Pontibacter aurantiacus (MCC 2931, CCM 8697, KCTC 42943)

Name: Pontibacter aurantiacus (MCC 2931, CCM 8697, KCTC 42943)
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BacDive ID 140569

Type strain

Strain Designation NP1

Culture col. no. MCC 2931 CCM 8697 KCTC 42943 NP1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1697944

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Pontibacter aurantiacus NP1 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from soil sediment sample contaminated with hexachlorocyclohexane.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 25143

KCTC 42943

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:38

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Cytophagia

Order Cytophagales

Family Hymenobacteraceae

Genus Pontibacter

Species Pontibacter aurantiacus

Full scientific name Pontibacter aurantiacus Singh et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
43200	negative	0.9-1.5 µm	0.6-1.2 µm	rod-shaped		gliding

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Incubation period
43200	orange	1.5 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43200	LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM
43200	TSA (tryptic soya agar)
43200	Marine agar (MA)
43200	Nutrient agar (NA)
43200	Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)
43200	brain-heart infusion agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
43200	positive	optimum	28	mesophilic
43200	positive	growth	25-40

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43200	positive	optimum	8.0-9.0	alkaliphile
43200	positive	growth	6.0-10

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43200

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43200	NaCl	positive	optimum	1 %
43200	NaCl	positive	growth	1-6 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43200	355715 ChEBI	4-nitrophenyl beta-D-galactopyranoside	+	assimilation
43200	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation
43200		casein	+	hydrolysis
43200	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
43200	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	assimilation
43200	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
43200	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	builds acid from
43200	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	builds acid from
43200	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	assimilation
43200	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
43200	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	builds acid from
43200	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	carbon source
43200	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	assimilation
43200	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation
43200	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	assimilation
43200	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
43200	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	+	assimilation
43200	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from
43200	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
43200	17368 ChEBI	hypoxanthine	+	assimilation
43200	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	assimilation
43200	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from
43200	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
43200	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from
43200	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
43200	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	oxidation
43200	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
43200	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	-	assimilation
43200	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	-	assimilation
43200	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	assimilation
43200	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	assimilation
43200	27922 ChEBI	sorbose	-	carbon source
43200	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
43200	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
43200	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	assimilation
43200		trehalose dihydrate	+	assimilation
43200	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	hydrolysis
43200	15318 ChEBI	xanthine	+	assimilation

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Resistance conc.	Sensitivity conc.
43200	2637	amikacin	30 µg (disc)
43200	28971	ampicillin	10 µg (disc)
43200	17698	chloramphenicol		30 µg (disc)
43200	100241	ciprofloxacin		5 µg (disc)
43200	17833	gentamicin	10 µg (disc)
43200	6104	kanamycin	30 µg (disc)
43200	100147	nalidixic acid		30 µg (disc)
43200	27701	oxytetracycline		30 µg (disc)
43200	18208	penicillin g		10 µg (disc)
43200	8309	polymyxin b		300 µg (disc)
43200	28077	rifampicin		5 µg (disc)
43200	17076	streptomycin	10 µg/mL
43200	27902	tetracycline		30 µg (disc)
43200	28001	vancomycin		30 µg (disc)

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43200	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43200	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43200	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43200

Fatty acid	Percentage
anteiso-C17:1 B / iso-C17:1 l	29.1
C15:0 iso	21.9
C16:1ω6c / C16:1ω7c	6.1
C17:0 iso 3OH	5.9
C16:1ω5c	4.3
C16:1 iso H	3.8
C17:1ω6c	3.3
C15:0 anteiso	3.3
C15:0 iso 3OH	3.1
C16:0 iso	2.2
C17:1 iso ω9c	1.9
C13:0 3OH / C15:1 isoH	1.9
C15:1 anteiso A	1.8
C16:0	1.7
C14:0 iso	1.7
C17:0 anteiso	1.3
C17:0 iso	1.1
C14:0	1.1
C18:1 iso H	0.9
C15:1ω6c	0.9
C13:0 iso	0.8
C17:1ω8c	0.7
C16:0 iso 3OH	0.7
C18:1ω9c	0.6

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Contamination	-
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
43200	soil sediment sample contaminated with hexachlorocyclohexane	Ummari village, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India	India	IND	Asia	27	81 27/81

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
43200	Pontibacter aurantiacus strain NP1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KT361203.2	1459		1697944
124043	Pontibacter aurantiacus strain CCM 8697 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	MT760241	1354		1697944

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43200	52.1	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Pontibacter aurantiacus sp. nov. isolated from hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) contaminated soil.	Singh P, Kumari R, Nayyar N, Lal R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001833	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 )
#43200	Priya Singh, Rashmi Kumari, Namita Nayyar and Rup Lal: Pontibacter aurantiacus sp. nov. isolated from hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) contaminated soil. IJSEM 67: 1400 - 1407 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001833 , PubMed 28141483 )
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Pontibacter aurantiacus (MCC 2931, CCM 8697, KCTC 42943)

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