Aquimonas voraii (DSM 16957, JCM 12896, MTCC 6713)

Name: Aquimonas voraii (DSM 16957, JCM 12896, MTCC 6713)
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BacDive ID 17443

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 16957 JCM 12896 MTCC 6713 GPTSA 20 CIP 108872

NCBI tax ID(s) 1121008 265719

Special Collections DSMZ JCM CIP Literature strains

History DSMZ <- T. Chakrabarti; GPTSA 20 JCM <-- T. Chakrabarti GPTSA 20. CIP <- 2005, JCM <- 2004, T. Chakrabarti, Chandigarh, India: strain GPTSA 20

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Aquimonas voraii DSM 16957 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from water.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 265382

JCM 12896,DSM 16957,CIP 108872

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:29:01

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Lysobacterales

Family Rhodanobacteraceae

Genus Aquimonas

Species Aquimonas voraii

Full scientific name Aquimonas voraii Saha et al. 2005

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
31437	negative	3 µm	0.35 µm	rod-shaped
123883	negative			rod-shaped

Colony morphology

123883

Hemolysis ability0

Pigmentation

31437

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
38350	MEDIUM 72- for trypto casein soja agar		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Trypto casein soy agar (40.000 g)
123883	CIP Medium 72			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
31437	positive	growth	25-42
31437	positive	optimum	33.5
38350	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	30
123883	positive	growth	22-37
123883	negative	growth	10
123883	negative	growth	45
123883	negative	growth	55

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31437	positive	optimum	8.5
31437	positive	growth	06-11	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
31437	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	99.599

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		96.843

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31437	NaCl	positive	growth	<2 %
123883	NaCl		growth	0 %
123883	NaCl		growth	2 %
123883	NaCl		growth	4 %
123883	NaCl		growth	6 %
123883	NaCl		growth	8 %
123883	NaCl		growth	10 %

Observation

31437

Observationaggregates in clumps

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31437	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
123883	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
31437	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	carbon source
123883	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
123883	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	respiration
123883	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
31437	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	+	carbon source
31437	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	carbon source
31437	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	carbon source
31437	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
123883	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
123883	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
68382	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
123883	amylase	+
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
123883	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
123883	caseinase	+	3.4.21.50
31437	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
123883	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
31437	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
123883	DNase	+
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
123883	gamma-glutamyltransferase	+	2.3.2.2
31437	gelatinase	+
123883	gelatinase	+
123883	lecithinase	+
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
123883	lipase	+
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
123883	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
123883	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
123883	oxidase	+
123883	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
68382	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	from API zym
123883	tween esterase	+
123883	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	octane oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	denitrification	100	2 of 2
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	gluconeogenesis	87.5	7 of 8
66794	leucine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	NAD metabolism	83.33	15 of 18
66794	starch degradation	80	8 of 10
66794	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	threonine metabolism	80	8 of 10
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	78.57	22 of 28
66794	citric acid cycle	78.57	11 of 14
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	methionine metabolism	76.92	20 of 26
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	75.56	34 of 45
66794	purine metabolism	75.53	71 of 94
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	proline metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	propanol degradation	71.43	5 of 7
66794	propionate fermentation	70	7 of 10
66794	lipid metabolism	67.74	21 of 31
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	66.67	6 of 9
66794	flavin biosynthesis	66.67	10 of 15
66794	arginine metabolism	66.67	16 of 24
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	alanine metabolism	65.52	19 of 29
66794	glycolysis	64.71	11 of 17
66794	tyrosine metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	glutathione metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	63.64	7 of 11
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	histidine metabolism	62.07	18 of 29
66794	lysine metabolism	61.9	26 of 42
66794	urea cycle	61.54	8 of 13
66794	cysteine metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	D-cycloserine biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	60	6 of 10
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	58.33	7 of 12
66794	non-pathway related	57.89	22 of 38
66794	tryptophan metabolism	57.89	22 of 38
66794	d-mannose degradation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	55.56	5 of 9
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	53.85	14 of 26
66794	polyamine pathway	52.17	12 of 23
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	50	3 of 6
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	42.86	3 of 7
66794	vitamin K metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	sulfate reduction	38.46	5 of 13
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	38.46	5 of 13
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	37.36	34 of 91
66794	d-xylose degradation	36.36	4 of 11
66794	degradation of pentoses	35.71	10 of 28
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	methane metabolism	33.33	1 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	33.33	6 of 18
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	33.33	5 of 15
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	ascorbate metabolism	31.82	7 of 22
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	28.57	2 of 7
66794	degradation of sugar acids	28	7 of 25
66794	degradation of hexoses	27.78	5 of 18
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	27.27	3 of 11
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	25	4 of 16
66794	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	25	4 of 16
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
123883	-	+	+	+	-	+	-	-	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6668	water	Assam	India	IND	Asia
67770	Warm spring water	Assam	India	IND	Asia
123883	Environment, Water, warn spring sample collected from Assam		India	IND	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY544768 (>99% sequence identity) for Aquimonas voraii subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	7467
Soil Samples	1420
Animal Samples	1449
Plant Samples	477
Total Samples	10813

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6668	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
123883	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	IMG-taxon 2622736515 annotated assembly for Aquimonas voraii DSM 16957	scaffold	GCA_900101825	265719.9	2622736515	265719	70.1

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6668	Aquimonas voraii strain GPTSA 20 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY544768	1433		265719

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
6668	75
67770	75	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: IMG-taxon 2622736515 annotated assembly for Aquimonas voraii DSM 16957
NCBI: GCA_900101825

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	70.67	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	56.62	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	96.84	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Familial Reclassification Within Order Lysobacterales and Proposal of Four Novel Species.	Ma T, Liu H, Chen Y, Liu J, Piao C, Xue H, Xu R, Li Y.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms13061212	2025
Genetics	Phylogenomics insights into order and families of Lysobacterales.	Kumar S, Bansal K, Patil PP, Patil PB.	Access Microbiol	10.1099/acmi.0.000015	2019
Phylogeny	Exploring prokaryotic diversity in permafrost-affected soils of Ladakh's Changthang region and its geochemical drivers.	Ali A, Dolma P, Vishnivetskaya TA, Namgail T, Dolma T, Chauhan A.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-025-94542-9	2025
	Exploring the Bacterial Communities of the Kaiafas Thermal Spring Anigrides Nymphes in Greece Prior to Rehabilitation Actions.	Doulgeraki AI, Bikouli V, Argyri AA, Chorianopoulos N, Mitre E, Charvourou G, Sourri P, Tassou CC, Oikonomou A.	Int J Environ Res Public Health	10.3390/ijerph17239133	2020
	Architecture, component, and microbiome of biofilm involved in the fouling of membrane bioreactors.	Inaba T, Hori T, Aizawa H, Ogata A, Habe H.	NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes	10.1038/s41522-016-0010-1	2017
Genetics	Comparative metagenomic analysis reveals rhizosphere microbial community composition and functions help protect grapevines against salt stress.	Wang B, Wang X, Wang Z, Zhu K, Wu W.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1102547	2023
Phylogeny	First reported infections caused by three newly described genera in the family Xanthomonadaceae.	LaSala PR, Segal J, Han FS, Tarrand JJ, Han XY.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.01938-06	2007
	Microbiomes and chemical components of feed water and membrane-attached biofilm in reverse osmosis system to treat membrane bioreactor effluents.	Inaba T, Hori T, Aizawa H, Sato Y, Ogata A, Habe H.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-018-35156-2	2018
Phylogeny	Bacteria associated with benthic diatoms from Lake Constance: phylogeny and influences on diatom growth and secretion of extracellular polymeric substances.	Bruckner CG, Bahulikar R, Rahalkar M, Schink B, Kroth PG.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01399-08	2008
	Eukaryotic opportunists dominate the deep-subsurface biosphere in South Africa.	Borgonie G, Linage-Alvarez B, Ojo AO, Mundle SO, Freese LB, Van Rooyen C, Kuloyo O, Albertyn J, Pohl C, Cason ED, Vermeulen J, Pienaar C, Litthauer D, Van Niekerk H, Van Eeden J, Sherwood Lollar B, Onstott TC, Van Heerden E.	Nat Commun	10.1038/ncomms9952	2015
Phylogeny	Ahniella affigens gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from sandy soil near a stream.	Hwang WM, Ko Y, Kim JH, Kang K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002859	2018
Phylogeny	Chiayiivirga flava gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium of the family Xanthomonadaceae isolated from an agricultural soil, and emended description of the genus Dokdonella.	Hsu YH, Lai WA, Lin SY, Hameed A, Shahina M, Shen FT, Zhu ZL, Young LS, Young CC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.048579-0	2013
Phylogeny	Aquimonas voraii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from a warm spring of Assam, India.	Saha P, Krishnamurthi S, Mayilraj S, Prasad GS, Bora TC, Chakrabarti T	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63552-0	2005

References

#6668	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16957
#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 )
#27742	IJSEM 1491 2005 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63552-0 , PubMed 16014470 )
#31437	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #27742
#38350	; Curators of the CIP;
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#123883	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108872
#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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Aquimonas voraii (DSM 16957, JCM 12896, MTCC 6713)

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

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900101825

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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