Name: Micrococcus cohnii WS 4601
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 7761

Type strain:

Species: Micrococcus cohnii

Strain Designation: WS 4601

Culture col. no.: DSM 23974, LMG 26183

Strain history: <- P. Scherer, Research Center for Nutrition and Food Sci. (ZIEL), TU Munich, GERMANY; WS 4601 <- G. Rieser <- E. Speil

NCBI tax ID(s): 993416 (species)

SI-ID 374265

LMG 26183, DSM 23974

Special Collections

Section

Micrococcus cohnii WS 4601 is an aerobe, Gram-positive, coccus-shaped bacterium that was isolated from air in a medical practice.

coccus-shaped
Gram-positive
aerobe
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Actinomycetota*
	Class	*Actinomycetes*
	Order	*Micrococcales*
	Family	*Micrococcaceae*
	Genus	*Micrococcus*
	Species	**Micrococcus cohnii**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Micrococcus cohnii Rieser et al. 2013

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #30452]	Gram stain	positive
[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	positive Confidence in %94.391

[Ref.: #30452]	Cell length	1.15 µm

[Ref.: #30452]	Cell width	1.15 µm

[Ref.: #30452]	Cell shape	coccus-shaped

[Ref.: #30452]	Motility	no
[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	no Confidence in %93.5

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #17465]	growth	28 °C
[Ref.: #30452]	growth	15-37 °C
[Ref.: #30452]	optimum	26 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #30452]			optimum	8
[Ref.: #30452]			growth	07-09

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

[Ref.: #30452]	Ability of spore formation	no
[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %100

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #30452]		NaCl		growth	0-10	%
[Ref.: #30452]		NaCl		optimum	5	%

[Ref.: #17465]	Murein short key	A11.04
[Ref.: #17465]	Murein types	A3alpha L-Lys-L-Ala

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #30452]	arabinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30452]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30452]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30452]	mannitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30452]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30452]	melibiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30452]	rhamnose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30452]	sorbitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30452]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30452]	trehalose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #30452]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #30452]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #30452]	gelatinase	+
[Ref.: #30452]	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #17465]	Sample type/isolated from	air in a medical practice
[Ref.: #17465]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Bavaria
[Ref.: #17465]	Country	Germany
[Ref.: #17465]	Country ISO 3 Code	DEU
[Ref.: #17465]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Air	#Indoor Air
#Infection	#Medical environment	#Medical practice

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence FR832424 (>99% sequence identity) for Micrococcus cohnii subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	371
Soil Samples	389
Animal Samples	4326
Plant Samples	215
Total Samples	5301

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #17465]	Micrococcus cohnii 16S rRNA gene, type strain WS4601T	FR832424	1407	GenBank ENA	993416 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Micrococcus cohnii DSM 23974	GCA_014205175	contig	GenBank ENA	993416 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Micrococcus cohnii strain DSM 23974	993416.3	wgs	PATRIC	993416 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Micrococcus cohnii DSM 23974	2870868549	draft	JGI IMG/M	993416 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #17465]	GC-content	70.4 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
[Ref.: #30452]	GC-content	70.4 mol%

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Micrococcus cohnii strain DSM 23974 PATRIC: 993416.3
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	100	no

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Micrococcus cohnii strain DSM 23974 PATRIC: 993416.3
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	94.391	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.327	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	78.509	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	85.466	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.5	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	93.5	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 23974, LMG 26183

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SI-ID 374265

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Micrococcus cohnii sp. nov., isolated from the air in a medical practice.	Rieser G, Scherer S, Wenning M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.036434-0	2012	*

References

#17465

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 23974

#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 )

#30452

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 #26787 (see below)

#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) .

#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 .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#77204

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID374265.1 )

#26787

IJSEM 80 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.036434-0 , PubMed 22328614 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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