Comamonas testosteroni (DSM 50242, ATCC 17407, ICPB 2739-25)

Name: Comamonas testosteroni (DSM 50242, ATCC 17407, ICPB 2739-25)
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BacDive ID 2922

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 50242 ATCC 17407 ICPB 2739-25

NCBI tax ID(s) 285

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- ICPB <- IAM (Pseudomonas desmolytica)

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Comamonas testosteroni DSM 50242 is a bacterium that was isolated from soil.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 2051

LMG 1787,ATCC 17407,CCUG 15341,DSM 50242,IAM 1123,JCM 6205,LMD 70.26,NCCB 70026

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:35

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Comamonadaceae

Genus Comamonas

Species Comamonas testosteroni

Full scientific name Comamonas testosteroni (Marcus and Talalay 1956) Tamaoka et al. 1987

Synonyms (1)

Pseudomonas testosteroni

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Comamonas testosteroni** (37)	Type strain
2923	C. testosteroni DSM 50244, ATCC 11996, ICPB 2741-78, NCIB ... (type strain)
2910	C. testosteroni R-10-Z, DSM 1455, IAM 1152, JCM 20077, ATCC ...
2911	C. testosteroni 11, DSM 1622
2912	C. testosteroni DSM 38, ATCC 17454, NCIB 8893, JCM 6223, ...
2913	C. testosteroni T-2, DSM 6577
2914	C. testosteroni 31A, DSM 6781
2915	C. testosteroni RW31, DSM 7300
2916	C. testosteroni PSB-4, DSM 11414
2917	C. testosteroni wtT-2, DSM 12678
2918	C. testosteroni KF1, DSM 14576
2919	C. testosteroni SPB-2, DSM 14802
2920	C. testosteroni N, DSM 30032, ATCC 25094
2921	C. testosteroni 31, DSM 50241, ATCC 15666, ICPB 2738-16, ...
23869	C. testosteroni DSM 50429, ATCC 14836, ICPB 2882, NRRL B-963
137962	C. testosteroni 292-86, CIP 102318
138173	C. testosteroni FD-30, CIP 105116, CCUG 14480, ATCC 17510, ...
141203	C. testosteroni CCUG 178 A
141361	C. testosteroni CCUG 1188
142853	C. testosteroni CCUG 15339, ATCC 17409, LMG 1788, JCM 6222, ...
152763	C. testosteroni CCUG 47564
155708	C. testosteroni CCUG 59100
160885	C. testosteroni JCM 10170
161299	C. testosteroni JCM 13048, ATCC 15667, CCUG 14479, IAM 12408, ...
162570	C. testosteroni JCM 19603, NBRC 109938
162958	C. testosteroni JCM 20558, ATCC 15667, CCUG 14479, IAM 12408, ...
165359	C. testosteroni JCM 6204, BCRC 10956, IAM 1048, IFO 12047, ...
165360	C. testosteroni JCM 6205, IAM 1123
165361	C. testosteroni JCM 6206, IAM 1176, IAM 14425
165363	C. testosteroni JCM 6209, IAM 14424
165364	C. testosteroni JCM 6210
165372	C. testosteroni JCM 6225, IAM 14427
165373	C. testosteroni JCM 6226, IAM 14428
165374	C. testosteroni JCM 6227, IAM 14429
165375	C. testosteroni JCM 6228, IAM 14430
165376	C. testosteroni JCM 6229, IAM 14431
165377	C. testosteroni JCM 6231
165379	C. testosteroni JCM 6233

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
12681	NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
12681	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

12681

Sample typesoil

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
12681	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
12681	64.5	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#12681	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 50242
#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 )
#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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