Microbulbifer pacificus (KCCM 42667, JCM 14507, SPO729)

Name: Microbulbifer pacificus (KCCM 42667, JCM 14507, SPO729)
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BacDive ID 133863

Type strain

Strain Designation SPO729

Culture col. no. KCCM 42667 JCM 14507 SPO729

NCBI tax ID(s) 407164

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History K. K. Kwon SPO729.

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Microbulbifer pacificus SPO729 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from marine sponge.

Gram-negative rod-shaped aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 133590

JCM 14507

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:03

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Cellvibrionales

Family Microbulbiferaceae

Genus Microbulbifer

Species Microbulbifer pacificus

Full scientific name Microbulbifer pacificus Jeong et al. 2013

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
30706	negative	5 µm	0.35 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

30706

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
30706	positive	growth	15-45
30706	positive	optimum	35
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
30706	positive	optimum	7.25
30706	positive	growth	06-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

30706

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

30706

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30706	NaCl	positive	growth	01-07 %
30706	NaCl	positive	optimum	2.5 %

Observation

@ref	Observation
30706	aggregates in clumps
67770	quinones: Q-8

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30706	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
30706	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
30706	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
30706	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
30706	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
30706	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
30706	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
30706	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
30706	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Host	#Invertebrates (Other)	#Porifera (Sponges)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
30706	marine sponge
67770	Marine sponge found at a depth of 20 m in a tropical area	Weno Island, Chuuk State	Micronesia, Federated States of	FSM	Australia and Oceania

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ993341 (>99% sequence identity) for Microbulbifer pacificus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	44
Soil Samples	35
Animal Samples	2
Plant Samples	11
Total Samples	92

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Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
30706	Microbulbifer pacificus strain SPO729 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ993341	1495		407164

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
30706	57.9
67770	57.9	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Microbulbifer harenosus sp. nov., an alginate-degrading bacterium isolated from coastal sand.	Huang H, Mo K, Hu Y, Liu M, Zhu J, Zou X, Bao S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003945	2020
Phylogeny	Microbulbifer gwangyangensis sp. nov. and Microbulbifer pacificus sp. nov., isolated from marine environments.	Jeong SH, Yang SH, Jin HM, Kim JM, Kwon KK, Jeon CO	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.042606-0	2012
Phylogeny	Microbulbifer okhotskensis sp. nov., isolated from a deep bottom sediment of the Okhotsk Sea.	Romanenko L, Kurilenko V, Otstavnykh N, Velansky P, Isaeva M, Mikhailov V	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-022-03161-9	2022

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 )
#27037	IJSEM 1335 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.042606-0 , PubMed 22798656 )
#30706	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 #27037
#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 .
#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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Microbulbifer pacificus (KCCM 42667, JCM 14507, SPO729)

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

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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