Curtobacterium pusillum (ZK5344, NiuAA3, DSM 114566)

Name: Curtobacterium pusillum (ZK5344, NiuAA3, DSM 114566)
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BacDive ID 176420

Type strain

Strain Designation NiuAA3, ZK5344, AA3

Culture col. no. ZK5344 NiuAA3 DSM 114566 AA3

NCBI tax ID(s) 69373

Special Collections Maize

History <- A. Garrell and M. Kleiner, North Carolina State University, Dep. of Plant and Microbial Biology, Raleigh, USA; NiuAA3 <- B. Niu; AA3 <- B. Niu, Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Boston, MA, USA; {2013}

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Curtobacterium pusillum NiuAA3 is a bacterium that was isolated from Surface sterilized maize root grown in agricultural soil.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 285157

DSM 114566

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:42:31

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Micrococcales

Family Microbacteriaceae

Genus Curtobacterium

Species Curtobacterium pusillum

Full scientific name Curtobacterium pusillum (Iizuka and Komagata 1965) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

Brevibacterium pusillum

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Curtobacterium pusillum** (5)	Type strain
7317	C. pusillum 100, DSM 20527, ATCC 19096, IAM 1479, NCIB ... (type strain)
7318	C. pusillum 106, DSM 20529, ATCC 19097, IAM 1489, JCM ...
153944	C. pusillum CCUG 51725
153948	C. pusillum CCUG 51729
164864	C. pusillum JCM 3881

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
125468	TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
125468	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68369	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20NE
68369	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API 20NE
68369	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20NE
68369	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20NE

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API 20NE

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68369	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
68369	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API 20NE
68369	gelatinase	-		from API 20NE
68369	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20NE

API 20NE

@ref	Reduction of nitratesNO3	TRP	GLU_ Ferm	ADH (Arg)	URE	ESC	GEL	PNPG	GLU_ Assim	ARA	MNE	MAN	NAG	MAL	GNT	CAP	ADI	MLT	CIT	PAC	OX
125468	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	+/-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
125468	Surface sterilized maize root grown in agricultural soil	Boston	USA	USA	North America	42.304	-71.1216 42.304/-71.1216

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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 )
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#125468	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 114566
#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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