Terrabacter terrae (CECT 3379, LMG 22921, PPLB)

Name: Terrabacter terrae (CECT 3379, LMG 22921, PPLB)
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BacDive ID 134149

Type strain

Strain Designation PPLB

Culture col. no. CECT 3379 LMG 22921 PPLB KCTC 39574 IAM 15339 2 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 318434

Special Collections JCM KCTC CIP Literature strains

History CECT 3379 <-- M. Montero-Barrientos strain PPLB.

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Terrabacter terrae PPLB is an aerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from soil.

Gram-positive rod-shaped aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 134959

KCTC 39574,LMG 22921,CECT 3379,JCM 14283,CIP 109085,IAM 15339

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:07

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Micrococcales

Family Intrasporangiaceae

Genus Terrabacter

Species Terrabacter terrae

Full scientific name Terrabacter terrae Montero-Barrientos et al. 2005

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape	Motility
31539	positive	4 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

31539

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
31539	positive	growth	15-40
31539	positive	optimum	27.5
67770	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

31539

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

31539

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31539	NaCl	positive	growth	<10 %
31539	NaCl	positive	optimum	5 %

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-8(H₄)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31539	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
31539	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
31539	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31539	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
31539	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
31539	gelatinase	+
31539	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
31539	soil
67770	Soil mixed with Iberian pig hair	Spain	ESP	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY944176 (>99% sequence identity) for Terrabacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	491
Soil Samples	2840
Animal Samples	1084
Plant Samples	134
Total Samples	4549

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3952957v1 assembly for Terrabacter terrae JCM 14283	scaffold	GCA_039529575	318434	13.13

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
31539	Terrabacter terrae 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY944176	1475		318434

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
31539	71
67770	71	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Terrabacter lapilli sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from stone.	Lee JE, Seo JP, Lee DW, Ko YH, Lee SD	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65541-0	2008
Phylogeny	Terrabacter terrae sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from soil in Spain.	Montero-Barrientos M, Rivas R, Velazquez E, Monte E, Roig MG	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63768-0	2005

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 )
#27831	IJSEM 2491 2005 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63768-0 , PubMed 16280515 )
#31539	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 #27831
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Terrabacter terrae (CECT 3379, LMG 22921, PPLB)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_039529575

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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