Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. chimaera (DSM 45126, KCTC 19555, 05-1390)

Name: Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. chimaera (DSM 45126, KCTC 19555, 05-1390)
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BacDive ID 8592

Type strain

Strain Designation 05-1390

Culture col. no. DSM 45126 KCTC 19555 05-1390 JCM 19957

NCBI tax ID(s) 1203599

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History <- B.-J. Kim; 05-1390 <- SNUCM KCTC 19555 <-- B.-J. Kim 05-1390. <- BJ Kim, Seoul Natl. Univ.

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Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. chimaera 05-1390 is an aerobe, mesophilic, rod-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from human sputum.

rod-shaped aerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 397763

KCTC 19555,DSM 45126

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:44

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Mycobacteriaceae

Genus Mycobacterium

Species Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. chimaera

Full scientific name Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. chimaera (Tortoli et al. 2004) Nouioui et al. 2018

Synonyms (3)

Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. yongonense
Mycobacterium chimaera
Mycobacterium yongonense

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. chimaera** (5)	Type strain
8528	M. intracellulare subsp. chimaera FI-01069, DSM 44623, CIP 107892, CCUG 50989, ... (type strain)
8527	M. intracellulare subsp. chimaera FI-01129, DSM 44622
139884	M. intracellulare subsp. chimaera ZUERICH-1, DSM 101591
153794	M. intracellulare subsp. chimaera CCUG 50990
153795	M. intracellulare subsp. chimaera CCUG 50991

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence	Cell shape
30499			rod-shaped
67771	positive
125439	positive	98.3

Pigmentation

30499

Productionno

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
12373	MIDDLEBROOK MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 645)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MIDDLEBROOK MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 645) Composition: Bacto Middlebrook 7H10 agar 20.9945 g/l Glycerol Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
12373	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
30499	positive	growth	25-44
30499	positive	optimum	37	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
67771	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
30499	positive	optimum	5.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
30499	aerobe
67771	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	99.2

Spore formation

30499

Spore formationno

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
30499	arylsulfatase	+	3.1.6.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Human	-
#Host Body Product	#Fluids	#Sputum

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
12373	human sputum	Seoul	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia
67770	Human sputum from a patient with pulmonary disease		Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia
67771	From sputum of patients		Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JF738056 (>99% sequence identity) for Mycobacterium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	4789
Soil Samples	12779
Animal Samples	3677
Plant Samples	2833
Total Samples	24078

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
12373	yes, in single cases	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	ASM41853v2 assembly for Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. yongonense 05-1390	complete	GCA_000418535	1138871.3	2541047007	1138871	96.01

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
30499	Mycobacterium yongonense 05-1390 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JF738054	439		1138871
12373	Mycobacterium yongonense 05-1390 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JF738056	1395		1138871

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	67.9	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. yongonense 05-1390
NCBI: GCA_000418535

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	98.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	84.30	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	53.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. yongonense 05-1390 05-1390
NCBI: GCA_000418535.2

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	89.25	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	94.50	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	77.49	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	62.54	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.18	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	87.50	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Recombinant Mycobacterium bovis BCG-Based HIV Vaccine: Failures and Promising Approaches for a Successful Vaccine Strategy.	Joseph-Munne J, Maya-Hoyos M, Saubi N, Perez S, Lopez MAM, Baron E, Soto CY.	Vaccines (Basel)	10.3390/vaccines13060606	2025
Genetics	Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria.	Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2018.02007	2018
Phylogeny	Microbiological features and clinical relevance of new species of the genus Mycobacterium.	Tortoli E.	Clin Microbiol Rev	10.1128/cmr.00035-14	2014
Genetics	Molecular Taxonomic Evidence for Two Distinct Genotypes of Mycobacterium yongonense via Genome-Based Phylogenetic Analysis.	Kim BJ, Kim BR, Lee SY, Kim GN, Kook YH, Kim BJ	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0152703	2016
Pathogenicity	The development of a novel Mycobacterium-Escherichia coli shuttle vector system using pMyong2, a linear plasmid from Mycobacterium yongonense DSM 45126T.	Lee H, Kim BJ, Kim BR, Kook YH, Kim BJ	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0122897	2015
Genetics	Whole-Genome Sequence of a Novel Species, Mycobacterium yongonense DSM 45126T.	Kim BJ, Kim BR, Lee SY, Seok SH, Kook YH, Kim BJ	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00604-13	2013
Transcriptome	Molecular evidence of lateral gene transfer in rpoB gene of Mycobacterium yongonense strains via multilocus sequence analysis.	Kim BJ, Hong SH, Kook YH, Kim BJ	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0051846	2013
Genetics	Genome sequence of Mycobacterium yongonense RT 955-2015 isolate from a patient misdiagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: First clinical detection in Tanzania.	Mnyambwa NP, Kim DJ, Ngadaya E, Chun J, Ha SM, Petrucka P, Addo KK, Kazwala RR, Mfinanga SG	Int J Infect Dis	10.1016/j.ijid.2018.04.796	2018
Phylogeny	Mycobacterium yongonense sp. nov., a slow-growing non-chromogenic species closely related to Mycobacterium intracellulare.	Kim BJ, Math RK, Jeon CO, Yu HK, Park YG, Kook YH, Kim BJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.037465-0	2012

References

#12373	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 45126
#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 )
#26832	IJSEM 192 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.037465-0 , PubMed 22427442 )
#30499	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 #26832
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#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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Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. chimaera (DSM 45126, KCTC 19555, 05-1390)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

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16S sequences

GC content

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Literature

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