Sulfitobacter mediterraneus (DSM 12244, KCTC 32188, CH-B427)

Name: Sulfitobacter mediterraneus (DSM 12244, KCTC 32188, CH-B427)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 13793

Type strain

Strain Designation CH-B427

Culture col. no. DSM 12244 KCTC 32188 CH-B427 LMG 19756 IAM 15347 2 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1443112 83219

Special Collections DSMZ JCM KCTC

History <- E. Stackebrandt; CH-B427 <- P. Lebaron IAM 15347 <-- DSM 12244 <-- E. Stackebrandt CH-B427 <-- P. Lebaron. <- DSM <- E Stackebrandt, CH-B427 <- P Lebaron

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Sulfitobacter mediterraneus CH-B427 is an aerobe, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from sea water.

Gram-negative aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 14989

LMG 19756,ATCC 700856,DSM 12244,KCTC 32188,JCM 21792,IAM 15347

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:21:14

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Roseobacteraceae

Genus Sulfitobacter

Species Sulfitobacter mediterraneus

Full scientific name Sulfitobacter mediterraneus Pukall et al. 1999

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
67771	negative
125438	negative	97.833
125439	negative	91.1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4651	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)
4651	positive	growth	28
67770	positive	growth	28
67771	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
67771	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	95.2

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.094
125439		93.5

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	100	5 of 5
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	100	6 of 6
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	allantoin degradation	100	9 of 9
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	100	10 of 10
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	alginate biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	100	8 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	100	8 of 8
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	butanoate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	teichoic acid biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	leucine metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	91.67	11 of 12
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	90.91	10 of 11
66794	threonine metabolism	90	9 of 10
66794	propionate fermentation	90	9 of 10
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	88.89	8 of 9
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	82.35	28 of 34
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	flavin biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	alanine metabolism	79.31	23 of 29
66794	citric acid cycle	78.57	11 of 14
66794	tyrosine metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	NAD metabolism	77.78	14 of 18
66794	purine metabolism	77.66	73 of 94
66794	tryptophan metabolism	76.32	29 of 38
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	75.56	34 of 45
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	75	21 of 28
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	arginine metabolism	75	18 of 24
66794	lactate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	proline metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	propanol degradation	71.43	5 of 7
66794	heme metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	glutathione metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	phenol degradation	70	14 of 20
66794	urea cycle	69.23	9 of 13
66794	methionine metabolism	69.23	18 of 26
66794	lysine metabolism	69.05	29 of 42
66794	IAA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	methane metabolism	66.67	2 of 3
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	histidine metabolism	65.52	19 of 29
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	61.54	56 of 91
66794	cysteine metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	non-pathway related	60.53	23 of 38
66794	gallate degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	60	6 of 10
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	60	6 of 10
66794	lipid metabolism	58.06	18 of 31
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	56.25	9 of 16
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	53.85	14 of 26
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	53.33	8 of 15
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	50	9 of 18
66794	toluene degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	degradation of sugar acids	48	12 of 25
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	47.06	8 of 17
66794	degradation of pentoses	46.43	13 of 28
66794	sulfate reduction	46.15	6 of 13
66794	d-xylose degradation	45.45	5 of 11
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	45.45	5 of 11
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	43.75	7 of 16
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	42.86	3 of 7
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	ascorbate metabolism	40.91	9 of 22
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	hydrogen production	40	2 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	creatinine degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	38.46	5 of 13
66794	carnitine metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	degradation of hexoses	33.33	6 of 18
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	polyamine pathway	30.43	7 of 23
66794	aclacinomycin biosynthesis	28.57	2 of 7
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	22.73	5 of 22

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
4651	sea water	Mediterranean Sea, Coast of Banyuls	France	FRA	Europe
67770	Coastal waters of the west Mediterranean Sea
67771	From Sea water; France		France	FRA	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence Y17387 (>99% sequence identity) for Sulfitobacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1087
Soil Samples	14
Animal Samples	15
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	1118

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4651	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	32188_draft assembly for Sulfitobacter mediterraneus KCTC 32188	contig	GCA_000622345	1443112.3	2574179802	1443112	67.36
66792	ASM305432v1 assembly for Sulfitobacter mediterraneus DSM 12244	contig	GCA_003054325	83219.7	2734482289	83219	65.79

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Sulfitobacter mediterraneus 16S rRNA gene, partial	Y17387	1415		83219
20218	Sulfitobacter mediterraneus strain LMG19756 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ915636	1307		83219

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	59	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Sulfitobacter mediterraneus DSM 12244
NCBI: GCA_003054325

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	93.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	56.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	91.10	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	95.20	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Sulfitobacter mediterraneus KCTC 32188
PATRIC: 1443112.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.83	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.73	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.09	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	88.51	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.30	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	50.79	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Draft Genome Sequence of Nereida sp. Strain MMG025, Isolated from Giant Kelp.	Alker AT, Hern NA, Ali MA, Baez MI, Baswell BC, Baxter BI, Blitz A, Calimlim TM, Chevalier CA, Eguia CA, Esparza T, Fuller AE, Gwynn CJ, Hedin AL, Johnson RA, Kaur M, Laxina RT, Lee K, Maguire PN, Martelino IF, Melendez JA, Navarro JJ, Navarro JN, Osborn JM, Padilla MR, Peralta ND, Pureza JLR, Rojas JJ, Romo TR, Sakha M, Salcedo GJ, Sims KA, Trieu TH, Niesman IR, Shikuma NJ.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.00122-22	2022
	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
Metabolism	Prokaryotic viperins produce diverse antiviral molecules.	Bernheim A, Millman A, Ofir G, Meitav G, Avraham C, Avraham C, Shomar H, Rosenberg MM, Tal N, Melamed S, Amitai G, Sorek R.	Nature	10.1038/s41586-020-2762-2	2021
	Epistatic control of intrinsic resistance by virulence genes in Listeria.	Scortti M, Han L, Alvarez S, Leclercq A, Moura A, Lecuit M, Vazquez-Boland J.	PLoS Genet	10.1371/journal.pgen.1007525	2018
Pathogenicity	ATP level variations in heterotrophic bacteria during attachment on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces.	Ivanova EP, Alexeeva YV, Pham DK, Wright JP, Nicolau DV	Int Microbiol	im2306005	2006
	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	Erythrobacter arachoides sp. nov., isolated from ice core.	Xing T, Liu Y, Wang N, Xu B, Liu K, Shen L, Gu Z, Guo B, Zhou Y, Liu H.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002290	2017
Phylogeny	Taibaiella yonginensis sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from soil of Yongin city.	Singh H, Du J, Won K, Yang JE, Akter S, Kim KY, Yin C, Yi TH.	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-015-0505-4	2015
Phylogeny	Lysobacter spongiicola sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea sponge.	Romanenko LA, Uchino M, Tanaka N, Frolova GM, Mikhailov VV.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65391-0	2008
Phylogeny	Sulfitobacter pacificus sp. nov., isolated from the red alga Pyropia yezoensis.	Fukui Y, Abe M, Kobayashi M, Satomi M	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-015-0407-5	2015
Phylogeny	Sulfitobacter geojensis sp. nov., Sulfitobacter noctilucae sp. nov., and Sulfitobacter noctilucicola sp. nov., isolated from coastal seawater.	Kwak MJ, Lee JS, Lee KC, Kim KK, Eom MK, Kim BK, Kim JF	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.065961-0	2014
Phylogeny	Sulfitobacter porphyrae sp. nov., isolated from the red alga Porphyra yezoensis.	Fukui Y, Abe M, Kobayashi M, Shimada Y, Saito H, Oikawa H, Yano Y, Satomi M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.053090-0	2013
Phylogeny	Sulfitobacter mediterraneus sp. nov., a new sulfite-oxidizing member of the alpha-Proteobacteria.	Pukall R, Buntefuss D, Fruhling A, Rohde M, Kroppenstedt RM, Burghardt J, Lebaron P, Bernard L, Stackebrandt E	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-49-2-513	1999
Phylogeny	Sulfitobacter albidus sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment of Jeju Island.	Kim M, Cha IT, Lee KE, Park SJ	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-022-03305-x	2022

References

#4651	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12244
#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 )
#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) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#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 .
#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 mediterraneus (DSM 12244, KCTC 32188, CH-B427)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000622345

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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