Hyphococcus flavus (MCCC 1K03223, KCTC 52486, DSM 109355)

Name: Hyphococcus flavus (MCCC 1K03223, KCTC 52486, DSM 109355)
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Type strain

Strain Designation HSF6

Culture col. no. MCCC 1K03223 KCTC 52486 DSM 109355 HSF6

NCBI tax ID(s) 1866326

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History <- KCTC; KCTC 52486 <- C. Sun, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, P.R. China; HSF6 <- Cong Sun, Zhejiang Univ.

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Hyphococcus flavus HSF6 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from deep seawater sample from the South China Sea.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 398701

KCTC 52486,DSM 109355

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:42

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order "Parvularculales"

Family "Parvularculaceae"

Genus Hyphococcus

Species Hyphococcus flavus

Full scientific name Hyphococcus flavus Sun et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
43543	negative	1.5-2 µm	0.5-0.8 µm	rod-shaped
43543	negative	0.5-1 µm		coccus-shaped		peritrichous

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43543	1-2 mm	Yellow	circular	3 days	MA agar

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
43543		flexirubin type pigments

Multimedia

@ref:	64909
multimedia content:	DSM_109355.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/photos/DSM_109355.jpg
caption:	strain DSM 109355 on medium 514f at 28 °C. non motile.
intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
43543	Marine agar (MA)
64909	MARINE BROTH (ROTH CP73) (DSMZ Medium 514f)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MARINE BROTH (ROTH CP73) (DSMZ Medium 514f) Composition: NaCl 19.4 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l MgCl2 8.8 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43543	positive	growth	15-37
43543	positive	optimum	25-35
64909	positive	growth	28
67771	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43543	positive	optimum	7-7.5
43543	positive	growth	5-9.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
43543	aerobe
67771	aerobe

Spore formation

43543

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43543	NaCl	positive	growth	0-8 %(w/v)
43543	NaCl	positive	optimum	2 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43543	58187 ChEBI	alginate	-	hydrolysis
43543	40585 ChEBI	alpha-cyclodextrin	+	respiration
43543		casein	-	hydrolysis
43543	15570 ChEBI	D-alanine	+	respiration
43543	15748 ChEBI	D-glucuronate	+	respiration
43543	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	respiration
43543	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	respiration
43543	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
43543	15740 ChEBI	formate	+	respiration
43543	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
43543	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	fermentation
43543	73804 ChEBI	glycyl L-aspartic acid	+	respiration
43543	73784 ChEBI	glycyl-l-glutamate	+	respiration
43543	24741 ChEBI	hydroxyproline	+	respiration
43543	17596 ChEBI	inosine	+	respiration
43543	21217 ChEBI	L-alaninamide	+	respiration
43543	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	+	respiration
43543	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	+	respiration
43543	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	+	respiration
43543	15729 ChEBI	L-ornithine	+	respiration
43543	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	+	respiration
43543	18183 ChEBI	L-pyroglutamic acid	+	respiration
43543	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	respiration
43543	16857 ChEBI	L-threonine	+	respiration
43543	17895 ChEBI	L-tyrosine	+	hydrolysis
43543	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	respiration
43543	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	respiration
43543	75146 ChEBI	monomethyl succinate	+	respiration
43543	28037 ChEBI	N-acetylgalactosamine	+	respiration
43543	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43543	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	respiration
43543	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	+	respiration
43543	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
43543	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	respiration
43543	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	respiration
43543	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	hydrolysis
43543	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	hydrolysis
43543	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	respiration
43543	53425 ChEBI	tween 60	-	hydrolysis
43543	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	hydrolysis
43543	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis
43543	16704 ChEBI	uridine	+	respiration
43543	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	+	respiration

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43543	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43543	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43543	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43543	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43543	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
43543	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43543	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
43543	beta-D-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.38
43543	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43543	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43543	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43543	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43543	chymotrypsin	-	3.4.4.5
43543	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
43543	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43543	esterase (C 4)	+/-
43543	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
43543	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43543	lipase (C 14)	-
43543	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43543	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43543	valine arylamidase	+/-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Latitude	Longitude	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43543	deep seawater sample from the South China Sea	South China Sea	Pacific Ocean	19.366	115.633 19.366/115.633
64909	sea water at 2.5 km depth	South China Sea, Taiwanese Exclusive Economic Zone (19° 22' N, 115° 38' E)	Taiwan, Province of China			TWN	Asia
67771	From seawater	South China Sea	China			CHN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
64909	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM2874806v1 assembly for Hyphococcus flavus MCCC 1K03223	complete	GCA_028748065	1866326.5	8049061415	1866326	96.06

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
64909	Hyphococcus flavus strain HSF6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KX418769	1427		1866326

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43543	51	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Genomic insights into secondary metabolites of pharmaceutical utility for Hyphococcus flavus MCCC 1K03223^T, isolated from bathypelagic seawater.	Rong JC, Sheng L, Jiang LH, Yi ML, Wu JY, Zhao Q.	Mar Genomics	10.1016/j.margen.2023.101031	2023
Phylogeny	Description of Hyphococcus formosus sp. nov. and Hyphococcus lacteus sp. nov., isolated from coastal sediment, and reclassification of Marinicaulis flavus as Hyphococcus luteus nom. nov. and Marinicaulis aureus as Hyphococcus aureus comb. nov.	Ye YQ, Zhang XY, Gong HN, Ye MQ, Du ZJ.	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/j.syapm.2024.126575	2025
Phylogeny	Hyphococcus flavus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium isolated from deep seawater.	Sun C, Wu C, Su Y, Wang RJ, Fu GY, Zhao Z, Yu XY, Huang MM, Han BN, Lv ZB, Wu M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002237	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 )
#43543	Cong Sun, Chen Wu, Yue Su, Rui-jun Wang, Ge-yi Fu, Zhe Zhao, Xiao-yun Yu, Meng-meng Huang, Bing-nan Han, Zheng-bing Lv, Min Wu: Hyphococcus flavus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alphaproteobacterium isolated from deep seawater. IJSEM 67: 4024 - 4031 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002237 , PubMed 28893367 )
#64909	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 109355
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#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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Hyphococcus flavus (MCCC 1K03223, KCTC 52486, DSM 109355)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_028748065

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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