Leifsonia kafniensis (NCCB 100216, LMG 24362, KFC-22)

Name: Leifsonia kafniensis (NCCB 100216, LMG 24362, KFC-22)
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BacDive ID 133476

Type strain

Strain Designation KFC-22

Culture col. no. NCCB 100216 LMG 24362 KFC-22 JCM 17021

NCBI tax ID(s) 475957

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History LMG 24362 <-- S. Shivaji KFC-22.

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Leifsonia kafniensis KFC-22 is an aerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from soil.

Gram-positive rod-shaped aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 319233

LMG 24362,NCCB 100216,JCM 17021

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:57

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Micrococcales

Family Microbacteriaceae

Genus Leifsonia

Species Leifsonia kafniensis

Full scientific name Leifsonia kafniensis Pindi et al. 2009

Synonyms (1)

Glaciibacter kafniensis

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29117	positive	1.5 µm	0.4 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

29117

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
29117	positive	growth	04-30
29117	positive	optimum	22
67770	positive	growth	22

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
29117	positive	optimum	7.5
29117	positive	growth	6.5-7.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

29117

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29117	NaCl	positive	growth	0-5 %
29117	NaCl	positive	optimum	2.5 %

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-11

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29117	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
29117	29016 ChEBI	arginine	+	carbon source
29117	22653 ChEBI	asparagine	+	carbon source
29117	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	carbon source
29117	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
29117	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
29117	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
29117	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
29117	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
29117	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
29117	15792 ChEBI	malonate	+	carbon source
29117	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
29117	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
29117	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	carbon source
29117	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source
29117	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29117	catalase	+	1.11.1.6

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
29117	soil
67770	The Kafni glacier in the Himalayan mountain ranges of India

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3953894v1 assembly for Glaciibacter kafniensis JCM 17021	scaffold	GCA_039538945	475957	40.86

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
29117	Leifsonia kafniensis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain KFC-22T	AM889135	1518		475957

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Leifsonia stereocauli sp. nov., Isolated from Stereocaulon tomentosum Fr. Lichen.	Zuo SY, Xiong LS, Yuan Q, Chen GH, Yang R, Wang LS, Jiang CL, Wang XY, Jiang Y.	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-024-04040-w	2024
Phylogeny	Cryobacterium tepidiphilum sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere soil of lettuce (var. ramosa Hort.).	Wang Y, Cao P, Sun P, Zhao J, Sun X, Zhang J, Li C, Xiang W, Wang X	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-019-01287-3	2019
Phylogeny	Leifsonia flava sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from the rhizosphere of Aquilegia viridiflora.	Cai Y, Tao WZ, Ma YJ, Cheng J, Zhang MY, Zhang YX	J Microbiol	10.1007/s12275-018-8061-z	2018
Phylogeny	Leifsonia psychrotolerans sp. nov., a psychrotolerant species of the family Microbacteriaceae from Livingston Island, Antarctica.	Ganzert L, Bajerski F, Mangelsdorf K, Lipski A, Wagner D	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.021956-0	2010
Phylogeny	Description of Leifsonia kafniensis sp. nov. and Leifsonia antarctica sp. nov.	Pindi PK, Kishore KH, Reddy GS, Shivaji S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.006643-0	2009

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 )
#25543	IJSEM 1348 2009 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.006643-0 , PubMed 19502314 )
#29117	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #25543
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Leifsonia kafniensis (NCCB 100216, LMG 24362, KFC-22)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_039538945

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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