Name: Rubrobacter taiwanensis LS-293
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 134093

Type strain:

Species: Rubrobacter taiwanensis

Strain Designation: LS-293

Culture col. no.: ATCC BAA-406, BCRC 17173, JCM 12932

Strain history: BCRC 17173 <-- M.-Y. Chen LS-293.

NCBI tax ID(s): 185139 (species)

SI-ID 134307

ATCC BAA-406, BCRC 17173, CCRC 17173, JCM12932

Section

Rubrobacter taiwanensis LS-293 is an aerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from hot spring.

Gram-positive
rod-shaped
aerobe
16S sequence
Bacteria

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	*Rubrobacteria*
	Order	*Rubrobacterales*
	Family	*Rubrobacteraceae*
	Genus	*Rubrobacter*
	Species	**Rubrobacter taiwanensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Rubrobacter taiwanensis Chen et al. 2004

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #31238]	Gram stain	positive

[Ref.: #31238]	Cell length	2 µm

[Ref.: #31238]	Cell width	0.95 µm

[Ref.: #31238]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #31238]	Motility	no

[Ref.: #31238]

Pigment production

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

		Temperature
[Ref.: #31238]	growth	30-70 °C
[Ref.: #31238]	optimum	60 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	55 °C

[Ref.: #31238]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	thermophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #31238]			optimum	8
[Ref.: #31238]			growth	06-11

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #31238]

Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

[Ref.: #31238]

Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #31238]		NaCl		growth	0-5	%
[Ref.: #31238]		NaCl		optimum	2.5	%

[Ref.: #67770]

Observation

quinones: MK-8

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #31238]	arabinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	arginine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	galactose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	gelatin ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	glutamate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	lactose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	melibiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	proline ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	raffinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	serine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	trehalose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31238]	xylose ChEBI	+	carbon source
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	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #31238]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #31238]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

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

[Ref.: #31238]	Sample type/isolated from	hot spring

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Lu-shan hot springs
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Taiwan
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	TWN
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

What are isolation sources categories?

[Ref.: #69479]

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF465803 (>99% sequence identity) for Rubrobacter taiwanensis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	53
Soil Samples	103
Animal Samples	130
Plant Samples	14
Total Samples	300

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.: #31238]	Rubrobacter taiwanensis strain LS-293 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF465803	1476	GenBank	185139 tax ID

[Ref.: #31238]	GC-content	68.5 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	68.5 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

ATCC BAA-406, BCRC 17173, JCM 12932

[Ref.: #91702]

SI-ID 134307

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Rubrobacter taiwanensis sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, radiation-resistant species isolated from hot springs.	Chen MY, Wu SH, Lin GH, Lu CP, Lin YT, Chang WC, Tsay SS	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63109-0	2004	*

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 )

#31238

Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #27562 (see below)

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#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 .

#91702

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-ID134307.1 )

#27562

IJSEM 1849 2004 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63109-0 , PubMed 15388754 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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