Aquabacterium limnoticum (DSM 26447, ABP-4, BCRC 80167)

Name: Aquabacterium limnoticum (DSM 26447, ABP-4, BCRC 80167)
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BacDive ID 17928

Type strain

Strain Designation ABP-4

Culture col. no. DSM 26447 ABP-4 BCRC 80167 KCTC 23306

NCBI tax ID(s) 708634

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Aquabacterium limnoticum ABP-4 is a facultative anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from freshwater spring.

Gram-negative rod-shaped facultative anaerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 402256

KCTC 23306,BCRC 80167,DSM 26447

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:51:13

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Sphaerotilaceae

Genus Aquabacterium

Species Aquabacterium limnoticum

Full scientific name Aquabacterium limnoticum Chen et al. 2012

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
30203	negative	1.3-2.0 µm	0.8-1 µm	rod-shaped
67771	negative

Multimedia

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intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
18224	R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casamino acids 0.5 g/l Starch 0.5 g/l Glucose 0.5 g/l Proteose peptone 0.5 g/l Yeast extract 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.3 g/l Na-pyruvate 0.3 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
18224	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
30203	positive	growth	20-40
30203	positive	optimum	30-37	mesophilic
67771	positive	growth	25	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
30203	positive	optimum	07-09
30203	positive	growth	07-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
30203	facultative anaerobe
67771	aerobe

Spore formation

30203

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30203	NaCl	positive	growth	0-3 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30203	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
30203	22653 ChEBI	asparagine	+	carbon source
30203	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
30203	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
30203	51850 ChEBI	methyl pyruvate	+	carbon source
30203	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
30203	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
30203	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
30203	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
30203	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Freshwater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Spring

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
18224	freshwater spring	Taichung County	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia	24.1208	120.674 24.1208/120.674
67771	From freshwater		Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
18224	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
18224	Aquabacterium limnoticum strain ABP-4 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	GU319965	1443		708634

GC content

18224

GC-content (mol%)68.6

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Aquabacterium pictum sp. nov., the first aerobic bacteriochlorophyll a-containing fresh water bacterium in the genus Aquabacterium of the class Betaproteobacteria.	Hirose S, Tank M, Hara E, Tamaki H, Mori K, Takaichi S, Haruta S, Hanada S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003798	2020
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

References

#18224	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 26447
#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 )
#26548	IJSEM 698 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.030635-0 , PubMed 21551326 )
#30203	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 #26548
#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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Aquabacterium limnoticum (DSM 26447, ABP-4, BCRC 80167)

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

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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