Sphingobacterium terrae (KEMB 9005-691, KACC 19392, JCM 32159)

Name: Sphingobacterium terrae (KEMB 9005-691, KACC 19392, JCM 32159)
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BacDive ID 158612

Type strain

Strain Designation Brt-F

Culture col. no. KEMB 9005-691 KACC 19392 JCM 32159 Brt-F

NCBI tax ID(s) 2070451

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History J. Kim; Kyonggi Univ., South Korea; Brt-F.

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Sphingobacterium terrae Brt-F is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from oil-contaminated soil.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 133733

JCM 32159

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:08:04

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Sphingobacteriia

Order Sphingobacteriales

Family Sphingobacteriaceae

Genus Sphingobacterium

Species Sphingobacterium terrae

Full scientific name Sphingobacterium terrae Chaudhary and Kim 2018

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
65334	negative	0.8-1 µm	0.5-0.6 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
65334	1-1.5 mm	cream	circular	tryptic soy agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
65334	tryptic soy agar
65334	Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)
65334	Nutrient agar (NA)
65334	LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM
65334	veal infusion agar
65334	Marine agar (MA)
65334	sorbitol MacConkey agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
65334	positive	growth	15-45
65334	positive	optimum	25-35	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
65334	positive	optimum	7-8.5
65334	positive	growth	6.5-10.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

65334

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

65334

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
65334	NaCl	positive	growth	0-4.5 %
65334	NaCl	positive	optimum	0 %

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-7

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
65334	16193 ChEBI	3-hydroxybenzoate	-	assimilation
65334	37054 ChEBI	3-hydroxybutyrate	-	assimilation
65334	17879 ChEBI	4-hydroxybenzoate	-	assimilation
65334	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation
65334	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	+	hydrolysis
65334		casein	-	hydrolysis
65334	17029 ChEBI	chitin	-	hydrolysis
65334	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation
65334	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
65334	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
65334	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	assimilation
65334	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	assimilation
65334	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation
65334	16991 ChEBI	dna	-	hydrolysis
65334	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
65334	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	fermentation
65334	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
65334	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	fermentation
65334	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	assimilation
65334	17240 ChEBI	itaconate	-	assimilation
65334	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	-	assimilation
65334	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	assimilation
65334	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	fermentation
65334	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	assimilation
65334	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	-	assimilation
65334	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	-	assimilation
65334	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	assimilation
65334	17115 ChEBI	L-serine	-	assimilation
65334	16828 ChEBI	L-tryptophan	-	assimilation
65334	24996 ChEBI	lactate	-	assimilation
65334	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
65334	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	assimilation
65334	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	assimilation
65334	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	assimilation
65334	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	assimilation
65334	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
65334	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	-	assimilation
65334		potassium 2-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	assimilation
65334		potassium 5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	assimilation
65334	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	-	assimilation
65334	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	assimilation
65334	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	assimilation
65334	32954 ChEBI	sodium acetate	-	assimilation
65334	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	assimilation
65334	62983 ChEBI	sodium malonate	-	assimilation
65334	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
65334	9300 ChEBI	suberic acid	-	assimilation
65334	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	assimilation
65334	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	-	hydrolysis
65334	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
65334	18186 ChEBI	tyrosine	-	hydrolysis
65334	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	fermentation
65334	31011 ChEBI	valerate	-	assimilation

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
65334	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
65334	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
65334	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
65334	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
65334	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
65334	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
65334	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
65334	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
65334	alpha-fucosidase	+	3.2.1.51
65334	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
65334	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
65334	alpha-mannosidase	+	3.2.1.24
65334	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
65334	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21
65334	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
65334	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
65334	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
65334	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
65334	esterase (C 4)	-
65334	esterase Lipase (C 8)	-
65334	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
65334	lipase (C 14)	-
65334	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
65334	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
65334	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
65334	valine arylamidase	+

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

65334

Fatty acid	Percentage
C16:1ω7c and/or C16:1ω6c	36.3
C15:0 iso	27.8
C17:0 iso 3OH	19.1
C16:0	4.8
C15:0 iso 3OH	3.1
iso-C17:1ω9c and/or C16:010-methyl	2.1
C18:1ω7c and/or C18:1ω6c	1.3
C16:0 3OH	1
C16:1ω5c	0.8
C15:0 anteiso	0.6
C17:0 iso	0.4
C17:1 iso I and/or C17:1 anteiso B	0.4
C14:0	0.3
C16:0 2OH	0.3
iso-C15:0 F	0.2
C14:0 2OH	0.2
C16:0 iso 3OH	0.2

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Contamination	#Oil (Fuel)
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature	Isolation procedure
65334	oil-contaminated soil	petroleum distribution center of Biratnagar, Morang	Nepal	NPL	Asia	26.4922	87.2767 26.4922/87.2767	tryptic soy broth	15 days	roomtemperature	modified culture technique with six-well polycarbonate Transwell plates
67770	Oil-contaminated soil sample of Biratnagar	Morang	Nepal	NPL	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
65334	Sphingobacterium terrae strain Brt-F 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MF405100

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
65334	43.4	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Sphingobacterium terrae sp. nov., isolated from oil-contaminated soil.	Chaudhary DK, Kim J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002552	2018

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 )
#65334	Dhiraj Kumar Chaudhary, Jaisoo Kim: Sphingobacterium terrae sp. nov., isolated from oil-contaminated soil. IJSEM 68: 609 - 615 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002552 , PubMed 29303695 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Sphingobacterium terrae (KEMB 9005-691, KACC 19392, JCM 32159)

Name and taxonomic classification