Sulfuriflexus mobilis (DSM 102939, NBRC 111889, aks 1)

Name: Sulfuriflexus mobilis (DSM 102939, NBRC 111889, aks 1)
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BacDive ID 132623

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 102939 NBRC 111889 aks 1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1811807

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History <- H. Kojima, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan <- H. Kojima {2015}

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Sulfuriflexus mobilis DSM 102939 is an anaerobe, chemolithoautotroph, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from sediment of a brackish lake.

Gram-negative motile anaerobe chemolithoautotroph mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407384

NBRC 111889,DSM 102939

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:45

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Chromatiales

Family Granulosicoccaceae

Genus Sulfuriflexus

Species Sulfuriflexus mobilis

Full scientific name Sulfuriflexus mobilis Kojima and Fukui 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Motility
43156	negative	0.9-6.0 µm	0.3-0.5 µm

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
24412	SULFURIFLEXUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1635)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SULFURIFLEXUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1635) Composition: NaCl 19.9402 g/l Na2S2O3 x 5 H2O 4.98504 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 2.99103 g/l NaHCO3 0.398804 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.299103 g/l KCl 0.0997009 g/l KH2PO4 0.0997009 g/l NH4Cl 0.0997009 g/l CaCl2 0.0997009 g/l HCl 0.00249252 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00149551 g/l NaOH 0.000498504 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000189432 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.97009e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.97009e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.97906e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.98504e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.98504e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.98504e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.58923e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.39282e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.99402e-05 g/l Biotin 1.99402e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.98205e-06 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.98804e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.99103e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.99402e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.97009e-07 g/l Distilled water
43156	MB

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
24412	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
43156	positive	optimum	30-32	mesophilic
43156	positive	growth	5-34

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43156	positive	optimum	6.8-8.3
43156	positive	growth	6.4-8.7	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43156

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Nutrition type

@ref	Type
43156	chemolithoautotroph
43156	autotroph

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43156	NaCl	positive	growth	1-4 %
43156	NaCl	positive	optimum	3 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43156	30089 ChEBI	acetate	-	growth
43156	17968 ChEBI	butyrate	-	growth
43156	33403 ChEBI	elemental sulfur	+	oxidation
43156	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	-	growth
43156	15740 ChEBI	formate	-	growth
43156	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	growth
43156	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	growth
43156	48944 ChEBI	isobutyrate	-	growth
43156	24996 ChEBI	lactate	-	growth
43156	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	growth
43156	17790 ChEBI	methanol	-	growth
43156	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	-	growth
43156	30031 ChEBI	succinate	-	growth
43156	15138 ChEBI	sulfide	+	oxidation
43156	16094 ChEBI	thiosulfate	+	oxidation
43156	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-	growth

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43156	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
43156	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43156

Fatty acid	Percentage
C16:1ω7c / C16:1ω6c	57.3
C16:0	32.2
iso-C17:1ω7c / 10-methyl C16:0	5.2
C18:1ω7c / C18:1ω6c	1.7
C10:0 3OH	1.3
C18:0	0.8
C14:0	0.6
C12:0 3OH	0.4
C17:0	0.3
C10:0	0.2

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Brackish
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
24412	sediment of a brackish lake	Lake Akkeshi	Japan	JPN	Asia
43156	sediment of the Lake Akkeshi	Lake Akkeshi, Japan	Japan	JPN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24412	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24412	Sulfuriflexus mobilis gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	LC131141	1464		1811807

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24412	53	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Sulfuriflexusmobilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a brackish lake sediment.	Kojima H, Fukui M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001227	2016

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 )
#24412	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 102939
#43156	Hisaya Kojima and Manabu Fukui: Sulfuriflexus mobilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a brackish lake sediment. IJSEM 66: 3515 - 3518 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001227 , PubMed 27282620 )
#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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Sulfuriflexus mobilis (DSM 102939, NBRC 111889, aks 1)

Name and taxonomic classification