritol as carbon sourceERY	1-O-methyl-alpha-D-glucoside as carbon sourceMDG	3-O-methyl-D-glucose as carbon source3MDG	D-saccharate as carbon sourceSAT	mucate as carbon sourceMUC	L-tartrate as carbon sourceLTAT	D-tartrate as carbon sourceDTAT	meso-tartrate as carbon sourceMTAT	D-malate as carbon sourceDMLT	L-malate as carbon sourceLMLT	cis-aconitate as carbon sourceCATE	trans-aconitate as carbon sourceTATE	tricarballylate as carbon sourceTTE	citrate as carbon sourceCIT	D-glucuronate as carbon sourceGRT	D-galacturonate as carbon sourceGAT	2-ketogluconate as carbon source2KG	5-ketogluconate as carbon source5KG	tryptophan as carbon sourceTRY	N-acetyl-D-glucosamine as carbon sourceNAG	D-gluconate as carbon sourceGNT	phenylacetate as carbon sourcePAC	protocatechuate as carbon sourcePAT	4-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcepOBE	quinate as carbon sourceQAT	gentisate as carbon sourceGTE	3-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcemOBE	benzoate as carbon sourceBAT	3-phenylpropionate as carbon sourcePPAT	m-coumarate as carbon sourceCMT	trigonelline as carbon sourceTGE	betaine as carbon sourceBET	putrescine as carbon sourcePCE	4-aminobutyrate as carbon sourceABT	histamine as carbon sourceHIN	DL-lactate as carbon sourceLAT	caprate as carbon sourceCAP	caprylate as carbon sourceCYT	L-histidine as carbon sourceHIS	succinate as carbon sourceSUC	fumarate as carbon sourceFUM	glutarate as carbon sourceGRE	DL-glycerate as carbon sourceGYT	5-aminovalerate as carbon sourceAVT	ethanolamine as carbon sourceETN	tryptamine as carbon sourceTTN	D-glucosamine as carbon sourceGLN	itaconate as carbon sourceITA	3-hydroxybutyrate as carbon source3OBU	L-aspartate as carbon sourceAPT	L-glutamate as carbon sourceGTT	L-proline as carbon sourcePRO	D-alanine as carbon sourceDALA	L-alanine as carbon sourceLALA	L-serine as carbon sourceSER	malonate as carbon sourceMNT	propionate as carbon sourcePROP	L-tyrosine as carbon sourceTYR	2-ketoglutarate as carbon source2KT
118827	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
11368	soil	Yunnan Province	China	CHN	Asia
67770	Soil	Yunnan Province	China	CHN	Asia
118827	Environment, Soil	Yunnan	China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB006178 (>99% sequence identity) for Actinoalloteichus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	125
Soil Samples	1111
Animal Samples	269
Plant Samples	164
Total Samples	1669

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
11368	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
118827	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	ASM42918v2 assembly for Actinoalloteichus caeruleus DSM 43889	contig	GCA_000429185	1120930.9	2585427525	1120930	78
66792	Actinoalloteichus cyanogriseus DSM 43889	contig		1120930.3		1120930	67.6

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Actinoalloteichus caeruleus gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB006178	1468		65497

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	72.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
67770	69.54	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM42918v2 assembly for Actinoalloteichus caeruleus DSM 43889
NCBI: GCA_000429185

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	96.92	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	97.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	90.69	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	72.26	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Actinoalloteichus cyanogriseus DSM 43889
PATRIC: 1120930.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	91.61	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.18	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	72.88	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	90.39	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.92	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	91.08	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Reclassification of Streptomyces caeruleus as a synonym of Actinoalloteichus cyanogriseus and reclassification of Streptomyces spheroides and Streptomyces laceyi as later synonyms of Streptomyces niveus.	Tamura T, Ishida Y, Otoguro M, Hatano K, Labeda D, Price NP, Suzuki K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65560-0	2008
Phylogeny	Actinoalloteichus cyanogriseus gen. nov., sp. nov.	Tamura T, Zhiheng L, Yamei Z, Hatano K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-50-4-1435	2000

References

#11368	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 43889
#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 )
#20216	Curators of the JMRC: Jena Microbial Resource Collection (JMRC):
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#39572	; Curators of the CIP;
#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) .
#66793	Mukherjee et al.: GEBA: 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. 35: 676 - 683 2017 ( DOI 10.1038/nbt.3886 , PubMed 28604660 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#118827	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 106755
#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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Actinoalloteichus caeruleus (DSM 43889, IFO 14455, IMET 43868)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API 20NE

API biotype100

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000429185

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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