Magnetococcus marinus (ATCC BAA-1437, JCM 17883, MC-1)

Name: Magnetococcus marinus (ATCC BAA-1437, JCM 17883, MC-1)
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BacDive ID 133811

Type strain

Strain Designation MC-1

Culture col. no. ATCC BAA-1437 JCM 17883 MC-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1124597

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History JCM <-- C. T. Lefèvre <-- D. A. Bazylinski MC-1.

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Magnetococcus marinus MC-1 is a microaerophile, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from estuarine water.

Gram-negative motile coccus-shaped microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132752

JCM 17883

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:11

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Magnetococcales

Family Magnetococcaceae

Genus Magnetococcus

Species Magnetococcus marinus

Full scientific name Magnetococcus marinus Bazylinski et al. 2013

Synonyms (1)

"Candidatus Magnetococcus marinus"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
30567	negative	coccus-shaped
125438	negative			97.5

Pigmentation

30567

Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
30567	positive	growth	05-35
30567	positive	optimum	25
67770	positive	growth	25

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
30567	positive	optimum	7

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

30567

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		93.99

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
30567	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Brackish
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Estuary

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
30567	estuarine water
67770	Oxic-anoxic transition zone in the Pettasquamscutt estuary in Narragansett Bay	Rhode Island	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence CP000471 (>99% sequence identity) for Magnetococcus marinus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	371
Soil Samples	103
Animal Samples	231
Plant Samples	20
Total Samples	725

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1486v1 assembly for Magnetococcus marinus MC-1	complete	GCA_000014865	156889.10	639633036	156889	95.02

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Magnetococcus marinus strain MC-1 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	NR_074371.1	1496		156889

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
30567	54.2
67770	55.8	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
67770	54.17	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Magnetococcus marinus MC-1 MC-1
NCBI: GCA_000014865.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.50	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	51.94	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	74.73	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.99	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	90.68	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	75.95	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Pathogenicity	Reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in HepG2 cancer cell line through the application of localized alternating magnetic field.	Sola-Leyva A, Jabalera Y, Chico-Lozano MA, Carrasco-Jimenez MP, Iglesias GR, Jimenez-Lopez C	J Mater Chem B	10.1039/d0tb01306d	2020
Metabolism	Light-driven carbon-carbon bond formation via CO2 reduction catalyzed by complexes of CdS nanorods and a 2-oxoacid oxidoreductase.	Hamby H, Li B, Shinopoulos KE, Keller HR, Elliott SJ, Dukovic G	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.1903948116	2019
Metabolism	Tuning properties of biomimetic magnetic nanoparticles by combining magnetosome associated proteins.	Peigneux A, Jabalera Y, Vivas MAF, Casares S, Azuaga AI, Jimenez-Lopez C	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-019-45219-7	2019
Enzymology	A reverse TCA cycle 2-oxoacid:ferredoxin oxidoreductase that makes C-C bonds from CO2.	Chen PY, Li B, Drennan CL, Elliott SJ	Joule	10.1016/j.joule.2018.12.006	2019
Pathogenicity	pH-Dependent Adsorption Release of Doxorubicin on MamC-Biomimetic Magnetite Nanoparticles.	Garcia Rubia G, Peigneux A, Jabalera Y, Puerma J, Oltolina F, Elert K, Colangelo D, Gomez Morales J, Prat M, Jimenez-Lopez C	Langmuir	10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03109	2018
Phylogeny	The chimeric nature of the genomes of marine magnetotactic coccoid-ovoid bacteria defines a novel group of Proteobacteria.	Ji B, Zhang SD, Zhang WJ, Rouy Z, Alberto F, Santini CL, Mangenot S, Gagnot S, Philippe N, Pradel N, Zhang L, Tempel S, Li Y, Medigue C, Henrissat B, Coutinho PM, Barbe V, Talla E, Wu LF	Environ Microbiol	10.1111/1462-2920.13637	2017
Metabolism	Combined genomic and structural analyses of a cultured magnetotactic bacterium reveals its niche adaptation to a dynamic environment.	Araujo AC, Morillo V, Cypriano J, Teixeira LC, Leao P, Lyra S, Almeida LG, Bazylinski DA, Ribeiro de Vasconcelos AT, Abreu F, Lins U	BMC Genomics	10.1186/s12864-016-3064-9	2016
Pathogenicity	Magneto-aerotactic bacteria deliver drug-containing nanoliposomes to tumour hypoxic regions.	Felfoul O, Mohammadi M, Taherkhani S, de Lanauze D, Zhong Xu Y, Loghin D, Essa S, Jancik S, Houle D, Lafleur M, Gaboury L, Tabrizian M, Kaou N, Atkin M, Vuong T, Batist G, Beauchemin N, Radzioch D, Martel S	Nat Nanotechnol	10.1038/nnano.2016.137	2016
Metabolism	Size control of in vitro synthesized magnetite crystals by the MamC protein of Magnetococcus marinus strain MC-1.	Valverde-Tercedor C, Montalban-Lopez M, Perez-Gonzalez T, Sanchez-Quesada MS, Prozorov T, Pineda-Molina E, Fernandez-Vivas MA, Rodriguez-Navarro AB, Trubitsyn D, Bazylinski DA, Jimenez-Lopez C	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-014-6326-y	2015
Metabolism	Subcellular localization of the magnetosome protein MamC in the marine magnetotactic bacterium Magnetococcus marinus strain MC-1 using immunoelectron microscopy.	Valverde-Tercedor C, Abadia-Molina F, Martinez-Bueno M, Pineda-Molina E, Chen L, Oestreicher Z, Lower BH, Lower SK, Bazylinski DA, Jimenez-Lopez C	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-014-0984-0	2014
Metabolism	Covalent binding of nanoliposomes to the surface of magnetotactic bacteria for the synthesis of self-propelled therapeutic agents.	Taherkhani S, Mohammadi M, Daoud J, Martel S, Tabrizian M	ACS Nano	10.1021/nn5011304	2014
Phylogeny	Isolation, cultivation and genomic analysis of magnetosome biomineralization genes of a new genus of South-seeking magnetotactic cocci within the Alphaproteobacteria.	Morillo V, Abreu F, Araujo AC, de Almeida LG, Enrich-Prast A, Farina M, de Vasconcelos AT, Bazylinski DA, Lins U	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2014.00072	2014
Phylogeny	Magnetococcus marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine, magnetotactic bacterium that represents a novel lineage (Magnetococcaceae fam. nov., Magnetococcales ord. nov.) at the base of the Alphaproteobacteria.	Bazylinski DA, Williams TJ, Lefevre CT, Berg RJ, Zhang CL, Bowser SS, Dean AJ, Beveridge TJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.038927-0	2012

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 )
#26898	IJSEM 801 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.038927-0 , PubMed 22581902 )
#30567	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 #26898
#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) .
#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 )
#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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Magnetococcus marinus (ATCC BAA-1437, JCM 17883, MC-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000014865

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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