Streptosporangium violaceochromogenes (DSM 43872, ATCC 21893, MK-78)

Name: Streptosporangium violaceochromogenes (DSM 43872, ATCC 21893, MK-78)
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BacDive ID 16598

Type strain

Strain Designation MK-78

Culture col. no. DSM 43872 ATCC 21893 MK-78

NCBI tax ID(s) 46188

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- ATCC (Streptosporangium violaceochromogenes subsp. globiphilum) <- Kyowa Ferm. Ind. Co., Ltd., MK-78

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Streptosporangium violaceochromogenes MK-78 is a bacterium that produces antibiotic compounds and was isolated from soil.

antibiotic compound production 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 37780

ATCC 21893,DSM 43872

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:22:00

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Streptosporangiales

Family Streptosporangiaceae

Genus Streptosporangium

Species Streptosporangium violaceochromogenes

Full scientific name Streptosporangium violaceochromogenes Kawamoto et al. 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Streptosporangium violaceochromogenes** (1)	Type strain
16597	S. violaceochromogenes MK-49, DSM 43849, ATCC 21807, JCM 3281, KCC ... (type strain)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
11352	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
11352	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

@ref	Compound
11352	platomycin A
11352	platomycin A, B
11352	platomycin B

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
11352	soil	Japan	JPN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
11352	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	S.violaceochromogenes DNA for 16S ribosomal RNA gene (strain DSM43872)	X89952	1456		46188

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Platomycins A and B I Taxonomy of the producing strain and production, isolation and biological properties of platomycins.	Takasawa S, Kawamoto I, Takahashi I, Koakura M, Okachi R	J Antibiot (Tokyo)	10.7164/antibiotics.28.656	1975

References

#11352	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 43872
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#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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Streptosporangium violaceochromogenes (DSM 43872, ATCC 21893, MK-78)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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