Blastococcus capsensis (DSM 46835, CECT 8876, BMG 804)

Name: Blastococcus capsensis (DSM 46835, CECT 8876, BMG 804)
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BacDive ID 132667

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 46835 CECT 8876 BMG 804

NCBI tax ID(s) 1564163

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- M. Gtari, Tunesia; BMG 804 <- K. Hezbri, Tunesia

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Blastococcus capsensis DSM 46835 is a Gram-positive, coccus-shaped bacterium that has a bright orange pigmentation and was isolated from interior of a limestone rock in a wall of an archaeological Roman pool.

Gram-positive coccus-shaped pigmented genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 396603

CECT 8876,DSM 46835

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:37:55

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Geodermatophilales

Family Geodermatophilaceae

Genus Blastococcus

Species Blastococcus capsensis

Full scientific name Blastococcus capsensis Hezbri et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
24981	positive	coccus-shaped
125439	positive			99.003

Colony morphology

24981

Colony colorbright orange

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Color
24981		bright orange

Multimedia

@ref:	24456
multimedia content:	DSM_46835.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/photos/DSM_46835.jpg
caption:	Medium 65 28°C
intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	66793
multimedia content:	EM_DSM_46835_1.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	EM_DSM_46835_1.jpg
caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	66793
multimedia content:	EM_DSM_46835_2.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	EM_DSM_46835_2.jpg
caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	66793
multimedia content:	EM_DSM_46835_3.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	EM_DSM_46835_3.jpg
caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	66793
multimedia content:	EM_DSM_46835_4.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	EM_DSM_46835_4.jpg
caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	66793
multimedia content:	EM_DSM_46835_5.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	EM_DSM_46835_5.jpg
caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	24456
multimedia content:	DSM_46835.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/photos/DSM_46835.jpg
caption:	Medium 65 28°C
intellectual property rights:	Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
24456	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)
24456	positive	growth	28

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
24981	positive	growth	5.5-9.0	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	99.685

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
24981	NaCl	positive	growth	1 %
24981	NaCl		maximum	4 %

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
24981	A31	A1gamma m-Dpm-direct

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
24981	16651 ChEBI	(S)-lactate	-	oxidation
24981	16763 ChEBI	2-oxobutanoate	-	oxidation
24981	30916 ChEBI	2-oxoglutarate	+	oxidation
24981	37054 ChEBI	3-hydroxybutyrate	+	oxidation
24981	73918 ChEBI	3-O-methyl-D-glucose	+	oxidation
24981	18101 ChEBI	4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid	-	oxidation
24981	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	oxidation
24981	13705 ChEBI	acetoacetate	+	oxidation
24981	36219 ChEBI	alpha-lactose	+	oxidation
24981	161680 ChEBI	aztreonam	+	oxidation
24981	73706 ChEBI	bromosuccinate	-	oxidation
24981	17968 ChEBI	butyrate	-	oxidation
24981		casein	-	degradation
24981	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	oxidation
24981	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	oxidation
24981	29990 ChEBI	D-aspartate	-	oxidation
24981	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	oxidation
24981	78697 ChEBI	D-fructose 6-phosphate	+	oxidation
24981	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	+	oxidation
24981	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	oxidation
24981	18024 ChEBI	D-galacturonic acid	+	oxidation
24981	30612 ChEBI	D-glucarate	-	oxidation
24981	8391 ChEBI	D-gluconate	+	oxidation
24981	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	oxidation
24981	14314 ChEBI	D-glucose 6-phosphate	+	oxidation
24981	15748 ChEBI	D-glucuronate	+	oxidation
24981	15588 ChEBI	D-malate	+	oxidation
24981	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	oxidation
24981	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	oxidation
24981	16523 ChEBI	D-serine	-	oxidation
24981	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	oxidation
24981	16551 ChEBI	D-trehalose	+	oxidation
24981	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	-	oxidation
24981	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	degradation
24981	71321 ChEBI	fusidate	-	oxidation
24981	16537 ChEBI	galactarate	-	oxidation
24981	16865 ChEBI	gamma-aminobutyric acid	-	oxidation
24981	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	degradation
24981	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	oxidation
24981	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	oxidation
24981	32323 ChEBI	glucuronamide	+	oxidation
24981	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	oxidation
24981	32735 ChEBI	guanidinium chloride	-	oxidation
24981	17368 ChEBI	hypoxanthine	-	degradation
24981	17596 ChEBI	inosine	-	oxidation
24981	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	-	oxidation
24981	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	oxidation
24981	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	+	oxidation
24981	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	+	oxidation
24981	17464 ChEBI	L-galactonic acid gamma-lactone	-	oxidation
24981	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	oxidation
24981	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	-	oxidation
24981	15589 ChEBI	L-malate	+	oxidation
24981	18183 ChEBI	L-pyroglutamic acid	+	oxidation
24981	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	-	oxidation
24981	6472 ChEBI	lincomycin	-	oxidation
24981	48607 ChEBI	lithium chloride	+	oxidation
24981	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	oxidation
24981	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	oxidation
24981	74611 ChEBI	methyl (R)-lactate	+	oxidation
24981	37657 ChEBI	methyl D-glucoside	+	oxidation
24981	51850 ChEBI	methyl pyruvate	-	oxidation
24981	50694 ChEBI	minocycline	-	oxidation
24981	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	oxidation
24981	35418 ChEBI	n-acetylneuraminate	-	oxidation
24981	100147 ChEBI	nalidixic acid	+	oxidation
24981	75273 ChEBI	niaproof	-	oxidation
24981	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
24981	17309 ChEBI	pectin	+	oxidation
24981	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	oxidation
24981	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	oxidation
24981	28077 ChEBI	rifampicin	-	oxidation
24981	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	oxidation
24981	75229 ChEBI	sodium bromate	-	oxidation
24981	62965 ChEBI	sodium formate	-	oxidation
24981	75228 ChEBI	sodium lactate	-	oxidation
24981	17164 ChEBI	stachyose	+	oxidation
24981	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	degradation
24981	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	oxidation
24981	75198 ChEBI	tetrazolium blue	-	oxidation
24981	75193 ChEBI	tetrazolium violet	-	oxidation
24981	45735 ChEBI	troleandomycin	-	oxidation
24981	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	oxidation
24981	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	-	oxidation
24981	18186 ChEBI	tyrosine	-	degradation
24981	28001 ChEBI	vancomycin	-	oxidation
24981	15318 ChEBI	xanthine	-	degradation

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
24981	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
24981	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
24981	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
24981	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
24981	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
24981	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Built environment	#Water reservoir (Aquarium/pool)
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Dust
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Geologic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
24456	interior of a limestone rock in a wall of an archaeological Roman pool	place of the archaeological city Capsa, at present Gafsa (34° 25' N 008° 47' E, depth 285 m)	Tunisia	TUN	Africa	34.4167	8.7833 34.4167/8.7833
24981	dust collected from the interior of a limestone rock in a wall of an archaeological Roman pool							Luedemann medium (DSMZ medium 877)	supplemented with cycloheximide (100 Âµg ml-1)	14 days	28

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LN626274 (>99% sequence identity) for Blastococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	440
Soil Samples	3945
Animal Samples	1429
Plant Samples	811
Total Samples	6625

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24456	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3016500v1 assembly for Blastococcus capsensis BMG 804	contig	GCA_030165005	1564163.3	8046740696	1564163	62.67

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24456	Blastococcus sp. BMG 804 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain BMG 804	LN626274	1329		1564163

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24456	73.7	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM3016500v1 assembly for Blastococcus capsensis BMG 804
NCBI: GCA_030165005

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.69	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	99.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	81.33	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	75.60	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Blastococcus montanus sp. nov., a multi-stress-resistant and bacteriostatic-producing bacterium isolated from the Flaming Mountain, Xinjiang,China.	Wang K, Liu Y, Cui X, Chen T, Liu G, Zhang W, Han Z, Zhang G.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006546	2024
Phylogeny	Blastococcus atacamensis sp. nov., a novel strain adapted to life in the Yungay core region of the Atacama Desert.	Castro JF, Nouioui I, Sangal V, Choi S, Yang SJ, Kim BY, Trujillo ME, Riesco R, Montero-Calasanz MDC, Rahmani TPD, Bull AT, Sutcliffe IC, Asenjo JA, Andrews B, Goodfellow M.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002828	2018
Phylogeny	Blastococcus xanthinilyticus sp. nov., isolated from monument.	Hezbri K, Nouioui I, Rohde M, Sproer C, Schumann P, Gtari M, Klenk HP, Montero-Calasanz MDC, Ghodhbane-Gtari F	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002646	2018
Phylogeny	Blastococcus capsensis sp. nov., isolated from an archaeological Roman pool and emended description of the genus Blastococcus, B. aggregatus, B. saxobsidens, B. jejuensis and B. endophyticus.	Hezbri K, Louati M, Nouioui I, Gtari M, Rohde M, Sproer C, Schumann P, Klenk HP, Ghodhbane-Gtari F, Montero-Calasanz MDC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001443	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 )
#24456	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 46835
#24981	K. L. Hezbri, Moussa,Nouioui, Imen,Gtari, Maher,Rohde, Manfred,Spröer, Cathrin,Schumann, Peter,Klenk, Hans-Peter,Ghodhbane-Gtari, Faten,Montero-Calasanz, Maria del Carmen: Blastococcus capsensis sp. nov., isolated from an archaeological Roman pool and emended description of the genus Blastococcus, B. aggregatus, B. saxobsidens, B. jejuensis and B. endophyticus. IJSEM 66: 4864 - 4872 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001443 , PubMed 27553620 )
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Blastococcus capsensis (DSM 46835, CECT 8876, BMG 804)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Murein

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_030165005

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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