Formosa algae (DSM 15523, KMM 3553, KMM 3557)

Name: Formosa algae (DSM 15523, KMM 3553, KMM 3557)
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BacDive ID 132845

Type strain

Strain Designation F89

Variant Isotype of BacDive ID 131144

Culture col. no. DSM 15523 KMM 3553 KMM 3557 F89

NCBI tax ID(s) 225843

Special Collections DSMZ

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Formosa algae F89 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from brown algae Fucus evanescens.

mesophilic genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 399919

DSM 15523

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:37

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Flavobacteriaceae

Genus Formosa

Species Formosa algae

Full scientific name Formosa algae Ivanova et al. 2004

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Formosa algae** (2)	Type strain
131144	F. algae DSM 16476, KMM 3553 (type strain)
171019	F. algae F89, CIP 107684 (type strain)

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Confidence	Gram stain
125438	92.167
125438	98.875	negative
125439	99.7	negative

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
24633	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)	Range
24633	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	97.3

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.4

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	cellulose degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	threonine metabolism	100	10 of 10
66794	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	gluconeogenesis	100	8 of 8
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	92.86	13 of 14
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	90.91	20 of 22
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	90	9 of 10
66794	valine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	NAD metabolism	88.89	16 of 18
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	87.5	7 of 8
66794	photosynthesis	85.71	12 of 14
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	starch degradation	80	8 of 10
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	heme metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	75	21 of 28
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	purine metabolism	73.4	69 of 94
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	73.33	33 of 45
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	propanol degradation	71.43	5 of 7
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	lipid metabolism	70.97	22 of 31
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	propionate fermentation	70	7 of 10
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
66794	non-pathway related	68.42	26 of 38
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	serine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	flavin biosynthesis	66.67	10 of 15
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	citric acid cycle	64.29	9 of 14
66794	d-xylose degradation	63.64	7 of 11
66794	proline metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	alanine metabolism	62.07	18 of 29
66794	leucine metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	60	3 of 5
66794	histidine metabolism	58.62	17 of 29
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	58.33	7 of 12
66794	arginine metabolism	58.33	14 of 24
66794	tryptophan metabolism	57.89	22 of 38
66794	methionine metabolism	57.69	15 of 26
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	57.14	4 of 7
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	57.14	4 of 7
66794	degradation of hexoses	55.56	10 of 18
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	55.56	5 of 9
66794	tyrosine metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	biotin biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	50	5 of 10
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	glutathione metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	cysteine metabolism	50	9 of 18
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	vitamin E metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	lysine metabolism	50	21 of 42
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	45.45	5 of 11
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	45.45	5 of 11
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	44.44	8 of 18
66794	degradation of pentoses	42.86	12 of 28
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	39.56	36 of 91
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	38.46	5 of 13
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	38.46	5 of 13
66794	sulfate reduction	38.46	5 of 13
66794	ascorbate metabolism	36.36	8 of 22
66794	degradation of sugar acids	36	9 of 25
66794	polyamine pathway	34.78	8 of 23
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	34.62	9 of 26
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	33.33	2 of 6
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	31.82	7 of 22
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	31.25	5 of 16
66794	urea cycle	30.77	4 of 13
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	30	3 of 10
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	26.67	4 of 15
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	22.22	2 of 9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Algae	#Brown Algae

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
24633	brown algae Fucus evanescens	Fucus evanescens	Kraternaya Bay, Kuril Islands, Pacific ocean	Russia	RUS	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24633	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	ASM1787293v1 assembly for Formosa algae DSM 15523	contig	GCA_017872935	225843.12	2913280528	225843	74.82

GC content

24633

GC-content (mol%)34

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Formosa algae DSM 15523
NCBI: GCA_017872935

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.40	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	70.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	97.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Formosa algae strain DSM 15523
PATRIC: 225843.12

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.88	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.73	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.83	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	75.74	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.13	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	92.17	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	The Origin, Properties, Structure, Catalytic Mechanism, and Applications of Fucoidan-Degrading Enzymes.	Zhao Y, Ning L, Zhu P, Jiang J, Yao Z, Zhu B.	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md23030097	2025
Enzymology	Modification of native fucoidan from Fucus evanescens by recombinant fucoidanase from marine bacteria Formosa algae.	Silchenko AS, Rasin AB, Kusaykin MI, Malyarenko OS, Shevchenko NM, Zueva AO, Kalinovsky AI, Zvyagintseva TN, Ermakova SP.	Carbohydr Polym	10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.03.094	2018
	Fucoidans: Downstream Processes and Recent Applications.	Zayed A, Ulber R.	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md18030170	2020
	Novel, cold-adapted D-laminaribiose- and D-glucose-releasing GH16 endo-beta-1,3-glucanase from Hymenobacter siberiensis PAMC 29290, a psychrotolerant bacterium from Arctic marine sediment.	Kim DY, Lee YM, Lee JS, Chung CW, Son KH.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2024.1470106	2024
	Characterization of a Novel Alginate Lyase with Two Alginate Lyase Domains from the Marine Bacterium Vibrio sp. C42.	Sun XM, Xue Z, Sun ML, Zhang Y, Zhang YZ, Fu HH, Zhang YQ, Wang P.	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md20120746	2022
Enzymology	Expression and Biochemical Characterization of a Novel Fucoidanase from Flavobacteriumalgicola with the Principal Product of Fucoidan-Derived Disaccharide.	Qiu Y, Jiang H, Dong Y, Wang Y, Hamouda HI, Balah MA, Mao X.	Foods	10.3390/foods11071025	2022
	Are multifunctional marine polysaccharides a myth or reality?	Ermakova S, Kusaykin M, Trincone A, Tatiana Z.	Front Chem	10.3389/fchem.2015.00039	2015
Pathogenicity	The Comparative Analysis of Antiviral Activity of Native and Modified Fucoidans from Brown Algae Fucus evanescens In Vitro and In Vivo.	Krylova NV, Ermakova SP, Lavrov VF, Leneva IA, Kompanets GG, Iunikhina OV, Nosik MN, Ebralidze LK, Falynskova IN, Silchenko AS, Zaporozhets TS.	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md18040224	2020
	Community dynamics and metagenomic analyses reveal Bacteroidota's role in widespread enzymatic Fucus vesiculosus cell wall degradation	Macdonald J, Perez-Garcia P, Schneider Y, Blumke P, Indenbirken D, Andersen J, Krohn I, Streit W.	Sci Rep		2024
	Cloning and Characterization of a Novel Alginate Lyase from Paenibacillus sp. LJ-23.	Wang M, Chen L, Lou Z, Yuan X, Pan G, Ren X, Wang P.	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md20010066	2022
	The Endo-alpha(1,4) Specific Fucoidanase Fhf2 From Formosa haliotis Releases Highly Sulfated Fucoidan Oligosaccharides.	Trang VTD, Mikkelsen MD, Vuillemin M, Meier S, Cao HTT, Muschiol J, Perna V, Nguyen TT, Tran VHN, Holck J, Van TTT, Khanh HHN, Meyer AS.	Front Plant Sci	10.3389/fpls.2022.823668	2022
Enzymology	Predominance of Roseobacter, Sulfitobacter, Glaciecola and Psychrobacter in seawater collected off Ushuaia, Argentina, Sub-Antarctica.	Prabagaran SR, Manorama R, Delille D, Shivaji S.	FEMS Microbiol Ecol	10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00213.x	2007
	Structural and functional characterization of the novel endo-alpha(1,4)-fucoidanase Mef1 from the marine bacterium Muricauda eckloniae.	Mikkelsen MD, Tran VHN, Meier S, Nguyen TT, Holck J, Cao HTT, Van TTT, Thinh PD, Meyer AS, Morth JP.	Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol	10.1107/s2059798323008732	2023
	Novel Enzyme Actions for Sulphated Galactofucan Depolymerisation and a New Engineering Strategy for Molecular Stabilisation of Fucoidan Degrading Enzymes.	Cao HTT, Mikkelsen MD, Lezyk MJ, Bui LM, Tran VTT, Silchenko AS, Kusaykin MI, Pham TD, Truong BH, Holck J, Meyer AS.	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md16110422	2018
Enzymology	Update on Marine Carbohydrate Hydrolyzing Enzymes: Biotechnological Applications.	Trincone A.	Molecules	10.3390/molecules23040901	2018
	Two GH16 Endo-1,3-beta-D-Glucanases from Formosa agariphila and F. algae Bacteria Have Complete Different Modes of Laminarin Digestion.	Belik AA, Rasin AB, Kusaykin MI, Ermakova SP	Mol Biotechnol	10.1007/s12033-021-00421-9	2021
Enzymology	Two New Alginate Lyases of PL7 and PL6 Families from Polysaccharide-Degrading Bacterium Formosa algae KMM 3553(T): Structure, Properties, and Products Analysis.	Belik A, Silchenko A, Malyarenko O, Rasin A, Kiseleva M, Kusaykin M, Ermakova S	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md18020130	2020
Enzymology	Sulfated steroids of Halichondriidae family sponges - Natural inhibitors of polysaccharide-degrading enzymes of bacterium Formosa algae, inhabiting brown alga Fucus evanescens.	Belik AA, Tabakmakher KM, Silchenko AS, Makarieva TN, Minh CV, Ermakova SP, Zvyagintseva TN	Carbohydr Res	10.1016/j.carres.2019.107776	2019
Enzymology	A new recombinant endo-1,3-beta-D-glucanase from the marine bacterium Formosa algae KMM 3553: enzyme characteristics and transglycosylation products analysis.	Kusaykin MI, Belik AA, Kovalchuk SN, Dmitrenok PS, Rasskazov VA, Isakov VV, Zvyagintseva TN	World J Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s11274-017-2213-x	2017
Enzymology	Expression and biochemical characterization and substrate specificity of the fucoidanase from Formosa algae.	Silchenko AS, Ustyuzhanina NE, Kusaykin MI, Krylov VB, Shashkov AS, Dmitrenok AS, Usoltseva RV, Zueva AO, Nifantiev NE, Zvyagintseva TN	Glycobiology	10.1093/glycob/cww138	2017
Metabolism	Hydrolysis of fucoidan by fucoidanase isolated from the marine bacterium, Formosa algae.	Silchenko AS, Kusaykin MI, Kurilenko VV, Zakharenko AM, Isakov VV, Zaporozhets TS, Gazha AK, Zvyagintseva TN	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md11072413	2013
Phylogeny	Formosa haliotis sp. nov., a brown-alga-degrading bacterium isolated from the gut of the abalone Haliotis gigantea.	Tanaka R, Cleenwerck I, Mizutani Y, Iehata S, Shibata T, Miyake H, Mori T, Tamaru Y, Ueda M, Bossier P, Vandamme P.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000586	2015
Phylogeny	Formosa undariae sp. nov., isolated from a reservoir containing the brown algae Undaria pinnatifida.	Park S, Lee JS, Lee KC, Yoon JH.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.053157-0	2013
Phylogeny	Yeosuana aromativorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic marine bacterium belonging to the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from estuarine sediment of the South Sea, Korea.	Kwon KK, Lee HS, Jung HB, Kang JH, Kim SJ.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64073-0	2006
Phylogeny	Bizionia paragorgiae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the soft coral Paragorgia arborea.	Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Lysenko AM, Frolova GM, Mikhailov VV, Bae KS.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63381-0	2005
Phylogeny	Formosa sediminum sp. nov., a starch-degrading bacterium isolated from marine sediment.	Han B, Kim M, Lee KE, Lee BH, Lee EY, Park SJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004012	2020
Phylogeny	Formosa spongicola sp. nov., isolated from the marine sponge Hymeniacidon flavia.	Yoon BJ, Oh DC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.023499-0	2010
Phylogeny	Formosa agariphila sp. nov., a budding bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from marine environments, and emended description of the genus Formosa.	Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Vancanneyt M, Snauwaert C, Lysenko AM, Rohde M, Frolova GM, Zhukova NV, Mikhailov VV, Bae KS, Oh HW, Swings J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63875-0	2006
Phylogeny	Formosa algae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae.	Ivanova EP, Alexeeva YV, Flavier S, Wright JP, Zhukova NV, Gorshkova NM, Mikhailov VV, Nicolau DV, Christen R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02763-0	2004

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 )
#24633	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15523
#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) .
#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 )
#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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Formosa algae (DSM 15523, KMM 3553, KMM 3557)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_017872935

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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