Moritella abyssi (CIP 108121, JCM 11436, LMG 21258)

Name: Moritella abyssi (CIP 108121, JCM 11436, LMG 21258)
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BacDive ID 134520

Type strain

Strain Designation 2693

Culture col. no. CIP 108121 JCM 11436 LMG 21258 2693

NCBI tax ID(s) 111292

Special Collections JCM CIP

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Moritella abyssi 2693 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 85316

LMG 21258,JCM 11436,CIP 108121

@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 abyssi

Full scientific name Moritella abyssi Xu et al. 2003

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
32887	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition
32887	Marine agar (MA)		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Marine agar (55.100 g)
32887	CIP Medium 13

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
32887	positive	growth	5	psychrophilic
32887	negative	growth	15
32887	negative	growth	25
32887	negative	growth	30
32887	negative	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	4	psychrophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-8

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32887	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
32887	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
32887	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	degradation
32887	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
32887	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
32887	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
32887	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
32887	17234 ChEBI	glucose

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
32887	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
32887	amylase	+
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
32887	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
32887	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
32887	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
32887	gamma-glutamyltransferase	+	2.3.2.2
32887	gelatinase	-
32887	lecithinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API zym
32887	lipase	+
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
32887	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
32887	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
32887	oxidase	+
32887	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
32887	protease	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
32887	tryptophan deaminase	-
32887	tween esterase	+
32887	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
32887	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Geographic location
32887	West African coast
67770	Atlantic Ocean
32887	Off the West African coast

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ252022 (>99% sequence identity) for Moritella from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1441
Soil Samples	12
Animal Samples	281
Plant Samples	4
Total Samples	1738

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
32887	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Moritella sp. 16S rRNA gene, strain 2693	AJ252022	1497		111292

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	41.6	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 )
#32887	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108121
#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 abyssi (CIP 108121, JCM 11436, LMG 21258)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

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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