Moritella profunda (CIP 108120, JCM 11435, LMG 21259)

Name: Moritella profunda (CIP 108120, JCM 11435, LMG 21259)
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BacDive ID 134519

Type strain

Strain Designation 2674

Culture col. no. CIP 108120 JCM 11435 LMG 21259 2674

NCBI tax ID(s) 111291

Special Collections JCM CIP

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Moritella profunda 2674 is a psychrophilic, Gram-negative, motile prokaryote of the family Moritellaceae.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped psychrophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 85317

LMG 21259,JCM 11435,CIP 108120

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:02:04

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Alteromonadales

Family Moritellaceae

Genus Moritella

Species Moritella profunda

Full scientific name Moritella profunda Xu et al. 2003

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
32886	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
32886	Marine agar (MA)		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Marine agar (55.100 g)
32886	CIP Medium 13			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
32886	positive	growth	5	psychrophilic
32886	negative	growth	15
32886	negative	growth	22
32886	negative	growth	30
32886	negative	growth	37
32886	negative	growth	41
67770	positive	growth	2	psychrophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Tested relation	Concentration
32886	NaCl	growth	0 %
32886	NaCl	growth	2 %
32886	NaCl	growth	4 %
32886	NaCl	growth	6 %
32886	NaCl	growth	8 %
32886	NaCl	growth	10 %

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-8

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32886	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	degradation
32886	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
32886	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
32886	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
32886	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
32886	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
32886	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
32886	amylase	+
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
32886	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
32886	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
32886	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
32886	gamma-glutamyltransferase	+	2.3.2.2
32886	gelatinase	-
32886	lecithinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API zym
32886	lipase	+
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
32886	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
32886	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
32886	oxidase	-
32886	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
32886	protease	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
32886	tryptophan deaminase	-
32886	tween esterase	+
32886	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
32886	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country
32886		West African coast
67770	The upper layer of deep Atlantic sediments at a depth of 2,815 m off the West African coast	Atlantic Ocean
32886	Environment, Atlantic sediments	Off the West African coast	Atlantic Ocean

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ252023 (>99% sequence identity) for Moritella from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	658
Soil Samples	7
Animal Samples	85
Plant Samples
Total Samples	750

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
32886	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Moritella sp. 16S rRNA gene, strain 2674	AJ252023	1502		111291

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	41.4	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Moritella profunda sp. nov. and Moritella abyssi sp. nov., two psychropiezophilic organisms isolated from deep Atlantic sediments.	Xu Y, Nogi Y, Kato C, Liang Z, Ruger HJ, De Kegel D, Glansdorff N	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02228-0	2003

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 )
#32886	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108120
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#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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Moritella profunda (CIP 108120, JCM 11435, LMG 21259)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

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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