Streptomyces violaceus (DSM 40206, ATCC 15870, ATCC 23925)

Name: Streptomyces violaceus (DSM 40206, ATCC 15870, ATCC 23925)
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BacDive ID 15332

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 40206 ATCC 15870 ATCC 23925 CBS 909.68 IFO 12879 11 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1936

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- E.B. Shirling, ISP <- N.A. Krassilnikov, INMI KCC S-0387 <-- IFO 12879 <-- SAJ <-- ISP 5206 <-- INMI 117.

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Streptomyces violaceus DSM 40206 is a bacterium that was isolated from soil.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 45593

ATCC 15870,ATCC 23925,IFO 12879,NRRL B-3365,DSM 40206,JCM 4387,CCRC 12074,CCT 5008,VKM Ac-208,CBS 909.68,LMG 8591,NBRC 12879,BCRC 12074

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:21:40

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Kitasatosporales

Family Streptomycetaceae

Genus Streptomyces

Species Streptomyces violaceus

Full scientific name Streptomyces violaceus (Rossi Doria 1891) Waksman 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (5)

Streptomyces violatus
"Actinomyces violatus"
"Actinomyces janthinus"
"Streptotrix violacea"
Streptomyces janthinus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Streptomyces violaceus** (1)	Type strain
16091	S. violaceus DSM 40082, ATCC 15888, ATCC 25515, CBS 657.69, ... (type strain)

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	positive	99.5

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
9379	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
9379	positive	growth	28
67770	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125438	aerobe	91.788
125439	obligate aerobe	96.2

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		92.278

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Continent
9379	soil	USSR	Asia
67770	Soil

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
9379	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3159325v1 assembly for Streptomyces violaceus JCM 4387	complete	GCA_031593255	67308.4		67308	99.27
66792	ASM1464967v1 assembly for Streptomyces violaceus JCM 4387	scaffold	GCA_014649675	67308.3	8109465999	67308	66.98

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Streptomyces janthinus partial 16S rRNA gene, strain ISP 5206	AJ399478	1448	67308
20218	Streptomyces janthinus gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 4387	D44102	121	67308
20218	Streptomyces purpurascens gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: NBRC 12879	AB184851	1477	1924
124043	Streptomyces janthinus strain JCM 4387 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	MT760532	1330	1936

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	74.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Streptomyces janthinus JCM 4387
NCBI: GCA_014649675

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	82.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	88.10	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	99.50	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	96.20	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Streptomyces janthinus JCM 4387
NCBI: GCA_014649675.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	87.16	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.56	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	91.79	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	92.28	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.50	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	88.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Proposal of Streptomyces janthinus (Artamonova and Krassilnikov 1960) Pridham 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) as a later heterotypic synonym of Streptomyces violaceus (Rossi Doria 1891) Waksman 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) and an emended description of Streptomyces violaceus.	Li K, Qian Y, Li B, Liang W.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006892	2025

References

#9379	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 40206
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Streptomyces violaceus (DSM 40206, ATCC 15870, ATCC 23925)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_031593255

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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