Caenispirillum salinarum (MTCC 10963, JCM 17360, AK4)

Name: Caenispirillum salinarum (MTCC 10963, JCM 17360, AK4)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 133755

Type strain

Strain Designation AK4

Culture col. no. MTCC 10963 JCM 17360 AK4

NCBI tax ID(s) 1238182 859058

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History JCM <-- P. Anil Kumar AK4.

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Caenispirillum salinarum AK4 is a Gram-negative, motile, ovoid-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Solar saltern.

Gram-negative motile ovoid-shaped genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 131950

JCM 17360

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:10

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Rhodospirillaceae

Genus Caenispirillum

Species Caenispirillum salinarum

Full scientific name Caenispirillum salinarum Ritika et al. 2012

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
30406	negative	4 µm	1 µm	ovoid-shaped
125438	negative				98.494
125439	negative				97.844

Pigmentation

30406

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
30406	positive	growth	30-35
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
30406	positive	optimum	7.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	99.033

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
30406
125439		99.594

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30406	NaCl	positive	optimum	3 %

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-10, Q-11

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
30406	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
30406	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	100	5 of 5
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	glycogen metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	100	7 of 7
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	denitrification	100	2 of 2
66794	cyanate degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	hydrogen production	100	5 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	photosynthesis	100	14 of 14
66794	gluconeogenesis	100	8 of 8
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	100	8 of 8
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	propionate fermentation	90	9 of 10
66794	threonine metabolism	90	9 of 10
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	alanine metabolism	86.21	25 of 29
66794	glutathione metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	citric acid cycle	85.71	12 of 14
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	85.71	6 of 7
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	82.35	28 of 34
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	starch degradation	80	8 of 10
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	80	8 of 10
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	78.57	22 of 28
66794	heme metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	NAD metabolism	77.78	14 of 18
66794	allantoin degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	leucine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	glycolysis	76.47	13 of 17
66794	histidine metabolism	75.86	22 of 29
66794	alginate biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	75	9 of 12
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	purine metabolism	74.47	70 of 94
66794	lysine metabolism	73.81	31 of 42
66794	methionine metabolism	73.08	19 of 26
66794	proline metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	propanol degradation	71.43	5 of 7
66794	lipid metabolism	70.97	22 of 31
66794	urea cycle	69.23	9 of 13
66794	non-pathway related	68.42	26 of 38
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	flavin biosynthesis	66.67	10 of 15
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	66.67	4 of 6
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	tryptophan metabolism	65.79	25 of 38
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	63.64	7 of 11
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	63.64	7 of 11
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	62.22	28 of 45
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	61.54	16 of 26
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	60.44	55 of 91
66794	tyrosine metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	nitrate assimilation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	cysteine metabolism	55.56	10 of 18
66794	arginine metabolism	54.17	13 of 24
66794	sulfate reduction	53.85	7 of 13
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	50	8 of 16
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	50	9 of 18
66794	lactate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	toluene degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	degradation of hexoses	44.44	8 of 18
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	44.44	8 of 18
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	degradation of pentoses	42.86	12 of 28
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	40.91	9 of 22
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	degradation of sugar acids	40	10 of 25
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	38.46	5 of 13
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	37.5	6 of 16
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	36.36	4 of 11
66794	polyamine pathway	34.78	8 of 23
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	33.33	5 of 15
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	29.41	5 of 17
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	28.57	2 of 7
66794	d-xylose degradation	27.27	3 of 11
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	25	3 of 12
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	vitamin E metabolism	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	phenol degradation	25	5 of 20
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	23.08	3 of 13
66794	ascorbate metabolism	22.73	5 of 22

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
30406	Solar saltern
67770	Sediment sample collected from a solar saltern at Kakinada	Andhra Pradesh	India	IND	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FN995238 (>99% sequence identity) for Caenispirillum from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	936
Soil Samples	522
Animal Samples	76
Plant Samples	130
Total Samples	1664

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Caenispirillum salinarum assembly for Caenispirillum salinarum AK4	contig	GCA_000315795	1238182.3	2519899571	1238182	66.58

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
30406	Caenispirillum salinarum AK4 partial 16S rRNA gene	FN995238	1426		1238182

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
30406	71
67770	71	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: Caenispirillum salinarum assembly for Caenispirillum salinarum AK4
NCBI: GCA_000315795

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.03	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	97.84	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	72.21	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.59	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Caenispirillum salinarum AK4
PATRIC: 1238182.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.49	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	81.36	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	86.41	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	61.90	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.28	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	77.25	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Caenispirillum humi sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from the soil of Korean pine garden.	Huq MA	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-017-1449-z	2017
Phylogeny	Caenispirillum salinarum sp. nov., a member of the family Rhodospirillaceae isolated from a solar saltern.	Ritika C, Suresh K, Anil Kumar P	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.035287-0	2011

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 )
#26743	IJSEM 1698 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.035287-0 , PubMed 21908680 )
#30406	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 #26743
#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) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#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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Caenispirillum salinarum (MTCC 10963, JCM 17360, AK4)

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

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000315795

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

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