Aquabacterium parvum (DSM 11968, CCM 4958, CCUG 48317)

Name: Aquabacterium parvum (DSM 11968, CCM 4958, CCUG 48317)
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BacDive ID 17924

Type strain

Strain Designation B6

Culture col. no. DSM 11968 CCM 4958 CCUG 48317 CIP 106983 ATCC BAA-208 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 70584

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

History DSMZ <- S. Kalmbach; B6 CIP <- 2001, W. Manz, Technol. Berlin Univ., Berlin, Germany: strain B6 <- S. Kalmbach

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Aquabacterium parvum B6 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from biofilm in drinking water pipe.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49208

DSM 11968,CCM 4958,NCIMB 13781,CIP 106983,CCUG 48317,ATCC BAA-208

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:29:07

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Sphaerotilaceae

Genus Aquabacterium

Species Aquabacterium parvum

Full scientific name Aquabacterium parvum Kalmbach et al. 1999

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
121603	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
4560	MEDIUM R2A MODIFIED (DSMZ Medium 830a)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MEDIUM R2A MODIFIED (DSMZ Medium 830a) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 0.5 g/l Proteose peptone 0.5 g/l Casamino acids 0.5 g/l Glucose 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.3 g/l Na-pyruvate 0.3 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.05 g/l Tween 80 Distilled water
40552	MEDIUM 372 - for Aquabacterium		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Magnesium sulphate heptahydrate (0.050 g);Agar (15.000 g);Glucose (0.500 g);Yeast extract (0.500 g);Pyruvic acid (0.300g);Tween 80 (1.000 ml);Casamino acids (0.500 g);Proteose Peptone N°3 (0.500 g);Di Potassium mon
121603	CIP Medium 372	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4560	positive	growth	28
40552	positive	growth	25
58080	positive	growth	30
121603	positive	growth	15-37
121603	negative	growth	5
121603	negative	growth	41

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
58080	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	93.659

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.73

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Tested relation	Concentration
121603	NaCl	growth	0 %
121603	NaCl	growth	2 %
121603	NaCl	growth	4 %
121603	NaCl	growth	6 %
121603	NaCl	growth	8 %
121603	NaCl	growth	10 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
121603	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
121603	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	degradation
121603	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
121603	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	Metabolite	Is sensitive	Is resistant
121603	0129 (2,4-Diamino-6,7-di-iso-propylpteridine phosphate)

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
121603	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
121603	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
121603	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
121603	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
121603	amylase	-
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
121603	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
121603	gamma-glutamyltransferase	-	2.3.2.2
121603	gelatinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
121603	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
121603	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
121603	oxidase	+
121603	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
121603	tryptophan deaminase	-
121603	urease	+	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

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
121603	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

API biotype100

@ref	ControlQ	D-glucose as carbon sourceGLU	D-fructose as carbon sourceFRU	D-galactose as carbon sourceGAL	D-trehalose as carbon sourceTRE	D-mannose as carbon sourceMNE	L-sorbose as carbon sourceSBE	D-melibiose as carbon sourceMEL	sucrose as carbon sourceSAC	D-raffinose as carbon sourceRAF	maltotriose as carbon sourceMTE	maltose as carbon sourceMAL	lactose as carbon sourceLAC	lactulose as carbon sourceLTE	1-O-methyl-beta-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGa	1-O-methyl-alpha-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMaGa	D-cellobiose as carbon sourceCEL	gentiobiose as carbon sourceGEN	1-O-methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGu	esculin as carbon sourceESC	D-ribose as carbon sourceRIB	L-arabinose as carbon sourceARA	D-xylose as carbon sourceXYL	palatinose as carbon sourcePLE	L-rhamnose as carbon sourceRHA	L-fucose as carbon sourceFUC	D-melezitose as carbon sourceMLZ	D-arabitol as carbon sourceDARL	L-arabitol as carbon sourceLARL	xylitol as carbon sourceXLT	dulcitol as carbon sourceDUL	D-tagatose as carbon sourceTAG	glycerol as carbon sourceGLY	myo-inositol as carbon sourceINO	D-mannitol as carbon sourceMAN	maltitol as carbon sourceMTL	D-turanose as carbon sourceTUR	D-sorbitol as carbon sourceSOR	adonitol as carbon sourceADO	hydroxyquinoline-beta-glucuronide as carbon sourceHBG	D-lyxose as carbon sourceLYX	i-erythritol as carbon sourceERY	1-O-methyl-alpha-D-glucoside as carbon sourceMDG	3-O-methyl-D-glucose as carbon source3MDG	D-saccharate as carbon sourceSAT	mucate as carbon sourceMUC	L-tartrate as carbon sourceLTAT	D-tartrate as carbon sourceDTAT	meso-tartrate as carbon sourceMTAT	D-malate as carbon sourceDMLT	L-malate as carbon sourceLMLT	cis-aconitate as carbon sourceCATE	trans-aconitate as carbon sourceTATE	tricarballylate as carbon sourceTTE	citrate as carbon sourceCIT	D-glucuronate as carbon sourceGRT	D-galacturonate as carbon sourceGAT	2-ketogluconate as carbon source2KG	5-ketogluconate as carbon source5KG	tryptophan as carbon sourceTRY	N-acetyl-D-glucosamine as carbon sourceNAG	D-gluconate as carbon sourceGNT	phenylacetate as carbon sourcePAC	protocatechuate as carbon sourcePAT	4-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcepOBE	quinate as carbon sourceQAT	gentisate as carbon sourceGTE	3-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcemOBE	benzoate as carbon sourceBAT	3-phenylpropionate as carbon sourcePPAT	m-coumarate as carbon sourceCMT	trigonelline as carbon sourceTGE	betaine as carbon sourceBET	putrescine as carbon sourcePCE	4-aminobutyrate as carbon sourceABT	histamine as carbon sourceHIN	DL-lactate as carbon sourceLAT	caprate as carbon sourceCAP	caprylate as carbon sourceCYT	L-histidine as carbon sourceHIS	succinate as carbon sourceSUC	fumarate as carbon sourceFUM	glutarate as carbon sourceGRE	DL-glycerate as carbon sourceGYT	5-aminovalerate as carbon sourceAVT	ethanolamine as carbon sourceETN	tryptamine as carbon sourceTTN	D-glucosamine as carbon sourceGLN	itaconate as carbon sourceITA	3-hydroxybutyrate as carbon source3OBU	L-aspartate as carbon sourceAPT	L-glutamate as carbon sourceGTT	L-proline as carbon sourcePRO	D-alanine as carbon sourceDALA	L-alanine as carbon sourceLALA	L-serine as carbon sourceSER	malonate as carbon sourceMNT	propionate as carbon sourcePROP	L-tyrosine as carbon sourceTYR	2-ketoglutarate as carbon source2KT
121603	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Freshwater
#Environmental	#Biofilm	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Sampling date	Isolation date
4560	biofilm in drinking water pipe	Berlin	Germany	DEU	Europe
58080	Drinking water biofilms		Germany	DEU	Europe	1996
121603	Environment, Drinking water biofilms		Germany	DEU	Europe		1996

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF035052 (>99% sequence identity) for Aquabacterium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1271
Soil Samples	219
Animal Samples	676
Plant Samples	143
Total Samples	2309

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4560	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
121603	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
66792	ASM144719v1 assembly for Aquabacterium parvum B6	contig	GCA_001447195	70584.11	2684622550	70584	0

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4560	Beta proteobacterium B6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF035052	1416		70584

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM144719v1 assembly for Aquabacterium parvum B6
NCBI: GCA_001447195

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	93.66	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	88.70	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.73	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	82.90	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	New insights for tracking bacterial community structures in industrial wastewater from textile factories to surface water using phenotypic, 16S rRNA isolates identifications and high-throughput sequencing.	El-Liethy MA, Hemdan BA, El-Taweel GE.	Acta Trop	10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106806	2023
Phylogeny	Lower Genital Tract Microbiome in Early Pregnancy in the Eastern European Population.	Gryaznova M, Lebedeva O, Kozarenko O, Smirnova Y, Burakova I, Syromyatnikov M, Maslov A, Popov V.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10122368	2022
	Gut Microbiota Diversity in 16 Stingless Bee Species (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini).	Ramirez-Ahuja ML, Pena-Carrillo KI, Gomez-Govea MA, Jimenez-Martinez ML, Trujillo-Rodriguez GJ, Espinoza-Ruiz M, Guzman Velasco A, Flores AE, Gonzalez-Rojas JI, Resendez-Perez D, Rodriguez-Sanchez IP.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms13071645	2025
Enzymology	Occurrence and Succession of Bacterial Community in O₃/BAC Process of Drinking Water Treatment.	Dong S, Liu L, Zhang Y, Jiang F.	Int J Environ Res Public Health	10.3390/ijerph16173112	2019
Genetics	Exploring the effects of milk-enriched walnut soy sauce: Insights from GC-IMS and metagenomics approach to flavor and microbial shifts.	Battur M, Aaqil M, Zheng J, Lin HX, Chuluunotgon B, Zorigtbaatar T, Zhao C, Tian Y.	Food Chem X	10.1016/j.fochx.2025.102364	2025
	Healthcare Derived Smart Watches and Mobile Phones are Contaminated Niches to Multidrug Resistant and Highly Virulent Microbes.	Boucherabine S, Nassar R, Mohamed L, Olsen M, Alqutami F, Zaher S, Hachim M, Alkhajeh A, McKirdy S, Alghafri R, Tajouri L, Senok A.	Infect Drug Resist	10.2147/idr.s378524	2022
Phylogeny	Compositional Features of Distinct Microbiota Base on Serum Extracellular Vesicle Metagenomics Analysis in Moderate to Severe Psoriasis Patients.	Chang CJ, Zhang J, Tsai YL, Chen CB, Lu CW, Huo YP, Liou HM, Ji C, Chung WH.	Cells	10.3390/cells10092349	2021
	Macroalga-Derived Alginate Oligosaccharide Alters Intestinal Bacteria of Atlantic Salmon.	Gupta S, Lokesh J, Abdelhafiz Y, Siriyappagouder P, Pierre R, Sorensen M, Fernandes JMO, Kiron V.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.02037	2019
Enzymology	Thermal Stability of a Mercuric Reductase from the Red Sea Atlantis II Hot Brine Environment as Analyzed by Site-Directed Mutagenesis.	Maged M, El Hosseiny A, Saadeldin MK, Aziz RK, Ramadan E.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02387-18	2019
Enzymology	Bottled aqua incognita: microbiota assembly and dissolved organic matter diversity in natural mineral waters.	Lesaulnier CC, Herbold CW, Pelikan C, Berry D, Gerard C, Le Coz X, Gagnot S, Niggemann J, Dittmar T, Singer GA, Loy A.	Microbiome	10.1186/s40168-017-0344-9	2017
	Fluorescence-based rapid detection of microbiological contaminants in water samples.	Meder H, Baumstummler A, Chollet R, Barrier S, Kukuczka M, Olivieri F, Welterlin E, Beguin V, Ribault S.	ScientificWorldJournal	10.1100/2012/234858	2012
Enzymology	Evaluation of methods for the extraction of DNA from drinking water distribution system biofilms.	Hwang C, Ling F, Andersen GL, LeChevallier MW, Liu WT.	Microbes Environ	10.1264/jsme2.me11132	2012
	Automated design of probes for rRNA-targeted fluorescence in situ hybridization reveals the advantages of using dual probes for accurate identification.	Wright ES, Yilmaz LS, Corcoran AM, Okten HE, Noguera DR.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01685-14	2014
Phylogeny	Aquabacterium gen. nov., with description of Aquabacterium citratiphilum sp. nov., Aquabacterium parvum sp. nov. and Aquabacterium commune sp. nov., three in situ dominant bacterial species from the Berlin drinking water system.	Kalmbach S, Manz W, Wecke J, Szewzyk U	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-49-2-769	1999

References

#4560	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11968
#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 )
#40552	; Curators of the CIP;
#58080	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 48317
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#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 .
#121603	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 106983
#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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Aquabacterium parvum (DSM 11968, CCM 4958, CCUG 48317)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API biotype100

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001447195

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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