Paracoccus koreensis (KCTC 12238, IAM 15216, Ch05)

Name: Paracoccus koreensis (KCTC 12238, IAM 15216, Ch05)
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BacDive ID 134117

Type strain

Strain Designation Ch05

Culture col. no. KCTC 12238 IAM 15216 Ch05 NBRC 102292 JCM 21670 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 290306

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Paracoccus koreensis Ch05 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from Granules used in the wastewater-treatment plant of a beer-brewing factory in Chung-Won.

Gram-negative rod-shaped aerobe 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132665

KCTC 12238,IAM 15216,DSM 18402,NBRC 102292,JCM 21670,CIP 108862

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:58

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Paracoccaceae

Genus Paracoccus

Species Paracoccus koreensis

Full scientific name Paracoccus koreensis La et al. 2005

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape
31414	negative	1.25 µm	0.75 µm	rod-shaped
67771	negative
120481	negative			rod-shaped

Pigmentation

31414

Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition
38345	MEDIUM 566- Reasoner's 2A agar for Flavobacterium micromati		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);R2A agar (18.200 g)
120481	CIP Medium 566

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
31414	positive	growth	15-37
31414	positive	optimum	26
38345	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	30
67771	positive	growth	30
120481	positive	growth	25-41
120481	negative	growth	5
120481	negative	growth	10

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
31414	positive	optimum	7
31414	positive	growth	06-08

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
31414	aerobe
67771	aerobe
120481	obligate aerobe

Spore formation

31414

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
120481	NaCl	positive	growth	0-4 %
120481	NaCl		growth	6 %
120481	NaCl		growth	8 %
120481	NaCl		growth	10 %

Observation

@ref	Observation
31414	aggregates in clumps
67770	quinones: Q-10
67771	quinones: Q-10

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31414	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
120481	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
31414	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
31414	27570 ChEBI	histidine	+	carbon source
120481	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
120481	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	respiration
120481	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	+	reduction
31414	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
31414	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
31414	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
31414	31011 ChEBI	valerate	+	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
120481	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
120481	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
120481	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
68382	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
120481	amylase	-
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
120481	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
120481	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
31414	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
120481	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
31414	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
120481	DNase	-
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
120481	gelatinase	-
120481	lecithinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
120481	lipase	-
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
120481	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	-		from API zym
120481	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
120481	oxidase	+
120481	protease	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
120481	tryptophan deaminase	+
120481	tween esterase	-
120481	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
120481	-	+	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
67770	Granules used in the wastewater-treatment plant of a beer-brewing factory in Chung-Won	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia
67771	From granule sludge	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia
120481	Environment, Granules in the treatment of wastewater from a beer-brewing factory	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB187584 (>99% sequence identity) for Paracoccus koreensis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	31
Soil Samples	54
Animal Samples	21
Plant Samples	4
Total Samples	110

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
120481	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
31414	Paracoccus koreensis gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain:Ch05	AB187584	1386		290306
124043	Paracoccus koreensis gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: NBRC 102292.	AB681748	1388		290306

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)
31414	69
67771	69.0
67770	69

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Paracoccus koreensis sp. nov., isolated from anaerobic granules in an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor.	La HJ, Im WT, Ten LN, Kang MS, Shin DY, Lee ST	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63494-0	2005

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 )
#31414	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 #27721 (see below)
#38345	; Curators of the CIP;
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#120481	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108862
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Paracoccus koreensis (KCTC 12238, IAM 15216, Ch05)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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