Microvirgula curvata (L6, KEMB 2255-471, JCM 31223)

Name: Microvirgula curvata (L6, KEMB 2255-471, JCM 31223)
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Type strain

Strain Designation L6

Culture col. no. L6 KEMB 2255-471 JCM 31223

NCBI tax ID(s) 1817962

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History S.-S. Lee; KEMB, Kyonggi Univ., South Korea; L6.

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Microvirgula curvata L6 is a chemoorganoheterotroph, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from hydrocarbon- contaminated soils.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped chemoorganoheterotroph 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 393551

JCM 31223

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Neisseriales

Family Chromobacteriaceae

Genus Microvirgula

Species Microvirgula curvata

Full scientific name Microvirgula curvata Subhash et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
25084	negative	1.2-2.5 µm	0.4-0.6 µm	rod-shaped
25084				curved-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Medium used
25084	cream	agar medium

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
25084	agar medium

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
25084	positive	growth	10.0-40.0
25084	positive	optimum	27.0-32.0
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
25084	positive	optimum	6.5-7.5
25084	positive	growth	6.1-8.8	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Nutrition type

25084

Typechemoorganoheterotroph

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
25084	NaCl	positive	growth	0.0-4.5 %(w/v)
25084	NaCl		optimum	0.0-0.5 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
25084	31206 ChEBI	ammonium chloride	+	nitrogen source
25084	63038 ChEBI	ammonium nitrate	+	nitrogen source
25084	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	carbon source
25084	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	hydrolysis
25084		casein	-	hydrolysis
25084	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	carbon source
25084	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from
25084	17029 ChEBI	chitin	-	hydrolysis
25084	15570 ChEBI	D-alanine	+	carbon source
25084	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	carbon source
25084	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
25084	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	carbon source
25084	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	builds acid from
25084	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	carbon source
25084	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
25084	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	carbon source
25084	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	carbon source
25084	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	carbon source
25084	16991 ChEBI	dna	-	hydrolysis
25084	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
25084	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	-	carbon source
25084	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
25084	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	fermentation
25084	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	-	carbon source
25084	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	carbon source
25084	45296 ChEBI	hexadecane	-	growth
25084	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	carbon source
25084	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	builds acid from
25084	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	+	carbon source
25084	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	-	carbon source
25084	15603 ChEBI	L-leucine	-	carbon source
25084	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	carbon source
25084	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from
25084	16857 ChEBI	L-threonine	+	carbon source
25084	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	carbon source
25084	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	carbon source
25084	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds acid from
25084	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
25084	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	builds acid from
25084	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
25084	28851 ChEBI	phenanthrene	-	growth
25084	63043 ChEBI	potassium nitrate	+	nitrogen source
25084	39106 ChEBI	pyrene	-	growth
25084	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
25084	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	carbon source
25084	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from
25084	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
25084	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
25084	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
25084	17578 ChEBI	toluene	-	growth
25084	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	carbon source
25084	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source
25084	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	hydrolysis
25084	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	hydrolysis
25084	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.	Resistance conc.
25084	28971	ampicillin	10 µg
25084	17698	chloramphenicol	30 µg
25084	100147	nalidixic acid	30 µg
25084	18208	penicillin g		10 µg
25084	28077	rifampicin		30 µg

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
25084	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
25084	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
25084	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test	Indole test
25084	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
25084	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-
25084	35581 ChEBI	indole			-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
25084	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
25084	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1
25084	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
25084	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
25084	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
25084	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
25084	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
25084	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
25084	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
25084	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
25084	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
25084	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
25084	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
25084	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
25084	esterase (C 4)	+
25084	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
25084	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
25084	lipase (C 14)	-
25084	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
25084	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
25084	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
25084	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1
25084	valine arylamidase	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Contamination	-
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature	Isolation procedure
25084	hydrocarbon- contaminated soils	near sea beach	Kuwait	KWT	Asia	28	47 28/47	agar (1.5 %) medium (pH 7.0)	5 days	30	dilution, streaking on agar plates
67770	Hydrocarbon-contaminated soil		Kuwait	KWT	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LT545978 (>99% sequence identity) for Microvirgula from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2210
Soil Samples	416
Animal Samples	1828
Plant Samples	321
Total Samples	4775

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
25084	Microvirgula sp. L6 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain L6	LT545978	1467		1817962

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
25084	61.2	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Microvirgula curvata sp. nov., isolated from hydrocarbon-contaminated soil, and emended description of the genus Microvirgula.	Subhash Y, Park MJ, Lee SS	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001512	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 )
#25084	Y. P. Subhash, M. J.,Lee, S. S.: Microvirgula curvata sp. nov., isolated from hydrocarbon-contaminated soil, and emended description of the genus Microvirgula. IJSEM 66: 5309 - 5313 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001512 , PubMed 27666417 )
#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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Microvirgula curvata (L6, KEMB 2255-471, JCM 31223)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Nutrition type

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

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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