Allostella humosa (DSM 5900, ATCC 43930, AUCM B-1137)

Name: Allostella humosa (DSM 5900, ATCC 43930, AUCM B-1137)
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BacDive ID 64

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 5900 ATCC 43930 AUCM B-1137 BKM B-1137 DSM 3698 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 94

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Allostella humosa DSM 5900 is a chemoorganotroph, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from soil.

Gram-negative star-shaped colony-forming chemoorganotroph mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 42130

ATCC 43930,VKM B-1137,DSM 5900,DSM 3698

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:46:46

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Allostellaceae

Genus Allostella

Species Allostella humosa

Full scientific name Allostella humosa (Vasilyeva 1985) Deshmukh and Oren 2025

Synonyms (1)

Stella humosa

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape	Confidence
23248	negative	0.7-3.0 µm	star-shaped
125439	negative			90.9
125438	negative			97.827

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period
23248	2.5 mm	greyish white	circular	14 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
2352	ANCALOMICROBIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 603)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ANCALOMICROBIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 603) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.588119 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.247525 g/l Glucose 0.247525 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.19802 g/l Na2HPO4 0.070297 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0660396 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00108416 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00049505 g/l Na-EDTA 0.000247525 g/l (NH4)6Mo7O24 x 4 H2O 0.000183168 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.000152475 g/l Calcium pantothenate 4.95049e-05 g/l Nicotinamide 4.95049e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.95049e-05 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 4.95049e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 3.88119e-05 g/l Co(NO3)2 x 6 H2O 2.45545e-05 g/l Biotin 1.9802e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.9802e-05 g/l Na2B4O7 x 10 H2O 1.75248e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 9.90099e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
2352	positive	growth	28-30	mesophilic
23248	positive	optimum	28-30	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
23248	positive	growth	7

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	99.3

Nutrition type

23248

Typechemoorganotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
23248
125439		92.3

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
23248	30916 ChEBI	2-oxoglutarate	-	growth
23248	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	growth
23248	17968 ChEBI	butyrate	-	growth
23248	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	-	hydrolysis
23248	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	growth
23248	15570 ChEBI	D-alanine	-	growth
23248	15740 ChEBI	formate	-	growth
23248	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	growth
23248	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
23248	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	growth
23248	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	-	growth
23248	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	growth
23248	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	-	growth
23248	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	-	growth
23248	17561 ChEBI	L-cysteine	+	growth
23248	16283 ChEBI	L-cystine	+	growth
23248	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	growth
23248	18050 ChEBI	L-glutamine	-	growth
23248	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	-	growth
23248	18019 ChEBI	L-lysine	+	growth
23248	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	-	growth
23248	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	growth
23248	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	growth
23248	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	growth
23248	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
23248	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	growth
23248	26986 ChEBI	threonine	-	growth
23248	31011 ChEBI	valerate	-	growth

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.	Intermediate conc.
23248	7507	neomycin	0.5-1 µg/mL
23248	7935	paromomycin sulfate		2-10 µg/mL
23248	17334	penicillin		8 µg/mL

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
23248	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
23248	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	100	8 of 8
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	100	2 of 2
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	100	5 of 5
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	100	9 of 9
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	gallate degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	taurine degradation	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	100	7 of 7
66794	leucine metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	91.67	11 of 12
66794	proline metabolism	90.91	10 of 11
66794	propionate fermentation	90	9 of 10
66794	threonine metabolism	90	9 of 10
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	89.29	25 of 28
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	NAD metabolism	88.89	16 of 18
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	88.89	8 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	87.5	7 of 8
66794	flavin biosynthesis	86.67	13 of 15
66794	propanol degradation	85.71	6 of 7
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	glutathione metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	citric acid cycle	85.71	12 of 14
66794	photosynthesis	85.71	12 of 14
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	85.71	6 of 7
66794	heme metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	alanine metabolism	82.76	24 of 29
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	81.82	9 of 11
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	80	8 of 10
66794	3-chlorocatechol degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	80	4 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	starch degradation	80	8 of 10
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	histidine metabolism	79.31	23 of 29
66794	arginine metabolism	79.17	19 of 24
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	glycolysis	76.47	13 of 17
66794	lysine metabolism	76.19	32 of 42
66794	carnitine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	75	6 of 8
66794	degradation of pentoses	75	21 of 28
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	75	12 of 16
66794	phenol degradation	75	15 of 20
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	purine metabolism	74.47	70 of 94
66794	lipid metabolism	74.19	23 of 31
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	73.33	11 of 15
66794	methionine metabolism	73.08	19 of 26
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	72.53	66 of 91
66794	cysteine metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	non-pathway related	71.05	27 of 38
66794	tryptophan metabolism	71.05	27 of 38
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	70	7 of 10
66794	urea cycle	69.23	9 of 13
66794	methane metabolism	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	66.67	4 of 6
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-xylose degradation	63.64	7 of 11
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	63.64	7 of 11
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	61.54	16 of 26
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	61.54	8 of 13
66794	creatinine degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	degradation of sugar acids	60	15 of 25
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	60	6 of 10
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	60	6 of 10
66794	polyamine pathway	56.52	13 of 23
66794	degradation of hexoses	55.56	10 of 18
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	55.56	25 of 45
66794	allantoin degradation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	sulfate reduction	53.85	7 of 13
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	50	8 of 16
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	ascorbate metabolism	50	11 of 22
66794	tyrosine metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	toluene degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	vitamin E metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	resorcinol degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	lactate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	47.06	16 of 34
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	47.06	8 of 17
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	45.45	5 of 11
66794	nitrate assimilation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	aclacinomycin biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	hydrogen production	40	2 of 5
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	cellulose degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	38.89	7 of 18
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	36.36	8 of 22
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	alginate biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	23.08	3 of 13
66794	daunorubicin biosynthesis	22.22	2 of 9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
2352	soil	Krasnodar	Russia	RUS	Europe
23248	Virgin chernozem

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ535710 (>99% sequence identity) for Stella humosa from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	46
Soil Samples	12
Animal Samples	15
Plant Samples	8
Total Samples	81

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
2352	1	Risk group (German 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	ASM673864v1 assembly for Allostella humosa ATCC 43930	complete	GCA_006738645	94.5		94	96.83
66792	ASM375134v1 assembly for Allostella humosa DSM 5900	contig	GCA_003751345	94.4	2788499841	94	73.14

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Stella humosa 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM5900	AJ535710	1447		94

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
23248	72.70	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Stella humosa strain ATCC 43930
PATRIC: 94.5

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	92.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	57.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	90.90	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Stella humosa ATCC 43930
NCBI: GCA_006738645.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.83	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.96	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	76.64	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	83.74	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.31	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	59.98	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Proposal of Allobogoriella gen. nov., Allobogoriella caseilytica comb. nov., Allostella gen. nov., Allostella humosa comb. nov. and Allostella vacuolata comb. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic names Bogoriella, Bogoriella caseilytica, Stella, Stella humosa and Stella vacuolata, respectively.	Deshmukh UB, Oren A.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006930	2025
	Exploring the Linkage Between Ruminal Microbial Communities on Postweaning and Finishing Diets and Their Relation to Residual Feed Intake in Beef Cattle.	Peraza P, Fernandez-Calero T, Naya H, Sotelo-Silveira J, Navajas EA.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms12122437	2024
Phylogeny	Phenological asynchrony between host plant and gypsy moth reduces insect gut microbiota and susceptibility to Bacillus thuringiensis.	Martemyanov VV, Belousova IA, Pavlushin SV, Dubovskiy IM, Ershov NI, Alikina TY, Kabilov MR, Glupov VV.	Ecol Evol	10.1002/ece3.2460	2016
	5S rRNA sequences from Nitrobacter winogradskyi, Caulobacter crescentus, Stella humosa and Verrucomicrobium spinosum.	Bomar D, Stackebrandt E.	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/15.22.9597	1987
Genetics	Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria.	Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468	2020
Genetics	Complete Genome Sequences of Three Star-Shaped Bacteria, Stella humosa, Stella vacuolata, and Stella Species ATCC 35155.	Shibai A, Maeda T, Kawada M, Kotani H, Sakata N, Furusawa C	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/MRA.00719-19	2019
Phylogeny	Phylogenetic relationships of the genera Stella, Labrys and Angulomicrobium within the 'Alphaproteobacteria' and description of Angulomicrobium amanitiforme sp. nov.	Fritz I, Strompl C, Abraham WR	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02746-0	2004

References

#2352	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 5900
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#23248	L. V. VASILYEVA: Stella, a New Genus of Soil Prosthecobacteria, with Proposals for Stella humosa sp. nov. and Stella vacuolata sp. nov.. IJSEM 35: 518 - 521 1985 ( DOI 10.1099/00207713-35-4-518 )
#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) .
#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 )
#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 .
#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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Allostella humosa (DSM 5900, ATCC 43930, AUCM B-1137)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_006738645

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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