Rhodococcus cerastii (DSM 45579, CCM 7906, LMG 26203)

Name: Rhodococcus cerastii (DSM 45579, CCM 7906, LMG 26203)
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BacDive ID 23161

Type strain

Strain Designation C5, C5(2010)

Culture col. no. DSM 45579 CCM 7906 LMG 26203 CCUG 60725 C5 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 908616

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG Wink compendium Literature strains

History <- P. Kämpfer, Universität Giessen; C5 <- S.A. Wellner

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Rhodococcus cerastii C5 is an aerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from leaf surface of Cerastium holosteoides.

Gram-positive rod-shaped aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 375955

LMG 26203,CCM 7906,DSM 45579,CCUG 60725

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:23:41

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Nocardiaceae

Genus Rhodococcus

Species Rhodococcus cerastii

Full scientific name Rhodococcus cerastii Kämpfer et al. 2013

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
30808	positive	2.5 µm	0.9 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Medium used	Incubation period
69407	Daffodil yellow (1007)	suter with tyrosine
62415			2 days
69407	Maize yellow (1006)	ISP 2
69407	Maize yellow (1006)	ISP 5
69407	Maize yellow (1006)	ISP 7
69407	Maize yellow (1006)	suter without tyrosine

Multicellular morphology

@ref	Complex name	Medium name
69407	Aerial mycelium	ISP 2
69407	Aerial mycelium	ISP 5
69407	Aerial mycelium	ISP 7
69407	Aerial mycelium	suter with tyrosine
69407	Aerial mycelium	suter without tyrosine

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
30808
69407		melanin pigment
69407		soluble pigment

Multimedia

@ref:	19257
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multimedia.multimedia content:	https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/photos/DSM_45579.jpg
caption:	Medium 215 28°C
intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
manual_annotation:	1

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caption:	Plates (65, ISP2, ISP3, ISP4, ISP5, ISP7)
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

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multimedia content:	DSM_45579_image4.jpeg
multimedia.multimedia content:	DSM_45579_image4.jpeg
caption:	Plates (65, ISP2, ISP3, ISP4, ISP5, ISP7)
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
19257	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)
19257	positive	growth	28
30808	positive	growth	15-50
30808	positive	optimum	30
62415	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
30808	positive	optimum	7.5
30808	positive	growth	6.5-10.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
30808	aerobe
62415	aerobe

Spore formation

30808

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30808	NaCl	positive	growth	01-06 %
30808	NaCl	positive	optimum	2.5 %
69407	NaCl	positive	growth	0-5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30808	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
69407	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	-	growth
69407	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	-	growth
68379	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
68379	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
68379	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
68379	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
30808	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
69407	28757 ChEBI	fructose	-	growth
30808	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
68379	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API Coryne
69407	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	growth
68379	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
69407	17268 ChEBI	inositol	-	growth
68379	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
30808	25017 ChEBI	leucine	+	carbon source
68379	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
69407	37684 ChEBI	mannose	-	growth
30808	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
30808	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source
68379	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API Coryne
30808	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	+	carbon source
30808	17148 ChEBI	putrescine	+	carbon source
30808	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
69407	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	growth
69407	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	-	growth
30808	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
30808	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	carbon source
30808	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
69407	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	growth
68379	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	fermentation	from API Coryne
30808	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
68379	16199 ChEBI	urea	+	hydrolysis	from API Coryne
69407	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-	growth

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68379	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API Coryne
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
68379	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	from API Coryne
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API zym
68379	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API Coryne
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68379	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API Coryne
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
68379	gelatinase	-		from API Coryne
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68379	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API Coryne
68379	pyrazinamidase	-	3.5.1.B15	from API Coryne
68379	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3	from API Coryne
68379	urease	+	3.5.1.5	from API Coryne
68382	valine arylamidase	+		from API zym

API coryne

@ref	Reduction of nitrateNIT	PYZ	PYRA	PAL	beta GUR	beta GAL	alpha GLU	beta NAG	ESC	URE	GEL	Control fermentationControl	GLU	RIB	XYL	MAN	MAL	LAC	SAC	GLYG	CAT
69407	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	+/-	+	-	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	not determinedn.d.

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
69407	not determinedn.d.	+/-	+/-	+	+/-	+	+	+/-	+/-	-	+/-	+/-	+	+	+/-	+	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Leaf (Phyllosphere)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Sampling date
19257	leaf surface of Cerastium holosteoides	Cerastium holosteoides	Thuringia, Hainich-Dün region	Germany	DEU	Europe
62415	Leaf,Cerastium holosteoides		Hainich-Dün (Thüringen)	Germany	DEU	Europe	2008

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FR714842 (>99% sequence identity) for Rhodococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1392
Soil Samples	337
Animal Samples	1539
Plant Samples	167
Total Samples	3435

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
19257	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
19257	Rhodococcus cerastii partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain C5T	FR714842	1337		908616
124043	Rhodococcus cerastii strain CCM 7906 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	MT760190	762		908616

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Rhodococcus cerastii sp. nov. and Rhodococcus trifolii sp. nov., two novel species isolated from leaf surfaces.	Kampfer P, Wellner S, Lohse K, Lodders N, Martin K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.044958-0	2012

References

#19257	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 45579
#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 )
#27139	IJSEM 1024 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.044958-0 , PubMed 22685110 )
#30808	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 #27139
#62415	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 60725
#68379	Automatically annotated from API Coryne .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#69407	Wink, J.: Compendium of Actinobacteria. HZI-Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig .
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Rhodococcus cerastii (DSM 45579, CCM 7906, LMG 26203)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Multicellular morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

API coryne

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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References

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