Streptomyces atacamensis (DSM 42065, CGMCC 4.7018, KACC 15492)

Name: Streptomyces atacamensis (DSM 42065, CGMCC 4.7018, KACC 15492)
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BacDive ID 16502

Type strain

Strain Designation C60

Culture col. no. DSM 42065 CGMCC 4.7018 KACC 15492 C60

NCBI tax ID(s) 531966

Special Collections DSMZ Wink compendium Literature strains

History DSMZ <- S. W. Kwon, KACC; KACC 15492

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Streptomyces atacamensis C60 is an aerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium that builds an aerial mycelium and was isolated from extreme hyper-arid soil.

spore-forming Gram-positive aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407468

DSM 42065

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:28:47

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Kitasatosporales

Family Streptomycetaceae

Genus Streptomyces

Species Streptomyces atacamensis

Full scientific name Streptomyces atacamensis Santhanam et al. 2012

Morphology

Cell morphology

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Gram stainpositive

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Medium used
69235	Colourless	ISP 2
69235	Colourless	ISP 6
69235	Honey yellow (1005)	suter without tyrosine
69235	Ivory (1014)	ISP 7
69235	Lemon yellow (1012)	ISP 3
69235	Lemon yellow (1012)	ISP 5
69235	Sand yellow (1002)	suter with tyrosine

Multicellular morphology

@ref	Complex name	Complex color	Medium name
69235	Aerial mycelium		ISP 2
69235	Aerial mycelium		ISP 3
69235	Aerial mycelium	Silk grey (7044)	ISP 4
69235	Aerial mycelium		ISP 5
69235	Aerial mycelium		ISP 6
69235	Aerial mycelium		ISP 7
69235	Aerial mycelium	Traffic white (9016), grey white (9002)	suter with tyrosine
69235	Aerial mycelium		suter without tyrosine

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
30549
69235		soluble pigment

Multimedia

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caption:	Medium 65 28°C
intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
manual_annotation:	1

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caption:	Plates (65, ISP2, ISP3, ISP4, ISP5, ISP7)
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

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multimedia content:	DSM_42065_image4.jpeg
multimedia.multimedia content:	DSM_42065_image4.jpeg
caption:	Plates (65, ISP2, ISP3, ISP4, ISP5, ISP7)
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
18107	GYM STREPTOMYCES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 65)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: GYM STREPTOMYCES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 65) Composition: Agar 18.0 g/l Malt extract 10.0 g/l Yeast extract 4.0 g/l Glucose 4.0 g/l CaCO3 2.0 g/l Distilled water
18107	STARCH - MINERAL SALT - AGAR (STMS) (DSMZ Medium 252)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: STARCH - MINERAL SALT - AGAR (STMS) (DSMZ Medium 252) Composition: Agar 14.985 g/l Starch 9.99001 g/l (NH4)2SO4 1.998 g/l CaCO3 1.998 g/l K2HPO4 0.999001 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.999001 g/l NaCl 0.999001 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000999001 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.000999001 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000999001 g/l Distilled water
18107	ROLLED OATS MINERAL MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 84)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ROLLED OATS MINERAL MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 84) Composition: Agar 20.0 g/l Rolled oats 20.0 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.001 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.001 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.001 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
18107	positive	growth	28
30549	positive	growth	10-45

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
30549	positive	growth	04-11	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

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Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

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Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
69235	NaCl	positive	growth	0-5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
69235	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	growth
69235	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	+/-	growth
68379	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	fermentation	from API Coryne
68379	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis	from API Coryne
30549	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
69235	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	growth
68379	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis	from API Coryne
30549	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
69235	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	growth
30549	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
30549	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
30549	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	+	carbon source
68379	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
30549	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
68379	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
30549	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
69235	37684 ChEBI	mannose	-	growth
69235	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	growth
68379	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API Coryne
69235	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+/-	growth
69235	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	growth
30549	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	carbon source
30549	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
68379	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
69235	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	growth
68379	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API Coryne
69235	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	growth

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
68382	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68379	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API Coryne
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68379	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	from API Coryne
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
68379	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API Coryne
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68379	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API Coryne
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
68379	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API Coryne
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
30549	gelatinase	+
68379	gelatinase	+		from API Coryne
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68379	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API Coryne
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
68379	pyrazinamidase	-	3.5.1.B15	from API Coryne
68379	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3	from API Coryne
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
30549	urease	+	3.5.1.5
68379	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API Coryne
68382	valine arylamidase	+		from API zym

API coryne

@ref	Reduction of nitrateNIT	PYZ	PYRA	PAL	beta GUR	beta GAL	alpha GLU	beta NAG	ESC	URE	GEL	Control fermentationControl	GLU	RIB	XYL	MAN	MAL	LAC	SAC	GLYG	CAT
69235	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	+	-	+	not determinedn.d.	+	+/-	+/-	+/-	-	-	-	+/-	not determinedn.d.

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
69235	not determinedn.d.	+	+/-	+	-	+	+	+/-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+/-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

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

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
18107	extreme hyper-arid soil	Atacama Desert, Valle de la Luna (23° 02' S 68° 20' W)	Chile	CHL	Middle and South America	-23.0333	-68.3333 -23.0333/-68.3333

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence HE577171 (>99% sequence identity) for Streptomyces atacamensis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1
Soil Samples	5
Animal Samples	3
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	9

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
18107	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
18107	Streptomyces atacamensis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain C60T	HE577171	1457		531966

GC content

18107

GC-content (mol%)71.5

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Streptomyces chitinivorans sp. nov., a chitinolytic strain isolated from estuarine lake sediment.	Ray L, Mishra SR, Panda AN, Das S, Rastogi G, Pattanaik AK, Adhya TK, Suar M, Raina V	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001176	2016
Phylogeny	Streptomyces barkulensis sp. nov., isolated from an estuarine lake.	Ray L, Mishra SR, Panda AN, Rastogi G, Pattanaik AK, Adhya TK, Suar M, Raina V	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.056614-0	2014
Phylogeny	Streptomyces atacamensis sp. nov., isolated from an extreme hyper-arid soil of the Atacama Desert, Chile.	Santhanam R, Okoro CK, Rong X, Huang Y, Bull AT, Weon HY, Andrews BA, Asenjo JA, Goodfellow M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.038463-0	2011

References

#18107	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 42065
#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 )
#26880	IJSEM 2680 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.038463-0 , PubMed 22199226 )
#30549	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26880
#68379	Automatically annotated from API Coryne .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#69235	Wink, J.: Compendium of Actinobacteria. HZI-Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig .
#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 .
#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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Streptomyces atacamensis (DSM 42065, CGMCC 4.7018, KACC 15492)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Multicellular morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

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Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

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Risk assessment

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