Sulfitobacter indolifex (DSM 14862, MCCC 1A11773, NCIMB 13983)

Name: Sulfitobacter indolifex (DSM 14862, MCCC 1A11773, NCIMB 13983)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 13684

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 14862 MCCC 1A11773 NCIMB 13983 HEL Hel45 HEL 45

NCBI tax ID(s) 225422

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- I. Wagner-Döbler; Hel45

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Sulfitobacter indolifex DSM 14862 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from seawater.

Gram-negative rod-shaped aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132794

DSM 14862,NCIMB 13983,KCTC 12528

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:21:12

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Roseobacteraceae

Genus Sulfitobacter

Species Sulfitobacter indolifex

Full scientific name Sulfitobacter indolifex (Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004) Liu et al. 2017

Synonyms (1)

Oceanibulbus indolifex

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Sulfitobacter indolifex** (3)	Type strain
159450	S. indolifex HEL-76, DSM 109636
159451	S. indolifex HEL-78, DSM 109637
176832	S. indolifex H02Y-003B, DSM 111389

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
30027	negative	4 µm	2.15 µm	rod-shaped
43335	negative	3-5 µm	1.8-2.5 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative				90
125438	negative				98.833

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
5583			2-3 days
43335	yellowy	circular	3 days	Marine agar 2216

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
5583	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water
43335	Marine broth 2216
43335	Marine agar (MA)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5583	positive	growth	28
30027	positive	growth	15-30
30027	positive	optimum	27.5
43335	positive	optimum	25-30
43335	positive	growth	10-30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
30027	positive	optimum	7.5
43335	positive	optimum	7-8
30027	positive	growth	7.0-8.0
43335	positive	growth	7-9	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
30027	aerobe
43335	aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
30027
125439		95.1
125438		90.683

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30027	NaCl	positive	growth	1.0-7.0 %
30027	NaCl	positive	optimum	4 %
43335	NaCl	positive	growth	1-10 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30027	17128 ChEBI	adipate	+	carbon source
43335	17128 ChEBI	adipate	+	builds acid from
30027	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
30027	22653 ChEBI	asparagine	+	carbon source
30027	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	carbon source
30027	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
43335	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20NE
43335	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	builds acid from
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
30027	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
30027	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
30027	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
30027	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
30027	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
43335	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	builds acid from
68369	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
30027	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
68369	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API 20NE
30027	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	+	carbon source
43335	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	+	builds acid from
30027	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
30027	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
30027	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source
43335	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	+	builds acid from
30027	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
68369	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20NE
68369	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20NE

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API 20NE

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43335	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43335	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43335	alpha-chymotrypsin	+/-	3.4.21.1
43335	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43335	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43335	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
43335	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
68369	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
43335	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43335	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
68369	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API 20NE
43335	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
5583	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
30027	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43335	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43335	cystine arylamidase	+/-	3.4.11.3
30027	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
5583	cytochrome-c oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43335	esterase (C 4)	+
43335	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
68369	gelatinase	-		from API 20NE
43335	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43335	lipase (C 14)	+/-
43335	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43335	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43335	trypsin	+/-	3.4.21.4
68369	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20NE
43335	valine arylamidase	+

API 20NE

@ref	Reduction of nitratesNO3	TRP	GLU_ Ferm	ADH (Arg)	URE	ESC	GEL	PNPG	GLU_ Assim	ARA	MNE	MAN	NAG	MAL	GNT	CAP	ADI	MLT	CIT	PAC	OX
5583	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+/-	+/-	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+/-
5583	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	not determinedn.d.

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
5583	seawater	North Sea, offshore Helgoland, 54°08'N, 7°52'E	Germany	DEU	Europe	54.1333	7.8667 54.1333/7.8667
43335	North Sea water sampel from a depth of 10 m

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ550939 (>99% sequence identity) for Sulfitobacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2251
Soil Samples	83
Animal Samples	278
Plant Samples	12
Total Samples	2624

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5583	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2278865v1 assembly for Sulfitobacter indolifex DSM 14862	complete	GCA_022788655	225422.11	8115867006	225422	91.36
124043	ASM17209v1 assembly for Sulfitobacter indolifex HEL-45	contig	GCA_000172095	391624.3	641380424	391624	54.15

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Oceanibulbus indolifex strain DSM14862 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ915614	1307		225422
5583	Oceanibulbus indoliflex partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain Hel 45	AJ550939	1379		391624

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
30027	60.1
43335	59.5	genome sequence analysis
5583	59.5	sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Sulfitobacter indolifex DSM 14862
NCBI: GCA_022788655

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	95.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	56.90	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	90.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	83.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Sulfitobacter indolifex DSM 14862
NCBI: GCA_022788655.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.83	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.71	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	81.82	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.68	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.90	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	57.81	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Modular Low-Copy-Number Plasmid Vectors for Rhodobacterales with Extended Host Range in Alphaproteobacteria.	Korner D, Schafer NM, Lagares A, Birmes L, Oehlmann NN, Addison H, Pohl S, Thanbichler M, Rebelein JG, Petersen J, Becker A.	ACS Synth Biol	10.1021/acssynbio.4c00062	2024
	Abundant Sulfitobacter marine bacteria protect Emiliania huxleyi algae from pathogenic bacteria.	Beiralas R, Ozer N, Segev E.	ISME Commun	10.1038/s43705-023-00311-y	2023
Genetics	Optimizing and evaluating the reconstruction of Metagenome-assembled microbial genomes.	Papudeshi B, Haggerty JM, Doane M, Morris MM, Walsh K, Beattie DT, Pande D, Zaeri P, Silva GGZ, Thompson F, Edwards RA, Dinsdale EA.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/s12864-017-4294-1	2017
Metabolism	Isotopically labeled sulfur compounds and synthetic selenium and tellurium analogues to study sulfur metabolism in marine bacteria.	Brock NL, Citron CA, Zell C, Berger M, Wagner-Dobler I, Petersen J, Brinkhoff T, Simon M, Dickschat JS.	Beilstein J Org Chem	10.3762/bjoc.9.108	2013
Genetics	High-throughput proteogenomics of Ruegeria pomeroyi: seeding a better genomic annotation for the whole marine Roseobacter clade.	Christie-Oleza JA, Miotello G, Armengaud J.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/1471-2164-13-73	2012
	Beyond the ABCs-Discovery of Three New Plasmid Types in Rhodobacterales (RepQ, RepY, RepW).	Freese HM, Ringel V, Overmann J, Petersen J	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10040738	2022
Phylogeny	Proposal for transfer of Oceanibulbus indolifex Wagner-Dobler et al. 2004 to the genus Sulfitobacter as Sulfitobacter indolifex comb. nov.	Liu Y, Lai Q, Shao Z	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001950	2017
	Characterization of Sulfitobacter sediminivivens sp. nov., A Novel Halotolerant, Nitrogen-Assimilating Bacterium from Tidal Flat Sediment.	Kathiresan A, Park HY, Kim HS, Li C, Dong K, Srinivasan S, Lee SS.	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-025-04422-8	2025
Phylogeny	Sulfitobacter aestuarii sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a tidal flat of the Yellow Sea.	Park AY, Teeravet S, Pheng S, Lee JR, Kim SG, Suwannachart C.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002747	2018
Phylogeny	Pelagimonas varians gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the southern North Sea.	Hahnke S, Tindall BJ, Schumann P, Simon M, Brinkhoff T.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.040675-0	2013
Phylogeny	Sulfitobacter algicola sp. nov., isolated from green algae.	Wang CN, Liu Y, Wang J, Du ZJ, Wang MY	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-021-02213-w	2021
Phylogeny	Oceanibulbus indolifex gen. nov., sp. nov., a North Sea alphaproteobacterium that produces bioactive metabolites.	Wagner-Dobler I, Rheims H, Felske A, El-Ghezal A, Flade-Schroder D, Laatsch H, Lang S, Pukall R, Tindall BJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02850-0	2004

References

#5583	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14862
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#26391	IJSEM 1177 2004 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.02850-0 , PubMed 15280288 )
#30027	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 #26391
#43335	Yang Liu, Qiliang Lai, Zongze Shao: Proposal for transfer of Oceanibulbus indolifex Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004 to the genus Sulfitobacter as Sulfitobacter indolifex comb. nov.. IJSEM 67: 2328 - 2331 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001950 , PubMed 28693681 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Sulfitobacter indolifex (DSM 14862, MCCC 1A11773, NCIMB 13983)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API 20NE

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_022788655

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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