Name: Psychromonas japonica DSM 21936
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 13521

Type strain:

Species: Psychromonas japonica

Culture col. no.: DSM 21936, ATCC BAA-1525, JCM 14783, JAMM 0394

Strain history: M. Miyazaki JAMM 0394.

NCBI tax ID(s): 444918 (species)

SI-ID 404728

DSM 21936

Section

Psychromonas japonica DSM 21936 is a facultative anaerobe, psychrophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from sediment adjacent to a sperm whale carcass off Kagoshima.

Gram-negative
motile
rod-shaped
facultative anaerobe
psychrophilic
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 japonica**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Psychromonas japonica Miyazaki et al. 2008

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32593]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #32593]	Cell length	1.6-2.2 µm

[Ref.: #32593]	Cell width	0.5-0.8 µm

[Ref.: #32593]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #32593]	Motility	yes

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #16045]	growth	20-22 °C
[Ref.: #32593]	growth	05-25 °C
[Ref.: #32593]	optimum	20-22 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	20 °C

[Ref.: #16045]	Temperature range	psychrophilic
[Ref.: #32593]	Temperature range	psychrophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	psychrophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32593]			optimum	9
[Ref.: #32593]			growth	6.5-9.5

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.: #32593]		NaCl		growth	02-05	%
[Ref.: #32593]		NaCl		optimum	02-05	%

[Ref.: #32593]	Observation	aggregates in chains
[Ref.: #67770]	Observation	quinones: Q-8

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #32593]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32593]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32593]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32593]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32593]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #32593]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #32593]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

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

[Ref.: #16045]	Sample type/isolated from	sediment adjacent to a sperm whale carcass off Kagoshima
[Ref.: #16045]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Kagoshima
[Ref.: #16045]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #16045]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #16045]	Continent	Asia

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Sediment adjacent to a sperm whale carcass off Kagoshima
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment
#Host	#Other	#Decomposing animal
#Host	#Mammals	#Aquatic mammal

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

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.: #16045]	Psychromonas japonica gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB304804	1467	ENA	444918 tax ID

[Ref.: #16045]	GC-content	38.8 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
[Ref.: #32593]	GC-content	38.8 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 21936, ATCC BAA-1525, JCM 14783, JAMM 0394

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SI-ID 404728

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
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

#16045

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21936

#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 )

#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 (see below)

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#82712

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID404728.1 )

#28806

IJSEM 1709 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65744-0 , PubMed 18599721 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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