Name: Psychromonas heitensis AK15-027
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 134372

Type strain:

Species: Psychromonas heitensis

Strain Designation: AK15-027

Culture col. no.: MBIC 06898, NCIMB 14416

NCBI tax ID(s): 479650 (species)

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Section

Psychromonas heitensis AK15-027 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from seawater.

Gram-negative
motile
rod-shaped
facultative anaerobe
16S sequence
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	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Alteromonadales*
	Family	*Psychromonadaceae*
	Genus	*Psychromonas*
	Species	**Psychromonas heitensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Psychromonas heitensis Hosoya et al. 2008

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32651]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #32651]	Cell length	1-1.5 µm

[Ref.: #32651]	Cell width	0.5-1 µm

[Ref.: #32651]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #32651]	Motility	yes

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #32651]			growth	02-30 °C
[Ref.: #32651]			optimum	20-25 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32651]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #32651]			growth	06-09

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.: #32651]		NaCl		growth	03-04	%
[Ref.: #32651]		NaCl		optimum	03-04	%

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Observation

aggregates in chains

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #32651]	citrate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32651]	esculin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #32651]	malate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32651]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #32651]	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
[Ref.: #32651]	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
[Ref.: #32651]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #32651]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

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

[Ref.: #32651]	Sample type/isolated from	seawater
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental

#Aquatic

#Marine

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

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #124043]	Psychromonas heitensis gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: AK15-027 (= MBIC 06898).	AB365352	1476	GenBank ENA	479650 tax ID	*

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GC-content

38 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

MBIC 06898, NCIMB 14416

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Psychromonas heitensis sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from seawater in Japan.	Hosoya S, Yasumoto-Hirose M, Adachi K, Katsuta A, Kasai H	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65846-0	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 )

#32651

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 #28862 (see below)

#124043

Dr. Isabel Schober, Dr. Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .

#28862

IJSEM 2253 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65846-0 , PubMed 18842836 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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