Microbacterium aureliae (JF-6, MTCC 11843, JCM 30060)

Name: Microbacterium aureliae (JF-6, MTCC 11843, JCM 30060)
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BacDive ID 133183

Type strain

Strain Designation JF-6

Culture col. no. JF-6 MTCC 11843 JCM 30060 KCTC 39828

NCBI tax ID(s) 1452538

Special Collections JCM KCTC Literature strains

History S. Mayilraj; MTCC, India; JF-6.

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Microbacterium aureliae JF-6 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from Aurelia aurita, the moon jellyfish.

Gram-positive motile rod-shaped colony-forming aerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 287958

KCTC 39828,JCM 30060

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Micrococcales

Family Microbacteriaceae

Genus Microbacterium

Species Microbacterium aureliae

Full scientific name Microbacterium aureliae Kaur et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape	Motility
24972	positive	0.8-1.0 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
24972	yellow	circular	TSA (Trypticase soy agar)

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
24972	TSA (Trypticase soy agar)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
24972	positive	growth	25.0-37.0	mesophilic
24972	positive	optimum	30	mesophilic
24972	negative	growth	12
24972	negative	growth	42
67770	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
24972	positive	optimum	9
24972	positive	growth	8.0-11.0	alkaliphile
24972		growth	5
24972	positive	growth	8
24972	positive	growth	11

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

24972

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

24972

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
24972	NaCl	positive	growth	0.0-10.0 %(w/v)
24972	NaCl	positive	growth	5 %(w/v)
24972	NaCl	positive	growth	7 %(w/v)
24972	NaCl	positive	growth	8 %(w/v)
24972	NaCl	positive	growth	9 %(w/v)
24972	NaCl	positive	growth	10 %(w/v)

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
24972	B06	B2ß {Gly} [L-Hsr] D-Glu(Hyg)-Gly-D-Orn

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-13, MK-12

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
24972	17019 ChEBI	(R)-amygdalin	-	builds acid from
24972		casein	-	hydrolysis
24972	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	builds acid from
24972	23456 ChEBI	cyclodextrin	-	builds acid from
24972	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
24972	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	builds acid from
24972	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	builds acid from
24972	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds acid from
24972	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	builds acid from
24972	28260 ChEBI	galactose	-	builds acid from
24972	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
24972	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	fermentation
24972	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	builds acid from
24972	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from
24972	320055 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from
24972	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	builds acid from
24972	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
24972	27941 ChEBI	pullulan	-	builds acid from
24972	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	builds acid from
24972	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	-	builds acid from
24972	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
24972	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from
24972	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite
24972	28669	bacitracin
24972	28368	novobiocin
24972	86455	optochin
24972	8309	polymyxin b

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
24972	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
24972	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
24972	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
24972	17234 ChEBI	glucose		+

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
24972	alanine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.2
24972	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
24972	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
24972	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
24972	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6
24972	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
24972	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
24972	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
24972	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
24972	L-aspartate arylamidase	-	3.4.11.21
24972	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
24972	phosphatase	-
24972	proline-arylamidase	-	3.4.11.5
24972	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	-	3.4.19.3
24972	tripeptide aminopeptidase	-	3.4.11.4
24972	tyrosine arylamidase	+
24972	urease	-	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Host	#Invertebrates (Other)	#Cnidaria (Corals)
#Climate	#Temperate	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture	Isolation procedure	Host species
24972	Aurelia aurita, the moon jellyfish	Bay of Bengal coast, Kanyakumari	India	IND	Asia	13	87 13/87	Zobell marine agar and tryptic soy agar	dilution-plate technique
67770	Aurelia aurita, the moon jellyfish	Bay of Bengal coast, Kanyakumari	India	IND	Asia					Aurelia aurita

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24972	Microbacterium aureliae strain JF-6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KF793922	1470		1452538

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24972	69.4	Thermal denaturation, fluorometry
67770	69.4	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Microbacterium aureliae sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from Aurelia aurita, the moon jellyfish.	Kaur G, Mual P, Kumar N, Verma A, Kumar A, Krishnamurthi S, Mayilraj S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001407	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 )
#24972	G. M. Kaur, Parveen,Kumar, Narender,Verma, Ashish,Kumar, Anand,Krishnamurthi, Srinivasan,Mayilraj, Shanmugam: Microbacterium aureliae sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from Aurelia aurita, the moon jellyfish. IJSEM 66: 4665 - 4670 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001407 , PubMed 27506590 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Microbacterium aureliae (JF-6, MTCC 11843, JCM 30060)

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

Murein

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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