Niabella aquatica (JCM 30952, KACC 18623, RP-2)

Name: Niabella aquatica (JCM 30952, KACC 18623, RP-2)
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BacDive ID 140513

Type strain

Strain Designation RP-2

Culture col. no. JCM 30952 KACC 18623 RP-2

NCBI tax ID(s) 1813873

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History JCM <-- W.-T. Im; Hankyong Natl. Univ., South Korea; RP-2.

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Niabella aquatica RP-2 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from lake water.

Gram-negative rod-shaped colony-forming obligate aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 26301

JCM 30952

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:39:44

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Chitinophagia

Order Chitinophagales

Family Chitinophagaceae

Genus Niabella

Species Niabella aquatica

Full scientific name Niabella aquatica Siddiqi and Im 2016

Synonyms (1)

"Paraniabella aquatica"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43091	negative	1.5-3.0 µm	0.4-0.7 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43091	1-2 mm	yellow	circular	2 days	R2A

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43091	Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)
43091	nutritient agar (NA)
43091	DNase agar
43091	tryptic soy agar (TSA)
43091	LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM
43091	MacConkey agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43091	positive	optimum	30
43091	positive	growth	10-37
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43091	positive	optimum	6-7
43091	positive	growth	5-9	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43091

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Spore formation

43091

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43091	NaCl	positive	growth	0.5-1.5 %
43091	NaCl	positive	optimum	0.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43091	16193 ChEBI	3-hydroxybenzoate	-	assimilation
43091	37054 ChEBI	3-hydroxybutyrate	-	assimilation
43091	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation
43091	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	hydrolysis
43091		casein	-	hydrolysis
43091	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
43091	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
43091	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
43091	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	assimilation
43091	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	assimilation
43091	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation
43091	16991 ChEBI	dna	-	hydrolysis
43091	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	assimilation
43091	17240 ChEBI	itaconate	-	assimilation
43091	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	-	assimilation
43091	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	assimilation
43091	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	+	assimilation
43091	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	-	assimilation
43091	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	+	assimilation
43091	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	assimilation
43091	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	+	assimilation
43091	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	assimilation
43091	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation
43091	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
43091	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	assimilation
43091	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	assimilation
43091	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	assimilation
43091	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43091	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	-	assimilation
43091		potassium 2-dehydro-D-gluconate	+	assimilation
43091		potassium 5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	assimilation
43091	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	+	assimilation
43091	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	assimilation
43091	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	assimilation
43091	32954 ChEBI	sodium acetate	+	assimilation
43091	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	assimilation
43091	62983 ChEBI	sodium malonate	-	assimilation
43091	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
43091	9300 ChEBI	suberic acid	-	assimilation
43091	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	assimilation
43091	31011 ChEBI	valerate	-	assimilation
43091	37166 ChEBI	xylan	-	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43091	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43091	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43091	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43091	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1
43091	alpha-fucosidase	+	3.2.1.51
43091	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
43091	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
43091	alpha-mannosidase	+	3.2.1.24
43091	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
43091	beta-galactosidase	+/-	3.2.1.23
43091	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21
43091	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43091	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
43091	esterase	+
43091	esterase Lipase (C 8)	-
43091	gelatinase	-
43091	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43091	lipase	-
43091	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43091	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
43091	urease	-	3.5.1.5
43091	valine arylamidase	+

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43091

Fatty acid	Percentage
C15:0 iso	40.4
C15:1 iso G	23.4
C17:0 iso 3OH	13.9
C16:1ω7c / C16:1ω6c	12.5
C15:0 iso 3OH	2.8
C16:0	2.2
C16:0 3OH	1.8
C15:0 anteiso	0.9
C14:0	0.8
C16:0 iso	0.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43091	lake water	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia
67770	Lake water

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KT950742 (>99% sequence identity) for Niabella aquatica subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	293
Soil Samples	26
Animal Samples	34
Plant Samples	7
Total Samples	360

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
43091	Niabella aquatica strain RP-2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KT950742	1448		1813873

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43091	44.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Niabella hibiscisoli sp. nov., isolated from soil of a Rose of Sharon garden.	Ngo HTT, Trinh H, Yan ZF, Moya G, Kook M, Yi TH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001595	2017
Phylogeny	Niabella aquatica sp. nov., isolated from lake water.	Siddiqi MZ, Im WT	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001053	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 )
#43091	Muhammad Zubair Siddiqi, Wan-Taek Im: Niabella aquatica sp. nov., isolated from lake water. IJSEM 66: 2774 - 2779 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001053 , PubMed 27031646 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#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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Niabella aquatica (JCM 30952, KACC 18623, RP-2)

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

Enzymes

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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