Kribbella italica (DSM 28967, JCM 31976, NRRL B-59155)

Name: Kribbella italica (DSM 28967, JCM 31976, NRRL B-59155)
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BacDive ID 132194

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 28967 JCM 31976 NRRL B-59155 BC 637

NCBI tax ID(s) 1540520

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- P. Meyers, Univ. Cape Town, South Africa; BC637 DSM 28967 <-- P. Meyers; Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa; BC637.

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Kribbella italica DSM 28967 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from white biofilm on a frescoed surface.

mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 398230

JCM 31976,DSM 28967

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:39

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Propionibacteriales

Family Kribbellaceae

Genus Kribbella

Species Kribbella italica

Full scientific name Kribbella italica Everest et al. 2015

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence	Motility
125439	positive	99.9
125439		93.5

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
23983	GPHF-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 553)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: GPHF-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 553) Composition: Agar 20.0 g/l Glucose 10.0 g/l Beef extract 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Casein peptone 5.0 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.74 g/l Distilled water
23983	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
23983	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125438	aerobe	93.178
125439	obligate aerobe	99.4

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		95.6

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-9(H₄), MK-9(H₂)

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Biofilm

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
23983	white biofilm on a frescoed surface	Rome, Saint Callixstus Catacomb	Italy	ITA	Europe
67770	Site CSC13 of the Saint Callixstus catacomb in Rome		Italy	ITA	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
23983	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	ASM1420513v1 assembly for Kribbella italica DSM 28967	contig	GCA_014205135	1540520.3	2870837851	1540520	74.01

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
23983	Kribbella italica strain BC637 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KJ875927	1467		1540520

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Kribbella italica DSM 28967
NCBI: GCA_014205135

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	95.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	93.50	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	99.90	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.40	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Kribbella italica strain DSM 28967
PATRIC: 1540520.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	87.98	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.38	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	79.56	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	93.18	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.50	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	89.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Description of Kribbella italica sp. nov., isolated from a Roman catacomb.	Everest GJ, Curtis SM, De Leo F, Urzi C, Meyers PR	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.070672-0	2014

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 )
#23983	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 28967
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Kribbella italica (DSM 28967, JCM 31976, NRRL B-59155)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Observation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_014205135

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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