Deinococcus murrayi (DSM 11303, CCUG 50777, CIP 105574)

Name: Deinococcus murrayi (DSM 11303, CCUG 50777, CIP 105574)
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BacDive ID 3858

Type strain

Strain Designation ALT-1b

Culture col. no. DSM 11303 CCUG 50777 CIP 105574 ALT-1b

NCBI tax ID(s) 1121383 68910

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP Literature strains

History DSMZ <- M.S. da Costa, ALT-1b CIP <- 1998, A.C. Ferreira, Dept. Zoologia, Univ. Coimbra, Portugal: strain ALT-1b

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Deinococcus murrayi ALT-1b is a microaerophile, Gram-positive, sphere-shaped bacterium that was isolated from hot springs.

Gram-positive sphere-shaped microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49073

CIP 105574,DSM 11303,NCIMB 13521,CCM 4704,CCUG 50777,BCRC 17380,CCRC 17380

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:48

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Deinococcota

Class Deinococci

Order Deinococcales

Family Deinococcaceae

Genus Deinococcus

Species Deinococcus murrayi

Full scientific name Deinococcus murrayi Ferreira et al. 1997

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Deinococcus murrayi** (2)	Type strain
3859	D. murrayi RSG-1.2, DSM 11304
3860	D. murrayi RSPS-7a, DSM 11305

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape	Motility
23350	positive	1.2-2.0 µm	sphere-shaped
121201	positive		coccus-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Incubation period	Medium used	Hemolysis ability
23350	0.2 mm	orange	3 days	Degryse medium 162
121201					0

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
4290	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
4290	THERMUS 162 MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 878)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: THERMUS 162 MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 878) Composition: Agar 28.0 g/l Na2HPO4 x 12 H2O 4.3 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Tryptone 1.0 g/l KH2PO4 0.544 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.2 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.1 g/l CaSO4 x 2 H2O 0.04 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.00122472 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00114 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00025 g/l H3BO3 0.00025 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 2.25e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 1.25e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 1.25e-05 g/l H2SO4 Distilled water
23350	Degryse medium 162
39319	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar		Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
121201	CIP Medium 3	Medium recipe at CIP
121201	CIP Medium 302	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4290	positive	growth	45
4290	positive	growth	45-50
23350	positive	growth	30-52.5
23350	positive	optimum	47
39319	positive	growth	45
58990	positive	growth	37
121201	positive	growth	30-45
121201	negative	growth	10
121201	negative	growth	25

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
23350		growth	5.0
23350		growth	10.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
58990	microaerophile
121201	obligate aerobe
125439	facultative anaerobe	92.598

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
23350
125439		97.588

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
121201	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %
121201	NaCl		growth	4 %
121201	NaCl		growth	6 %
121201	NaCl		growth	8 %
121201	NaCl		growth	10 %

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
4290	A21.01	A3ß L-Orn-Gly₂_-₃

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
23350	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	+	degradation
23350		casein	+	degradation
23350	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	assimilation
23350	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation
23350	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	assimilation
23350	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	assimilation
23350	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
23350	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
23350	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
23350	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	assimilation
23350	16551 ChEBI	D-trehalose	+	assimilation
23350	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	assimilation
23350	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	degradation
23350	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	assimilation
23350	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	+	degradation
121201	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	+	hydrolysis
23350	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation
23350	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	+	assimilation
23350	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	+	assimilation
23350	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	assimilation
23350	18050 ChEBI	L-glutamine	+	assimilation
23350	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	+	assimilation
23350	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	assimilation
23350	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	+	assimilation
23350	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	assimilation
23350	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
23350	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
23350	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	assimilation
23350	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	assimilation
23350	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
121201	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
121201	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
23350	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	assimilation
23350	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	assimilation
23350	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	assimilation
23350	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	degradation
23350	30031 ChEBI	succinate	-	assimilation
23350	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	assimilation
23350		yeast extract	+	required for growth

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
121201	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
121201	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
121201	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
121201	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
68382	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
23350	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
121201	amylase	+
23350	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
121201	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
121201	caseinase	+	3.4.21.50
23350	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
121201	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
23350	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
121201	DNase	-
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
121201	gamma-glutamyltransferase	+	2.3.2.2
121201	gelatinase	+/-
121201	lecithinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
121201	lipase	-
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
121201	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
121201	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
121201	oxidase	-
121201	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
121201	protease	-
68382	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	from API zym
121201	tryptophan deaminase	-
121201	tween esterase	-
121201	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

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
121201	-	+	+	+	-	+	-	-	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-

API biotype100

@ref	ControlQ	D-glucose as carbon sourceGLU	D-fructose as carbon sourceFRU	D-galactose as carbon sourceGAL	D-trehalose as carbon sourceTRE	D-mannose as carbon sourceMNE	L-sorbose as carbon sourceSBE	D-melibiose as carbon sourceMEL	sucrose as carbon sourceSAC	D-raffinose as carbon sourceRAF	maltotriose as carbon sourceMTE	maltose as carbon sourceMAL	lactose as carbon sourceLAC	lactulose as carbon sourceLTE	1-O-methyl-beta-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGa	1-O-methyl-alpha-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMaGa	D-cellobiose as carbon sourceCEL	gentiobiose as carbon sourceGEN	1-O-methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGu	esculin as carbon sourceESC	D-ribose as carbon sourceRIB	L-arabinose as carbon sourceARA	D-xylose as carbon sourceXYL	palatinose as carbon sourcePLE	L-rhamnose as carbon sourceRHA	L-fucose as carbon sourceFUC	D-melezitose as carbon sourceMLZ	D-arabitol as carbon sourceDARL	L-arabitol as carbon sourceLARL	xylitol as carbon sourceXLT	dulcitol as carbon sourceDUL	D-tagatose as carbon sourceTAG	glycerol as carbon sourceGLY	myo-inositol as carbon sourceINO	D-mannitol as carbon sourceMAN	maltitol as carbon sourceMTL	D-turanose as carbon sourceTUR	D-sorbitol as carbon sourceSOR	adonitol as carbon sourceADO	hydroxyquinoline-beta-glucuronide as carbon sourceHBG	D-lyxose as carbon sourceLYX	i-erythritol as carbon sourceERY	1-O-methyl-alpha-D-glucoside as carbon sourceMDG	3-O-methyl-D-glucose as carbon source3MDG	D-saccharate as carbon sourceSAT	mucate as carbon sourceMUC	L-tartrate as carbon sourceLTAT	D-tartrate as carbon sourceDTAT	meso-tartrate as carbon sourceMTAT	D-malate as carbon sourceDMLT	L-malate as carbon sourceLMLT	cis-aconitate as carbon sourceCATE	trans-aconitate as carbon sourceTATE	tricarballylate as carbon sourceTTE	citrate as carbon sourceCIT	D-glucuronate as carbon sourceGRT	D-galacturonate as carbon sourceGAT	2-ketogluconate as carbon source2KG	5-ketogluconate as carbon source5KG	tryptophan as carbon sourceTRY	N-acetyl-D-glucosamine as carbon sourceNAG	D-gluconate as carbon sourceGNT	phenylacetate as carbon sourcePAC	protocatechuate as carbon sourcePAT	4-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcepOBE	quinate as carbon sourceQAT	gentisate as carbon sourceGTE	3-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcemOBE	benzoate as carbon sourceBAT	3-phenylpropionate as carbon sourcePPAT	m-coumarate as carbon sourceCMT	trigonelline as carbon sourceTGE	betaine as carbon sourceBET	putrescine as carbon sourcePCE	4-aminobutyrate as carbon sourceABT	histamine as carbon sourceHIN	DL-lactate as carbon sourceLAT	caprate as carbon sourceCAP	caprylate as carbon sourceCYT	L-histidine as carbon sourceHIS	succinate as carbon sourceSUC	fumarate as carbon sourceFUM	glutarate as carbon sourceGRE	DL-glycerate as carbon sourceGYT	5-aminovalerate as carbon sourceAVT	ethanolamine as carbon sourceETN	tryptamine as carbon sourceTTN	D-glucosamine as carbon sourceGLN	itaconate as carbon sourceITA	3-hydroxybutyrate as carbon source3OBU	L-aspartate as carbon sourceAPT	L-glutamate as carbon sourceGTT	L-proline as carbon sourcePRO	D-alanine as carbon sourceDALA	L-alanine as carbon sourceLALA	L-serine as carbon sourceSER	malonate as carbon sourceMNT	propionate as carbon sourcePROP	L-tyrosine as carbon sourceTYR	2-ketoglutarate as carbon source2KT
121201	not determinedn.d.	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
4290	hot springs	Alcafache	Portugal	PRT	Europe
121201	Environment, Hot spring	Alcafache	Portugal	PRT	Europe	1995

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence Y13041 (>99% sequence identity) for Deinococcus murrayi subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	45
Soil Samples	15
Animal Samples	262
Plant Samples	17
Total Samples	339

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4290	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
121201	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM48280v1 assembly for Deinococcus murrayi DSM 11303	scaffold	GCA_000482805	1121383.4	2527291725	1121383	65.11

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4290	D.murrayi 16S rRNA gene, isolate ALT-1bT	Y13041	1472		68910

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
23350	69.0	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM48280v1 assembly for Deinococcus murrayi DSM 11303
BV-BRC: 1121383.4

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	92.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	82.35	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	60.88	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	97.59	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Deinococcus murrayi DSM 11303 DSM 11303
NCBI: GCA_000482805.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	56.70	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	93.10	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	81.21	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	76.11	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	77.06	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	86.41	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Draft Genome Sequence of Deinococcus sp. Strain RL Isolated from Sediments of a Hot Water Spring.	Mahato NK, Tripathi C, Verma H, Singh N, Lal R.	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomea.00703-14	2014
Metabolism	RecA proteins from Deinococcus geothermalis and Deinococcus murrayi--cloning, purification and biochemical characterisation.	Wanarska M, Krawczyk B, Hildebrandt P, Kur J.	BMC Mol Biol	10.1186/1471-2199-12-17	2011
Phylogeny	Exploration of Deinococcus-Thermus molecular diversity by novel group-specific PCR primers.	Theodorakopoulos N, Bachar D, Christen R, Alain K, Chapon V.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.119	2013
	A ring-like nucleoid is not necessary for radioresistance in the Deinococcaceae.	Zimmerman JM, Battista JR.	BMC Microbiol	10.1186/1471-2180-5-17	2005
Phylogeny	Deinococcus terrestris sp. nov., a gamma ray- and ultraviolet-resistant bacterium isolated from soil.	Wang JJ, Wu SG, Chen Q, Sheng DH, Du ZJ, Li YZ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004369	2020
Phylogeny	Deinococcus geothermalis sp. nov. and Deinococcus murrayi sp. nov., two extremely radiation-resistant and slightly thermophilic species from hot springs.	Ferreira AC, Nobre MF, Rainey FA, Silva MT, Wait R, Burghardt J, Chung AP, da Costa MS	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-47-4-939	1997

References

#4290	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11303
#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 )
#23350	Ana Cristina Ferreira, M. Fernanda Nobre, Fred A. Rainey, Manuel T. Silva, Robin Wait, Jutta Burghardt, Ana Paula Chung, Milton S. Da Costa: Deinococcus geothermalis sp. nov. and Deinococcus murrayi sp. nov., Two Extremely Radiation-Resistant and Slightly Thermophilic Species from Hot Springs. IJSEM 47: 939 - 947 1997 ( DOI 10.1099/00207713-47-4-939 , PubMed 9336890 )
#39319	; Curators of the CIP;
#58990	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 50777
#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) .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#121201	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 105574
#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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Deinococcus murrayi (DSM 11303, CCUG 50777, CIP 105574)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Murein

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API biotype100

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000482805

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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