Tsukamurella ocularis (JCM 31969, DSM 105034, HKU63)

Name: Tsukamurella ocularis (JCM 31969, DSM 105034, HKU63)
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BacDive ID 158627

Type strain

Strain Designation HKU63

Culture col. no. JCM 31969 DSM 105034 HKU63 CIP 111612

NCBI tax ID(s) 1970234

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Tsukamurella ocularis HKU63 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that forms irregular colonies and was isolated from eye swab of a patient with conjunctivitis.

Gram-positive colony-forming aerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 413251

JCM 31969,CIP 111612

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:08:04

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Tsukamurellaceae

Genus Tsukamurella

Species Tsukamurella ocularis

Full scientific name Tsukamurella ocularis Teng et al. 2018

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Tsukamurella ocularis** (1)	Type strain
164165	T. ocularis JCM 31970, DSM 105035

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
65352	positive
121387	positive	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
65352	2 mm	white and creamy or yellow and creamy	irregular	2 days	Columbia agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Composition	Medium link
65352	Columbia agar	with 5% defibrinated sheep blood agar
65352	brain-heart infusion agar
65352	Nutrient agar (NA)
65352	tryptic soy agar
65352	chocolate agar
65352	MacConkey agar
121387	CIP Medium 29		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
65352	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
65352	negative	growth	10
65352	negative	growth	42
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

65352

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation
65352
121387

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
65352	NaCl	positive	growth	0-7 %(w/v)

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-9

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
65352	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from
65352	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	+	builds acid from
65352	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from
65352	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	+	builds acid from
65352	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	+	builds acid from
65352	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
65352	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from
65352	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	builds acid from
65352	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
65352	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	-	builds acid from
65352	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	builds acid from
65352	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	builds acid from
65352	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	builds acid from
65352	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	builds acid from
65352	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from
65352	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds acid from
65352	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from
65352		esculin ferric citrate	+	builds acid from
65352	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from
65352	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from
65352	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	builds acid from
65352	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from
65352	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from
65352	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from
65352	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from
65352	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	+	builds acid from
65352	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from
65352	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	builds acid from
65352	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from
65352	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from
65352	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from
65352	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from
65352	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from
65352	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from
65352	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	builds acid from
65352	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	-	builds acid from
65352	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	builds acid from
65352	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	builds acid from
65352		potassium 2-dehydro-D-gluconate	+	builds acid from
65352		potassium 5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	builds acid from
65352	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	+	builds acid from
65352	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from
65352	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from
65352	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from
65352	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	builds acid from
65352	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
65352	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from
65352	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	builds acid from
65352	18186 ChEBI	tyrosine	+	hydrolysis
65352	15318 ChEBI	xanthine	-	hydrolysis
65352	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	+	builds acid from

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
65352	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
65352	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Eye
#Infection	#Patient	#Swab
#Infection	#Inflammation	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Enrichment culture temperature	Geographic location	Isolation date
65352	eye swab of a patient with conjunctivitis	Hong Kong	HKG	Asia	Columbia agar	with 5 % defibrinated sheep blood	37
67770	Eye swab of a patient with conjunctivitis in Hong Kong	China	CHN	Asia
121387	Human, Conjunctivitis	China	CHN	Asia				Hong Kong	2008-06-11

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KY787187 (>99% sequence identity) for Tsukamurella from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2978
Soil Samples	3431
Animal Samples	5160
Plant Samples	790
Total Samples	12359

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
121387	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
65352	Tsukamurella ocularis strain HKU63 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KY787187

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	69.4-73.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Tsukamurella ocularis sp. nov. and Tsukamurella hominis sp. nov., isolated from patients with conjunctivitis in Hong Kong.	Teng JLL, Tang Y, Wong SSY, Chiu TH, Zhao Z, Chan E, Ngan AHY, Lau SKP, Woo PCY	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002589	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 )
#65352	Jade L. L. Teng, Ying Tang, Samson S. Y. Wong, Tsz Ho Chiu, Zhe Zhao, Elaine Chan, Antonio H. Y. Ngan, Susanna K. P. Lau, Patrick C. Y. Woo: Tsukamurella ocularis sp. nov. and Tsukamurella hominis sp. nov., isolated from patients with conjunctivitis in Hong Kong. IJSEM 68: 810 - 818 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002589 , PubMed 29458478 )
#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 .
#121387	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 111612
#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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Tsukamurella ocularis (JCM 31969, DSM 105034, HKU63)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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