Sphingobacterium jejuense (GJ30-7, KACC 18625, JCM 30948)

Name: Sphingobacterium jejuense (GJ30-7, KACC 18625, JCM 30948)
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BacDive ID 133193

Type strain

Strain Designation GJ30-7

Culture col. no. GJ30-7 KACC 18625 JCM 30948

NCBI tax ID(s) 1813877

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Sphingobacterium jejuense GJ30-7 is an obligate aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from compost.

Gram-negative rod-shaped colony-forming obligate aerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132231

JCM 30948

@ref 20215

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

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Sphingobacteriia

Order Sphingobacteriales

Family Sphingobacteriaceae

Genus Sphingobacterium

Species Sphingobacterium jejuense

Full scientific name Sphingobacterium jejuense Siddiqi et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
24989	negative	1.5-3.0 µm	0.3-0.7 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
24989	0.5-1.5 mm	light yellow	circular	R2A agar (Reasoner's 2A agar)

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
24989	Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
24989	positive	optimum	30	mesophilic
24989	positive	growth	20.0-40.0
67770	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
24989	positive	optimum	7
24989	positive	growth	5.5-8.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

24989

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Spore formation

24989

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Tested relation	Concentration
24989	NaCl	optimum	0 %
24989	NaCl	growth	0.5-1.5 %(w/v)

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-7

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
24989	37054 ChEBI	3-hydroxybutyrate	-	assimilation
24989	17879 ChEBI	4-hydroxybenzoate	-	assimilation
24989	58143 ChEBI	5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	assimilation
24989	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation
24989	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	hydrolysis
24989		casein	-	hydrolysis
24989	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
24989	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
24989	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
24989	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	assimilation
24989	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation
24989	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
24989	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	assimilation
24989	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation
24989	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	assimilation
24989	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	-	assimilation
24989		L-proline-4-nitroanilide	+	assimilation
24989	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	assimilation
24989	24996 ChEBI	lactate	-	assimilation
24989	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
24989	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
24989	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	assimilation
24989	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	assimilation
24989	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	-	assimilation
24989	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	-	assimilation
24989	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	assimilation
24989	32954 ChEBI	sodium acetate	-	assimilation
24989	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	assimilation
24989	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
24989	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	assimilation

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
24989	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
24989	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
24989	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
24989	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
24989	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
24989	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
24989	alpha-mannosidase	+	3.2.1.24
24989	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
24989	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21
24989	beta-glucuronidase	+	3.2.1.31
24989	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
24989	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
24989	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
24989	esterase	+
24989	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
24989	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
24989	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
24989	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
24989	urease	-	3.5.1.5
24989	valine arylamidase	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Biodegradation	#Composting

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
24989	compost	Jeju island	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia	R2A agar (Reasoner's 2A agar,Difco)	5 days	23.0--25.0
67770	Compost

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KT950743 (>99% sequence identity) for Sphingobacterium jejuense subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	80
Soil Samples	101
Animal Samples	297
Plant Samples	19
Total Samples	497

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24989	Sphingobacterium jejuense strain GJ30-7 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KT950743	1452		1813877

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24989	43	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Sphingobacterium jejuense sp. nov., with ginsenoside-converting activity, isolated from compost.	Siddiqi MZ, Muhammad Shafi S, Choi KD, Im WT, Aslam Z	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001370	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 )
#24989	M. Z. M. S. Siddiqi, Siddiqi,Choi, Kang Duk,Im, Wan-Taek,Aslam, Zubair: Sphingobacterium jejuense sp. nov., with ginsenoside-converting activity, isolated from compost. IJSEM 66: 4433 - 4439 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001370 , PubMed 27498829 )
#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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Sphingobacterium jejuense (GJ30-7, KACC 18625, JCM 30948)

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

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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