Chromobacterium alkanivorans (IITR-71, MTCC 11059, JCM 30068)

Name: Chromobacterium alkanivorans (IITR-71, MTCC 11059, JCM 30068)
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BacDive ID 133287

Type strain

Strain Designation IITR-71

Culture col. no. IITR-71 MTCC 11059 JCM 30068 KCTC 52433

NCBI tax ID(s) 1071719

Special Collections JCM KCTC Literature strains

History S. Mayilraj IITR-71.

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Chromobacterium alkanivorans IITR-71 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from collected from an industrial site.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped colony-forming facultative anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 131917

JCM 30068

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:55

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Neisseriales

Family Chromobacteriaceae

Genus Chromobacterium

Species Chromobacterium alkanivorans

Full scientific name Chromobacterium alkanivorans Bajaj et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
25102	negative	0.8-2.4 µm	0.3-0.6 µm	rod-shaped
125438	negative				98.994
125439	negative				99.2

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape
25102	creamish-yellow	circular

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
25102	positive	growth	12.0-37.0
25102	positive	optimum	30
25102	negative	growth	12
25102	negative	growth	42
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
25102	positive	optimum	8
25102	positive	growth	5.0-10.0	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

25102

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Tested relation	Concentration
25102	NaCl	maximum	2 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
25102	17521 ChEBI	(-)-quinic acid	-	carbon source
25102	27789 ChEBI	1,2-dichloroethane	+	degradation
25102		1-chlorobutane	+	degradation
25102		1-chloropropane	+	degradation
25102	62064 ChEBI	2,3-butanediol	-	carbon source
25102	64552 ChEBI	2-hydroxybutyrate	-	carbon source
25102	16763 ChEBI	2-oxobutanoate	-	carbon source
25102	30916 ChEBI	2-oxoglutarate	+	carbon source
25102	28644 ChEBI	2-oxopentanoate	-	carbon source
25102	37054 ChEBI	3-hydroxybutyrate	+	carbon source
25102	18240 ChEBI	4-hydroxy-L-proline	+	carbon source
25102	16724 ChEBI	4-hydroxybutyrate	-	carbon source
25102	18101 ChEBI	4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid	-	carbon source
25102	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
25102	40585 ChEBI	alpha-cyclodextrin	-	carbon source
25102	17925 ChEBI	alpha-D-glucose	+	carbon source
25102	36219 ChEBI	alpha-lactose	-	carbon source
25102	28938 ChEBI	ammonium	+	nitrogen source
25102	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	-	builds acid from
25102	73706 ChEBI	bromosuccinate	+	carbon source
25102	17126 ChEBI	carnitine	-	carbon source
25102		casein	+	hydrolysis
25102	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from
25102	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	carbon source
25102	16383 ChEBI	cis-aconitate	-	carbon source
25102	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
25102	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
25102	15570 ChEBI	D-alanine	+	carbon source
25102	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	+	carbon source
25102	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	carbon source
25102	15895 ChEBI	D-galactonic acid lactone	-	carbon source
25102	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	carbon source
25102	18024 ChEBI	D-galacturonic acid	-	carbon source
25102	30612 ChEBI	D-glucarate	-	carbon source
25102	8391 ChEBI	D-gluconate	+	carbon source
25102	17784 ChEBI	D-glucosaminic acid	-	carbon source
25102	14314 ChEBI	D-glucose 6-phosphate	+	carbon source
25102	15748 ChEBI	D-glucuronate	-	carbon source
25102	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	carbon source
25102	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	carbon source
25102	27605 ChEBI	D-psicose	-	carbon source
25102	16523 ChEBI	D-serine	+	carbon source
25102	16551 ChEBI	D-trehalose	+	carbon source
25102	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	+	carbon source
25102	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	carbon source
25102	16000 ChEBI	ethanolamine	-	carbon source
25102	15740 ChEBI	formate	-	carbon source
25102	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	builds acid from
25102	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from
25102	28260 ChEBI	galactose	-	builds acid from
25102	16865 ChEBI	gamma-aminobutyric acid	+	carbon source
25102	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
25102	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	carbon source
25102	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	fermentation
25102	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	builds acid from
25102	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	fermentation
25102	29042 ChEBI	glucose 1-phosphate	-	carbon source
25102	32323 ChEBI	glucuronamide	-	carbon source
25102	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	carbon source
25102	14336 ChEBI	glycerol 1-phosphate	-	carbon source
25102	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
25102	73804 ChEBI	glycyl L-aspartic acid	-	carbon source
25102	73784 ChEBI	glycyl-l-glutamate	-	carbon source
25102	73784 ChEBI	glycyl-l-glutamate	+	carbon source
25102	17596 ChEBI	inosine	-	carbon source
25102	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from
25102	17240 ChEBI	itaconate	-	carbon source
25102	21217 ChEBI	L-alaninamide	+	carbon source
25102	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	+	carbon source
25102	73786 ChEBI	L-alanylglycine	-	carbon source
25102	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	carbon source
25102	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	+	carbon source
25102	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	+	carbon source
25102	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	carbon source
25102	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	-	assimilation
25102	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	+	carbon source
25102	15603 ChEBI	L-leucine	+	carbon source
25102	15589 ChEBI	L-malate	-	assimilation
25102	15729 ChEBI	L-ornithine	-	carbon source
25102	17295 ChEBI	L-phenylalanine	-	carbon source
25102		L-proline-4-nitroanilide	+	carbon source
25102	18183 ChEBI	L-pyroglutamic acid	-	carbon source
25102	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	carbon source
25102	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	+	carbon source
25102	16857 ChEBI	L-threonine	-	carbon source
25102	24996 ChEBI	lactate	-	assimilation
25102	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
25102	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from
25102	6359 ChEBI	lactulose	-	carbon source
25102	15792 ChEBI	malonate	-	carbon source
25102	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds acid from
25102	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	carbon source
25102	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	-	builds acid from
25102	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	builds acid from
25102	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	carbon source
25102	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from
25102	37657 ChEBI	methyl D-glucoside	-	carbon source
25102	51850 ChEBI	methyl pyruvate	-	carbon source
25102	75146 ChEBI	monomethyl succinate	+	carbon source
25102	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	builds acid from
25102	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	carbon source
25102	28037 ChEBI	N-acetylgalactosamine	-	carbon source
25102	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source
25102	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
25102	50048 ChEBI	phenylethylamine	-	carbon source
25102	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	carbon source
25102	17148 ChEBI	putrescine	+	carbon source
25102	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	carbon source
25102	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from
25102	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	-	builds acid from
25102	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from
25102	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	carbon source
25102	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from
25102	41865 ChEBI	sebacic acid	-	carbon source
25102	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	builds acid from
25102	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
25102	143136 ChEBI	succinamate	-	carbon source
25102	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
25102	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from
25102	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	carbon source
25102	17748 ChEBI	thymidine	-	carbon source
25102	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from
25102	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source
25102	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	carbon source
25102	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	carbon source
25102	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source
25102	27248 ChEBI	urocanic acid	-	carbon source
25102	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	carbon source
25102	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-	builds acid from

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
25102	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
25102	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
25102	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Citrate test	Methylred-test	Indole test
25102	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
25102	16947 ChEBI	citrate		+
25102	17234 ChEBI	glucose			-
25102	35581 ChEBI	indole				-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
25102	alanine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.2
25102	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
25102	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
25102	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
25102	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
25102	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
25102	beta-N-acetylgalactosaminidase	-
25102	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
25102	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
25102	gamma-glutamyltransferase	+	2.3.2.2
25102	glu-gly-arg-arylamidase	-
25102	glutamyl arylamidase pNA	+
25102	glycin arylamidase	-
25102	lipase	-
25102	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
25102	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52
25102	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
25102	phosphatase	+
25102	proline-arylamidase	-	3.4.11.5
25102	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	+	3.4.19.3
25102	tripeptide aminopeptidase	-	3.4.11.4
25102	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1
25102	tyrosine arylamidase	+
25102	urease	+	3.5.1.5
25102	xylan 1,4-beta-xylosidase	-	3.2.1.37

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Engineered	#Industrial

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
25102	collected from an industrial site	Eloor in the Cochin region ( Hindustan Insecticides Limited (HIL))	India	IND	Asia	LB-agar medium	peptone 10 g; yeast extract 5.0 g; NaCl 5.0 g; and agar 15.00 g in 1000 ml distilled water, pH 7.5	2 days	30
67770	Insecticide-contaminated site

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JN210566 (>99% sequence identity) for Chromobacterium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	118
Soil Samples	15
Animal Samples	41
Plant Samples	61
Total Samples	235

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1693765v1 assembly for Chromobacterium alkanivorans IITR-71	contig	GCA_016937655	1071719.4	8110813944	1071719	66.32

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
25102	Chromobacterium alkanivorans strain IITR-71 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JN210566	1446		1071719

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	61.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Chromobacterium alkanivorans IITR-71
NCBI: GCA_016937655

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	89.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.20	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative aerobe	74.00	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Chromobacterium alkanivorans IITR-71
NCBI: GCA_016937655.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.99	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	94.18	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	51.48	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	86.13	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.50	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	76.98	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Isolation and characterization of a novel Gram-negative bacterium Chromobacterium alkanivorans sp. nov., strain IITR-71T degrading halogenated alkanes.	Bajaj A, Kumar A, Yadav S, Kaur G, Bala M, Singh NK, Mathan Kumar R, Manickam N, Mayilraj S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001500	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 )
#25102	A. K. Bajaj, A.,Yadav, S.,Kaur, G.,Bala, M.,Singh, N. K.,Mathan Kumar, R.,Manickam, N.,Mayilraj, S.: Isolation and characterization of a novel Gram-negative bacterium Chromobacterium alkanivorans sp. nov., strain IITR-71T degrading halogenated alkanes. IJSEM 66: 5228 - 5235 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001500 , PubMed 27619232 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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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Chromobacterium alkanivorans (IITR-71, MTCC 11059, JCM 30068)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_016937655

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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