Abyssicoccus albus (CCUG 69858, KCTC 33611, MCC 3027)

Name: Abyssicoccus albus (CCUG 69858, KCTC 33611, MCC 3027)
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BacDive ID 140460

Type strain

Strain Designation S31

Culture col. no. CCUG 69858 KCTC 33611 MCC 3027 S31 CIP 111652

NCBI tax ID(s) 1817405

Special Collections CCUG KCTC Literature strains CIP

History CIP <- 2019, CCUG <- 2016, R. Sharma, CSIR-IGIB, New Delhi, India <- S. Muduli, strain: S31

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Abyssicoccus albus S31 is an aerobe, Gram-positive, coccus-shaped bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from skin samples from healthy human subjects.

Gram-positive coccus-shaped colony-forming aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 409408

KCTC 33611,CCUG 69858

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:39:43

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Staphylococcaceae

Genus Abyssicoccus

Species Abyssicoccus albus

Full scientific name Abyssicoccus albus Jiang et al. 2016

Synonyms (1)

Auricoccus indicus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Abyssicoccus albus** (1)	Type strain
132558	A. albus DSM 29158, CCTCC AB 2014213, YIM M12140, ... (type strain)

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
43178	positive	coccus-shaped
120087	positive	coccus-shaped
125438	positive		90.608

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43178	0.5 mm	cream	circular	3 days	Zobell marine agar (ZMA)

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link
43178	Zobell marine agar (ZMA)
43178	tryptic soy agar (TSA)
43178	nutritient agar (NA)
43178	Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)
43178	Luria agar (LA)
120087	CIP Medium 6	Medium recipe at CIP
43178	MacConkey agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43178	positive	optimum	35
43178	positive	growth	20-40
63681	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43178	positive	optimum	7
43178	positive	growth	5-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
43178	aerobe
63681	aerobe

Spore formation

43178

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43178	NaCl	positive	growth	1-20 %
43178	NaCl	positive	optimum	2 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43178	355715 ChEBI	4-nitrophenyl beta-D-galactopyranoside	-
43178	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-
43178	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
43178	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-
43178	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-
43178	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-
43178	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-
43178	31605 ChEBI	ferric citrate	-
43178	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-
43178	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+
43178	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	fermentation
43178	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-
43178	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	assimilation
43178	25115 ChEBI	malate	-
43178	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-
43178	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-
43178	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	-
43178	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	-
43178	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-
43178	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
43178	16199 ChEBI	urea	-

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Group ID	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.	Resistance conc.
43178	2637		amikacin	30 µg (disc)
43178	2676		amoxicillin	10 µg (disc)
43178			amoxicillin		10 µg (disc)
43178	204928		cefotaxime	30 µg (disc)
43178	29007		ceftriaxone	10 µg (disc)
43178	100241		ciprofloxacin	5 µg (disc)
43178	37943		colistin		10 µg (disc)
43178	5195		furazolidone	50 µg (disc)
43178	17833		gentamicin	10 µg (disc)
43178	7528		netilmycin	30 µg (disc)
43178	100246		norfloxacin	10 µg (disc)
43178	9332	26	sulfamethoxazole	25 µg (disc)
43178	45924	26	trimethoprim	25 µg (disc)

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43178	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
43178	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Citrate test	Methylred-test
43178	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
43178	16947 ChEBI	citrate		-
43178	17234 ChEBI	glucose			-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43178	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43178	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43178	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
43178	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43178	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43178	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
43178	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43178	amylase	-
43178	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43178	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43178	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43178	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43178	cellulase	-	3.2.1.4
43178	chitinase	-	3.2.1.14
43178	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
43178	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43178	DNase	-
43178	endo-1,4-beta-xylanase	-	3.2.1.8
43178	esterase (C 4)	+
43178	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
43178	gelatinase	-
43178	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1
43178	lipase (C 14)	-
43178	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43178	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43178	nitrate reductase	+	1.7.99.4
43178	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
43178	tyrosinase	-	1.14.18.1
43178	urease	-	3.5.1.5
43178	valine arylamidase	-

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43178

Fatty acid	Percentage
C15:0 anteiso	56.4
C16:0 iso	11.7
C17:0 anteiso	8.4
C14:0 iso	4.8
C18:0 iso	2.6
C19:0 anteiso	2.5
C16:0	2.5
C15:0 iso	2.3
C20:0	2.2
C20:0 iso	1.5
C18:0	1.4
C17:0 iso	1.1
C14:0	0.7
C19:0 iso	0.4

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Human	-
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Skin, Nail, Hair

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature	Isolation date
43178	skin samples from healthy human subjects	Homo sapiens						Luria Bertani (LB) agar	3 days	37
63681	Healthy skin,human ear	Homo sapiens	2012-01-29	New Delhi,Sukhdev Vihar,CSIR-IGIB	India	IND	Asia
120087	Human, Ear, healthy skin	Homo sapiens			India	IND	Asia				2012-01-29

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KU302615 (>99% sequence identity) for Abyssicoccus albus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2483
Soil Samples	2286
Animal Samples	26548
Plant Samples	591
Total Samples	31908

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
120087	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM198957v1 assembly for Abyssicoccus albus S31	complete	GCA_001989575	1817405.5	2788500175	1817405	97.54

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
43178	Abyssicoccus albus strain S31 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KU302615	1507		1849491

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43178	34	Thermal denaturation, fluorometry

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Abyssicoccus albus S31
NCBI: GCA_001989575.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	90.61	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.34	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	66.64	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	81.79	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.35	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	84.33	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Description of Auricoccus indicus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from skin of human ear.	Prakash O, Muduli S, Kumar R, Kumari C, Nimonkar Y, Shouche YS, Sharma R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001787	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 )
#43178	Om Prakash, Suchismita Muduli, Rohit Kumar, Chanchal Kumari, Yogesh Nimonkar, Yogesh S. Shouche, Rakesh Sharma: Description of Auricoccus indicus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from skin of human ear. IJSEM 67: 1212 - 1218 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001787 , PubMed 28086066 )
#63681	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 69858
#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) .
#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 .
#120087	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 111652
#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 )
#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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Abyssicoccus albus (CCUG 69858, KCTC 33611, MCC 3027)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001989575

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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References

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