Sulfitobacter brevis (DSM 11443, ATCC BAA-4, KCTC 32186)

Name: Sulfitobacter brevis (DSM 11443, ATCC BAA-4, KCTC 32186)
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BacDive ID 13794

Type strain

Strain Designation EL-162

Culture col. no. DSM 11443 ATCC BAA-4 KCTC 32186 EL-162 IAM 15345 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 74348

Special Collections DSMZ JCM KCTC

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Sulfitobacter brevis EL-162 is an aerobe, psychrophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from water.

Gram-negative aerobe psychrophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 46984

KCTC 32186,ATCC BAA-4,DSM 11443,LMG 19754,KCTC 12525,JCM 21790,IAM 15345

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:50:11

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Roseobacteraceae

Genus Sulfitobacter

Species Sulfitobacter brevis

Full scientific name Sulfitobacter brevis Labrenz et al. 2000

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
67771	negative
125438	negative	97.833
125439	negative	93.5

Colony morphology

4369

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4369	EKHO LAKE STRAINS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 621a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: EKHO LAKE STRAINS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 621a) Composition: NaCl 22.6553 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 4.80666 g/l Na2SO4 3.77991 g/l CaCl2 1.06343 g/l KCl 0.64076 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.625264 g/l Glucose 0.25 g/l Peptone 0.25 g/l Yeast extract 0.25 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.210526 g/l NaHCO3 0.18528 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0703158 g/l H3BO3 0.02509 g/l SrCl2 0.02316 g/l KBr 0.00579 g/l NaF 0.002895 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00208422 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.000266736 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.0001 g/l D-Calcium pantothenate 5e-05 g/l Nicotinamide 5e-05 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 5e-05 g/l Riboflavine 5e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 5e-05 g/l Folic acid 2e-05 g/l Biotin 2e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 1e-06 g/l Metall salt sol. 44 Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
4369	positive	growth	20	psychrophilic
67770	positive	growth	20	psychrophilic
67771	positive	growth	20	psychrophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
67771	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	95.5

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		92.764
125439		97.1

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68369	17128 ChEBI	adipate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20NE
68369	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
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
68369	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API 20NE
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
68369	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
68369	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API 20NE
4369	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68369	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1	from API 20NE
4369	cytochrome-c oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
68369	gelatinase	-		from API 20NE
68369	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20NE

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	gluconeogenesis	100	8 of 8
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	100	5 of 5
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	100	9 of 9
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	100	8 of 8
66794	teichoic acid biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	quinate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	taurine degradation	100	1 of 1
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	denitrification	100	2 of 2
66794	leucine metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	91.67	11 of 12
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	90	9 of 10
66794	threonine metabolism	90	9 of 10
66794	alanine metabolism	89.66	26 of 29
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	88.24	30 of 34
66794	isoleucine metabolism	87.5	7 of 8
66794	citric acid cycle	85.71	12 of 14
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	85.71	6 of 7
66794	propanol degradation	85.71	6 of 7
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	85.71	24 of 28
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	purine metabolism	84.04	79 of 94
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	83.33	5 of 6
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	81.82	9 of 11
66794	proline metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	propionate fermentation	80	8 of 10
66794	gallate degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	tyrosine metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	allantoin degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	77.78	35 of 45
66794	NAD metabolism	77.78	14 of 18
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	tryptophan metabolism	76.32	29 of 38
66794	histidine metabolism	75.86	22 of 29
66794	biotin biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	lysine metabolism	73.81	31 of 42
66794	cysteine metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	heme metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	glutathione metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	arginine metabolism	70.83	17 of 24
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	urea cycle	69.23	9 of 13
66794	lipid metabolism	67.74	21 of 31
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	66.67	4 of 6
66794	flavin biosynthesis	66.67	10 of 15
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	IAA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	methionine metabolism	65.38	17 of 26
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	64.84	59 of 91
66794	non-pathway related	63.16	24 of 38
66794	carnitine metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	60	9 of 15
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	60	6 of 10
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	60	6 of 10
66794	phenol degradation	60	12 of 20
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	57.69	15 of 26
66794	degradation of pentoses	57.14	16 of 28
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	56.25	9 of 16
66794	sulfate reduction	53.85	7 of 13
66794	degradation of sugar acids	52	13 of 25
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	dolichol and dolichyl phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	50	5 of 10
66794	toluene degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	acetate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	polyamine pathway	47.83	11 of 23
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	47.06	8 of 17
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	45.45	5 of 11
66794	nitrate assimilation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	vitamin K metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	creatinine degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	hydrogen production	40	2 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	D-cycloserine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	38.89	7 of 18
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	37.5	6 of 16
66794	ascorbate metabolism	36.36	8 of 22
66794	d-xylose degradation	36.36	4 of 11
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	degradation of hexoses	33.33	6 of 18
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	methane metabolism	33.33	1 of 3
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	31.82	7 of 22
66794	starch degradation	30	3 of 10
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	alginate biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	vitamin E metabolism	25	1 of 4
66794	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4

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
4369	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4369	water	Ekho Lake, Vestfold Hills			Australia and Oceania
67771	From Water; East Antarctica, Ekho Lake	Vestfold Hills	Antarctica	ATA	Australia and Oceania
67770	Water from a depth of 8 m, Ekho Lake	Vestfold Hills	Antarctica	ATA	Antarctica

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4369	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
67770	IMG-taxon 2619619004 annotated assembly for Sulfitobacter brevis DSM 11443	contig	GCA_900112755	74348.5	2619619004	74348	60.78

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Sulfitobacter brevis strain DSM11443 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ915633	1308		74348
4369	Sulfitobacter brevis 16S rRNA gene (strain Ekho Lake-162)	Y16425	1342		74348

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4369	57.9	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
67770	58	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 brevis DSM 11443
NCBI: GCA_900112755

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	97.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	62.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	93.50	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	95.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Sulfitobacter brevis strain DSM 11443
PATRIC: 74348.5

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.83	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	94.89	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.76	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	85.95	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.29	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	57.69	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	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
	Bacterial lifestyle switch in response to algal metabolites.	Barak-Gavish N, Dassa B, Kuhlisch C, Nussbaum I, Brandis A, Rosenberg G, Avraham R, Vardi A.	Elife	10.7554/elife.84400	2023
Phylogeny	Staleya guttiformis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Sulfitobacter brevis sp. nov., alpha-3-Proteobacteria from hypersaline, heliothermal and meromictic antarctic Ekho Lake.	Labrenz M, Tindall BJ, Lawson PA, Collins MD, Schumann P, Hirsch P	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-50-1-303	2000

References

#4369	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11443
#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 )
#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;
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#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 brevis (DSM 11443, ATCC BAA-4, KCTC 32186)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

API 20NE

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900112755

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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