Piscinibacter aquaticus (DSM 19915, IMCC 1728, KCCM 42364)

Name: Piscinibacter aquaticus (DSM 19915, IMCC 1728, KCCM 42364)
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BacDive ID 17958

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 19915 IMCC 1728 KCCM 42364 NBRC 102349

NCBI tax ID(s) 392597

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- Y. Muramatsu, Natl. Inst. of Technol. and Evaluation (NITE), Japan; NBRC 102349 <- J. Song, Inha University, Incheon, Korea

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Piscinibacter aquaticus DSM 19915 is a facultative aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from artificial freshwater pond .

Gram-negative rod-shaped facultative aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 293939

NBRC 102349,DSM 19915

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Sphaerotilaceae

Genus Piscinibacter

Species Piscinibacter aquaticus

Full scientific name Piscinibacter aquaticus (Song and Cho 2007) Stackebrandt et al. 2009

Synonyms (1)

Methylibium aquaticum

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
32241	negative	1.35 µm	0.55 µm	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
8386	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)
8386	positive	growth	28
32241	positive	growth	15-42
32241	positive	optimum	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
32241	positive	optimum	7
32241	positive	growth	06-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

32241

Oxygen tolerancefacultative aerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
32241	NaCl	positive	growth	0-1 %

Observation

32241

Observationaggregates in clumps

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32241	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
32241	29016 ChEBI	arginine	+	carbon source
32241	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
32241	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
32241	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	+	carbon source
32241	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
32241	27570 ChEBI	histidine	+	carbon source
32241	15792 ChEBI	malonate	+	carbon source
32241	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source
32241	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
32241	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	carbon source
32241	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
32241	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	+	carbon source
32241	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
32241	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source
32241	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32241	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
32241	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
32241	gelatinase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Built environment	-
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Freshwater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Pond (small)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
8386	artificial freshwater pond (Inkyoung pond)	Incheon, inside Inha University	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB681749 (>99% sequence identity) for Piscinibacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1530
Soil Samples	1140
Animal Samples	237
Plant Samples	926
Total Samples	3833

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8386	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Piscinibacter aquaticus gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: NBRC 102349	AB681749	1454		392597
8386	Piscinibacter aquaticus strain IMCC1728 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ664244	1470		392597

GC content

32241

GC-content (mol%)66.2

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Dissection of the genus Methylibium: reclassification of Methylibium fulvum as Rhizobacter fulvus comb. nov., Methylibium aquaticum as Piscinibacter aquaticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Methylibium subsaxonicum as Rivibacter subsaxonicus gen. nov., comb. nov. and emended descriptions of the genera Rhizobacter and Methylibium.	Stackebrandt E, Verbarg S, Fruhling A, Busse HJ, Tindall BJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.008383-0	2009
Phylogeny	Methylibium subsaxonicum spec. nov., a betaproteobacterium Isolated from a hardwater rivulet.	Stackebrandt E, Fruhling A, Cousin S, Brambilla E, Lunsdorf H, Verbarg S	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-007-9095-3	2008
Phylogeny	Geomonas soli gen. nov., sp. nov., a New Member of the Family Comamonadaceae, Isolated from Soil.	Khan SA, Jeong SE, Park HY, Lee SS, Jeon CO	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-019-01814-5	2019
Phylogeny	Piscinibacter caeni sp. nov., isolated from activated sludge.	Chen DZ, Yu NN, Chu QY, Chen J, Ye JX, Cheng ZW, Zhang SH, Chen JM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002891	2018
Phylogeny	Piscinibacter defluvii sp. nov., isolated from a sewage treatment plant, and emended description of the genus Piscinibacter Stackebrandt et al. 2009.	Cho SH, Lee HJ, Jeon CO	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001438	2016
Phylogeny	Methylibium aquaticum sp. nov., a betaproteobacterium isolated from a eutrophic freshwater pond.	Song J, Cho JC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65179-0	2007
Phylogeny	Chryseolinea lacunae sp. nov. and Piscinibacter lacus sp. nov. Isolated from Artificial Pond Water.	Kim I, Chhetri G, Kim J, So Y, Seo T	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-022-03133-8	2022

References

#8386	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19915
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#28482	IJSEM 2125 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65179-0 , PubMed 17766884 )
#32241	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 #28482
#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 .
#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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Piscinibacter aquaticus (DSM 19915, IMCC 1728, KCCM 42364)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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