Teichococcus deserti (KEMB 2255-459, JCM 31275, M3)

Name: Teichococcus deserti (KEMB 2255-459, JCM 31275, M3)
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BacDive ID 158692

Type strain

Strain Designation M3

Culture col. no. KEMB 2255-459 JCM 31275 M3

NCBI tax ID(s) 1817963

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History S.-S. Lee; KEMB, Kyonggi Univ., South Korea; M3.

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Teichococcus deserti M3 is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from crude oil contaminated desert sand.

Gram-negative rod-shaped genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 28038

JCM 31275

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:38:23

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Acetobacteraceae

Genus Teichococcus

Species Teichococcus deserti

Full scientific name Teichococcus deserti (Subhash and Lee 2018) Liu and Xin 2025

Synonyms (2)

Pseudoroseomonas deserti
Roseomonas deserti

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
65430	negative	1.0-1.2 µm	0.6-0.8 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Medium used
65430	dark pink	agar medium

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
65430		carotenoid pigment

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
65430	agar medium

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
65430	positive	growth	13-42
65430	positive	optimum	30-35
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
65430	positive	optimum	7.0-7.5
65430	positive	growth	6.5-9	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	98.6

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		92

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
65430	NaCl	positive	growth	0-3.5 %(w/v)
65430	NaCl	positive	optimum	0.5 %(w/v)

Observation

@ref	Observation
65430	diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine and an unidentified glycolipid are present as major polar lipids with minor amounts of an unidentified phospholipid, unidentified minolipids (AL1-3) and unide
65430	spermidine is the major polyamine
67770	quinones: Q-10

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
65430	28938 ChEBI	ammonium	+	carbon source
65430	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	-	assimilation
65430	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	hydrolysis
65430		casein	+	hydrolysis
65430	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	assimilation
65430	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from
65430	17029 ChEBI	chitin	-	hydrolysis
65430	15570 ChEBI	D-alanine	+	assimilation
65430	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	assimilation
65430	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	builds acid from
65430	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	builds acid from
65430	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	assimilation
65430	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	builds acid from
65430	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
65430	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
65430	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	assimilation
65430	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	assimilation
65430	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
65430	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
65430	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	assimilation
65430	45296 ChEBI	hexadecane	-	assimilation
65430	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from
65430	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	assimilation
65430	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from
65430	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	assimilation
65430	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	assimilation
65430	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds acid from
65430	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
65430	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from
65430	51850 ChEBI	methyl pyruvate	+	assimilation
65430	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
65430	28851 ChEBI	phenanthrene	-	assimilation
65430	39106 ChEBI	pyrene	-	assimilation
65430	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	assimilation
65430	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from
65430	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
65430	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from
65430	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	assimilation
65430	17578 ChEBI	toluene	-	assimilation
65430	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	assimilation
65430	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	-	hydrolysis
65430	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
65430	16199 ChEBI	urea	+	hydrolysis

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.
65430	28971	ampicillin	10 µg (disc)
65430	17698	chloramphenicol	30 µg (disc)
65430	100147	nalidixic acid	30 µg (disc)
65430	18208	penicillin g	10 µg (disc)
65430	28077	rifampicin	30 µg (disc)

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
65430	35581 ChEBI	indole
65430	15138 ChEBI	sulfide

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
65430	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1
65430	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1
65430	alpha-fucosidase	+	3.2.1.51
65430	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
65430	alpha-mannosidase	+	3.2.1.24
65430	arginine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.19
65430	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
65430	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
65430	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
65430	esterase (C 4)	+
65430	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
65430	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
65430	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
65430	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
65430	valine arylamidase	+

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	propanol degradation	100	7 of 7
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	100	8 of 8
66794	threonine metabolism	100	10 of 10
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	100	9 of 9
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	starch degradation	100	10 of 10
66794	butanoate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	acetoin degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	gluconeogenesis	100	8 of 8
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	ceramide biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	100	7 of 7
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	100	8 of 8
66794	chorismate metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	citric acid cycle	92.86	13 of 14
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	91.67	11 of 12
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	90	9 of 10
66794	NAD metabolism	88.89	16 of 18
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	88.89	8 of 9
66794	glutathione metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	photosynthesis	85.71	12 of 14
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	methionine metabolism	84.62	22 of 26
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	82.14	23 of 28
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	80	4 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	80	4 of 5
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	gallate degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	degradation of sugar acids	80	20 of 25
66794	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	propionate fermentation	80	8 of 10
66794	heme metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	purine metabolism	77.66	73 of 94
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	leucine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	75	3 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	75	3 of 4
66794	degradation of pentoses	75	21 of 28
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	73.53	25 of 34
66794	flavin biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	72.73	8 of 11
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	70	7 of 10
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	69.23	63 of 91
66794	urea cycle	69.23	9 of 13
66794	alanine metabolism	68.97	20 of 29
66794	non-pathway related	68.42	26 of 38
66794	lipid metabolism	67.74	21 of 31
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	66.67	10 of 15
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	allantoin degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	66.67	4 of 6
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	cysteine metabolism	66.67	12 of 18
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	IAA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	histidine metabolism	65.52	19 of 29
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	64.44	29 of 45
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	63.64	7 of 11
66794	tryptophan metabolism	63.16	24 of 38
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	arginine metabolism	62.5	15 of 24
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	62.5	10 of 16
66794	lysine metabolism	61.9	26 of 42
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	61.54	8 of 13
66794	degradation of hexoses	61.11	11 of 18
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	60	9 of 15
66794	proline metabolism	54.55	6 of 11
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	53.85	14 of 26
66794	glycolysis	52.94	9 of 17
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	phenol degradation	50	10 of 20
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	50	5 of 10
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	carnitine metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	tyrosine metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	ascorbate metabolism	50	11 of 22
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	lactate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	47.06	8 of 17
66794	d-xylose degradation	45.45	5 of 11
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	44.44	8 of 18
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	43.75	7 of 16
66794	polyamine pathway	43.48	10 of 23
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	40.91	9 of 22
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	3-chlorocatechol degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	elloramycin biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	D-cycloserine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	hydrogen production	40	2 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	octane oxidation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sulfate reduction	30.77	4 of 13
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	28.57	2 of 7
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	alginate biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	vitamin E metabolism	25	1 of 4
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	23.08	3 of 13

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

65430

Fatty acid	Percentage
C18:1ω6c/C18:1ω7c	74.5
C16:0	8.5
C16:1ω6c/C16:1ω7c	6.7
C18:1-2OH	3.2
C16:1ω5c	3.2
C19:0cyclo-ω8c	2
C18:0	1
C18:1ω5c	1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Desert
#Engineered	#Contamination	#Oil (Fuel)
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sandy

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
65430	crude oil contaminated desert sand	Kuwait	KWT	Asia	liquid medium	5 days	30
67770	Crude oil contaminated desert sand	Kuwait	KWT	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LT837512 (>99% sequence identity) for Roseomonas from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples
Soil Samples	6
Animal Samples	3
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	11

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID
66792	ASM198261v1 assembly for Teichococcus deserti M3	contig	GCA_001982615	2791354997	1817963

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
65430	Roseomonas sp. M3 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain M3	LT837512

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
65430	69-69.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
67770	69.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Pseudoroseomonas deserti M3
NCBI: GCA_001982615

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	92.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	60.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	73.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.60	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Validation List no. 221: valid publication of new names and new combinations effectively published outside the IJSEM.	Oren A, Goker M.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006562	2025
Phylogeny	Roseomonas coralli sp. nov., a heavy metal resistant bacterium isolated from coral.	Li F, Huang Y, Hu W, Li Z, Wang Q, Huang S, Jiang F, Pan X	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004624	2021
Phylogeny	Roseomonas deserti sp. nov., isolated from crude oil contaminated desert sand.	Subhash Y, Lee SS	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002565	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 )
#65430	Y. Subhash, Sang-Seob Lee: Roseomonas deserti sp. nov., isolated from crude oil contaminated desert sand. IJSEM 68: 675 - 680 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002565 , PubMed 29388546 )
#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) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#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 .
#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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Teichococcus deserti (KEMB 2255-459, JCM 31275, M3)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001982615

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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