Chryseobacterium reticulitermitis (AB 2015431, KCTC 52230, Ra1)

Name: Chryseobacterium reticulitermitis (AB 2015431, KCTC 52230, Ra1)
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BacDive ID 140591

Type strain

Strain Designation AB 2015431, Ra1

Culture col. no. AB 2015431 KCTC 52230 Ra1 CCTCC AB 2015431

NCBI tax ID(s) 1907530

Special Collections KCTC Literature strains

History <- Hong Yang, Central China Normal Univ.

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Chryseobacterium reticulitermitis AB 2015431 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from gut of a wood-feeding lower termite, Reticulitermes aculabialis.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 27512

KCTC 52230

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:39

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Weeksellaceae

Genus Chryseobacterium

Species Chryseobacterium reticulitermitis

Full scientific name Chryseobacterium reticulitermitis Zhao et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape
43266	negative	0.8-1.8 µm	0.5 µm	rod-shaped
67771				rod-shaped
67771	negative

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
43266	transparent, non-yellow-pigmented	circular	TSB agar

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
43266		flexirubin type pigments

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43266	TSB agar
43266	1/3 TSB
43266	LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM
43266	10 % egg yolk nutrient agar
43266	MacConkey agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43266	positive	optimum	30
43266	positive	growth	15-45
67771	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43266	positive	optimum	8
43266	positive	growth	6.0-9.0	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
43266	aerobe
67771	aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Type of spore	Spore formation
43266	spore
67771

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43266	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %(w/v)
43266	NaCl	positive	optimum	0 %

Observation

@ref	Observation
43266	capnophilic growth
67771	quinones: MK-6

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43266	16808 ChEBI	2-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	builds acid from
43266	58143 ChEBI	5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	builds acid from
43266	17128 ChEBI	adipate	+	assimilation
43266	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from
43266	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	assimilation
43266	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	builds acid from
43266		casein	-	hydrolysis
43266	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from
43266	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	builds acid from
43266	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	builds acid from
43266	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
43266	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from
43266	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	builds acid from
43266	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
43266	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	-	builds acid from
43266	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	builds acid from
43266	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	builds acid from
43266	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	builds acid from
43266	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	builds acid from
43266	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from
43266	16551 ChEBI	D-trehalose	-	builds acid from
43266	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	builds acid from
43266	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation
43266	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from
43266	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
43266	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	builds acid from
43266	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from
43266	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
43266	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from
43266	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	builds acid from
43266	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	fermentation
43266	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	assimilation
43266	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	builds acid from
43266	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from
43266	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from
43266	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from
43266	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from
43266	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	builds acid from
43266	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from
43266	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	builds acid from
43266	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from
43266	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from
43266	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation
43266	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
43266	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds acid from
43266	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	assimilation
43266	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	assimilation
43266	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from
43266	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from
43266	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from
43266	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	builds acid from
43266	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	-	builds acid from
43266	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from
43266	28037 ChEBI	N-acetylgalactosamine	+	assimilation
43266	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	builds acid from
43266	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43266	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	+	assimilation
43266	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	+	assimilation
43266	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from
43266	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from
43266	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds acid from
43266	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	+	assimilation
43266	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
43266	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	builds acid from
43266	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from
43266	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	builds acid from
43266	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
43266	18186 ChEBI	tyrosine	-	hydrolysis
43266	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
43266	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
43266	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
43266	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
43266	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43266	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43266	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43266	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1
43266	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43266	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43266	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
43266	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43266	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6
43266	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43266	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43266	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43266	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43266	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
43266	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43266	esterase (C 4)	-
43266	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
43266	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43266	lipase (C 14)	-
43266	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43266	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43266	phenylalanine deaminase	-	4.3.1.5
43266	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
43266	urease	+	3.5.1.5
43266	valine arylamidase	+

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43266

Fatty acid	Percentage
C15:0 iso	46.4
10-methyl C16:0 / iso-C17:1ω9c	14.3
C17:0 iso 3OH	11.6
C16:1ω6c / C16:1ω7c	11.5
C15:0 iso 3OH	4.3
C13:0 iso	1.4
C16:0	0.8
C16:0 3OH	0.6
C17:0 iso	0.5
C16:0 iso 3OH	0.4
C17:0 2OH	0.2
C18:0	0.2

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Stomach

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43266	gut of a wood-feeding lower termite, Reticulitermes aculabialis	Wuzhi Mountain in Hainan, China	China	CHN	Asia
67771	From gut of a wood-feeding lower termite, `Reticulitermes aculabialis`	Hainan	China	CHN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
43266	Chryseobacterium reticulitermitis strain Ra1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KX752421	1481		1907530

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43266	39.9	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
67771	39.9

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Chryseobacterium reticulitermitis sp. nov., isolated from the gut of Reticulitermes aculabialis.	Zhao Y, Wang Y, Li DH, Deng Y, Yang H	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001848	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 )
#43266	Yun Zhao, Yu Wang, Dan Hong Li, Yu Deng and Hong Yang: Chryseobacterium reticulitermitis sp. nov., isolated from the gut of Reticulitermes aculabialis. IJSEM 67: 1698 - 1702 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001848 , PubMed 28211309 )
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#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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Chryseobacterium reticulitermitis (AB 2015431, KCTC 52230, Ra1)

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

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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