Flavobacterium compostarboris (KACC 14224, JCM 16527, 15C3)

Name: Flavobacterium compostarboris (KACC 14224, JCM 16527, 15C3)
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BacDive ID 133726

Type strain

Strain Designation 15C3

Culture col. no. KACC 14224 JCM 16527 15C3

NCBI tax ID(s) 659443

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History S. Kanaya 15C3.

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Flavobacterium compostarboris 15C3 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from Compost.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 133321

JCM 16527

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:01

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Flavobacteriaceae

Genus Flavobacterium

Species Flavobacterium compostarboris

Full scientific name Flavobacterium compostarboris Kim et al. 2012

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
30297	negative	4.2 µm	0.5 µm	rod-shaped		gliding

Pigmentation

30297

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
30297	positive	growth	09-33
30297	positive	optimum	25
67770	positive	growth	25

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
30297	positive	optimum	6.5
30297	positive	growth	5.6-7.9

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

30297

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

30297

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30297	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-6

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30297	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
30297	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
30297	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
30297	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
30297	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
30297	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
30297	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
30297	35581 ChEBI	indole	+

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
30297	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
30297	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
30297	catalase	+	1.11.1.6

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
30297	Compost
67770	Leaf-and-branch compost at EXPO Park	Osaka	Japan	JPN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
30297	Flavobacterium compostarboris strain 15C3 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	GQ281769	1461		659443

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
30297	33.6
67770	33.6	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Flavobacterium compostarboris sp. nov., isolated from leaf-and-branch compost, and emended descriptions of Flavobacterium hercynium, Flavobacterium resistens and Flavobacterium johnsoniae.	Kim JJ, Kanaya E, Weon HY, Koga Y, Takano K, Dunfield PF, Kwon SW, Kanaya S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.032920-0	2011
Phylogeny	Flavobacterium artemisiae sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Artemisia annua L. and emended descriptions of Flavobacterium compostarboris and Flavobacterium procerum.	Zhao JC, Cheng J, Zhang Q, Gao ZW, Zhang MY, Zhang YX	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002701	2018

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 )
#26638	IJSEM 2018 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.032920-0 , PubMed 22021577 )
#30297	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 #26638
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Flavobacterium compostarboris (KACC 14224, JCM 16527, 15C3)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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