Caenibius fulvus (KEMB 9005-542, KACC 19119, NBRC 112676)

Name: Caenibius fulvus (KEMB 9005-542, KACC 19119, NBRC 112676)
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BacDive ID 158660

Type strain

Strain Designation S-54

Culture col. no. KEMB 9005-542 KACC 19119 NBRC 112676 S-54

NCBI tax ID(s) 2126012

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Caenibius fulvus S-54 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from forest topsoil.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132417

NBRC 112676

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:38:23

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Sphingomonadales

Family Erythrobacteraceae

Genus Caenibius

Species Caenibius fulvus

Full scientific name Caenibius fulvus (Dahal and Kim 2018) Wang et al. 2025

Synonyms (2)

"Fulverythrobacter fulvus"
Altererythrobacter fulvus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
65387	negative	0.98-1.22 µm	0.45-0.65 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
65387	2-3 mm	yellow	circular	4 days	tryptic soy agar

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
65387		flexirubin type pigments
65387		carotenoid pigment

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
65387	tryptic soy agar
65387	Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)
65387	Nutrient agar (NA)
65387	LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM
65387	veal infusion agar
65387	brain-heart infusion agar
65387	Mueller Hinton agar
65387	Marine agar (MA)
65387	Czapek-Dox agar
65387	sorbitol MacConkey agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
65387	positive	growth	15-45
65387	positive	optimum	20-35

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
65387	positive	optimum	6.5-9.5
65387	positive	growth	5.5-10.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

65387

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

65387

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
65387	NaCl	positive	optimum	0 %
65387	NaCl	positive	growth	0-4 %

Observation

65387

ObservationHydrogen sulphide is not produced from culture in SIM medium and anaerobic growth is not observed.

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
65387	37054 ChEBI	3-hydroxybutyrate	-	assimilation
65387	17879 ChEBI	4-hydroxybenzoate	+	carbon source
65387	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	hydrolysis
65387		casein	-	hydrolysis
65387	17029 ChEBI	chitin	-	hydrolysis
65387	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation
65387	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	carbon source
65387	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
65387	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation
65387	16991 ChEBI	dna	-	hydrolysis
65387	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
65387	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
65387	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	builds acid from
65387	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	fermentation
65387	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	assimilation
65387	17368 ChEBI	hypoxanthine	-	hydrolysis
65387	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation
65387	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
65387	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
65387	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation
65387	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds acid from
65387	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
65387	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	-	assimilation
65387	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	assimilation
65387	32954 ChEBI	sodium acetate	-	assimilation
65387	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	assimilation
65387	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
65387	9300 ChEBI	suberic acid	-	assimilation
65387	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds acid from
65387	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	builds acid from
65387	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source
65387	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	-	hydrolysis
65387	53425 ChEBI	tween 60	-	hydrolysis
65387	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
65387	18186 ChEBI	tyrosine	-	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
65387	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
65387	35581 ChEBI	indole	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
65387	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
65387	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
65387	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1
65387	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
65387	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
65387	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
65387	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
65387	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
65387	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21
65387	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
65387	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
65387	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
65387	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
65387	esterase (C 4)	+
65387	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
65387	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
65387	lipase (C 14)	-
65387	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
65387	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	-
65387	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
65387	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1
65387	urease	-	3.5.1.5
65387	valine arylamidase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Forest
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
65387	forest topsoil	Kyonggi University, Suwon	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KY117470 (>99% sequence identity) for Erythrobacteraceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	64
Soil Samples	152
Animal Samples	36
Plant Samples	20
Total Samples	272

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3715408v1 assembly for Caenibius fulvus KACC 19119	contig	GCA_037154085	2126012.5	2126012	68.2

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
65387	Altererythrobacter fulvus strain S-54 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KY117470

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
65387	64.2	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Altererythrobacter fulvus sp. nov., a novel alkalitolerant alphaproteobacterium isolated from forest soil.	Dahal RH, Kim J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002697	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 )
#65387	Ram Hari Dahal, Jaisoo Kim: Altererythrobacter fulvus sp. nov., a novel alkalitolerant alphaproteobacterium isolated from forest soil. IJSEM 68: 1502 - 1508 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002697 , PubMed 29537360 )
#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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Caenibius fulvus (KEMB 9005-542, KACC 19119, NBRC 112676)

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

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_037154085

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

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