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"Cephaloticoccus primus" (NCIMB 15004, ATCC TSD-38, CAG34)

BacDive ID 140800

Type strain

Strain Designation CAG34

Culture col. no. NCIMB 15004 ATCC TSD-38 CAG34

NCBI tax ID(s) 1548207

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"Cephaloticoccus primus" CAG34 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, coccus-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from the guts of Cephalotes rohweri.

Gram-negative coccus-shaped obligate aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 131122

ATCC TSD-38,NCIMB 15004

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:41

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Verrucomicrobiota

Class Opitutia

Order Opitutales

Family Opitutaceae

Genus "Cephaloticoccus"

Species "Cephaloticoccus primus"

Full scientific name Cephaloticoccus primus Lin et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape
43581	negative	0.5-0.6 µm	coccus-shaped
125438
125438	negative

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Medium used
43581	Cream	TSA agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43581	Trypticase Soy Agar (TSA)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43581	positive	growth	23-37
43581	positive	optimum	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
43581	positive	optimum	7
43581	positive	growth	6.9-7.7

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43581

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		92.438

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43581	NaCl	positive	growth	0.5-1.5 %(w/v)
43581	NaCl	positive	optimum	1 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43581	30089 ChEBI	acetate	-	respiration
43581	36219 ChEBI	alpha-lactose	+	respiration
43581	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	respiration
43581	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	respiration
43581	15570 ChEBI	D-alanine	-	respiration
43581	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	+	respiration
43581	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	respiration
43581	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	respiration
43581	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	respiration
43581	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	respiration
43581	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	respiration
43581	27605 ChEBI	D-psicose	+	respiration
43581	16523 ChEBI	D-serine	-	respiration
43581	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	respiration
43581	17126 ChEBI	DL-carnitine	-	respiration
43581	15740 ChEBI	formate	-	respiration
43581	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	respiration
43581	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	-	respiration
43581	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	-	respiration
43581	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	respiration
43581	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	respiration
43581	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	-	respiration
43581	15603 ChEBI	L-leucine	-	respiration
43581	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	-	respiration
43581	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	respiration
43581	6359 ChEBI	lactulose	-	respiration
43581	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	respiration
43581	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	respiration
43581	75146 ChEBI	monomethyl succinate	+	respiration
43581	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	respiration
43581	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	respiration
43581	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	respiration
43581	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	respiration
43581	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	respiration
43581	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	respiration
43581	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	respiration

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43581	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43581	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43581	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
43581	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43581	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
43581	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
43581	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43581	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
43581	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43581	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43581	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
43581	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
43581	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
43581	esterase (C 4)	-
43581	esterase Lipase (C 8)	-
43581	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1
43581	lipase (C 14)	-
43581	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52
43581	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43581	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
43581	urease	-	3.5.1.5
43581	valine arylamidase	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Stomach

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43581	the guts of Cephalotes rohweri	Tuscon, AZ	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KM066004 (>99% sequence identity) for Cephaloticoccus primus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	635
Soil Samples	544
Animal Samples	17
Plant Samples	36
Total Samples	1232

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM158001v1 assembly for Cephaloticoccus primus CAG34	contig	GCA_001580015	1548207.7	2728369578	1548207	54.85

Genome browser: GCA_001580015

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
43581	Cephaloticoccus primus strain CAG34 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KM066004

GC content

43581

GC-content (mol%)60.7

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Cephaloticoccus primus CAG34
NCBI: GCA_001580015.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	94.93	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	87.15	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	52.31	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.44	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	86.20	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	90.50	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts.	Lin JY, Russell JA, Sanders JG, Wertz JT	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001141	2016
Phylogeny	Nibricoccus aquaticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of the family Opitutaceae isolated from hyporheic freshwater.	Baek K, Song J, Cho JC, Chung EJ, Choi A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003198	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 )
#43581	Jonathan Y. Lin, Jacob A. Russell, Jon G. Sanders, John T. Wertz: Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts. IJSEM 66: 3034 - 3040 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001141 , PubMed 27154284 )
#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 .
#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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"Cephaloticoccus primus" (NCIMB 15004, ATCC TSD-38, CAG34)

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

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001580015

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

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