Brachybacterium horti (KCTC 39563, CCTCC AB 2015116, THG-S15-4)

Name: Brachybacterium horti (KCTC 39563, CCTCC AB 2015116, THG-S15-4)
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BacDive ID 140947

Type strain

Strain Designation THG-S15-4

Culture col. no. KCTC 39563 CCTCC AB 2015116 THG-S15-4 JCM 31742

NCBI tax ID(s) 1517578

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Brachybacterium horti THG-S15-4 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-positive, coccus-shaped prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from Soil from the Guro-gu district.

Gram-positive coccus-shaped colony-forming facultative anaerobe 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 133728

JCM 31742

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:43

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Micrococcales

Family Dermabacteraceae

Genus Brachybacterium

Species Brachybacterium horti

Full scientific name Brachybacterium horti Singh et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape	Motility
43840	positive	0.5-0.8 µm	coccus-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43840	2-4 mm	White	circular	2 days	Nutrient agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43840	LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM
43840	Marine agar (MA)
43840	Nutrient agar (NA)
43840	Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)
43840	Trypticase Soy Agar (TSA)
43840	MacConkey agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43840	positive	growth	18-37
43840	positive	optimum	25-37
67770	positive	growth	28

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
43840	positive	optimum	7
43840	positive	growth	6-7.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43840

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43840	NaCl	positive	growth	0-4 %(w/v)
43840	NaCl	positive	optimum	0-2 %(w/v)

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-7

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43840	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation
43840	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	hydrolysis
43840		casein	-	hydrolysis
43840	17029 ChEBI	chitin	-	hydrolysis
43840	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation
43840	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
43840	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	assimilation
43840	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
43840	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation
43840	16991 ChEBI	dna	+	hydrolysis
43840	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
43840	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
43840	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	assimilation
43840	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	builds acid from
43840	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	assimilation
43840	17895 ChEBI	L-tyrosine	-	hydrolysis
43840	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
43840	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
43840	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	assimilation
43840	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43840	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	-	assimilation
43840	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
43840	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	hydrolysis
43840	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	hydrolysis
43840	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43840	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43840	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2
43840	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43840	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
43840	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43840	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
43840	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
43840	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43840	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
43840	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
43840	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21
43840	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43840	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43840	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
43840	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43840	esterase (C 4)	-
43840	esterase Lipase (C 8)	-
43840	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43840	lipase (C 14)	-
43840	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43840	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	-
43840	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
43840	valine arylamidase	+

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43840

Fatty acid	Percentage
C15:0 anteiso	51.5
C16:0 iso	16.3
C16:0	6.6
C17:0 anteiso	6.6
C14:0 iso	5
C19:1ω9c / C19:1ω11c	2.5
C18:0	2.2
C15:0 iso	2
C12:0aldehyde	1.9
C20:1ω7c	1.6
C14:0	1.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43840	Soil from the Guro-gu district	Seoul	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia
67770	Garden soil from the Guro-gu district of Seoul		Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KM073966 (>99% sequence identity) for Brachybacterium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	136
Soil Samples	61
Animal Samples	1322
Plant Samples	64
Total Samples	1583

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
43840	Brachybacterium horti 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KM073966

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43840	69.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Brachybacterium horti sp. nov., isolated from garden soil.	Singh H, Du J, Yang JE, Shik Yin C, Kook M, Yi TH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000696	2015

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 )
#43840	Hina Singh, Juan Du, Jung-Eun Yang, Chang Shik Yin, MooChang Kook, Tae-Hoo Yi: Brachybacterium horti sp. nov., isolated from garden soil. IJSEM 66: 189 - 195 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000696 , PubMed 26476895 )
#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 .
#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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Brachybacterium horti (KCTC 39563, CCTCC AB 2015116, THG-S15-4)

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