Nocardia xestospongiae (BCC 45622, NBRC 109069, ST01-07)

Name: Nocardia xestospongiae (BCC 45622, NBRC 109069, ST01-07)
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BacDive ID 133101

Type strain

Strain Designation ST01-07

Culture col. no. BCC 45622 NBRC 109069 ST01-07

NCBI tax ID(s) 1522140

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Nocardia xestospongiae ST01-07 is an aerobe, Gram-positive bacterium that builds a globose bodies and rod-shaped elements directly on the substrate mycelium and has a yellowish-brown pigmentation.

Gram-positive pigmented aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 391041

NBRC 109069

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:52

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Nocardiaceae

Genus Nocardia

Species Nocardia xestospongiae

Full scientific name Nocardia xestospongiae Thawai et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Motility
25298	positive

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Medium used
25298	greyish-yellow to dark greyish-yellow	ISP2 seawater agar
25298	light orange yellow	ISP3
25298	light orange yellow	ISP4
25298	light orange yellow	ISP6
25298	light orange yellow	ISP7
25298	pale orange yellow to light orange yellow	ISP5
25298	pale orange yellow to light orange yellow	NA (Nutrient Agar)
25298	light orange yellow to moderate orange yellow	Czapek's sucrose and glucose-asparagine agar

Multicellular morphology

@ref	Forms multicellular complex	Complex name
25298		globose bodies and rod-shaped elements directly on the substrate mycelium

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Color
25298		yellowish-brown

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
25298	ISP2 seawater agar
25298	ISP3
25298	ISP4
25298	ISP6
25298	ISP7
25298	ISP5
25298	NA (Nutrient Agar)
25298	Czapek's sucrose and glucose-asparagine agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
25298	positive	growth	20-40
25298	positive	optimum	30
25298	negative	growth	45

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
25298	positive	optimum	8
25298	positive	growth	6-12	alkaliphile
25298		growth	5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

25298

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
25298	NaCl		optimum	4 %
25298	NaCl	positive	growth	0-7 %(w/v)
25298	NaCl		maximum	7 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
25298	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	builds acid from
25298	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
25298	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	builds acid from
25298	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	builds acid from
25298	17317 ChEBI	D-sorbose	+	builds acid from
25298	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds acid from
25298	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	degradation
25298		milk	-	degradation
25298		milk	+
25298	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
25298	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from
25298	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
25298	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite
25298	2637	amikacin
25298	100241	ciprofloxacin
25298	3732	clarithromycin
25298	471744	imipenem
25298	63607	linezolid
25298	50694	minocycline

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

25298

Fatty acid	Percentage
C17:1ω8c	21.8
C16:0	20.5
C17:0	14.2
C16:1ω7c	9.2
C18:1ω9c	8.2
10-Methyl C17:0	7.7
C18:0	5.6
C15:1ω5c	3.4
10-Methyl C18:0	3.4
C19:0	1.8
C16:0 iso	1.5
C14:0	1.3
10-Methyl C16:0	0.6
C19:1ω9c	0.5
C20:1ω7c	0.3

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Host	#Invertebrates (Other)	#Porifera (Sponges)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
25298	a marine sponge (Xestospongia sp.) collected from the Andaman Sea	Andaman Sea, Phuket Province, Thailand	Thailand	THA	Asia

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Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
25298	Nocardia xestospongiae gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB973878	1399		1522140

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
25298	70.2	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Nocardia xestospongiae sp. nov., isolated from a marine sponge in the Andaman Sea.	Thawai C, Rungjindamai N, Klanbut K, Tanasupawat S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001736	2017

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 )
#25298	C. R. Thawai, N.,Klanbut, K.,Tanasupawat, S.: Nocardia xestospongiae sp. nov., isolated from a marine sponge in the Andaman Sea. IJSEM 67: 1451 - 1456 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001736 , PubMed 27974088 )
#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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Nocardia xestospongiae (BCC 45622, NBRC 109069, ST01-07)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Multicellular morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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