Name: Rhodococcus electrodiphilus JC435
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 159878

Type strain:

Species: Rhodococcus electrodiphilus

Strain Designation: JC435

Culture col. no.: KCTC 39856, LMG 29881, MCC 3659

NCBI tax ID(s): 1915243 (species)

Section

Rhodococcus electrodiphilus JC435 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that was isolated from marine coral reef.

Gram-positive
rod-shaped
aerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Genus	*Rhodococcus*
	Species	**Rhodococcus electrodiphilus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Rhodococcus electrodiphilus Ramaprasad et al. 2018

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #66631]	Gram stain	positive

[Ref.: #66631]	Cell length	2.01-2.05 µm
[Ref.: #66631]	Cell length	1.0-2.5 µm

[Ref.: #66631]	Cell width	1.22-1.31 µm

[Ref.: #66631]	Cell shape	rod-shaped
[Ref.: #66631]	Cell shape	coccus-shaped

[Ref.: #66631]	Motility	no

[Ref.: #66631]	Colony color	dark-red
[Ref.: #66631]	Cultivation medium used	Marine agar (MA)

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

Marine agar (MA)

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Culture medium growth

	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #66631]		optimum	30 °C
[Ref.: #66631]	no	growth	42 °C
[Ref.: #66631]		growth	20-40 °C

[Ref.: #66631]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #66631]	Temperature range	thermophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #66631]			optimum	7.5
[Ref.: #66631]			growth	6.5-11.0

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

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Ability of spore formation

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Halophily / tolerance level

moderately halophilic

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #66631]		NaCl		growth	2-13	%(w/v)
[Ref.: #66631]		NaCl	no	growth	15	%(w/v)

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Observation

thin and filamentous showing elementary branching later fragmenting into rod-to coccoid-shaped elements

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #66631]	4-hydroxybenzoate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	acetic acid ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	benzoate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	casein	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66631]	D-fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	D-glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	glycerol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	pyruvate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	ribose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	starch ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66631]	succinate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	toluene ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	tween 20 ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66631]	tween 40 ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66631]	tween 80 ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66631]	tyrosine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #66631]	urea ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #66631]	xylose ChEBI	+	carbon source
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	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #66631]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #66631]		cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

Reference

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Fatty acid	Percentage
C16:1 w6c / C16:1 w7c	27.9
C16:0	25
C18:0 10-methyl	12.2
C18:1 w9c	12
C16:1 w8c	4.8
C14:0	3.4
C17:0 10-methyl	3
C17:0	2.9
C18:0	1.7
C16:0 10-methyl / iso-C17:1w8c	1.3
C15:1 w5c	1.3

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

[Ref.: #66631]	Sample type/isolated from	marine coral reef
[Ref.: #66631]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Shivrajpur coast, Kachhighadi, Gujarat
[Ref.: #66631]	Country	India
[Ref.: #66631]	Country ISO 3 Code	IND
[Ref.: #66631]	Continent	Asia
[Ref.: #66631]	Geographic location	22.5769°/68.9697°
[Ref.: #66631]	Enrichment culture	MA
[Ref.: #66631]	Enrichment culture duration	7 days
[Ref.: #66631]	Enrichment culture temperature	25 ̊C
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Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Invertebrates (Other)	#Cnidaria (Corals)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Coral reef
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence LT630357 (>99% sequence identity) for Rhodococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	725
Soil Samples	1219
Animal Samples	950
Plant Samples	247
Total Samples	3141

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.: #66631]	Rhodococcus sp. JC435 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain JC435	LT630357	1474	ENA	1915243 tax ID

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GC-content

69.80 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

KCTC 39856, LMG 29881, MCC 3659

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Rhodococcus electrodiphilus sp. nov., a marine electro active actinobacterium isolated from coral reef.	Ramaprasad EVV, Mahidhara G, Sasikala C, Ramana CV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002895	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 )

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E. V. V. Ramaprasad, Ganesh Mahidhara, Ch. Sasikala and Ch. V. Ramana: Rhodococcus electrodiphilus sp. nov., a marine electro active actinobacterium isolated from coral reef. IJSEM 68: 2644 - 2649 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002895 , PubMed 29957174 )

#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 .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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