Blastococcus atacamensis (NCIMB 15090, NRRL B-65468, P6)

Name: Blastococcus atacamensis (NCIMB 15090, NRRL B-65468, P6)
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BacDive ID 159723

Type strain

Strain Designation P6

Culture col. no. NCIMB 15090 NRRL B-65468 P6

NCBI tax ID(s) 2070508

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Blastococcus atacamensis P6 is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from extreme hyper-arid soil sample .

Gram-positive rod-shaped colony-forming genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 137920

NCIMB 15090

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:38:43

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Geodermatophilales

Family Geodermatophilaceae

Genus Blastococcus

Species Blastococcus atacamensis

Full scientific name Blastococcus atacamensis Castro et al. 2018

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
66588	positive	rod-shaped
66588		coccus-shaped
125439	positive		96.8

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
66588	orange	circular	YM agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
66588	YM agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
66588	positive	optimum	35
66588	positive	growth	10-45

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
66588	positive	optimum	7
66588	positive	growth	6-12	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	99.8

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
66588	NaCl	positive	growth	3 %(w/v)

Observation

66588

Observationrod-and coccoid-elements with evidence of budding

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
66588	30796 ChEBI	(R)-malic acid	+	assimilation
66588	64552 ChEBI	2-hydroxybutyrate	+	assimilation
66588	16763 ChEBI	2-oxobutanoate	+	assimilation
66588	16810 ChEBI	2-oxoglutarate	+	assimilation
66588	37054 ChEBI	3-hydroxybutyrate	+	assimilation
66588	18101 ChEBI	4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid	-	assimilation
66588	16411 ChEBI	acetic acid	+	assimilation
66588	13705 ChEBI	acetoacetate	+	assimilation
66588	73706 ChEBI	bromosuccinate	-	assimilation
66588	17968 ChEBI	butyrate	-	assimilation
66588	30612 ChEBI	D-glucarate	-	assimilation
66588	8391 ChEBI	D-gluconate	+	assimilation
66588	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
66588	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation
66588	16537 ChEBI	galactarate	-	assimilation
66588	16865 ChEBI	gamma-aminobutyric acid	+	assimilation
66588	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	assimilation
66588	16235 ChEBI	guanine	-	degradation
66588	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	assimilation
66588	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	assimilation
66588	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	assimilation
66588	37657 ChEBI	methyl D-glucoside	+	assimilation
66588	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	assimilation
66588	35418 ChEBI	n-acetylneuraminate	-	assimilation
66588	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	assimilation
66588	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	degradation
66588	35020 ChEBI	tributyrin	+	degradation
66588	35020 ChEBI	tributyrin	+	hydrolysis

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
66588	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
66588	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
66588	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1
66588	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
66588	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
66588	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
66588	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
66588	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
66588	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
66588	esterase (C 4)	+
66588	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
66588	lipase (C 14)	-
66588	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
66588	valine arylamidase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Climate	#Hot	#Arid
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature	Isolation procedure
66588	extreme hyper-arid soil sample (1033 m above sea level)	2011-11	Yungay core region of the Atacama Desert on the eastern flank of the Cerro Aguas Blancas	Chile	CHL	Middle and South America	-24.1051	-70.0321 -24.1051/-70.0321	GYM Streptomyces (DSMZ medium No. 65) and Geodermatophilus obscurus media	supplemented with nalidixic acid (10 µg ml-1), cycloheximide and nystatin (each at 25 µg ml-1)	2 weeks	28	One gram of the soil sample was suspended in 4.0 ml of ? strength Ringer's solution (Oxoid), this suspension was shaken on a tumble shaker prior to heating at 55°C for 6 min. Aliquots (100 µl) of the 10-1 and 10-2 dilutions were spread, in triplicate, over GYM Streptomyces (DSMZ medium No. 65) and Geodermatophilus obscurus media. The isolation plates were dried for 15 min at room temperature before incubation at 28°C for 2 weeks.

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM293842v1 assembly for Blastococcus atacamensis P6	contig	GCA_002938425	2070508.3	2834479247	2070508	40.85

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
66588	Blastococcus atacamensis strain P6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KX926540	1443		2070508

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
66588	73.1	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Blastococcus atacamensis P6
NCBI: GCA_002938425

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	71.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	61.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	96.80	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.80	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Blastococcus atacamensis sp. nov., a novel strain adapted to life in the Yungay core region of the Atacama Desert.	Castro JF, Nouioui I, Sangal V, Choi S, Yang SJ, Kim BY, Trujillo ME, Riesco R, Montero-Calasanz MDC, Rahmani TPD, Bull AT, Sutcliffe IC, Asenjo JA, Andrews B, Goodfellow M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002828	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 )
#66588	Jean Franco Castro, Imen Nouioui, Vartul Sangal, Seonbin Choi, Seung-Jo Yang, Byung-Yong Kim, Martha E. Trujillo, Raul Riesco, Maria del Carmen Montero-Calasanz, Tara P. D. Rahmani, Alan T. Bull, Iain C. Sutcliffe, Juan A. Asenjo, Barbara Andrews, Michael Goodfellow: Blastococcus atacamensis sp. nov., a novel strain adapted to life in the Yungay core region of the Atacama Desert. IJSEM 68: 2712 - 2721 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002828 , PubMed 29969090 )
#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) .
#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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Blastococcus atacamensis (NCIMB 15090, NRRL B-65468, P6)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_002938425

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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