Blastococcus xanthinilyticus (DSM 46842, CECT 8884, BMG 862)

Name: Blastococcus xanthinilyticus (DSM 46842, CECT 8884, BMG 862)
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BacDive ID 140448

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 46842 CECT 8884 BMG 862

NCBI tax ID(s) 1564164

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Blastococcus xanthinilyticus DSM 46842 is a mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that was isolated from marble dust from a monument.

Gram-positive mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 396829

CECT 8884,DSM 46842

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:36

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Geodermatophilales

Family Geodermatophilaceae

Genus Blastococcus

Species Blastococcus xanthinilyticus

Full scientific name Blastococcus xanthinilyticus Hezbri et al. 2018

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain
65444	positive
125439	positive

Colony morphology

65444

Colony colororange-pink to orange

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
43055	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
65444	GYM Streptomyces
65444	Luedemann
65444	Reasoner's 2A agar
65444	ISP2
65444	ISP5
65444	ISP7
65444	5006

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
43055	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
65444	positive	growth	10-45
65444	positive	growth	28-35	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
65444	positive	optimum	6.5-8
65444	positive	growth	6-10

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	99.9

Spore formation

65444

Spore formationno

Observation

@ref	Observation
65444	cells occur singly or in three-dimensional coccoid aggregates
65444	the peptidoglycan in the cell wall contains meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diamino acid
65444	glucose, galactose and ribose are the whole-cell sugars
65444	MK-9(H 4 ), MK-8(H 4 ) and MK-9(H 2 ) as the predominant menaquinones

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
65444	casein	-	degradation
65444	esculin	-	degradation
65444	gelatin	-	degradation
65444	hypoxanthine	-	degradation
65444	nitrate	-	reduction
65444	starch	-	degradation
65444	tyrosine	-	degradation
65444	xanthine	+	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
65444	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
65444	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
65444	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Dust

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43055	marble dust from a monument	Bulla Regia monument	Tunisia	TUN	Africa
65444	a marble sample collected from the Bulla Regia monument	North	Tunisia	TUN	Africa

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LN626275 (>99% sequence identity) for Blastococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	440
Soil Samples	3945
Animal Samples	1429
Plant Samples	811
Total Samples	6625

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM812483v1 assembly for Blastococcus xanthinilyticus DSM 46842	contig	GCA_008124835	1564164.3	2700988699	1564164	65.29

Genome browser: GCA_008124835

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
43055	Blastococcus sp. BMG 862 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain BMG 862	LN626275	1362		1564164

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43055	74.7	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 xanthinilyticus DSM 46842
NCBI: GCA_008124835

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	57.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	69.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	99.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Blastococcus xanthinilyticus strain DSM 46842
PATRIC: 1564164.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	86.82	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.19	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	50.12	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	88.92	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.88	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	65.50	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Blastococcus montanus sp. nov., a multi-stress-resistant and bacteriostatic-producing bacterium isolated from the Flaming Mountain, Xinjiang,China.	Wang K, Liu Y, Cui X, Chen T, Liu G, Zhang W, Han Z, Zhang G.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006546	2024
Phylogeny	Blastococcus xanthinilyticus sp. nov., isolated from monument.	Hezbri K, Nouioui I, Rohde M, Sproer C, Schumann P, Gtari M, Klenk HP, Montero-Calasanz MDC, Ghodhbane-Gtari F	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002646	2018

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 )
#43055	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 46842
#65444	Karima Hezbri, Imen Nouioui, Manfred Rohde, Cathrin Spröer, Peter Schumann, Maher Gtari, Hans-Peter Klenk, Maria del Carmen Montero-Calasanz, Faten Ghodhbane-Gtari: Blastococcus xanthinilyticus sp. nov., isolated from monument. IJSEM 68: 1177 - 1183 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002646 , PubMed 29458502 )
#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 xanthinilyticus (DSM 46842, CECT 8884, BMG 862)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_008124835

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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