Blastococcus colisei (DSM 46837, CECT 8823, BMG 822)

Name: Blastococcus colisei (DSM 46837, CECT 8823, BMG 822)
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BacDive ID 132717

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 46837 CECT 8823 BMG 822

NCBI tax ID(s) 1564162

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Blastococcus colisei DSM 46837 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from interior of a limestone rock from a archaeological amphitheatre.

mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 396820

CECT 8823,DSM 46837

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:35

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Geodermatophilales

Family Geodermatophilaceae

Genus Blastococcus

Species Blastococcus colisei

Full scientific name Blastococcus colisei Hezbri et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	positive	98.7

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
24507	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
24507	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	99.4

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Geologic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
24507	interior of a limestone rock from a archaeological amphitheatre	El Jem, amphitheater (Coliseum Thysdrus)	Tunisia	TUN	Africa

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LN626273 (>99% sequence identity) for Blastococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	73
Soil Samples	1202
Animal Samples	120
Plant Samples	508
Total Samples	1903

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24507	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	ASM671709v1 assembly for Blastococcus colisei DSM 46837	contig	GCA_006717095	1564162.3	2818991577	1564162	69.8

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24507	Blastococcus colisei partial 16S rRNA gene, strain BMG 822	LN626273	1454		1564162

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24507	73.2	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: Blastococcus colisei DSM 46837
NCBI: GCA_006717095

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	59.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	67.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	98.70	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: Blastococcus colisei strain DSM 46837
PATRIC: 1564162.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	85.83	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.35	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	60.39	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	88.92	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.84	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	64.83	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Beyond the snapshot: identification of the timeless, enduring indicator microbiome informing soil fertility and crop production in alkaline soils.	Zhang J, Dolfing J, Liu W, Chen R, Zhang J, Lin X, Feng Y.	Environ Microbiome	10.1186/s40793-022-00420-6	2022
	Climatic Aridity Gradient Modulates the Diversity of the Rhizosphere and Endosphere Bacterial Microbiomes of Opuntia ficus-indica.	Karray F, Gargouri M, Chebaane A, Mhiri N, Mliki A, Sayadi S.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.01622	2020
Phylogeny	Blastococcus colisei sp. nov, isolated from an archaeological amphitheatre.	Hezbri K, Nouioui I, Rohde M, Schumann P, Gtari M, Klenk HP, Montero-Calasanz MD, Ghodhbane-Gtari F	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-016-0804-4	2016
Genetics	Blastococcus brunescens sp. nov., a member of the Geodermatophilaceae isolated from sandstone collected from the Sahara Desert in Tunisia.	Hezbri K, Kammoun I, Sbissi I, Klenk HP, Montero-Calasanz MDC, Ghodhbane-Gtari F, Gtari M.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006317	2024
Phylogeny	Blastococcus tunisiensis sp. nov., isolated from limestone collected in Tunisia.	Louati M, Hezbri K, Montero-Calasanz MDC, Rohde M, Goker M, Ghodhbane-Gtari F, Klenk HP, Nouioui I, Gtari M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005441	2022

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 )
#24507	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 46837
#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 .
#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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Blastococcus colisei (DSM 46837, CECT 8823, BMG 822)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_006717095

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

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