Psychroflexus salis (CGMCC 1.12925, JCM 30615, X15M-6)

Name: Psychroflexus salis (CGMCC 1.12925, JCM 30615, X15M-6)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 141092

Type strain

Strain Designation X15M-6

Culture col. no. CGMCC 1.12925 JCM 30615 X15M-6

NCBI tax ID(s) 1526574

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Psychroflexus salis X15M-6 is an aerobe, heterotroph, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from water sample.

Gram-negative coccus-shaped aerobe heterotroph genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 394704

JCM 30615

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:46

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Flavobacteriaceae

Genus Psychroflexus

Species Psychroflexus salis

Full scientific name Psychroflexus salis Zhong et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape
43998	negative	coccus-shaped
43998		rod-shaped
43998
125438
125438	negative
125439	negative

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Incubation period	Medium used
43998	1.0-2.5 mm	orange-red	4 days	marine agar 2216

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43998	Marine agar (MA)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43998	positive	growth	10-35
43998	positive	optimum	20-25
67770	positive	growth	25

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
43998	positive	optimum	7.0-7.5
43998	positive	growth	6.5-10.0

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
43998	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe

Nutrition type

43998

Typeheterotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		93
125439		99.1

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43998	NaCl	positive	growth	0.5-14.0 %
43998	NaCl	positive	optimum	3 %

Observation

@ref	Observation
43998	glistening after cultivation on MA
43998	Positive for carotenoid pigments
43998	major respiratory quinone is MK-6
67770	quinones: MK-6

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43998	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	carbon source
43998	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	carbon source
43998	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	carbon source
43998	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	carbon source
43998	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	carbon source
43998	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	carbon source
43998	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	carbon source
43998	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	carbon source
43998	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	carbon source
43998	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	carbon source
43998	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	carbon source
43998	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	carbon source
43998	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	carbon source
43998	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	carbon source
43998	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	carbon source
43998	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	carbon source
43998		esculin ferric citrate	+	carbon source
43998	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	carbon source
43998	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	carbon source
43998	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	carbon source
43998	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	carbon source
43998	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	carbon source
43998	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	carbon source
43998	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	carbon source
43998	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	carbon source
43998	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	carbon source
43998	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	carbon source
43998	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	carbon source
43998	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	carbon source
43998	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
43998	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	carbon source
43998	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	carbon source
43998	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	carbon source
43998	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	carbon source
43998	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	-	carbon source
43998	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	carbon source
43998	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	carbon source
43998		potassium 2-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	carbon source
43998		potassium 5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	carbon source
43998	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	-	carbon source
43998	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	carbon source
43998	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	carbon source
43998	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	carbon source
43998	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	carbon source
43998	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
43998	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	carbon source
43998	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	carbon source
43998	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43998	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43998	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43998	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
43998	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43998	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43998	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
43998	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43998	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43998	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43998	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43998	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
43998	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43998	esterase (C 4)	+
43998	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
43998	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43998	lipase (C 14)	-
43998	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43998	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43998	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
43998	valine arylamidase	+

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43998

Fatty acid	Percentage
C15:0 anteiso	21.4
C15:0 iso	17.2
C17:0 iso 3OH	10.4
C16:0 iso 3OH	7.2
C15:1ω6c	5.6
C17:0 2OH	5.2
C15:1 iso G	4.6
C15:0 2OH	4.2
C15:0 3OH	3.7
C15:0 iso 3OH	2.7
C14:0 iso	1.9
C15:1 anteiso A	1.4
C16:0 iso	1.1
C16:1 iso H	1.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43998	water sample	Lake Xiaochaidan, Qaidam basin, Qinghai Province	China	CHN	Asia
67770	Lake Xiaochaidan, a salt lake in Qaidam basin	Qinghai Province	China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KJ782428 (>99% sequence identity) for Psychroflexus salis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	111
Soil Samples	6
Animal Samples	14
Plant Samples
Total Samples	131

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1464017v1 assembly for Psychroflexus salis CGMCC 1.12925	scaffold	GCA_014640175	1526574.3	2995329808	1526574	63.28

Genome browser: GCA_014640175

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
43998	Psychroflexus salis strain X15M-6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KJ782428

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)
43998	32.8
67770	32.8

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Psychroflexus salis CGMCC 1.12925
NCBI: GCA_014640175

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	69.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.90	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.10	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Psychroflexus salis CGMCC 1.12925
NCBI: GCA_014640175.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.38	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.20	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	88.29	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.00	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	99.39	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	95.00	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Psychroflexus salis sp. nov. and Psychroflexus planctonicus sp. nov., isolated from a salt lake.	Zhong ZP, Liu Y, Wang F, Zhou YG, Liu HC, Liu ZP	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000687	2015

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 )
#43998	Zhi-Ping Zhong, Ying Liu, Fang Wang, Yu-Guang Zhou, Hong-Can Liu, Zhi-Pei Liu: Psychroflexus salis sp. nov. and Psychroflexus planctonicus sp. nov., isolated from a salt lake. IJSEM 66: 125 - 131 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000687 , PubMed 26475261 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Psychroflexus salis (CGMCC 1.12925, JCM 30615, X15M-6)

Name and taxonomic classification