Paracoccus alimentarius (KCTC 62138, NBRC 113023, LB2)

Name: Paracoccus alimentarius (KCTC 62138, NBRC 113023, LB2)
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Type strain

Strain Designation LB2

Culture col. no. KCTC 62138 NBRC 113023 LB2

NCBI tax ID(s) 2049468

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Paracoccus alimentarius LB2 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from a Korean foodstuff, salted pollack.

Gram-negative coccus-shaped colony-forming aerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 26106

KCTC 62138,NBRC 113023

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:08:05

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Paracoccaceae

Genus Paracoccus

Species Paracoccus alimentarius

Full scientific name Paracoccus alimentarius Kim et al. 2018

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape
65449	negative	0.4-1.0 µm	0.4-0.6 µm	coccus-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
65449	0.7-1.0 mm	greyish yellow	circular	5 days	marine agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
65449	Marine agar (MA)
65449	marine agar supplemented with nitrate

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
65449	positive	optimum	25-30	mesophilic
65449	positive	growth	10	psychrophilic
65449	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
65449	negative	growth	4
65449	negative	growth	40
67771	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
65449	positive	optimum	7-8
65449	positive	growth	5
65449		growth	4.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
65449	aerobe
67771	aerobe

Spore formation

65449

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
65449	NaCl	positive	growth	0-4 %(w/v)
65449	NaCl	positive	optimum	0-2 %(w/v)

Observation

@ref	Observation
65449	Mg2+ ions are not required for growth
65449	the predominant ubiquinone is Q-10
65449	the major polar lipids are phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, one unidentified aminolipid and one unidentified glycolipid

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
65449	16150 ChEBI	benzoate	-	carbon source
65449		casein	+	hydrolysis
65449	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	carbon source
65449	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	carbon source
65449	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	carbon source
65449	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	carbon source
65449	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	carbon source
65449	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	carbon source
65449	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
65449	15740 ChEBI	formate	+	carbon source
65449	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
65449	17368 ChEBI	hypoxanthine	+	hydrolysis
65449	16411 ChEBI	indole-3-acetic acid	+	carbon source
65449	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	carbon source
65449	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	carbon source
65449	15589 ChEBI	L-malate	+	carbon source
65449	17895 ChEBI	L-tyrosine	+	hydrolysis
65449	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	carbon source
65449	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
65449	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	carbon source
65449	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	carbon source
65449	50144 ChEBI	sodium pyruvate	+	carbon source
65449	63675 ChEBI	sodium succinate	+	carbon source
65449	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
65449	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	carbon source
65449	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	carbon source
65449	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
65449	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis
65449	15318 ChEBI	xanthine	-	hydrolysis

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Resistance conc.
65449	28971	ampicillin	10 µg (disc)
65449	3393	carbenicillin
65449	3542	cephalothin
65449	17698	chloramphenicol
65449	17833	gentamicin
65449	6104	kanamycin	30 µg (disc)
65449	6472	lincomycin	15 µg (disc)
65449	7507	neomycin
65449	28368	novobiocin
65449	16869	oleandomycin	15 µg (disc)
65449	18208	penicillin g	20 Unit (disc)
65449	8309	polymyxin b	100 Unit (disc)
65449	17076	streptomycin	50 µg (disc)
65449	27902	tetracycline

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
65449	15138 ChEBI	sulfide

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
65449	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
65449	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
65449	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
65449	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
65449	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
65449	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
65449	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
65449	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
65449	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
65449	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
65449	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
65449	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
65449	esterase (C 4)	+
65449	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
65449	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
65449	lipase (C 14)	-
65449	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
65449	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
65449	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
65449	valine arylamidase	-

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

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65449

Fatty acid	Percentage
CycloC19:0ω8c	33.3
C18:1ω7c	30.1
C16:0	25.7
C16:1 iso I and/or C14:0 iso 3OH	2.7
C10:0 3OH	2.6
C18:0	2.2
10-Methyl C19:0	0.9
11-Methyl C18:1ω7c	0.7
C20:2ω6,9c	0.6

Metadata FA analysis

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65449

Fatty acid	Percentage
CycloC19:0ω8c	39.9
C16:0	27.5
C18:1ω7c	21.4
C10:0 3OH	2.7
C16:1 iso I and/or C14:0 iso 3OH	2.7
C18:0	2
11-Methyl C18:1ω7c	0.9
10-Methyl C19:0	0.9
C20:2ω6,9c	0.7

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

65449

Fatty acid	Percentage
CycloC19:0ω8c	45.5
C16:0	29.2
C18:1ω7c	13.5
C10:0 3OH	2.8
C16:1 iso I and/or C14:0 iso 3OH	2.7
C18:0	2
11-Methyl C18:1ω7c	1.1
C20:2ω6,9c	0.9
10-Methyl C19:0	0.8
C14:0	0.6

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

65449

Fatty acid	Percentage
CycloC19:0ω8c	47.6
C16:0	30
C18:1ω7c	10
C16:1 iso I and/or C14:0 iso 3OH	2.9
C10:0 3OH	2.9
C18:0	1.9
11-Methyl C18:1ω7c	1.3
C20:2ω6,9c	1
10-Methyl C19:0	0.8
C14:0	0.6

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

65449

Fatty acid	Percentage
C18:1ω7c	68.5
C16:0	20.6
C10:0 3OH	2.7
C18:0	2.5
iso-C16:1 Iand/or C14:0 3-OH	2.5
CycloC19:0ω8c	2.3

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

65449

Fatty acid	Percentage
C18:1ω7c	65.6
C16:0	21
Cyclo C19:0ω8c	4
C16:1 iso I and/or C14:0 iso 3OH	4
C10:0 3OH	2.9
C18:0	1.8
C16:1ω7c and/or C16:1ω6c	0.8

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

65449

Fatty acid	Percentage
C18:1ω7c	63.8
C16:0	22.5
Cyclo C19:0ω8c	5.1
C10:0 3OH	2.7
C16:1 iso I and/or C14:0 iso 3OH	2.5
C18:0	2

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

65449

Fatty acid	Percentage
C18:1ω7c	60.4
C16:0	23.4
Cyclo C19:0ω8c	7.2
C10:0 3OH	2.6
C16:1 iso I and/or C14:0 iso 3OH	2.6
C18:0	1.7

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Host	#Fishes
#Engineered	#Food production
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture temperature	Isolation procedure
65449	a Korean foodstuff, salted pollack	Gangneung	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia	30	Strain LB2 was isolated by the standard dilution plating technique at 25C on marine agar 2216 (MA; BD Difco) and cultivated routinely at 30 C on MA unless stated otherwise.
67771	From Fermented Walleye Pollack	Gangneung	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
65449	Paracoccus alimentarius strain LB2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MG269198

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
65449	61.4	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Paracoccus alimentarius sp. nov., isolated from a Korean foodstuff, salted pollack.	Kim YO, Park IS, Park S, Nam BH, Kim DG, Won SM, Yoon JH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002658	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 )
#65449	Young-Ok Kim, In-Suk Park, Sooyeon Park, Bo-Hye Nam, Dong-Gyun Kim, Sung-Min Won, Jung-Hoon Yoon: Paracoccus alimentarius sp. nov., isolated from a Korean foodstuff, salted pollack. IJSEM 68: 1238 - 1243 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002658 , PubMed 29469691 )
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#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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Paracoccus alimentarius (KCTC 62138, NBRC 113023, LB2)

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