Gulbenkiania indica (DSM 17901, JCM 15969, HT27)

Name: Gulbenkiania indica (DSM 17901, JCM 15969, HT27)
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BacDive ID 10518

Type strain

Strain Designation HT27

Culture col. no. DSM 17901 JCM 15969 HT27

NCBI tax ID(s) 375574

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History <- S. K. Das, Inst. Life Sci., Bhubaneswar, India; HT27 S. K. Das HT27.

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Gulbenkiania indica HT27 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile prokaryote that was isolated from sulfur spring.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132870

JCM 15969

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:20:16

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Neisseriales

Family Chromobacteriaceae

Genus Gulbenkiania

Species Gulbenkiania indica

Full scientific name Gulbenkiania indica Jyoti et al. 2010

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
29484	negative	2.3 µm	1.1 µm	rod-shaped
125438	negative				99.494
125439	negative				99.9

Pigmentation

29484

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
29484	positive	growth	15-45
67770	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
29484	positive	growth	05-11	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
29484	aerobe
125439	aerobe	94.2

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.158
125439		99.4

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29484	26986 ChEBI	threonine	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29484	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29484	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	threonine metabolism	100	10 of 10
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	100	14 of 14
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	denitrification	100	2 of 2
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	isoleucine metabolism	87.5	7 of 8
66794	photosynthesis	85.71	12 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	85.71	6 of 7
66794	leucine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	NAD metabolism	83.33	15 of 18
66794	purine metabolism	81.91	77 of 94
66794	proline metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	80	8 of 10
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	78.57	22 of 28
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	75.56	34 of 45
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	gluconeogenesis	75	6 of 8
66794	alanine metabolism	72.41	21 of 29
66794	tyrosine metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	propionate fermentation	70	7 of 10
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	flavin biosynthesis	66.67	10 of 15
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	methane metabolism	66.67	2 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	histidine metabolism	65.52	19 of 29
66794	citric acid cycle	64.29	9 of 14
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	63.64	7 of 11
66794	arginine metabolism	62.5	15 of 24
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	62.5	5 of 8
66794	sulfate reduction	61.54	8 of 13
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	61.54	16 of 26
66794	cysteine metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	60	3 of 5
66794	glycolysis	58.82	10 of 17
66794	tryptophan metabolism	57.89	22 of 38
66794	glutathione metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	serine metabolism	55.56	5 of 9
66794	non-pathway related	55.26	21 of 38
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	54.95	50 of 91
66794	lipid metabolism	54.84	17 of 31
66794	lysine metabolism	54.76	23 of 42
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	54.55	6 of 11
66794	methionine metabolism	53.85	14 of 26
66794	polyamine pathway	52.17	12 of 23
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	50	6 of 12
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	50	3 of 6
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	urea cycle	46.15	6 of 13
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	nitrate assimilation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	propanol degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	D-cycloserine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	gallate degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	40	6 of 15
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	carnitine metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	32.35	11 of 34
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	30	3 of 10
66794	phenol degradation	30	6 of 20
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	27.27	6 of 22
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	27.27	3 of 11
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	25	4 of 16
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	degradation of pentoses	25	7 of 28
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	23.53	4 of 17
66794	ascorbate metabolism	22.73	5 of 22
66794	degradation of hexoses	22.22	4 of 18

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Spring
#Condition	#Sulfuric	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
7232	sulfur spring	Athamallik, Orissa	India	IND	Asia
67770	Sulfur spring in Orissa		India	IND	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ415656 (>99% sequence identity) for Gulbenkiania from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2445
Soil Samples	208
Animal Samples	4350
Plant Samples	361
Total Samples	7364

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7232	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
67770	ASM141803v1 assembly for Gulbenkiania indica DSM 17901	scaffold	GCA_001418035	375574.9	2616644830	375574	74.44
67770	JGI assembly for Gulbenkiania indica DSM 17901	scaffold	GCA_001517245	375574.10		375574	73.99

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7232	Gulbenkiania indica strain HT27 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ415656	1501		375574

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
7232	63.0	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
29484	63
67770	63	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Gulbenkiania indica DSM 17901
NCBI: GCA_001517245

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.40	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	82.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.90	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	94.20	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Gulbenkiania indica strain DSM 17901
PATRIC: 375574.10

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.49	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.94	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.16	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.79	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	70.29	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	79.81	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Draft Genome Sequence of Gulbenkiania indica Strain HT27T (DSM 17901T) Isolated from a Sulfur Spring in India.	Badhai J, Narayan KD, Whitman WB, Das SK	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00830-16	2016
Phylogeny	Gulbenkiania indica sp. nov., isolated from a sulfur spring.	Jyoti V, Narayan KD, Das SK	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.014035-0	2009

References

#7232	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17901
#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 )
#25884	IJSEM 1052 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.014035-0 , PubMed 19666808 )
#29484	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 #25884
#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 )
#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 .
#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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Gulbenkiania indica (DSM 17901, JCM 15969, HT27)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

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_001418035

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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