Name: Simulacricoccus ruber MCy10636
Creator: BacDive
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 159830

Type strain:

Species: Simulacricoccus ruber

Strain Designation: MCy10636

Culture col. no.: DSM 106554, NCCB 100651

Strain history: <- R. Garcia, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research (HIPS), Saarbrücken, Germany; MCy10636

NCBI tax ID(s): 2303410 (species)

Section

Simulacricoccus ruber MCy10636 is a microaerotolerant, spore-forming, mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from fresh soil sample.

Gram-negative
motile
rod-shaped
spore-forming
mesophilic
microaerotolerant
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	07-12-2022 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Deltaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Myxococcales*
	Family	*Myxococcaceae*
	Genus	*Simulacricoccus*
	Species	**Simulacricoccus ruber**
	Full Scientific Name (PNU)	Simulacricoccus ruber Garcia and Müller 2018

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #66665]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #66665]	Cell length	3.0-6.0 µm
[Ref.: #66665]	Cell width	0.6-0.7 µm
[Ref.: #66665]	Cell shape	rod-shaped
[Ref.: #66665]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #66665]	Incubation period	5-7 days
[Ref.: #66665]	Cultivation medium used	tryptone-based agar

Multimedia content

[Ref.: #69032]

Caption:

Vegetative cells (rods) and myxospores (big cocci)

[Ref.: #69032]

Intellectual property rights:

[Ref.: #69032]

Caption:

DSM 106554 on M. 830 at 28 °C

[Ref.: #69032]

Intellectual property rights:

Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #69032]

Culture medium

R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830)

[Ref.: #69032]

Culture medium growth

[Ref.: #69032]

Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #66665]		optimum	30 °C
[Ref.: #66665]	no	growth	0-18 °C
[Ref.: #66665]		growth	18-34 °C
[Ref.: #69032]		growth	28 °C

[Ref.: #66665]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #66665]	Temperature range	psychrophilic
[Ref.: #69032]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #66665]		optimum	7
[Ref.: #66665]	no	growth	0-6
[Ref.: #66665]		growth	6-8

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #66665]

Oxygen tolerance

microaerotolerant

[Ref.: #66665]	Spore description	Myxospores are refractive, small (1.2–1.4 µm diameter), rounded with a dark coat, arranged as a sheath and desiccation-resistant.
[Ref.: #66665]	Type of spore	myxospore
[Ref.: #66665]	Ability of spore formation	yes

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #66665]		NaCl		growth	0-0.6	%
[Ref.: #66665]		NaCl		optimum	0	%(w/v)

[Ref.: #66665]

Observation

Vegetative cells are phase-dark, thin, flexuous rods

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #66665]	agar ChEBI	-	degradation
[Ref.: #66665]	casamino acids	+	growth
[Ref.: #66665]	casitone	+	growth
[Ref.: #66665]	cellulose ChEBI	-	degradation
[Ref.: #66665]	chitin ChEBI	-	degradation
[Ref.: #66665]	peptone	+	growth
[Ref.: #66665]	polypeptone	+	growth
[Ref.: #66665]	proteose	+	growth
[Ref.: #66665]	skimmed milk	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66665]	soyton	+	growth
[Ref.: #66665]	starch ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66665]	tryptone	+	growth
[Ref.: #66665]	tween 20 ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66665]	tween 80 ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66665]	xylan ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
	Only first 10 entries are displayed. Click here to see all.

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #66665]	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
[Ref.: #66665]	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
[Ref.: #66665]	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1
[Ref.: #66665]	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
[Ref.: #66665]	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
[Ref.: #66665]	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
[Ref.: #66665]	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
[Ref.: #66665]	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
[Ref.: #66665]	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21
[Ref.: #66665]	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
[Ref.: #66665]	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #66665]	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
[Ref.: #66665]	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #66665]	esterase (C 4)	+
[Ref.: #66665]	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
[Ref.: #66665]	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
[Ref.: #66665]	lipase (C 14)	+
[Ref.: #66665]	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
[Ref.: #66665]	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
[Ref.: #66665]	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
[Ref.: #66665]	valine arylamidase	+
	Only first 10 entries are displayed. Click here to see all.

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #66665]	Sample type/isolated from	fresh soil sample
[Ref.: #66665]	Sampling date	2013
[Ref.: #66665]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Saarbrücken
[Ref.: #66665]	Country	Germany
[Ref.: #66665]	Country ISO 3 Code	DEU
[Ref.: #66665]	Continent	Europe
[Ref.: #66665]	Enrichment culture	MS21 agar
[Ref.: #66665]	Enrichment culture composition	baited with a filter paper
[Ref.: #66665]	Enrichment culture duration	3 days
[Ref.: #66665]	Isolation/enrichment procedure	After 3 days of incubation as a tiny swarming colony on MS21 agar baited with a filter paper. After repeated transfers of the swarm colony edge, the strain was purified and isolated.
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental

#Terrestrial

#Soil

What are isolation sources categories?

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66665]	Cystobacterineae bacterium strain MCy10636 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MH094235	1526	ENA	2303410 tax ID

[Ref.: #66665]

GC-content

72.9 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #66665]

Culture collection no.

DSM 106554, NCCB 100651

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Simulacricoccus ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a microaerotolerant, non-fruiting, myxospore-forming soil myxobacterium and emended description of the family Myxococcaceae.	Garcia R, Muller R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002936	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 )

#66665

Ronald Garcia, Rolf Müller: Simulacricoccus ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a microaerotolerant, non-fruiting, myxospore-forming soil myxobacterium and emended description of the family Myxococcaceae Free. IJSEM 68: 3101 - 3110 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002936 , PubMed 30113300 )

#69032

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 106554

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

Change proposal

You found an error in BacDive? Please tell us about it!

Note that changes will be reviewed and judged. If your changes are legitimate, changes will occur within the next BacDive update. Only proposed changes supported by the according reference will be reviewed. The BacDive team reserves the right to reject proposed changes.

Search for species Simulacricoccus ruber in external resources:
SILVA
BRENDA
PANGAEA
StrainInfo
GBIF