Rheinheimera coerulea (BCRC 81054, LMG 30056, KCTC 52815)

Name: Rheinheimera coerulea (BCRC 81054, LMG 30056, KCTC 52815)
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BacDive ID 159783

Type strain

Strain Designation TAPG2

Culture col. no. BCRC 81054 LMG 30056 KCTC 52815 TAPG2

NCBI tax ID(s) 1908522

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Rheinheimera coerulea TAPG2 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from the freshwater of the Wanan Creek in the vicinity of Pingtung County.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 385581

LMG 30056,BCRC 81054,KCTC 52815

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:08:20

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Chromatiales

Family Chromatiaceae

Genus Rheinheimera

Species Rheinheimera coerulea

Full scientific name Rheinheimera coerulea Sheu et al. 2018

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
66591	negative	1.0-1.2 µm	0.6-0.8 µm	rod-shaped		polar

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
66591	2-3 mm	cream	circular	2 days	Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
66591	LB (Luria-Bertani) agar
66591	Nutrient agar (NA)
66591	Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)
66591	trypticase soy agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
66591	positive	growth	15-37
66591	positive	optimum	25-30	mesophilic
67771	positive	growth	25	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
66591	positive	optimum	7
66591	positive	growth	6.5-8

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
66591	aerobe
67771	aerobe

Spore formation

66591

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
66591	NaCl	positive	growth	0-1 %
66591	NaCl	positive	optimum	0.5 %

Observation

@ref	Observation
66591	Cells are surrounded by a thick capsule.
66591	Cells are cream-pigmented, becoming dark-green with ongoing incubation (>3 days).
66591	The only isoprenoid quinone is Q-8.
66591	The polar lipid profile consists of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, an uncharacterized aminophospholipid, an uncharacterized phospholipid, an uncharacterized aminolipid and an uncharacterized lipid.
66591	The major polyamine is putrescine.

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
66591	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	hydrolysis
66591		casein	+	hydrolysis
66591	17029 ChEBI	chitin	+	hydrolysis
66591		corn oil	-	hydrolysis
66591	16991 ChEBI	dna	+	hydrolysis
66591	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
66591	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	-	hydrolysis
66591	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	hydrolysis
66591	53425 ChEBI	tween 60	+	hydrolysis
66591	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	hydrolysis

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Group ID	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.	Resistance conc.
66591	17698		chloramphenicol	30 µg (disc)
66591	17833		gentamicin	10 µg (disc)
66591	6104		kanamycin	30 µg (disc)
66591	100147		nalidixic acid	30 µg (disc)
66591	28368		novobiocin	30 µg (disc)
66591	18208		penicillin g		10 Unit (disc)
66591	28077		rifampicin	5 µg (disc)
66591	17076		streptomycin	10 µg (disc)
66591	9332	26	sulfamethoxazole	23.75 µg (disc)
66591	27902		tetracycline	30 µg (disc)
66591	45924	26	trimethoprim	1.25 µg (disc)

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
66591	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
66591	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

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66591

Fatty acid	Percentage
C16:1 w6c and/or C16:1 w7c	34.9
C16:0	14.4
C18:1 w7c	12.2
C12:0 3OH	8.8
C17:1 w8c	7.2
C12:0	2.8
C11:0 3OH	2.8
C14:0 anteiso	2.8
C17:0	2.7
C15:1 w8c	2.6
C18:0	1.9
C14:0	1.9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#River (Creek)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature	Isolation date	Isolation procedure	Geographic location
66591	the freshwater of the Wanan Creek in the vicinity of Pingtung County	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia	22.6225	120.647 22.6225/120.647	3 days	25	11 October 2015	The 200 ml water sample was collected in a sterile bag (PolySilk, 400 ml, Scharlab), stored at 4°C and transported to the laboratory within 6 h, and then it was spread on R2A agar (BD Difco) plates by the standard dilution plating method.
67771	From river	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia							Pingtung County

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
66591	Rheinheimera sp. TAPG2 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain TAPG2, isolate stream	LT627667	1420		1908522

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
66591	53.6	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Rheinheimera sediminis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from coastal sediment.	Yu Q, Qi Y, Zhang H, Pu J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003917	2020
Phylogeny	Rheinheimera coerulea sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater creek, and emended description of genus Rheinheimera Brettar et al. 2002.	Sheu SY, Chen WT, Young CC, Chen WM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002838	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 )
#66591	Shih-Yi Sheu, Wei-Ting Chen, Chiu-Chung Young, Wen-Ming Chen: Rheinheimera coerulea sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater creek, and emended description of genus Rheinheimera Brettar et al. 2002. IJSEM 68: 2340 - 2347 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002838 , PubMed 29799388 )
#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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Rheinheimera coerulea (BCRC 81054, LMG 30056, KCTC 52815)

Name and taxonomic classification