Deinococcus aetherius (DSM 21230, JCM 11751, ST0316)

Name: Deinococcus aetherius (DSM 21230, JCM 11751, ST0316)
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BacDive ID 3896

Type strain

Strain Designation ST0316

Culture col. no. DSM 21230 JCM 11751 ST0316

NCBI tax ID(s) 200252

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Deinococcus aetherius ST0316 is a mesophilic, coccus-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from air sample, stratosphere.

coccus-shaped mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 398023

JCM 11751,DSM 21230

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:40

Domain Thermotogati

Phylum Deinococcota

Class Deinococci

Order Deinococcales

Family Deinococcaceae

Genus Deinococcus

Species Deinococcus aetherius

Full scientific name Deinococcus aetherius Yang et al. 2010

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29323	1.25 µm	coccus-shaped

Pigmentation

29323

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15499	PLATE COUNT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 464)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PLATE COUNT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 464) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Tryptone 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 2.5 g/l Dextrose 1.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
15499	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
29323	positive	growth	25-30	mesophilic
29323	positive	optimum	27.5	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
29323	positive	optimum	7

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

29323

Spore formationno

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-8

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29323	22653 ChEBI	asparagine	+	carbon source
29323	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
29323	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
29323	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29323	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29323	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Air	#Outdoor Air

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
15499	air sample, stratosphere	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Air dust collected in the stratosphere	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB087287 (>99% sequence identity) for Deinococcus aetherius subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	14
Soil Samples	11
Animal Samples	66
Plant Samples	5
Total Samples	96

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15499	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3953982v1 assembly for Deinococcus aetherius JCM 11751	contig	GCA_039539825	200252	61.98

Genome browser: GCA_039539825

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15499	Deinococcus aetherius gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB087287	1473		200252

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)
15499	69.8
67770	69.8

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Complete Genome Sequence of the Radioresistant Bacterium Deinococcus aetherius ST0316, Isolated from Air Dust Collected in the Lower Stratosphere above Japan.	Satoh K, Hagiwara K, Katsumata K, Kubo A, Yokobori SI, Yamagishi A, Oono Y, Narumi I	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.00836-22	2022
Phylogeny	Deinococcus aestuarii sp. nov. and Deinococcus aquaedulcis sp. nov., two novel resistant bacteria isolated from pearl river estuary.	Yin LZ, Li JL, Liu ZT, Fang BZ, Wang P, Luo XQ, Dong L, Duan L, Li SH, Li WJ	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-021-01680-x	2021
Phylogeny	Deinococcus planocerae sp. nov., isolated from a marine flatworm.	Lin H, Wang Y, Huang J, Lai Q, Xu Y	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-017-0854-2	2017
Phylogeny	Deinococcus aetherius sp. nov., isolated from the stratosphere.	Yang Y, Itoh T, Yokobori SI, Shimada H, Itahashi S, Satoh K, Ohba H, Narumi I, Yamagishi A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.010876-0	2009

References

#15499	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21230
#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 )
#29323	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 #25735 (see below)
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 aetherius (DSM 21230, JCM 11751, ST0316)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

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_039539825

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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