Aquabacterium fontiphilum (DSM 22961, BCRC 17729, LMG 24215)

Name: Aquabacterium fontiphilum (DSM 22961, BCRC 17729, LMG 24215)
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BacDive ID 17927

Type strain

Strain Designation CS-6

Culture col. no. DSM 22961 BCRC 17729 LMG 24215 CS-6

NCBI tax ID(s) 450365

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- LMG <- W.-M. Chen, Department of Seafood Science, University Kaohsing City

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Aquabacterium fontiphilum CS-6 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from spring water.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 309053

LMG 24215,BCRC 17729,DSM 22961

@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 fontiphilum

Full scientific name Aquabacterium fontiphilum Lin et al. 2009

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Aquabacterium fontiphilum** (1)	Type strain
145461	A. fontiphilum CCUG 28598

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
28895	negative	rod-shaped
125438	negative			98

Multimedia

@ref:	16559
multimedia content:	DSM_22961.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/photos/DSM_22961.jpg
intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16559	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
16559	positive	growth	25
28895	positive	optimum	25-30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
28895	positive	optimum	07-08
28895	positive	growth	05-09	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

28895

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

28895

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
28895	NaCl	positive	growth	<2 %
28895	NaCl	positive	optimum	1 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
28895	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
28895	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	carbon source
28895	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
28895	15740 ChEBI	formate	+	carbon source
28895	24148 ChEBI	galactonate	+	carbon source
28895	24175 ChEBI	galacturonate	+	carbon source
28895	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	carbon source
28895	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
28895	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
28895	17240 ChEBI	itaconate	+	carbon source
28895	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
28895	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
28895	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
28895	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	+	carbon source
28895	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
28895	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
28895	17748 ChEBI	thymidine	+	carbon source
28895	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	carbon source
28895	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	carbon source
28895	53425 ChEBI	tween 60	+	carbon source
28895	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source
28895	16199 ChEBI	urea	+	carbon source
28895	16704 ChEBI	uridine	+	carbon source
28895	27248 ChEBI	urocanic acid	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
28895	catalase	+	1.11.1.6

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Spring

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
16559	spring water	Hsinchu County (Nature Valley)	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16559	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
66792	ASM990920v1 assembly for Aquabacterium fontiphilum CS-6	contig	GCA_009909205	450365.3	2994200003	450365	72.25

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
16559	Aquabacterium fontiphilum strain CS-6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF626687	1439		450365

GC content

16559

GC-content (mol%)63.4

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Aquabacterium fontiphilum CS-6
NCBI: GCA_009909205.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.00	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	93.02	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	75.45	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.31	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.12	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	79.67	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Aquabacterium olei sp. nov., an oil-degrading bacterium isolated from oil-contaminated soil.	Pham VHT, Jeong SW, Kim J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000458	2015
Phylogeny	Aquabacterium limnoticum sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater spring.	Chen WM, Cho NT, Yang SH, Arun AB, Young CC, Sheu SY	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.030635-0	2011
Phylogeny	Aquabacterium fontiphilum sp. nov., isolated from spring water.	Lin MC, Jiang SR, Chou JH, Arun AB, Young CC, Chen WM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.000745-0	2009

References

#16559	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22961
#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 )
#25335	IJSEM 681 2009 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.000745-0 , PubMed 19329587 )
#28895	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 #25335
#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) .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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 fontiphilum (DSM 22961, BCRC 17729, LMG 24215)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_009909205

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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