Name: Gemmobacter fontiphilus JS43
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133857

Type strain:

Species: Gemmobacter fontiphilus

Strain Designation: JS43

Culture col. no.: BCRC 80082, LMG 25376

NCBI tax ID(s): 642250 (species)

Section

Gemmobacter fontiphilus JS43 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from wastewater.

Gram-negative
rod-shaped
facultative anaerobe
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	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Rhodobacterales*
	Family	*Paracoccaceae*
	Genus	*Gemmobacter*
	Species	**Gemmobacter fontiphilus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Gemmobacter fontiphilus Chen et al. 2013

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #30689]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #30689]	Cell length	2.25 µm

[Ref.: #30689]	Cell width	0.9 µm

[Ref.: #30689]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #30689]	Motility	no

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #30689]			growth	10-30 °C
[Ref.: #30689]			optimum	25 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #30689]			optimum	7.5
[Ref.: #30689]			growth	07-10

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

facultative anaerobe

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Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #30689]		NaCl		growth	0-5	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #30689]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30689]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30689]	mannitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30689]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30689]	methyl pyruvate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30689]	N-acetylglucosamine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30689]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #30689]	tween 20 ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30689]	tween 40 ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30689]	tween 80 ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #30689]	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
[Ref.: #30689]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #30689]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

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

[Ref.: #30689]	Sample type/isolated from	wastewater
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Engineered

#Waste

#Wastewater

What are isolation sources categories?

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

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GC-content

69.3 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

BCRC 80082, LMG 25376

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Description of Gemmobacter fontiphilus sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater spring, reclassification of Catellibacterium nectariphilum as Gemmobacter nectariphilus comb. nov., Catellibacterium changlense as Gemmobacter changlensis comb. nov., Catellibacterium aquatile as Gemmobacter aquaticus nom. nov., Catellibacterium caeni as Gemmobacter caeni comb. nov., Catellibacterium nanjingense as Gemmobacter nanjingensis comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Gemmobacter and of Gemmobacter aquatilis.	Chen WM, Cho NT, Huang WC, Young CC, Sheu SY	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.042051-0	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 )

#30689

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 #27020 (see below)

#27020

IJSEM 470 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.042051-0 , PubMed 22493172 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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