Gracilimonas halophila (KCTC 52042, MCCC 1H00135, WDS2C40)

Name: Gracilimonas halophila (KCTC 52042, MCCC 1H00135, WDS2C40)
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Type strain

Strain Designation WDS2C40

Culture col. no. KCTC 52042 MCCC 1H00135 WDS2C40

NCBI tax ID(s) 1834464

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Gracilimonas halophila WDS2C40 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from marine solar saltern.

Gram-negative rod-shaped colony-forming facultative anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 25013

KCTC 52042

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:40

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Balneolota

Class Balneolia

Order Balneolales

Family Balneolaceae

Genus Gracilimonas

Species Gracilimonas halophila

Full scientific name Gracilimonas halophila Lu et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape
43480	negative	4-9 µm	0.4-0.5 µm	rod-shaped
67771				rod-shaped
67771	negative

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43480	1 mm	opaque, pink	circular	4 days	Modified MA

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43480	Modified MA

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
43480	positive	growth	20-42
43480	positive	optimum	37-40
67771	positive	growth	33-37	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43480	positive	optimum	7.5-8
43480	positive	growth	7-8.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
43480	facultative anaerobe
67771	aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation
43480
67771

Halophily

@ref	Halophily level	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43480		NaCl	positive	growth	2-16 %(w/v)
43480	moderately halophilic	NaCl	positive	optimum	6-8 %(w/v)

Observation

67771

Observationquinones: MK-7

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43480	30916 ChEBI	2-oxoglutarate	+	carbon source
43480	30916 ChEBI	2-oxoglutarate	+	energy source
43480	30916 ChEBI	2-oxoglutarate	+	oxidation
43480	13705 ChEBI	acetoacetate	+	carbon source
43480	13705 ChEBI	acetoacetate	+	energy source
43480	13705 ChEBI	acetoacetate	+	oxidation
43480	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	+	builds acid from
43480	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
43480	78697 ChEBI	D-fructose 6-phosphate	+	carbon source
43480	78697 ChEBI	D-fructose 6-phosphate	+	energy source
43480	78697 ChEBI	D-fructose 6-phosphate	+	oxidation
43480	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
43480	15748 ChEBI	D-glucuronate	+	carbon source
43480	15748 ChEBI	D-glucuronate	+	energy source
43480	15748 ChEBI	D-glucuronate	+	oxidation
43480	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	+	builds acid from
43480	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
43480	32323 ChEBI	glucuronamide	+	carbon source
43480	32323 ChEBI	glucuronamide	+	energy source
43480	32323 ChEBI	glucuronamide	+	oxidation
43480	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	builds acid from
43480	17368 ChEBI	hypoxanthine	-	hydrolysis
43480	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from
43480	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	builds acid from
43480	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43480		potassium 5-dehydro-D-gluconate	+	builds acid from
43480	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	builds acid from
43480	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	builds acid from
43480	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
43480	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
43480	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from
43480	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	carbon source
43480	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	energy source
43480	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	oxidation
43480	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	-	hydrolysis
43480	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	-	hydrolysis
43480	53425 ChEBI	tween 60	+	hydrolysis
43480	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
43480	15318 ChEBI	xanthine	-	hydrolysis

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43480	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43480	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43480	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1
43480	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43480	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
43480	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43480	beta-D-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.38
43480	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43480	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43480	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43480	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43480	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
43480	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
43480	esterase Lipase (C 8)	-
43480	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43480	lipase (C 14)	-
43480	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43480	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	-
43480	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
43480	valine arylamidase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Condition	#Saline	-
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Industrial production
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Coast

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43480	marine solar saltern	Weihai coast, Shandong Province	China	CHN	Asia
67771	From marine solar saltern	the coastal area of Weihai	China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KU987442 (>99% sequence identity) for Gracilimonas halophila subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	40
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	40

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Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM4268436v1 assembly for Gracilimonas halophila KCTC 52042	scaffold	GCA_042684365	1834464	73.4

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
43480	Gracilimonas halophila 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KU987442

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43480	41.7	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
67771	41.7

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Gracilimonas sediminicola sp. nov., a moderately halotolerant bacterium isolated from seaweed sediment collected in the East Sea, Republic of Korea.	Lee Y, Weerawongwiwat V, Kim JH, Yoon JH, Lee JS, Sukhoom A, Kim W.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005912	2023
Phylogeny	Gracilimonas amylolytica sp. nov., isolated from deep-sea sediment.	Wu YH, Yan J, Fang C, Huo YY, Ma WL, Zhang DM, Wang CS, Xu XW	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002734	2018
Phylogeny	Gracilimonas halophila sp. nov., isolated from a marine solar saltern.	Lu DC, Xia J, Dunlap CA, Rooney AP, Du ZJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002093	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 )
#43480	De-Chen Lu, Jun Xia, Christopher A. Dunlap, Alejandro P. Rooney, Zong-Jun Du: Gracilimonas halophila sp. nov., isolated from a marine solar saltern. IJSEM 67: 3251 - 3255 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002093 , PubMed 28829029 )
#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 .
#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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Gracilimonas halophila (KCTC 52042, MCCC 1H00135, WDS2C40)

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

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_042684365

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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