Geodermatophilus pulveris | Type strain | DSM 46839, CECT 9003, BMG 825 | BacDiveID:132629

Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 132629

Type strain:

Species: Geodermatophilus pulveris

Culture col. no.: DSM 46839, CECT 9003, BMG 825

Strain history: <- M. Gtari, Tunisia; BMG 825 <- K. Hezbri, Tunisia

NCBI tax ID(s): 1564159 (species)

SI-ID 398412

DSM 46839

Special Collections

DSMZ

Section

Geodermatophilus pulveris DSM 46839 is a spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium that was isolated from desert limestone dust from grooves in limestone cliffs.

Gram-positive
spore-forming
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Actinomycetota*
	Class	*Actinomycetes*
	Order	*Geodermatophilales*
	Family	*Geodermatophilaceae*
	Genus	*Geodermatophilus*
	Species	**Geodermatophilus pulveris**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Geodermatophilus pulveris Hezbri et al. 2016

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

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Caption:

Medium 65 28°C

Intellectual property rights:

© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ

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electron microscopic image

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© HZI/Manfred Rohde

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electron microscopic image

Intellectual property rights:

© HZI/Manfred Rohde

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electron microscopic image

Intellectual property rights:

© HZI/Manfred Rohde

Caption:

electron microscopic image

Intellectual property rights:

© HZI/Manfred Rohde

Caption:

electron microscopic image

Intellectual property rights:

© HZI/Manfred Rohde

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

GYM STREPTOMYCES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 65)

Culture medium growth

Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #24418]			growth	28 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

Ability of spore formation

yes Confidence in %93

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #24418]	Sample type/isolated from	desert limestone dust from grooves in limestone cliffs
[Ref.: #24418]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Sahara desert, Grand Erg Oriental
[Ref.: #24418]	Country	Tunisia
[Ref.: #24418]	Country ISO 3 Code	TUN
[Ref.: #24418]	Continent	Africa
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Desert
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Dust

What are isolation sources categories?

Global distribution of 16S sequence LN626270 (>99% sequence identity) for Geodermatophilus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	84
Soil Samples	974
Animal Samples	84
Plant Samples	232
Total Samples	1374

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

Biosafety level

1

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #24418]	Geodermatophilus sp. BMG 825 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain BMG 825	LN626270	1370	GenBank ENA	1564159 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Geodermatophilus pulveris DSM 46839	GCA_900188375	contig	GenBank ENA	1564159 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Geodermatophilus pulveris strain DSM 46839	1564159.3	wgs	PATRIC	1564159 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Geodermatophilus pulveris DSM 46839	2700988693	draft	JGI IMG/M	1564159 tax ID	*

GC-content

75.7 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Geodermatophilus pulveris strain DSM 46839 PATRIC: 1564159.3
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	93	no

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Geodermatophilus pulveris strain DSM 46839 PATRIC: 1564159.3
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	89.284	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.47	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	65.451	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	89.433	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.576	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	60.5	no

Availability in culture collections External links

Culture collection no.

DSM 46839, CECT 9003, BMG 825

SI-ID 398412

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Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Geodermatophilus pulveris sp. nov., a gamma-radiation-resistant actinobacterium isolated from the Sahara desert.	Hezbri K, Ghodhbane-Gtari F, Montero-Calasanz MDC, Nouioui I, Rohde M, Sproer C, Schumann P, Klenk HP, Gtari M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001272	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 )

#24418

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 46839

#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 )

#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 .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#90943

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID398412.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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