Deinococcus aquaticus (DSM 18376, KCTC 12552, NBRC 101311)

Name: Deinococcus aquaticus (DSM 18376, KCTC 12552, NBRC 101311)
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BacDive ID 3882

Type strain

Strain Designation PB314

Culture col. no. DSM 18376 KCTC 12552 NBRC 101311 PB314

NCBI tax ID(s) 328692

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History <- Sung-Taik Lee <- Wan-Taek Im, KAIST, Republik of Korea; PB314 <- ST Lee, KAIST

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Deinococcus aquaticus PB314 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from freshwater with sediment of Gapcheon.

Gram-negative rod-shaped aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 291599

LMG 23718,KCTC 12552,NBRC 101311,DSM 18376

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:36

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Deinococcota

Class Deinococci

Order Deinococcales

Family Deinococcaceae

Genus Deinococcus

Species Deinococcus aquaticus

Full scientific name Deinococcus aquaticus Im et al. 2008

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape
31700	negative	2.5-3 µm	rod-shaped
67771			rod-shaped
67771	negative

Pigmentation

31700

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
7439	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
7439	positive	growth	28
31700	positive	growth	20-37
31700	positive	optimum	30
67771	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31700	positive	optimum	7
31700	positive	growth	6-9.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
31700	aerobe
67771	aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation
31700
67771

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31700	NaCl	positive	growth	0-3 %
31700	NaCl	positive	optimum	0-3 %

Observation

@ref	Observation
31700	aggregates in chains
67771	quinones: MK-8

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31700	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
31700	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
31700	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
31700	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
31700	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source
31700	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
31700	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31700	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
31700	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Freshwater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
7439	freshwater with sediment of Gapcheon	Daejeon City	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia
67771	From freshwater stream	the River Gapcheon near KAIST, Daejeon	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ017708 (>99% sequence identity) for Deinococcus aquaticus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	113
Soil Samples	14
Animal Samples	57
Plant Samples	9
Total Samples	193

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7439	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3954491v1 assembly for Deinococcus aquaticus NBRC 101311	contig	GCA_039544915	328692	70.63
124043	ASM4266172v1 assembly for Deinococcus aquaticus NBRC 101311	contig	GCA_042661725	328692	49.51

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7439	Deinococcus aquaticus strain PB314 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ017708	1459		328692

GC content

7439

GC-content (mol%)68.3

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Complete Genome Sequence of Deinococcus aquaticus Type Strain PB314, a Non-Extremophile Representative of the Genus Deinococcus.	Albert C, Hill J, Boren L, Scholz-Ng S, Fatema N, Grosso R, Soboslay E, Tuohy J.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.00026-23	2023
Phylogeny	Deinococcus knuensis sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from river water.	Lee JJ, Lee YH, Park SJ, Lee SY, Park S, Lee DS, Kang IK, Ten LN, Jung HY	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-016-0813-3	2016
Phylogeny	Deinococcus budaensis sp. nov., a mesophilic species isolated from a biofilm sample of a hydrothermal spring cave.	Makk J, Toth EM, Anda D, Pal S, Schumann P, Kovacs AL, Madl-Szonyi J, Marialigeti K, Borsodi AK	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001519	2016
Phylogeny	Deinococcus seoulensis sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from sediment at Han River in Seoul, Republic of Korea.	Lee JJ, Lee YH, Park SJ, Lim S, Jeong SW, Lee SY, Cho YJ, Kim MK, Jung HY	J Microbiol	10.1007/s12275-016-6253-y	2016
Phylogeny	Deinococcus antarcticus sp. nov., isolated from soil.	Dong N, Li HR, Yuan M, Zhang XH, Yu Y	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.066324-0	2014
Phylogeny	Deinococcus daejeonensis sp. nov., isolated from sludge in a sewage disposal plant.	Srinivasan S, Kim MK, Lim S, Joe M, Lee M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.033316-0	2011
Phylogeny	Deinococcus depolymerans sp. nov., a gamma- and UV-radiation-resistant bacterium, isolated from a naturally radioactive site.	Asker D, Awad TS, McLandsborough L, Beppu T, Ueda K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.013482-0	2010
Phylogeny	Deinococcus aquaticus sp. nov., isolated from fresh water, and Deinococcus caeni sp. nov., isolated from activated sludge.	Im WT, Jung HM, Ten LN, Kim MK, Bora N, Goodfellow M, Lim S, Jung J, Lee ST	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64082-0	2008

References

#7439	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18376
#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 )
#27977	IJSEM 2348 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64082-0 , PubMed 18842854 )
#31700	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 #27977
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#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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Deinococcus aquaticus (DSM 18376, KCTC 12552, NBRC 101311)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_039544915

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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