Mycobacterium attenuatum (CCUG 72127, DSM 107153, MK41)

Name: Mycobacterium attenuatum (CCUG 72127, DSM 107153, MK41)
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BacDive ID 166496

Type strain

Strain Designation MK41

Culture col. no. CCUG 72127 DSM 107153 MK41

NCBI tax ID(s) 2341086

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG Literature strains

History DSMZ <- F. Tagini, Lausanne University Hospital; MK41

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Mycobacterium attenuatum MK41 is a bacterium that was isolated from bronchial secretions of a patient known for Still's disease.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 403977

CT2025-00095,DSM 107153,CCUG 72127T

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:45:54

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Mycobacteriaceae

Genus Mycobacterium

Species Mycobacterium attenuatum

Full scientific name Mycobacterium attenuatum Tagini et al. 2019

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Motility	Confidence
125439		92.25

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Incubation period	Medium used
67931	beige	14 days	7H10

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
67931		Photochrome

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
69047	MIDDLEBROOK MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 645)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MIDDLEBROOK MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 645) Composition: Bacto Middlebrook 7H10 agar 20.9945 g/l Glycerol Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
67931	positive	optimum	37
67931	negative	growth	25
67931	negative	growth	45
69047	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	98.328

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
67931	75248 ChEBI	potassium tellurite	-	reduction
67931	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	hydrolysis

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
67931	arylsulfatase	-	3.1.6.1
67931	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
67931	nitrate reductase	+	1.7.99.4
67931	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
67931	bronchial secretions (aspiration of bronchial secretions) of a patient known for Still's disease	Homo sapiens	Lausanne University Hospital	Switzerland	CHE	Europe
69047	Bronchial aspiration (Human)	Homo sapiens	Lausanne	Switzerland	CHE	Europe	46.52	6.6336 46.52/6.6336

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LS999934 (>99% sequence identity) for Mycobacterium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	382
Soil Samples	881
Animal Samples	203
Plant Samples	54
Total Samples	1520

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	LAUMK41 assembly for Mycobacterium attenuatum MK41	contig	GCA_900566085	2341086.3	2868392912	2341086	32.72

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67931	Mycobacterium sp. MK41 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain MK41 = CCUG 72127 = DSM 107153, isolate MK41, clone MK41	LS999934	1525		2341086

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: LAUMK41 assembly for Mycobacterium attenuatum MK41
NCBI: GCA_900566085

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	92.25	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.33	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	87.02	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	55.30	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Phylogenomics reveal that Mycobacterium kansasii subtypes are species-level lineages. Description of Mycobacterium pseudokansasii sp. nov., Mycobacterium innocens sp. nov. and Mycobacterium attenuatum sp. nov.	Tagini F, Aeby S, Bertelli C, Droz S, Casanova C, Prod'hom G, Jaton K, Greub G	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003378	2019

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 )
#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) .
#67931	Florian Tagini, Sébastien Aeby, Claire Bertelli, Sara Droz, Carlo Casanova, Guy Prod'hom, Katia Jaton, Gilbert Greub: Phylogenomics reveal that Mycobacterium kansasii subtypes are species-level lineages. Description of Mycobacterium pseudokansasii sp. nov., Mycobacterium innocens sp. nov. and Mycobacterium attenuatum sp. nov.. IJSEM 69: 1696 - 1704 2019 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.003378 )
#69047	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 107153
#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 .
#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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Mycobacterium attenuatum (CCUG 72127, DSM 107153, MK41)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900566085

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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