Amorphus orientalis (DSM 21202, CCTCC AA 208035, YIM D10)

Name: Amorphus orientalis (DSM 21202, CCTCC AA 208035, YIM D10)
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BacDive ID 17874

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 21202 CCTCC AA 208035 YIM D10

NCBI tax ID(s) 649198

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Amorphus orientalis DSM 21202 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that produces polysaccharides and was isolated from salt mine sediment.

polysaccharide production Gram-negative rod-shaped aerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407935

DSM 21202

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:51:12

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Acuticoccaceae

Genus Amorphus

Species Amorphus orientalis

Full scientific name Amorphus orientalis Wang et al. 2010

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29550	negative	1-2.5 µm	1-2.5 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

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Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15576	ISP MEDIUM 2 WITH 5% NaCl (DSMZ Medium 636)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ISP MEDIUM 2 WITH 5% NaCl (DSMZ Medium 636) Composition: NaCl 50.0 g/l Agar 20.0 g/l Malt extract 10.0 g/l Dextrose 4.0 g/l Yeast extract 4.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
15576	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
29550	positive	growth	15-37
29550	positive	optimum	28	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
29550	positive	optimum	7.5
29550	positive	growth	6.5-8.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

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Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Compound production

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Compoundexopolysaccharide

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29550	NaCl	positive	growth	0.5-12 %
29550	NaCl	positive	optimum	03-08 %

Observation

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Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29550	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
29550	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
29550	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
29550	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	+	carbon source
29550	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
29550	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
29550	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
29550	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
29550	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
29550	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
29550	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29550	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29550	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
15576	salt mine sediment	Yunnan, Fenggang salt mine	China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence FJ998414 (>99% sequence identity) for Amorphus orientalis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	45
Soil Samples	38
Animal Samples	6
Plant Samples	3
Total Samples	92

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15576	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3081401v1 assembly for Amorphus orientalis DSM 21202	contig	GCA_030814015	649198.3	2926584956	649198	74.16

Genome browser: GCA_030814015

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15576	Amorphus orientalis strain YIM D10 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	FJ998414	1385		649198

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
15576	58.6	fluorimetric
15576	67.1	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
29550	65.4

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Dynamics of bacterial populations during bench-scale bioremediation of oily seawater and desert soil bioaugmented with coastal microbial mats.	Ali N, Dashti N, Salamah S, Sorkhoh N, Al-Awadhi H, Radwan S.	Microb Biotechnol	10.1111/1751-7915.12326	2016
Phylogeny	Pseudoxanthobacter liyangensis sp. nov., isolated from dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane-contaminated soil.	Liu XM, Chen K, Meng C, Zhang L, Zhu JC, Huang X, Li SP, Jiang JD	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.056507-0	2014
Phylogeny	Amorphus suaedae sp. nov., isolated from the root of a tidal flat plant, Suaeda maritima.	Hwang JM, Chung EJ, Park JA, Jeong JH, Jeon CO, Chung YR	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.048959-0	2013
Phylogeny	Amorphus orientalis sp. nov., an exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium isolated from salt mine sediment.	Wang YX, Liu JH, Chen YG, Zhang XX, Wang ZG, Chen Y, Tian SP, Hu B, Cui XL	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.015735-0	2009

References

#15576	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21202
#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 )
#29550	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 #25945 (see below)
#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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Amorphus orientalis (DSM 21202, CCTCC AA 208035, YIM D10)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Compound production

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_030814015

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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