Achromobacter pestifer (LMG 3431, CCUG 61959, ATCC 15445)

Name: Achromobacter pestifer (LMG 3431, CCUG 61959, ATCC 15445)
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BacDive ID 140508

Type strain

Culture col. no. LMG 3431 CCUG 61959 ATCC 15445

NCBI tax ID(s) 1353889

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Achromobacter pestifer LMG 3431 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from oil-brine.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 75

LMG 3431,ATCC 15445,CCUG 61959

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:36

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Alcaligenaceae

Genus Achromobacter

Species Achromobacter pestifer

Full scientific name Achromobacter pestifer (ex Frankland and Frankland 1887) Vandamme et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
43168	negative	0.9-1.5 µm	0.4-0.7 µm	rod-shaped
125438	negative				98.098
125439	negative				94.1

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Incubation period	Medium used
43168	1-1.5 mm	non-pigmented	2 days	trypticase soy agar (TSA)
62754			1 day

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43168	trypticase soy agar (TSA)
43168	Drigalsky agar
43168	blood agar
43168	cetrimide agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
43168	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
43168	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
62754	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
43168	aerobe
62754	aerobe
125438	aerobe	91.182
125439	obligate aerobe	91.3

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		95.4

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43168	NaCl	positive	growth	3 %
43168	NaCl	positive	growth	4.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43168	16004 ChEBI	(R)-lactate	+	assimilation
43168	27856 ChEBI	acetamide	+	growth
43168	17128 ChEBI	adipate	+	assimilation
43168	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	assimilation
43168	8391 ChEBI	D-gluconate	+	assimilation
43168	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation
43168	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
43168	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
43168	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	+/-	assimilation
43168	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
43168	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
43168	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	assimilation
43168	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	assimilation
43168	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	assimilation
43168	15589 ChEBI	L-malate	+	assimilation
43168	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	assimilation
43168	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
43168	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
43168	36405 ChEBI	norleucine	-	assimilation
43168	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	+	assimilation
43168	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	assimilation
43168	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	assimilation
43168	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43168	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
43168	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43168	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43168	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1
43168	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43168	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43168	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
43168	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43168	amylase	-
43168	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
43168	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43168	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43168	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43168	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43168	chymotrypsin	-	3.4.4.5
43168	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
43168	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43168	DNase	-
43168	esterase (C 4)	+
43168	esterase Lipase (C 8)	-
43168	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43168	lipase (C 14)	-
43168	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
43168	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43168	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
43168	phosphoamidase	-	3.9.1.1
43168	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
43168	tryptophanase	-	4.1.99.1
43168	urease	-	3.5.1.5
43168	valine arylamidase	-

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43168

Fatty acid	Percentage
C15:0 iso 2OH / C16:1ω7c	34.87
C16:0	34.68
C16:1 iso I / C14:0 3OH	8.98
C18:1ω7c	5.93
C17:0 cyclo	5.11
C14:0	3.56
C12:0 2OH	3.26
C12:0	1.81
C18:0	1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Oil reservoir
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43168	oil-brine
62754	Oil brine	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence HG324051 (>99% sequence identity) for Achromobacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1212
Soil Samples	1429
Animal Samples	2896
Plant Samples	1751
Total Samples	7288

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	LMG 3431 assembly for Achromobacter pestifer LMG 3431	contig	GCA_902859625	1353889.3	2921347846	1353889	73.19

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
43168	Achromobacter pestifer partial 16S rRNA gene, strain LMG 3431	HG324051	1483		1353889

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43168	63.8	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: Achromobacter pestifer LMG 3431
NCBI: GCA_902859625

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	95.40	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	83.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	94.10	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	91.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Achromobacter pestifer strain LMG 3431
PATRIC: 1353889.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.10	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.92	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.32	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	91.18	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	99.50	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	84.90	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	The difference of oropharyngeal microbiome during acute respiratory viral infections in infants and children.	Wu Z, Jiang M, Jia M, Sang J, Wang Q, Xu Y, Qi L, Yang W, Feng L.	Commun Biol	10.1038/s42003-025-07559-1	2025
	Perspectives of aminoacylases in biocatalytic synthesis of N-acyl-amino acids surfactants.	Haeger G, Wirges J, Bongaerts J, Schorken U, Siegert P.	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-024-13328-7	2024
Phylogeny	Genomic characterization of Achromobacter species isolates from chronic and occasional lung infection in cystic fibrosis patients.	Veschetti L, Sandri A, Patuzzo C, Melotti P, Malerba G, Lleo MM.	Microb Genom	10.1099/mgen.0.000606	2021
Metabolism	Cloning of a carbofuran hydrolase gene from Achromobacter sp. strain WM111 and its expression in gram-negative bacteria.	Tomasek PH, Karns JS.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.171.7.4038-4044.1989	1989
Metabolism	Stimulation of L-asparate beta-decarboxylase formation by L-glutamate in Pseudomonas dacunhae and Improved production of L-alanine.	Shibatani T, Kakimoto T, Chibata I.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.38.3.359-364.1979	1979
Phylogeny	Taxonomic dissection of Achromobacter denitrificans Coenye et al. 2003 and proposal of Achromobacter agilis sp. nov., nom. rev., Achromobacter pestifer sp. nov., nom. rev., Achromobacter kerstersii sp. nov. and Achromobacter deleyi sp. nov.	Vandamme PA, Peeters C, Inganas E, Cnockaert M, Houf K, Spilker T, Moore ERB, LiPuma JJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001254	2016

References

#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 )
#43168	Peter A. Vandamme, Charlotte Peeters, Elisabeth Inganäs, Margo Cnockaert, Kurt Houf, Theodore Spilker, Edward R. B. Moore, John J. LiPuma: Taxonomic dissection of Achromobacter denitrificans Coenye et al. 2003 and proposal of Achromobacter agilis sp. nov., nom. rev., Achromobacter pestifer sp. nov., nom. rev., Achromobacter kerstersii sp. nov. and Achromobacter deleyi sp. nov.. IJSEM 66: 3708 - 3717 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001254 , PubMed 27373279 )
#62754	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 61959
#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) .
#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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Achromobacter pestifer (LMG 3431, CCUG 61959, ATCC 15445)

Name and taxonomic classification