Rhodobacter capsulatus (DSM 938, 37b4)

Name: Rhodobacter capsulatus (DSM 938, 37b4)
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BacDive ID 13805

Type strain

Strain Designation 37b4

Culture col. no. DSM 938 37b4

NCBI tax ID(s) 1061

Special Collections DSMZ

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Rhodobacter capsulatus 37b4 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote of the family Paracoccaceae.

anaerobe mesophilic genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47298

DSM 938

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:50:11

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Paracoccaceae

Genus Rhodobacter

Species Rhodobacter capsulatus

Full scientific name Rhodobacter capsulatus (Molisch 1907) Imhoff et al. 1984

Synonyms (3)

Rhodopseudomonas capsulata
Rhodopseudomonas capsulatus
"Rhodonostoc capsulatum"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Rhodobacter capsulatus** (7)	Type strain
13806	R. capsulatus DSM 1710, ATCC 11166, ATCC 17015, IAM 14232, ... (type strain)
13807	R. capsulatus 6950, DSM 152, Pfennig 6950
13808	R. capsulatus Kb 1, DSM 155
13809	R. capsulatus Dr 1 G, DSM 156
13810	R. capsulatus 28 G, DSM 157
141549	R. capsulatus CCUG 2876
146576	R. capsulatus CCUG 31483, ATCC 23782, LMG 2373

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	97.482
125439	negative	90.1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
475	RHODOSPIRILLACEAE MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 27)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: RHODOSPIRILLACEAE MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 27) Composition: Disodium succinate 1.0 g/l KH2PO4 0.5 g/l Ammonium acetate 0.5 g/l NaCl 0.4 g/l NH4Cl 0.4 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.4 g/l Yeast extract 0.3 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.3 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.05 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.005 g/l Resazurin 0.005 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0002 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0001 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 3e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
475	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

475

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.902

Compound production

475

Compoundhydrogen

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
475	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2927740v1 assembly for Rhodobacter capsulatus 37b4	complete	GCA_029277405	1061.33		1061	96.57
66792	Rhodobacter capsulatus 37b4	complete			651716613	1061	95.09
66792	IMG-taxon 2597490355 annotated assembly for Rhodobacter capsulatus DSM 938	contig	GCA_900102155	1061.16	2597490355	1061	65.11

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Rhodobacter capsulatus DSM 938
NCBI: GCA_900102155

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	88.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	90.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	51.00	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	88.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Rhodobacter capsulatus 37b4
NCBI: GCA_029277405.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.48	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	67.35	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	58.53	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.90	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.61	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	70.16	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	An mRNA degrading complex in Rhodobacter capsulatus.	Jager S, Fuhrmann O, Heck C, Hebermehl M, Schiltz E, Rauhut R, Klug G.	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/29.22.4581	2001
Metabolism	RNase III processing of intervening sequences found in helix 9 of 23S rRNA in the alpha subclass of Proteobacteria.	Evguenieva-Hackenberg E, Klug G.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.182.17.4719-4729.2000	2000
	Analysis of the Rhodobacter capsulatus puc operon: the pucC gene plays a central role in the regulation of LHII (B800-850 complex) expression.	Tichy HV, Albien KU, Gad'on N, Drews G.	EMBO J	10.1002/j.1460-2075.1991.tb07845.x	1991
Metabolism	Endonucleolytic degradation of puf mRNA in Rhodobacter capsulatus is influenced by oxygen.	Klug G.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.88.5.1765	1991
Metabolism	Effect of uncoupler on assembly pathway for pigment-binding protein of bacterial photosynthetic membranes.	Dierstein R, Drews G.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.168.1.167-172.1986	1986
	Database on the structure of large ribosomal subunit RNA.	De Rijk P, Van de Peer Y, Chapelle S, De Wachter R.	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/22.17.3495	1994

References

#475	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 938
#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 )
#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) .
#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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Rhodobacter capsulatus (DSM 938, 37b4)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Compound production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_029277405

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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