Brevibacterium ravenspurgense (DSM 21258, CCUG 56047, JCM 19110)

Name: Brevibacterium ravenspurgense (DSM 21258, CCUG 56047, JCM 19110)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 1869

Type strain

Strain Designation 20

Culture col. no. DSM 21258 CCUG 56047 JCM 19110 20

NCBI tax ID(s) 479117

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Brevibacterium ravenspurgense 20 is a microaerophile, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that forms irregular colonies and was isolated from wound swab, 45-year-old male patient.

Gram-positive rod-shaped colony-forming microaerophile mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 406356

JCM 19110,DSM 21258,CCUG 56047

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:12

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Micrococcales

Family Brevibacteriaceae

Genus Brevibacterium

Species Brevibacterium ravenspurgense

Full scientific name Brevibacterium ravenspurgense Mages et al. 2009

Synonyms (1)

Brevibacterium massiliense

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Brevibacterium ravenspurgense** (5)	Type strain
1843	B. ravenspurgense 5401308, DSM 23039, CCUG 53855, CIP 109422, ...
150951	B. ravenspurgense CCUG 42836
150976	B. ravenspurgense CCUG 42923
151494	B. ravenspurgense CCUG 44148
152307	B. ravenspurgense CCUG 46391

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
24964	positive	0.4-1.4 µm	0.3-0.5 µm	rod-shaped
125438					93
125438	positive				93.111

Colony morphology

@ref	Type of hemolysis	Hemolysis ability	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
24964	CAMP test	1	0.2-2.0 mm	greyish-white or beige	irregular	air supplemented with 5 % CO 2

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
15500	TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water
24964	tryptic soy, brain–heart infusion and nutrient broth
24964	air supplemented with 5 % CO 2

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
15500	positive	growth	35	mesophilic
24964	positive	growth	25-42
60844	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	35	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
60844	microaerophile
125439	obligate aerobe	93.5

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
24964	NaCl	positive	growth	0-10.0 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
24964	62064 ChEBI	2,3-butanediol	+	respiration
24964	64552 ChEBI	2-hydroxybutyrate	+	respiration
24964	28644 ChEBI	2-oxopentanoate	+	respiration
24964	73918 ChEBI	3-O-methyl-D-glucose	-	respiration
24964	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	respiration
24964	40585 ChEBI	alpha-cyclodextrin	-	respiration
24964	36219 ChEBI	alpha-lactose	-	respiration
24964	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	respiration
24964	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	respiration
24964	495055 ChEBI	beta-cyclodextrin	-	respiration
24964	15903 ChEBI	beta-d-glucose	-	respiration
24964	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	respiration
24964	15570 ChEBI	D-alanine	+	respiration
24964	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	respiration
24964	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	respiration
24964	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	respiration
24964	18024 ChEBI	D-galacturonic acid	-	respiration
24964	8391 ChEBI	D-gluconate	-	respiration
24964	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	respiration
24964	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	respiration
24964	27605 ChEBI	D-psicose	-	respiration
24964	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	respiration
24964	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	-	respiration
24964	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
24964	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
24964	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	respiration
24964	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	respiration
24964	73784 ChEBI	glycyl-l-glutamate	+	respiration
24964	21217 ChEBI	L-alaninamide	+	respiration
24964	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	+	respiration
24964	73786 ChEBI	L-alanylglycine	+	respiration
24964	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	respiration
24964	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	+	respiration
24964	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	respiration
24964	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	respiration
24964	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	respiration
24964	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	+	respiration
24964	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	respiration
24964	6359 ChEBI	lactulose	-	respiration
24964	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	respiration
24964	61993 ChEBI	maltotriose	-	respiration
24964	28808 ChEBI	mannan	-	respiration
24964	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	respiration
24964	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	respiration
24964	55507 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-galactoside	-	respiration
24964	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	respiration
24964	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	respiration
24964	17540 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-galactoside	-	respiration
24964	320055 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-glucopyranoside	-	respiration
24964	51850 ChEBI	methyl pyruvate	+	respiration
24964	75146 ChEBI	monomethyl succinate	+	respiration
24964	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	respiration
24964	44337 ChEBI	N-acetyl-L-glutamate	+	respiration
24964	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	respiration
24964	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
24964	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
24964	18394 ChEBI	palatinose	-	respiration
24964	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	respiration
24964	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	respiration
24964	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	respiration
24964	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	respiration
24964	32488 ChEBI	sedoheptulosan	-	respiration
24964	17164 ChEBI	stachyose	-	respiration
24964	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	respiration
24964	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	respiration

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
24964	6-phospho-beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.85
24964	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2
24964	alanine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.2
24964	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1
24964	alpha-arabinosidase	-	3.2.1.55
24964	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
24964	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
24964	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
24964	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
24964	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
24964	arginine arylamidase	+
24964	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
24964	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
24964	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
24964	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
24964	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
24964	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
24964	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
24964	esterase (C 4)	+
24964	esterase lipase (C 8)	+
24964	glutamyl-glutamate arylamidase	-
24964	glycin arylamidase	+
24964	histidine arylamidase	+
24964	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
24964	leucyl glycin arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
24964	lipase (C 14)	-
24964	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
24964	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+/-
24964	phenylalanine arylamidase	+
24964	proline-arylamidase	+	3.4.11.5
24964	pyrazinamidase	+	3.5.1.B15
24964	pyroglutamic acid arylamidase	-
24964	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3
24964	serine arylamidase	+
24964	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
24964	tyrosine arylamidase	+
24964	urease	-	3.5.1.5
24964	valine arylamidase	-

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	vitamin K metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	teichoic acid biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	threonine metabolism	90	9 of 10
66794	valine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	propanol degradation	85.71	6 of 7
66794	citric acid cycle	85.71	12 of 14
66794	flavin biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	80	4 of 5
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	heme metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	NAD metabolism	77.78	14 of 18
66794	serine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	glycolysis	76.47	13 of 17
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	lactate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	purine metabolism	74.47	70 of 94
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	71.43	20 of 28
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	70	7 of 10
66794	propionate fermentation	70	7 of 10
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	69.23	18 of 26
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
66794	leucine metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	68.89	31 of 45
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	histidine metabolism	65.52	19 of 29
66794	proline metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	isoleucine metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	62.5	5 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	60	3 of 5
66794	lysine metabolism	59.52	25 of 42
66794	alanine metabolism	58.62	17 of 29
66794	arginine metabolism	58.33	14 of 24
66794	lipid metabolism	58.06	18 of 31
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	57.14	4 of 7
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	56.25	9 of 16
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	55.56	5 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	tryptophan metabolism	55.26	21 of 38
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	54.95	50 of 91
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	54.55	6 of 11
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	50	3 of 6
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	dolichol and dolichyl phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	non-pathway related	50	19 of 38
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	cysteine metabolism	50	9 of 18
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	biotin biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	methionine metabolism	50	13 of 26
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	45.45	5 of 11
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	45.45	5 of 11
66794	glutathione metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	41.67	5 of 12
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	41.18	7 of 17
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	starch degradation	40	4 of 10
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	glycogen metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	urea cycle	38.46	5 of 13
66794	tyrosine metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	aclacinomycin biosynthesis	28.57	2 of 7
66794	degradation of pentoses	28.57	8 of 28
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	28.57	2 of 7
66794	degradation of hexoses	27.78	5 of 18
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	25	4 of 16
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	sulfate reduction	23.08	3 of 13
66794	ascorbate metabolism	22.73	5 of 22
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	22.22	2 of 9
66794	nitrate assimilation	22.22	2 of 9
66794	allantoin degradation	22.22	2 of 9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Infection	#Patient	-
#Infection	#Patient	#Swab
#Host Body-Site	#Other	#Wound
#Host	#Human	#Male

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
15500	wound swab, 45-year-old male patient		Ravensburg	Germany	DEU	Europe
24964							2 days	35
60844	Human wound,45-yr-old male	1998	Ravensburg	Germany	DEU	Europe
67770	Wound swab (45-year-old male)

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence EU086793 (>99% sequence identity) for Brevibacterium ravenspurgense subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1902
Soil Samples	1174
Animal Samples	23611
Plant Samples	500
Total Samples	27187

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15500	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	ASM158461v1 assembly for Brevibacterium ravenspurgense CCUG56047	contig	GCA_001584615	479117.4	2744054563	479117	71.12

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15500	Brevibacterium ravenspurgense strain 20 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU086793	1470		479117

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24964	62.3
24964	62.4
15500	62.4	sequence analysis
67770	62.4	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Brevibacterium ravenspurgense CCUG56047
NCBI: GCA_001584615

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	84.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	79.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	86.40	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	93.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Brevibacterium ravenspurgense strain CCUG56047
PATRIC: 479117.4

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	93.11	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.92	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	85.08	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	79.62	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.00	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	93.00	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Identities of Arthrobacter spp. and Arthrobacter-like bacteria encountered in human clinical specimens.	Mages IS, Frodl R, Bernard KA, Funke G.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.00658-08	2008
Genetics	Draft genome sequence of a new carotenoid-producing strain Brevibacterium sp. XU54, isolated from radioactive soil in Xinjiang, China.	Zhang Z, Huang C, Du B, Xie C, Jiang L, Tang S, Xu X.	3 Biotech	10.1007/s13205-022-03366-1	2022
Phylogeny	Brevibacterium massiliense (Roux and Raoult 2009) is a later heterotypic synonym of Brevibacterium ravenspurgense (Mages, Frodl, Bernard and Funke 2009), using whole-genome sequence analysis as a comparative tool.	Bernard KA, Pacheco AL, Burdz T, Wiebe D, Huynh C, Bonner C, German GJ, Bernier AM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001371	2016

References

#15500	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21258
#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 )
#24964	K. A. P. Bernard, Ana Luisa,Burdz, Tamara,Wiebe, Deborah,Huynh, Chris,Bonner, Christine,German, Greg J.,Bernier, Anne-Marie: Brevibacterium massiliense (Roux and Raoult 2009) is a later heterotypic synonym of Brevibacterium ravenspurgense (Mages, Frodl, Bernard and Funke 2009), using whole-genome sequence analysis as a comparative tool. IJSEM 66: 4440 - 4444 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001371 , PubMed 27498845 )
#60844	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 56047
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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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Brevibacterium ravenspurgense (DSM 21258, CCUG 56047, JCM 19110)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001584615

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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