Name: Sulfitobacter faviae S5-53
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133158

Type strain:

Species: Sulfitobacter faviae

Strain Designation: S5-53

Culture col. no.: JCM 31093, LMG 29156

Strain history: S. K. Das; Inst. of Life Sci., India; S5-53.

NCBI tax ID(s): 1775881 (species)

Section

Sulfitobacter faviae S5-53 is an aerobe, heterotroph, Gram-negative bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from mucus of the coral Favia veroni.

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

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Rhodobacterales*
	Family	*Roseobacteraceae*
	Genus	*Sulfitobacter*
	Species	**Sulfitobacter faviae**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Sulfitobacter faviae Kumari et al. 2016

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #24933]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #24933]	Cell length	1.2-1.4 µm

[Ref.: #24933]	Cell width	0.6-0.7 µm

[Ref.: #24933]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #24933]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #24933]	Flagellum arrangement	polar

[Ref.: #24933]	Colony size	0.5-1.0 mm
[Ref.: #24933]	Colony color	cream
[Ref.: #24933]	Colony shape	circular
[Ref.: #24933]	Incubation period	2 days
[Ref.: #24933]	Cultivation medium used	MA (marine agar)

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

Marine agar (MA)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium

MA (marine agar 2216 (Difco))

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Culture medium growth

		Temperature
[Ref.: #24933]	growth	10.0-40.0 °C
[Ref.: #24933]	optimum	25.0-30.0 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	30 °C

[Ref.: #24933]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #24933]			optimum	7.0-8.0
[Ref.: #24933]			growth	6.0-10.0

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

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Nutrition type

heterotroph

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Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #24933]		NaCl		growth	1.0-12.0	%(w/v)

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Observation

quinones: Q-10

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #24933]	carnitine ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	cis-aconitate ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	citrate ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	D-alanine ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	D-galactose ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	D-glucose ChEBI	-	fermentation
[Ref.: #24933]	D-glucose ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	D-mannitol ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	D-mannose ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	dna ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #24933]	esculin ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #24933]	ethanolamine ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	gelatin ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #24933]	glucuronamide ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	glycerol 1-phosphate ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	glycyl L-aspartic acid ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	hydroxyproline ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	L-alanine ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	L-arabinose ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	L-asparagine ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	L-aspartate ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	L-glutamate ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	L-ornithine ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	L-serine ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #24933]	propionate ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	starch ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #24933]	sulfite ChEBI	+	oxidation
[Ref.: #24933]	tween 20 ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #24933]	tween 80 ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #24933]	tyrosine ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #24933]	urea ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
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	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #24933]	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
[Ref.: #24933]	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
[Ref.: #24933]	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
[Ref.: #24933]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #24933]	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
[Ref.: #24933]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #24933]	lipase (C 14)	-
[Ref.: #24933]	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
[Ref.: #24933]	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
[Ref.: #24933]	valine arylamidase	+

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #24933]	Sample type/isolated from	mucus of the coral Favia veroni
[Ref.: #24933]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	near Henry Lawrence island,Andaman Sea, Havelock Island
[Ref.: #24933]	Country	India
[Ref.: #24933]	Country ISO 3 Code	IND
[Ref.: #24933]	Continent	Asia
[Ref.: #24933]	Geographic location	12.0000°/93.0000°

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Mucus of corals Favia veroni from the Andaman Sea
[Ref.: #67770]	Host species	Favia veroni
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	India
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	IND
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Host

#Invertebrates (Other)

#Cnidaria (Corals)

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Global distribution of 16S sequence KT444698 (>99% sequence identity) for Sulfitobacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	432
Soil Samples	10
Animal Samples	2
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	446

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #24933]	Sulfitobacter sp. S5-53 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KT444698	1402	GenBank	1775881 tax ID

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GC-content

61 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

JCM 31093, LMG 29156

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Sulfitobacter faviae sp. nov., isolated from the coral Faviaveroni.	Kumari P, Bhattacharjee S, Poddar A, Das SK	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001265	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 )

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P. B. Kumari, Sayantani,Poddar, Abhijit,Das, Subrata K.: Sulfitobacter faviae sp. nov., isolated from the coral Favia veroni. IJSEM 66: 3786 - 3792 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001265 , PubMed 27374618 )

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

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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 .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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