Blastochloris viridis (DSM 134, Pfennig 2450, 2450)

Name: Blastochloris viridis (DSM 134, Pfennig 2450, 2450)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 6161

Type strain

Strain Designation 2450

Culture col. no. DSM 134 Pfennig 2450 2450 CIP 104407 NCIMB 10028

NCBI tax ID(s) 1079

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Blastochloris viridis 2450 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from meromictic lake.

anaerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 4913

LMG 4322,DSM 134,NCIB 10028,CIP 104407,NCIMB 10028

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:48:15

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Blastochloridaceae

Genus Blastochloris

Species Blastochloris viridis

Full scientific name Blastochloris viridis (Drews and Giesbrecht 1966) Hiraishi 1997

Synonyms (1)

Rhodopseudomonas viridis

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Blastochloris viridis** (1)	Type strain
6160	B. viridis Drews F, F, Dreisam, DSM 133, ATCC 19567, ... (type strain)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
2114	RHODOSPIRILLACEAE MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 27)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: RHODOSPIRILLACEAE MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 27) Composition: Disodium succinate 1.0 g/l KH2PO4 0.5 g/l Ammonium acetate 0.5 g/l NaCl 0.4 g/l NH4Cl 0.4 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.4 g/l Yeast extract 0.3 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.3 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.05 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.005 g/l Resazurin 0.005 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0002 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0001 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 3e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 Distilled water
36059	MEDIUM 131 - for Blastochloris viridis		Sodium hydrogen carbonate (1.000 g);Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Agar (18.000 g);Yeast extract (1.000 g);Ammonium sulphate (0.500 g);Potassium di-hydrogen phosphate (1.000 g);Maleic acid (1.000 g);Solution SL-6 - M00545 (1.000 ml)
123868	CIP Medium 131	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
2114	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
36059	positive	growth	22	psychrophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

2114

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	hydrogen production	100	5 of 5
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	denitrification	100	2 of 2
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	propionate fermentation	100	10 of 10
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	vitamin K metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	photosynthesis	92.86	13 of 14
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	starch degradation	90	9 of 10
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	88.89	8 of 9
66794	citric acid cycle	85.71	12 of 14
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	propanol degradation	85.71	6 of 7
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	85.71	6 of 7
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	85.71	6 of 7
66794	alanine metabolism	82.76	24 of 29
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	82.14	23 of 28
66794	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	threonine metabolism	80	8 of 10
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	flavin biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	80	8 of 10
66794	heme metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	NAD metabolism	77.78	14 of 18
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	purine metabolism	75.53	71 of 94
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	75	6 of 8
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	73.53	25 of 34
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	73.33	33 of 45
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	66.67	4 of 6
66794	proline metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	non-pathway related	63.16	24 of 38
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	histidine metabolism	62.07	18 of 29
66794	leucine metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	lipid metabolism	61.29	19 of 31
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	60	3 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	gallate degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	glycolysis	58.82	10 of 17
66794	tryptophan metabolism	57.89	22 of 38
66794	methionine metabolism	57.69	15 of 26
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	57.69	15 of 26
66794	tyrosine metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	glutathione metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	56.25	9 of 16
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	cysteine metabolism	55.56	10 of 18
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	54.95	50 of 91
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	54.55	6 of 11
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	53.85	7 of 13
66794	urea cycle	53.85	7 of 13
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	resorcinol degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	lysine metabolism	50	21 of 42
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	46.67	7 of 15
66794	sulfate reduction	46.15	6 of 13
66794	arginine metabolism	45.83	11 of 24
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	45.45	5 of 11
66794	nitrate assimilation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	41.67	5 of 12
66794	ascorbate metabolism	40.91	9 of 22
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	degradation of hexoses	38.89	7 of 18
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	carnitine metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	36.36	4 of 11
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	35.29	6 of 17
66794	phenol degradation	35	7 of 20
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
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	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	degradation of pentoses	32.14	9 of 28
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	31.82	7 of 22
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	30	3 of 10
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	30	3 of 10
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	28.57	2 of 7
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	d-xylose degradation	27.27	3 of 11
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	25	4 of 16
66794	vitamin E metabolism	25	1 of 4
66794	alginate biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	25	3 of 12
66794	daunorubicin biosynthesis	22.22	2 of 9
66794	polyamine pathway	21.74	5 of 23

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
2114	meromictic lake	Blankvann	Norway	NOR	Europe
123868	Environment, Meromictic lake	Blankvann	Norway	NOR	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
2114	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
123868	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

2114

GC-content (mol%)67.9

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#2114	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 134
#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 )
#36059	; Curators of the CIP;
#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 )
#123868	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 104407
#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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