Hymenobacter tenuis (KCTC 52271, JCM 31659, POB6)

Name: Hymenobacter tenuis (KCTC 52271, JCM 31659, POB6)
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BacDive ID 140561

Type strain

Strain Designation POB6

Culture col. no. KCTC 52271 JCM 31659 POB6

NCBI tax ID(s) 2232097

Special Collections JCM KCTC Literature strains

History JCM <-- C. N. Seong; Sunchon Natl. Univ., South Korea; POB6. KCTC <- Chi Nam Seong, Sunchon National Univ.

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Hymenobacter tenuis POB6 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that forms irregular colonies and was isolated from wastewater sample collected from the acidic water neutralisation facility of Gwanyang steelworks.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 25239

KCTC 52271,JCM 31659

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Cytophagia

Order Cytophagales

Family Hymenobacteraceae

Genus Hymenobacter

Species Hymenobacter tenuis

Full scientific name Hymenobacter tenuis Kang et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape
43292	negative	1.8-2.8 µm	0.4 µm	rod-shaped
67771				rod-shaped
67771	negative

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43292	2-7 mm	red-pink	irregular	3 days	R2A agar (Becton Dickinson)

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
43292		flexirubin type pigments
43292		carotenoid pigment

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43292	R2A agar (Becton Dickinson)
43292	R2A (Becton Dickinson)
43292	nutrient (NA; Becton Dickinson)
43292	plate count agar (PCA; Becton Dickinson)
43292	glucose yeast extract agar (GYEA, Gordon RE 1962)
43292	marine agar (MA, Becton-Dickinson)
43292	TSA (Becton Dickinson)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43292	negative	growth	37
43292	negative	growth	4
43292	positive	maximum	30
43292	positive	growth	10-35
67770	positive	growth	25
67771	positive	growth	25

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43292	positive	optimum	7
43292	positive	growth	6-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
43292	aerobe
67771	aerobe

Spore formation

43292

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43292	NaCl	positive	growth	0-0.5 %
43292	NaCl	positive	maximum	0 %
43292	NaCl		growth	0.6-5 %

Observation

@ref	Observation
43292	production of extracellular polymeric substances
67771	quinones: MK-7

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43292	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	assimilation
43292	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis
43292	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	hydrolysis
43292		casein	+	hydrolysis
43292	17029 ChEBI	chitin	-	hydrolysis
43292	16991 ChEBI	dna	+	hydrolysis
43292	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
43292	28757 ChEBI	fructose	-	builds acid from
43292	28260 ChEBI	galactose	-	builds acid from
43292	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
43292	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	assimilation
43292	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	builds acid from
43292	17368 ChEBI	hypoxanthine	-	hydrolysis
43292	35581 ChEBI	indole	-
43292	17895 ChEBI	L-tyrosine	-	hydrolysis
43292	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from
43292	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
43292	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds acid from
43292	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	assimilation
43292	37684 ChEBI	mannose	-	builds acid from
43292	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
43292	17309 ChEBI	pectin	-	hydrolysis
43292	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+/-	builds acid from
43292	53311 ChEBI	sodium alginate	-	hydrolysis
43292	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
43292	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
43292	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	builds acid from
43292	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	hydrolysis
43292	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
43292	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis
43292	15318 ChEBI	xanthine	-	hydrolysis
43292	37166 ChEBI	xylan	-	hydrolysis
43292	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-	builds acid from

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Resistance conc.	Sensitivity conc.
43292	2637	amikacin	30 µg (disc)
43292	28971	ampicillin		10 µg (disc)
43292	17698	chloramphenicol		30 µg (disc)
43292	48923	erythromycin		15 µg (disc)
43292	17833	gentamicin	10 µg (disc)
43292	6104	kanamycin	30 µg (disc)
43292	100147	nalidixic acid		30 µg (disc)
43292	17334	penicillin		10 Unit
43292	17076	streptomycin		10 µg (disc)
43292	27902	tetracycline		30 µg (disc)
43292	28001	vancomycin		30 µg (disc)

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43292	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
43292	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43292	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43292	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43292	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
43292	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43292	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43292	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43292	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43292	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43292	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43292	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
43292	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43292	esterase (C 4)	+
43292	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43292	lipase (C 14)	-
43292	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52
43292	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43292	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
43292	valine arylamidase	+

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43292

Fatty acid	Percentage
iso C17:1 I / anteiso-C17:1 B	18.3
C15:0 iso	18.3
C16:1 ω7c / C16:1 ω6c	15.9
C16:1 ω5c	13.7
C15:0 anteiso	9.2
C16:0	8.6
C17:0 iso	2.9
C14:0	2
C18:0	2
C16:1 iso H	1.7
C18:1ω9c	1.5
iso-15:0 3-OH	1.1
C16:0 iso	1.1
C17:0 anteiso	1
iso-17:0 3-OH	1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Condition	#Acidic	-
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Plant (Factory)
#Engineered	#Waste	#Wastewater

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
43292	wastewater sample collected from the acidic water neutralisation facility of Gwanyang steelworks	Jeonnam Province	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia	R2A-Agar (Becton Dickinson)	5 days	25
67770	Wastewater treatment facility		Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia
67771	From wastewater, acidic water neutralization facility of Gwangyang steelworks	Jeonnam Province	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KY196418 (>99% sequence identity) for Hymenobacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	215
Soil Samples	219
Animal Samples	710
Plant Samples	14
Total Samples	1158

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
43292	Hymenobacter tenuis strain POB6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KY196418	1445		1898978

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67771	61.0
67770	61	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Hymenobacter tenuis sp. nov., isolated from wastewater of an acidic water neutralization facility.	Kang JW, Lee JH, Choe HN, Seong CN	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001918	2017

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 )
#43292	Joo Won Kang, Ji Hee Lee, Han Na Choe and Chi Nam Seong: Hymenobacter tenuis sp. nov., isolated from wastewater of an acidic water neutralization facility. IJSEM 67: 2171 - 2177 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001918 , PubMed 28691666 )
#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 .
#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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Hymenobacter tenuis (KCTC 52271, JCM 31659, POB6)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

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

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