Leisingera caerulea (DSM 24564, CCUG 55859, LMG 24369)

Name: Leisingera caerulea (DSM 24564, CCUG 55859, LMG 24369)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 13734

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 24564 CCUG 55859 LMG 24369

NCBI tax ID(s) 999549 506591

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Leisingera caerulea DSM 24564 is an aerobe, psychrophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from marine biofilm on stainless steel electrode.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped aerobe psychrophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 359367

LMG 24369,CCUG 55859,DSM 24564

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:21:13

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Roseobacteraceae

Genus Leisingera

Species Leisingera caerulea

Full scientific name Leisingera caerulea (Vandecandelaere et al. 2009) Breider et al. 2014

Synonyms (1)

Phaeobacter caeruleus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
28960	negative	1.8 µm	0.9 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative				97.9
125438	negative				98.5

Colony morphology

@ref	Incubation period
17696	3-7 days
60763	2-3 days

Pigmentation

28960

Productionyes

Multimedia

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caption:	electron microscopic image
intellectual property rights:	© HZI/Manfred Rohde
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17696	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
17696	positive	growth	20	psychrophilic
28960	positive	growth	04-45
28960	positive	optimum	24	psychrophilic
60763	positive	growth	20	psychrophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
28960	positive	optimum	7.25
28960	positive	growth	06-09	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
28960	aerobe
60763	aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		96.7

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
28960	NaCl	positive	growth	02-05 %
28960	NaCl	positive	optimum	3.5 %

Observation

28960

Observationaggregates in clumps

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
28960	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
28960	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
28960	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
28960	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
28960	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
17696	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
28960	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
28960	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
17696	cytochrome-c oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
28960	gelatinase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Engineered product
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Biofilm	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17696	marine biofilm on stainless steel electrode		Genoa, harbour	Italy	ITA	Europe
60763	Marine biofilm on stainless steel electrode	2004-10-01	Genoa,the harbour	Italy	ITA	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AM943630 (>99% sequence identity) for Leisingera caerulea subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	57
Soil Samples	6
Animal Samples	8
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	72

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17696	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	ASM47332v1 assembly for Leisingera caerulea DSM 24564	scaffold	GCA_000473325	999549.4	2512047087	999549	70.52

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
17696	Phaeobacter caeruleus partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain LMG 24369T	AM943630	1422	999549
17696	Phaeobacter caeruleus strain DSM 24564 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KC176242	1402	999549
124043	Phaeobacter caeruleus strain DSM 24564 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence.	KC176233	747	1423144
124043	Phaeobacter caeruleus strain DSM 24564 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence.	KC176234	772	999548
124043	Phaeobacter caeruleus strain DSM 24564 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence.	KC176235	773	221822
124043	Phaeobacter caeruleus strain DSM 24564 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence.	KC176236	733	999547
124043	Phaeobacter caeruleus strain DSM 24564 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence.	KC176237	1044	999550
124043	Phaeobacter caeruleus strain DSM 24564 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence.	KC176238	735	999549

GC content

17696

GC-content (mol%)63.6

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Leisingera caerulea DSM 24564
NCBI: GCA_000473325

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	96.70	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	72.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	97.90	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	89.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Leisingera caerulea DSM 24564 DSM 24564
NCBI: GCA_000473325.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.50	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	94.43	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	79.77	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.70	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.69	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	68.61	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Quorum Sensing Bacteria in the Phycosphere of HAB Microalgae and Their Ecological Functions Related to Cross-Kingdom Interactions.	Zhang Y, Zheng L, Wang S, Zhao Y, Xu X, Han B, Hu T.	Int J Environ Res Public Health	10.3390/ijerph19010163	2021
Genetics	Metagenomic analysis of soybean endosphere microbiome to reveal signatures of microbes for health and disease.	Chouhan U, Gamad U, Choudhari JK.	J Genet Eng Biotechnol	10.1186/s43141-023-00535-4	2023
Genetics	Genome sequence of Phaeobacter caeruleus type strain (DSM 24564(T)), a surface-associated member of the marine Roseobacter clade.	Beyersmann PG, Chertkov O, Petersen J, Fiebig A, Chen A, Pati A, Ivanova N, Lapidus A, Goodwin LA, Chain P, Detter JC, Rohde M, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Simon M, Goker M, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T	Stand Genomic Sci	10.4056/sigs.3927623	2013
Phylogeny	Leisingera coralii sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from seawater surrounding Acropora digitata.	Guo X, Sun J, Yu Z, Liu X, Li M, Zhang S, Wang W, Wang X, Zhang Y, Sun H.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006896	2025
	Leisingera thetidis sp. nov., isolated from coastal water.	Kim MJ, Guan Y, Choe H, Li Z, Chung N, Kang YH, Lee MK.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005945	2023
Phylogeny	Phaeobacter aquaemixtae sp. nov., isolated from the junction between the ocean and a freshwater spring.	Park S, Park DS, Bae KS, Yoon JH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.057646-0	2014
Phylogeny	Cribrihabitans marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a biological filter in a marine recirculating aquaculture system.	Chen Z, Liu Y, Liu LZ, Zhong ZP, Liu ZP, Liu Y	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.059576-0	2014
Phylogeny	Phaeobacter caeruleus sp. nov., a blue-coloured, colony-forming bacterium isolated from a marine electroactive biofilm.	Vandecandelaere I, Segaert E, Mollica A, Faimali M, Vandamme P	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.002642-0	2009

References

#17696	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24564
#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 )
#25397	IJSEM 1209 2009 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.002642-0 , PubMed 19406821 )
#28960	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 #25397
#60763	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 55859
#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) .
#66793	Mukherjee et al.: GEBA: 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. 35: 676 - 683 2017 ( DOI 10.1038/nbt.3886 , PubMed 28604660 )
#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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Leisingera caerulea (DSM 24564, CCUG 55859, LMG 24369)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000473325

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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