Ahrensia marina (DSM 28886, JCM 30117, MCCC 1K00254)

Name: Ahrensia marina (DSM 28886, JCM 30117, MCCC 1K00254)
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BacDive ID 132966

Type strain

Strain Designation LZD062

Culture col. no. DSM 28886 JCM 30117 MCCC 1K00254 LZD062

NCBI tax ID(s) 1514904

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History <- X.-H. Zhang, Ocean Univ. China, Qingdao, P. R. China; LZD062 <- J. Liu X.-H. Zhang and J. Liu LZD062.

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Ahrensia marina LZD062 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from offshore bottom seawater.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped colony-forming obligate aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 400240

JCM 30117,DSM 28886

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:50

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Ahrensiaceae

Genus Ahrensia

Species Ahrensia marina

Full scientific name Ahrensia marina Liu et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement	Confidence
43770	negative	1.5-3.5 µm	0.6-0.8 µm	rod-shaped		peritrichous
125439	negative						99.8

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43770	0.8-1.2 mm	Beige	circular	2 days	MA agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
43770	Marine agar (MA)
24754	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)
24754	positive	growth	28
43770	positive	growth	10-37
43770	positive	optimum	28
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43770	positive	optimum	8
43770	positive	growth	7-9	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
43770	obligate aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	98.2

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
43770
125439		99.6

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43770	NaCl	positive	growth	0-10 %(w/v)
43770	NaCl	positive	optimum	2 %(w/v)

Observation

@ref	Observation
43770	Sea salts required at a concentration of at least 0.5% for growth.
67770	quinones: Q-10

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43770	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	hydrolysis
43770		casein	-	hydrolysis
43770	17029 ChEBI	chitin	-	hydrolysis
43770	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
43770	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	+	builds acid from
43770	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	builds acid from
43770	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	builds acid from
43770	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	builds acid from
43770	16991 ChEBI	dna	-	hydrolysis
43770	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+/-	hydrolysis
43770		esculin ferric citrate	+	builds acid from
43770	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
43770	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from
43770	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	+	builds acid from
43770	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from
43770	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
43770	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	hydrolysis
43770	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	-	hydrolysis
43770	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43770	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2
43770	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43770	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
43770	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43770	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43770	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
43770	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43770	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
43770	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43770	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43770	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43770	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43770	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
43770	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43770	esterase (C 4)	+
43770	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
43770	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43770	lipase (C 14)	-
43770	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43770	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43770	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
43770	valine arylamidase	-

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	100	6 of 6
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	100	10 of 10
66794	quinate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	100	8 of 8
66794	denitrification	100	2 of 2
66794	gluconeogenesis	100	8 of 8
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	lactate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	91.11	41 of 45
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	90.91	10 of 11
66794	proline metabolism	90.91	10 of 11
66794	threonine metabolism	90	9 of 10
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	87.5	7 of 8
66794	citric acid cycle	85.71	12 of 14
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	85.29	29 of 34
66794	purine metabolism	85.11	80 of 94
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	leucine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	82.14	23 of 28
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	propionate fermentation	80	8 of 10
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	80	4 of 5
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	serine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	NAD metabolism	77.78	14 of 18
66794	allantoin degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	methionine metabolism	76.92	20 of 26
66794	histidine metabolism	75.86	22 of 29
66794	biotin biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	75	12 of 16
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	d-xylose degradation	72.73	8 of 11
66794	alanine metabolism	72.41	21 of 29
66794	glutathione metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	71.43	5 of 7
66794	propanol degradation	71.43	5 of 7
66794	lysine metabolism	71.43	30 of 42
66794	degradation of pentoses	71.43	20 of 28
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	lipid metabolism	70.97	22 of 31
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	sulfate reduction	69.23	9 of 13
66794	degradation of sugar acids	68	17 of 25
66794	flavin biosynthesis	66.67	10 of 15
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	66.67	10 of 15
66794	methane metabolism	66.67	2 of 3
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	IAA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	tryptophan metabolism	65.79	25 of 38
66794	non-pathway related	65.79	25 of 38
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	64.84	59 of 91
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	tyrosine metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	cysteine metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	degradation of hexoses	61.11	11 of 18
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	cellulose degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	arginine metabolism	58.33	14 of 24
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	57.69	15 of 26
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	nitrate assimilation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	acetate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	50	5 of 10
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	50	5 of 10
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	50	5 of 10
66794	polyamine pathway	47.83	11 of 23
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	phenol degradation	45	9 of 20
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	40	6 of 15
66794	gallate degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	creatinine degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	urea cycle	38.46	5 of 13
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	37.5	3 of 8
66794	ascorbate metabolism	36.36	8 of 22
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	36.36	4 of 11
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	35.29	6 of 17
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	33.33	4 of 12
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	starch degradation	30	3 of 10
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	25	4 of 16
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43770

Fatty acid	Percentage
C14:0 iso	35.9
C15:0 anteiso	24.9
C16:0 iso	17.8
C16:0	3.5
C16:1ω7c-alcohol	2.7
C14:0	2.2
C17:0 anteiso	1.9
C16:1ω11c	1.7
C15:0 iso	1.6

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Isolation date
24754	offshore bottom seawater	East China Sea (28° 44' N 122° 35' E at a depth of 59 m)	China	CHN	Asia	28.7333	122.583 28.7333/122.583
43770	Offshore bottom seawater (depth 59 m) at station ME3	East China Sea				28.733	122.583 28.733/122.583	2013-07
67770	Bottom seawater of the East China Sea

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KJ700633 (>99% sequence identity) for Ahrensia marina from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1418
Soil Samples	109
Animal Samples	183
Plant Samples	52
Total Samples	1762

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24754	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	ASM129356v1 assembly for Ahrensia marina LZD062	contig	GCA_001293565	2654587732	1514904	60.72

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24754	Ahrensia marina strain LZD062 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	KJ700633	1474		1514904

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24754	50.1	sequence analysis
67770	50.1	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Ahrensia marina LZD062
NCBI: GCA_001293565

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	77.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.80	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.20	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Ahrensia marina sp. nov., a dimethylsulfoniopropionate-cleaving bacterium isolated from seawater, and emended descriptions of the genus Ahrensia and Ahrensia kielensis.	Liu J, Wang Y, Liu Y, Zhang XH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000805	2015

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 )
#24754	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 28886
#43770	Ji Liu, Yanan Wang, Yan Liu, Xiao-Hua Zhang: Ahrensia marina sp. nov., a dimethylsulfoniopropionate-cleaving bacterium isolated from seawater, and emended descriptions of the genus Ahrensia and Ahrensia kielensis. IJSEM 66: 874 - 880 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000805 , PubMed 26620276 )
#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 .
#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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Ahrensia marina (DSM 28886, JCM 30117, MCCC 1K00254)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001293565

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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