Ruegeria litorea (DSM 29947, CECT 7639, KCTC 23353)

Name: Ruegeria litorea (DSM 29947, CECT 7639, KCTC 23353)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 130634

Type strain

Strain Designation R37

Culture col. no. DSM 29947 CECT 7639 KCTC 23353 R37

NCBI tax ID(s) 1280831

Special Collections DSMZ KCTC

History <- CECT <- M. J. Pujalte, Univ. Valencia, Campus Burjasot, Spain; R37

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Ruegeria litorea R37 is a bacterium that was isolated from surface seawater.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 392148

CECT 7639,KCTC 23353,DSM 29947

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:16

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Roseobacteraceae

Genus Ruegeria

Species Ruegeria litorea

Full scientific name Ruegeria litorea (Lucena et al. 2014) Wirth and Whitman 2018

Synonyms (2)

Falsiruegeria litorea
Tropicibacter litoreus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	97.833
125439	negative	90.8

Colony morphology

22057

Incubation period2-3 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
22057	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
22057	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	aerobe	95.2

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		92.105
125439		90.4

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68369	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20NE
68369	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction	from API 20NE
68369	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20NE
68369	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20NE

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API 20NE

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68369	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
68369	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API 20NE
22057	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
22057	cytochrome-c oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
68369	gelatinase	-		from API 20NE
68369	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20NE

API 20NE

@ref	Reduction of nitratesNO3	TRP	GLU_ Ferm	ADH (Arg)	URE	ESC	GEL	PNPG	GLU_ Assim	ARA	MNE	MAN	NAG	MAL	GNT	CAP	ADI	MLT	CIT	PAC	OX
22057	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	not determinedn.d.

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Surface water

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
22057	surface seawater	Valencia, Malvarrosa Beach	Spain	ESP	Europe	39.4747	-0.3231 39.4747/-0.3231

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence HE860713 (>99% sequence identity) for Ruegeria from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	723
Soil Samples	68
Animal Samples	21
Plant Samples	4
Total Samples	816

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
22057	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Tr.litoreus_CECT7639_Spades_Prokka assembly for Falsiruegeria litorea R37 CECT 7639	contig	GCA_900172225	1200284.4	2834189540	1200284	76.01

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
22057	Tropicibacter litoreus R37 partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain R37T	HE860713	1399		1200284

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Falsiruegeria litorea R37 CECT 7639
NCBI: GCA_900172225

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	95.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	90.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	67.10	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	90.40	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Tropicibacter litoreus R37 strain CECT 7639
PATRIC: 1200284.4

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.83	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.60	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.11	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	85.63	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.50	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	50.76	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Description of Tropicibacter mediterraneus sp. nov. and Tropicibacter litoreus sp. nov.	Lucena T, Ruvira MA, Macian MC, Pujalte MJ, Arahal DR	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/j.syapm.2013.04.001	2013

References

#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 )
#22057	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 29947
#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) .
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#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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Ruegeria litorea (DSM 29947, CECT 7639, KCTC 23353)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API 20NE

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900172225

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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References

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