Name: Leifsonia kafniensis KFC-22
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133476

Type strain:

Species: Leifsonia kafniensis

Strain Designation: KFC-22

Culture col. no.: NCCB 100216, LMG 24362, JCM 17021

Strain history: LMG 24362 <-- S. Shivaji KFC-22.

NCBI tax ID(s): 475957 (species)

SI-ID 319233

LMG 24362, NCCB 100216, JCM 17021

Special Collections

Section

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

Gram-positive
rod-shaped
aerobe
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Actinomycetota*
	Class	*Actinomycetes*
	Order	*Micrococcales*
	Family	*Microbacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Leifsonia*
	Species	**Leifsonia kafniensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Leifsonia kafniensis Pindi et al. 2009

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #29117]	Gram stain	positive

[Ref.: #29117]	Cell length	1.5 µm

[Ref.: #29117]	Cell width	0.4 µm

[Ref.: #29117]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #29117]	Motility	no

[Ref.: #29117]

Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

		Temperature
[Ref.: #29117]	growth	04-30 °C
[Ref.: #29117]	optimum	22 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	22 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #29117]			optimum	7.5
[Ref.: #29117]			growth	6.5-7.5

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #29117]

Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #29117]		NaCl		growth	0-5	%
[Ref.: #29117]		NaCl		optimum	2.5	%

[Ref.: #67770]

Observation

quinones: MK-11

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #29117]	arabinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	arginine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	asparagine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	aspartate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	citrate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	esculin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #29117]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	galactose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	glutamate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	glycerol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	malonate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	raffinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	rhamnose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	salicin ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	serine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29117]	xylitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
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	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #29117]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #29117]	Sample type/isolated from	soil

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	The Kafni glacier in the Himalayan mountain ranges of India
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental

#Terrestrial

#Soil

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Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #29117]	Leifsonia kafniensis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain KFC-22T	AM889135	1518	GenBank ENA	475957 tax ID

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #29117]

Culture collection no.

NCCB 100216, LMG 24362, JCM 17021

[Ref.: #91458]

SI-ID 319233

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
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 )

#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 (see below)

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#91458

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID319233.1 )

#25543

IJSEM 1348 2009 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.006643-0 , PubMed 19502314 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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