Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri (DSM 26907, CGMCC 1.12493, RG4-7)

Name: Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri (DSM 26907, CGMCC 1.12493, RG4-7)
Creator: BacDive
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BacDive ID 24552

Type strain

Strain Designation RG4-7

Culture col. no. DSM 26907 CGMCC 1.12493 RG4-7

NCBI tax ID(s) 1302689

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- Y. Li, College of Life Sci., Capital Normal Univ., Beijing , PR China; RG4-7 <- R. Zhao and X. Chen

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Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri RG4-7 is a bacterium that was isolated from surface-disinfected moss Polytrichastrum formosum.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 398261

DSM 26907

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:30:38

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Sphingobacteriia

Order Sphingobacteriales

Family Sphingobacteriaceae

Genus Mucilaginibacter

Species Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri

Full scientific name Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri Chen et al. 2014

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	93.977
125439	negative	99.585

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
21149	R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casamino acids 0.5 g/l Starch 0.5 g/l Glucose 0.5 g/l Proteose peptone 0.5 g/l Yeast extract 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.3 g/l Na-pyruvate 0.3 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.05 g/l Distilled water

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	95.169

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.862

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	cellulose degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	100	2 of 2
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	100	7 of 7
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	100	2 of 2
66794	quinate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	starch degradation	100	10 of 10
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	ceramide biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	90.91	10 of 11
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	90	9 of 10
66794	threonine metabolism	90	9 of 10
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	85.71	6 of 7
66794	NAD metabolism	83.33	15 of 18
66794	1,4-dihydroxy-6-naphthoate biosynthesis	83.33	5 of 6
66794	proline metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	gallate degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	alanine metabolism	79.31	23 of 29
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	78.57	22 of 28
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	purine metabolism	76.6	72 of 94
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	75.56	34 of 45
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	gluconeogenesis	75	6 of 8
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	flavin biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	72.73	8 of 11
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	72.73	16 of 22
66794	cysteine metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	glutathione metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	lipid metabolism	70.97	22 of 31
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	69.23	18 of 26
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	66.67	6 of 9
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	tryptophan metabolism	65.79	25 of 38
66794	methionine metabolism	65.38	17 of 26
66794	tyrosine metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	degradation of pentoses	64.29	18 of 28
66794	citric acid cycle	64.29	9 of 14
66794	d-xylose degradation	63.64	7 of 11
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	62.5	10 of 16
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	histidine metabolism	62.07	18 of 29
66794	leucine metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	degradation of sugar acids	60	15 of 25
66794	propionate fermentation	60	6 of 10
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	60	3 of 5
66794	O-antigen biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	60	6 of 10
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	60	6 of 10
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	58.33	7 of 12
66794	arginine metabolism	58.33	14 of 24
66794	lysine metabolism	57.14	24 of 42
66794	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	55.56	5 of 9
66794	non-pathway related	55.26	21 of 38
66794	phenol degradation	55	11 of 20
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	54.55	6 of 11
66794	urea cycle	53.85	7 of 13
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	53.85	7 of 13
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	50	5 of 10
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	50	8 of 16
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	46.67	7 of 15
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	sulfate reduction	46.15	6 of 13
66794	ascorbate metabolism	45.45	10 of 22
66794	degradation of hexoses	44.44	8 of 18
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	44.44	8 of 18
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	43.96	40 of 91
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	3-chlorocatechol degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	bacilysin biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	33.33	2 of 6
66794	aclacinomycin biosynthesis	28.57	2 of 7
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	23.53	4 of 17
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	23.08	3 of 13
66794	allantoin degradation	22.22	2 of 9
66794	polyamine pathway	21.74	5 of 23

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Moss
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Sterilized plant part

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
21149	surface-disinfected moss Polytrichastrum formosum	Polytrichastrum formosum	Tibet plateau, Gawalong glacier zone (29° 38' 58.66'' N 91° 06' 56.34'' E)	China	CHN	Asia	29.6496	91.1156 29.6496/91.1156

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KC560020 (>99% sequence identity) for Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	251
Soil Samples	628
Animal Samples	228
Plant Samples	202
Total Samples	1309

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
21149	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	IMG-taxon 2622736518 annotated assembly for Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri DSM 26907	scaffold	GCA_900116355	1302689.3	2622736518	1302689	69.55
66792	ASM191142v1 assembly for Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri RG4-7	scaffold	GCA_001911425		2843472405	1302689	48.27

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21149	Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri strain RG4-7 from China 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KC560020	1483		1302689

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
21149	39.1	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: IMG-taxon 2622736518 annotated assembly for Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri DSM 26907
BV-BRC: 1302689.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	95.17	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.59	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	78.38	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.86	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri DSM 26907
NCBI: GCA_900116355.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	93.98	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.86	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	85.54	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.23	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.83	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	86.50	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	An assessment of the genomics, comparative genomics and cellulose degradation potential of Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri strain RG4-7.	Wang ZY, Wang RX, Zhou JS, Cheng JF, Li YH	Bioresour Technol	10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122389	2019
Phylogeny	Mucilaginibacter straminoryzae sp. nov., isolated from rice straw used for growing periphyton.	Ko SR, Le VV, Kang M, Oh HM, Ahn CY.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005714	2023
Phylogeny	Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri sp. nov., isolated from a moss (Polytrichastrum formosum), and emended description of the genus Mucilaginibacter.	Chen XY, Zhao R, Tian Y, Kong BH, Li XD, Chen ZL, Li YH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.055335-0	2014

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 )
#21149	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 26907
#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) .
#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 )
#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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Mucilaginibacter polytrichastri (DSM 26907, CGMCC 1.12493, RG4-7)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900116355

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

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