Sulfitobacter faviae (S5-53, JCM 31093, LMG 29156)

Name: Sulfitobacter faviae (S5-53, JCM 31093, LMG 29156)
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BacDive ID 133158

Type strain

Strain Designation S5-53

Culture col. no. S5-53 JCM 31093 LMG 29156

NCBI tax ID(s) 1775881

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

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 272539

LMG 29156,JCM 31093

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:42

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Roseobacteraceae

Genus Sulfitobacter

Species Sulfitobacter faviae

Full scientific name Sulfitobacter faviae Kumari et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
24933	negative	1.2-1.4 µm	0.6-0.7 µm	rod-shaped		polar

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
24933	0.5-1.0 mm	cream	circular	2 days	MA (marine agar)

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
24933	Marine agar (MA)
24933	MA (marine agar 2216 (Difco))

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
24933	positive	growth	10.0-40.0
24933	positive	optimum	25.0-30.0
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
24933	positive	optimum	7.0-8.0
24933	positive	growth	6.0-10.0

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

24933

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Nutrition type

24933

Typeheterotroph

Spore formation

24933

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
24933	NaCl	positive	growth	1.0-12.0 %(w/v)

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-10

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
24933	17126 ChEBI	carnitine	+	assimilation
24933	16383 ChEBI	cis-aconitate	-	assimilation
24933	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation
24933	15570 ChEBI	D-alanine	+	assimilation
24933	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	assimilation
24933	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation
24933	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
24933	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
24933	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation
24933	16991 ChEBI	dna	+	hydrolysis
24933	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
24933	16000 ChEBI	ethanolamine	+	assimilation
24933	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
24933	32323 ChEBI	glucuronamide	-	assimilation
24933	14336 ChEBI	glycerol 1-phosphate	+	assimilation
24933	73804 ChEBI	glycyl L-aspartic acid	+	assimilation
24933	24741 ChEBI	hydroxyproline	+	assimilation
24933	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	+	assimilation
24933	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation
24933	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	+	assimilation
24933	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	+	assimilation
24933	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	assimilation
24933	15729 ChEBI	L-ornithine	+	assimilation
24933	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	+	assimilation
24933	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
24933	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	assimilation
24933	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
24933	17359 ChEBI	sulfite	+	oxidation
24933	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	hydrolysis
24933	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	hydrolysis
24933	18186 ChEBI	tyrosine	+	assimilation
24933	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
24933	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
24933	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
24933	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
24933	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
24933	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
24933	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
24933	lipase (C 14)	-
24933	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
24933	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
24933	valine arylamidase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Invertebrates (Other)	#Cnidaria (Corals)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
24933	mucus of the coral Favia veroni	near Henry Lawrence island,Andaman Sea, Havelock Island	India	IND	Asia	12	93 12/93
67770	Mucus of corals Favia veroni from the Andaman Sea		India	IND	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

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

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24933	Sulfitobacter faviae 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KT444698	1402		1775881

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24933	61	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Novel and diverse features identified in the genomes of bacteria isolated from a hydrothermal vent plume.	Major SR, Polinski JM, Penn K, Rodrigue M, Harke MJ.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02593-24	2025
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 )
#24933	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;
#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 .
#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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Sulfitobacter faviae (S5-53, JCM 31093, LMG 29156)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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