Rhodobacter capsulatus (CCUG 31483, ATCC 23782, LMG 2373)

Name: Rhodobacter capsulatus (CCUG 31483, ATCC 23782, LMG 2373)
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BacDive ID 146576

Type strain

Culture col. no. CCUG 31483 ATCC 23782 LMG 2373

NCBI tax ID(s) 1061

Special Collections CCUG

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Rhodobacter capsulatus CCUG 31483 is a prokaryote that was isolated from Soil.

genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 4824

LMG 2373,ATCC 23782,NCIB 11773,CCUG 31483,NCIMB 11773

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:35:25

Domain Bacteria

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)
13805	R. capsulatus 37b4, DSM 938
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

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	97.482

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	94.7

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		91.883

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
50615	Soil	St.Louis	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM654669v1 assembly for Rhodobacter capsulatus SL	contig	GCA_006546695	1061.18	1061	71.05

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Rhodobacter capsulatus strain SL
PATRIC: 1061.18

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	94.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	87.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	51.80	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	80.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Rhodobacter capsulatus strain SL
PATRIC: 1061.18

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.48	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	69.59	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	91.88	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	57.03	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.36	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	68.63	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	The nucleotide sequence of the 5 S rRNA of Rhodobacter capsulatus ATCC 23782.	Van den Eynde H, Vandenberghe A, De Wachter R.	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/14.21.8688	1986
	Isolation and molecular characterization of pMG160, a mobilizable cryptic plasmid from Rhodobacter blasticus.	Inui M, Nakata K, Roh JH, Vertes AA, Yukawa H.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.69.2.725-733.2003	2003
	Profiling and quantitation of bacterial carotenoids by liquid chromatography and photodiode array detection.	Nelis HJ, De Leenheer AP.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.55.12.3065-3071.1989	1989
Metabolism	Occurrence and phylogenetic diversity of Sphingomonas strains in soils contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.	Leys NM, Ryngaert A, Bastiaens L, Verstraete W, Top EM, Springael D.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.70.4.1944-1955.2004	2004
	Compilation of 5S rRNA and 5S rRNA gene sequences.	Specht T, Wolters J, Erdmann VA.	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/18.suppl.2215	1990
Metabolism	Phosphonate utilization by bacterial cultures and enrichments from environmental samples.	Schowanek D, Verstraete W	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.56.4.895-903.1990	1990
Enzymology	Characterization of the cell wall and outer membrane of Rhodopseudomonas capsulata.	Flammann HT, Weckesser J	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.159.1.191-198.1984	1984
Enzymology	Porin isolated from the cell envelope of Rhodopseudomonas capsulata.	Flammann HT, Weckesser J	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.159.1.410-412.1984	1984
Pathogenicity	Lipopolysaccharides of two strains of the phototrophic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas capsulata.	Omar AS, Flammann HT, Borowiak D, Weckesser J	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/BF00407760	1983

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 )
#50615	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 31483
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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 (CCUG 31483, ATCC 23782, LMG 2373)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_006546695

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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