Williamsia maris (DSM 44693, JCM 12070, NCIMB 13945)

Name: Williamsia maris (DSM 44693, JCM 12070, NCIMB 13945)
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BacDive ID 17374

Type strain

Strain Designation SJS 0289/JS1

Culture col. no. DSM 44693 JCM 12070 NCIMB 13945 SJS 0289/JS1 CIP 108354 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 72806

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History <- L. A. Maldonado; SJS 0289/JS1 IAM 15054 <-- J. H. Lim Enb12. L. A. Maldonado SJS0289/JS1. CIP <- 2004, NCIMB <- L.A. Maldonado: strain SJS 0289/JS1

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Williamsia maris SJS 0289/JS1 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that was isolated from sediment.

Gram-positive rod-shaped aerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 130855

DSM 44693,JCM 12070,NCIMB 13945,CIP 108354

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:22:12

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Gordoniaceae

Genus Williamsia

Species Williamsia maris

Full scientific name Williamsia maris Stach et al. 2004

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
29972	positive	rod-shaped
125439	positive		99.1
120829	positive	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Incubation period	Medium used
19690	Pastel yellow	10-14 days	ISP 2
19690		10-14 days	ISP 3
19690		10-14 days	ISP 4
19690	Pastel yellow	10-14 days	ISP 5
19690		10-14 days	ISP 6
19690	Pastel yellow	10-14 days	ISP 7
120829

Pigmentation

29972

Productionyes

Multimedia

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caption:	Medium 553 28°C
intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
11884	GPHF-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 553)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: GPHF-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 553) Composition: Agar 20.0 g/l Glucose 10.0 g/l Beef extract 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Casein peptone 5.0 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.74 g/l Distilled water
11884	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
19690	ISP 2		Name: ISP 2 / Yeast Malt Agar (5265); 5265 Composition Malt extract 10.0 g/l Yeast extract 4.0 g/l Glucose 4.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Preparation: Sterilisation: 20 minutes at 121°C pH before sterilisation: 7.0 Usage: Maintenance and Taxonomy Organisms: All Actinomycetes
19690	ISP 3		Name: ISP 3; 5315 Composition Dog oat flakes 20.0 g/l Trace element solution (5314) 2.5 ml/l Agar 18.0 g/l Preparation: Oat flakes are cooked for 20 minutes, trace element solution and agar are added (in the case of non rolled oat flakes the suspension has to bee filtrated). Sterilisation: 20 minutes at 121°C pH before sterilisation: 7.8 Usage: Maintenance and taxonomy (e.g. SEM As liquid medium for metabolite production) Organisms: All Actinomycetes Trace element solution 5314 Name: Trace element solution 5314; 5314 Composition CaCl2 x H2O 3.0 g/l Fe-III-citrate 1.0 g/l MnSO4 0.2 g/l ZnCl2 0.1 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.025 g/l Sodium tetra borate 0.2 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.004 g/l Sodium molybdate 0.01 g/l Preparation: Use double destillated water. Sterilisation: 20 minutes at 121°C pH before sterilisation: Usage: Trace element solution for different media Organisms:
19690	ISP 4		Name: ISP 4; DSM 547 Solution I: Difco soluble starch, 10.0 g. Make a paste of the starch with a small amount of cold distilled water and bring to a volume of 500 ml. Solution II: CaCO3 2.0 g K2HPO4 (anhydrous) 1.0 g MgSO4 x 7 H2O 1.0 g NaCl 1.0 g (NH4)2SO4 2.0 g Distilled water 500.0 ml Trace salt solution (see below) 1.0 ml The pH should be between 7.0 and 7.4. Do not adjust if it is within this range. Mix solutions I and II together. Add 20.0 g agar. Liquify agar by steaming at 100°C for 10 to 20 min. Trace element solution: FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.1 g MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.1 g ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.1 g Distilled water 100.0 ml
19690	ISP 5		Name: ISP 5 (5323) Composition L-Asparagine 1.0 g/l Glycerol 10.0 g/l K2HPO4 1.0 g/l Salt solution (see preparation) 1.0 ml/l Agar 20.0 g/l Preparation: Salt solution 1.0 g FeSO4 x 7 H2O 1.0 g MnCl2 x 4 H2O 1.0 g ZNSO4 x 7 H2O in 100 ml water Sterilisation: 20 minutes at 121°C pH before sterilisation: 7.2 Usage: Maintenance and taxonomy Organisms: All Actinomycetes
19690	ISP 6		Name: ISP 6 (5318) Composition Peptone 15.0 g/l Proteose peptose 5.0 g/l Ferric ammonium citrate 0.5 g/l Sodium glycerophosphate 1.0 g/l Sodium thiosulfate 0.08 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Sterilisation: 20 minutes at 121°C pH before sterilisation: Usage: Production of melanoid pigments Organisms: All Actinomycetes
19690	ISP 7		Name: ISP 7 (5322) Composition Glycerol 15.0 g/l L-Tyrosine 0.5 g/l L-Asparagine 1.0 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l NaCl 0.5 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.01 g/l Trace element solution 5343 1.0 ml/l Agar 20.0 Sterilisation: 20 minutes at 121°C pH before sterilisation: 7.3 Usage: Production of melanoid pigments Organisms: All Actinomycetes
33059	MEDIUM 6 - Columbia agar with 10 % horse blood		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Columbia agar (39.000 g);Horseblood (100.000 ml)
120829	CIP Medium 72	Medium recipe at CIP
120829	CIP Medium 6	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
11884	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
19690	positive	optimum	28	mesophilic
29972	positive	growth	10-37
29972	positive	optimum	28	mesophilic
33059	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
120829	positive	growth	25-37	mesophilic
120829	negative	growth	10
120829	negative	growth	41
120829	negative	growth	45

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
29972	aerobe
120829	obligate aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	99.4

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
120829	NaCl	positive	growth	0-6 %
120829	NaCl		growth	8 %
120829	NaCl		growth	10 %

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-9(H₂)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
19690	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	-
19690	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	-
120829	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
120829	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
19690	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+
19690	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+
29972	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
29972	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
120829	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	+	hydrolysis
19690	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+
29972	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
19690	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+
120829	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
120829	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	respiration
120829	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
19690	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-
19690	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	-
29972	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
19690	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+
29972	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
19690	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-
29972	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	Metabolite	Is sensitive	Is resistant
120829	0129 (2,4-Diamino-6,7-di-iso-propylpteridine phosphate)

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
120829	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
120829	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
120829	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
120829	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
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
68382	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
120829	amylase	+
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
120829	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
120829	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
120829	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
120829	DNase	-
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
120829	gamma-glutamyltransferase	-	2.3.2.2
120829	gelatinase	-
120829	lecithinase	-
120829	lipase	-
68382	lipase (C 14)	+		from API zym
120829	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
120829	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
120829	oxidase	-
120829	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
120829	protease	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
120829	tryptophan deaminase	-
120829	tween esterase	-
120829	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

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
19690	not determinedn.d.	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-
120829	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-

API biotype100

@ref	ControlQ	D-glucose as carbon sourceGLU	D-fructose as carbon sourceFRU	D-galactose as carbon sourceGAL	D-trehalose as carbon sourceTRE	D-mannose as carbon sourceMNE	L-sorbose as carbon sourceSBE	D-melibiose as carbon sourceMEL	sucrose as carbon sourceSAC	D-raffinose as carbon sourceRAF	maltotriose as carbon sourceMTE	maltose as carbon sourceMAL	lactose as carbon sourceLAC	lactulose as carbon sourceLTE	1-O-methyl-beta-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGa	1-O-methyl-alpha-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMaGa	D-cellobiose as carbon sourceCEL	gentiobiose as carbon sourceGEN	1-O-methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGu	esculin as carbon sourceESC	D-ribose as carbon sourceRIB	L-arabinose as carbon sourceARA	D-xylose as carbon sourceXYL	palatinose as carbon sourcePLE	L-rhamnose as carbon sourceRHA	L-fucose as carbon sourceFUC	D-melezitose as carbon sourceMLZ	D-arabitol as carbon sourceDARL	L-arabitol as carbon sourceLARL	xylitol as carbon sourceXLT	dulcitol as carbon sourceDUL	D-tagatose as carbon sourceTAG	glycerol as carbon sourceGLY	myo-inositol as carbon sourceINO	D-mannitol as carbon sourceMAN	maltitol as carbon sourceMTL	D-turanose as carbon sourceTUR	D-sorbitol as carbon sourceSOR	adonitol as carbon sourceADO	hydroxyquinoline-beta-glucuronide as carbon sourceHBG	D-lyxose as carbon sourceLYX	i-erythritol as carbon sourceERY	1-O-methyl-alpha-D-glucoside as carbon sourceMDG	3-O-methyl-D-glucose as carbon source3MDG	D-saccharate as carbon sourceSAT	mucate as carbon sourceMUC	L-tartrate as carbon sourceLTAT	D-tartrate as carbon sourceDTAT	meso-tartrate as carbon sourceMTAT	D-malate as carbon sourceDMLT	L-malate as carbon sourceLMLT	cis-aconitate as carbon sourceCATE	trans-aconitate as carbon sourceTATE	tricarballylate as carbon sourceTTE	citrate as carbon sourceCIT	D-glucuronate as carbon sourceGRT	D-galacturonate as carbon sourceGAT	2-ketogluconate as carbon source2KG	5-ketogluconate as carbon source5KG	tryptophan as carbon sourceTRY	N-acetyl-D-glucosamine as carbon sourceNAG	D-gluconate as carbon sourceGNT	phenylacetate as carbon sourcePAC	protocatechuate as carbon sourcePAT	4-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcepOBE	quinate as carbon sourceQAT	gentisate as carbon sourceGTE	3-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcemOBE	benzoate as carbon sourceBAT	3-phenylpropionate as carbon sourcePPAT	m-coumarate as carbon sourceCMT	trigonelline as carbon sourceTGE	betaine as carbon sourceBET	putrescine as carbon sourcePCE	4-aminobutyrate as carbon sourceABT	histamine as carbon sourceHIN	DL-lactate as carbon sourceLAT	caprate as carbon sourceCAP	caprylate as carbon sourceCYT	L-histidine as carbon sourceHIS	succinate as carbon sourceSUC	fumarate as carbon sourceFUM	glutarate as carbon sourceGRE	DL-glycerate as carbon sourceGYT	5-aminovalerate as carbon sourceAVT	ethanolamine as carbon sourceETN	tryptamine as carbon sourceTTN	D-glucosamine as carbon sourceGLN	itaconate as carbon sourceITA	3-hydroxybutyrate as carbon source3OBU	L-aspartate as carbon sourceAPT	L-glutamate as carbon sourceGTT	L-proline as carbon sourcePRO	D-alanine as carbon sourceDALA	L-alanine as carbon sourceLALA	L-serine as carbon sourceSER	malonate as carbon sourceMNT	propionate as carbon sourcePROP	L-tyrosine as carbon sourceTYR	2-ketoglutarate as carbon source2KT
120829	not determinedn.d.	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
11884	sediment	Sea of Japan	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Sediment from the Sea of Japan at a depth of 289 m
120829	Environment, Sediment		Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB010909 (>99% sequence identity) for Williamsia from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2300
Soil Samples	3768
Animal Samples	7264
Plant Samples	1064
Total Samples	14396

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
11884	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
120829	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2417181v1 assembly for Williamsia maris DSM 44693	contig	GCA_024171815	72806.4	2596583531	72806	74.62
124043	ASM3952716v1 assembly for Williamsia maris JCM 12070	contig	GCA_039527165			72806	74.35

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Williamsia maris strain DSMZ 44693 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ020576	464		72806
11884	Williamsia maris gene for 16S rRNA, strain: SJS0289-JS1	AB010909	1478		72806

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	68.2	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Williamsia maris DSM 44693
NCBI: GCA_024171815

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	56.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	81.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	99.10	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.40	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Williamsia spongiae sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from the marine sponge Amphimedon viridis.	Afonso de Menezes CB, Afonso RS, Souza WR, Parma M, Melo IS, Zucchi TD, Fantinatti-Garboggini F	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001796	2017
Phylogeny	Williamsia maris sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from the Sea of Japan.	Stach JEM, Maldonado LA, Ward AC, Bull AT, Goodfellow M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02767-0	2004

References

#11884	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 44693
#19690	Wink, J.: Compendium of Actinobacteria. HZI-Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig .
#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 )
#26341	IJSEM 191 2004 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.02767-0 , PubMed 14742479 )
#29972	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 #26341
#33059	; Curators of the CIP;
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#120829	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108354
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Williamsia maris (DSM 44693, JCM 12070, NCIMB 13945)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API biotype100

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_024171815

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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