Psychromonas macrocephali (JCM 14785, ATCC BAA-1527, JAMM 0415)

Name: Psychromonas macrocephali (JCM 14785, ATCC BAA-1527, JAMM 0415)
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Type strain

Culture col. no. JCM 14785 ATCC BAA-1527 JAMM 0415

NCBI tax ID(s) 1278303 444920

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Psychromonas macrocephali JCM 14785 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-negative, motile prokaryote that was isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped facultative anaerobe 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 24759

ATCC BAA-1527,JCM 14785

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:02:02

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Alteromonadales

Family Psychromonadaceae

Genus Psychromonas

Species Psychromonas macrocephali

Full scientific name Psychromonas macrocephali Miyazaki et al. 2008

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
32593	negative	2.2-2.9 µm	0.6-0.8 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

32593

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
32593	positive	growth	0-25
32593	positive	optimum	20	psychrophilic
67770	positive	growth	20	psychrophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
32593	positive	optimum	8.5
32593	positive	growth	06-09	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

32593

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Spore formation

32593

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
32593	NaCl	positive	growth	02-06 %
32593	NaCl	positive	optimum	3 %

Observation

@ref	Observation
32593	aggregates in chains
67770	quinones: Q-8

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32593	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
32593	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
32593	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
32593	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
32593	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
32593	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
32593	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
32593	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32593	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
32593	gelatinase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment
#Host	#Other	#Decomposing animal
#Host	#Mammals	#Aquatic mammal

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
32593	sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses
67770	Sediment adjacent to a sperm whale carcass off Kagoshima	Japan	JPN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
32593	Psychromonas macrocephali gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JAMM 0415	AB304806	1469		444920

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
32593	41.5
67770	41.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Gut Microbiota Mediates Skin Ulceration Syndrome Outbreak by Readjusting Lipid Metabolism in Apostichopus japonicus.	Zhang Z, Song M, Lv Z, Guo M, Li C.	Int J Mol Sci	10.3390/ijms232113583	2022
Metabolism	Identifying fermenting bacteria in anoxic tidal-flat sediments by a combination of microcalorimetry and ribosome-based stable-isotope probing.	Graue J, Kleindienst S, Lueders T, Cypionka H, Engelen B.	FEMS Microbiol Ecol	10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01282.x	2012
Phylogeny	Psychromonas japonica sp. nov., Psychromonas aquimarina sp. nov., Psychromonas macrocephali sp. nov. and Psychromonas ossibalaenae sp. nov., psychrotrophic bacteria isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses off Kagoshima, Japan.	Miyazaki M, Nogi Y, Fujiwara Y, Horikoshi K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65744-0	2008

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 )
#28806	IJSEM 1709 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65744-0 , PubMed 18599721 )
#32593	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 #28806
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Psychromonas macrocephali (JCM 14785, ATCC BAA-1527, JAMM 0415)

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

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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