Chromobacterium vaccinii (DSM 25150, ATCC BAA-2314, MWU205)

Name: Chromobacterium vaccinii (DSM 25150, ATCC BAA-2314, MWU205)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 23150

Type strain

Strain Designation MWU205

Culture col. no. DSM 25150 ATCC BAA-2314 MWU205

NCBI tax ID(s) 1108595

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- S. Soby, Midwestern University, Glendale, USA; MWU205

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Chromobacterium vaccinii MWU205 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from wild cranberry bog soil.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 401042

ATCC BAA-2314,DSM 25150

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:30:23

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Neisseriales

Family Chromobacteriaceae

Genus Chromobacterium

Species Chromobacterium vaccinii

Full scientific name Chromobacterium vaccinii Soby et al. 2013

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
30817	negative	3.03 µm	1.19 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative					96.512

Pigmentation

30817

Productionyes

Multimedia

@ref:	19310
multimedia content:	DSM_25150.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/photos/DSM_25150.jpg
intellectual property rights:	© Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
19310	LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 381)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 381) Composition: Agar 20.0 g/l NaCl 10.0 g/l Tryptone 10.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
19310	positive	growth	25
30817	positive	growth	25-43
30817	positive	optimum	25.5

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
30817	positive	growth	6.5-8.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

30817

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.873

Compound production

19310

Compoundviolacein

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30817	NaCl	positive	growth	01-03 %
30817	NaCl	positive	optimum	2 %

Observation

30817

Observationaggregates in clumps

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68369	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	fermentation	from API 20NE
68369	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
30817	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	+	carbon source
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
30817	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	+	carbon source
68369	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
30817	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
68369	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
30817	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
68369	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
30817	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source
68369	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction	from API 20NE
68369	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20NE
68369	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
30817	35581 ChEBI	indole
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20NE

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Indole test
30817	35581 ChEBI	indole	+
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole	-	from API 20NE

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68369	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
68369	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API 20NE
30817	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
30817	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
68369	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1	from API 20NE
68369	gelatinase	+		from API 20NE
68369	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20NE

API 20NE

@ref	Reduction of nitratesNO3	TRP	GLU_ Ferm	ADH (Arg)	URE	ESC	GEL	PNPG	GLU_ Assim	ARA	MNE	MAN	NAG	MAL	GNT	CAP	ADI	MLT	CIT	PAC	OX
19310	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Wetland (Swamp)
#Host	#Plants	#Shrub (Scrub)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
19310	wild cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) bog soil	Vaccinium macrocarpon	Massachusetts, Cape Cod National Seashore, Wareham	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JN120869 (>99% sequence identity) for Chromobacterium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	355
Soil Samples	259
Animal Samples	129
Plant Samples	386
Total Samples	1129

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
19310	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM97133v1 assembly for Chromobacterium vaccinii MWU205	contig	GCA_000971335	2630968526	1108595	47.98

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
19310	Chromobacterium vaccinii strain MWU205 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JN120869	1528		1108595

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM97133v1 assembly for Chromobacterium vaccinii MWU205
NCBI: GCA_000971335

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	74.13	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	96.51	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	89.66	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.87	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	The Bacterial G_q Signal Transduction Inhibitor FR900359 Impairs Soil-Associated Nematodes.	Hanke W, Alenfelder J, Liu J, Gutbrod P, Kehraus S, Crusemann M, Dormann P, Kostenis E, Scholz M, Konig GM.	J Chem Ecol	10.1007/s10886-023-01442-1	2023
Transcriptome	The mosquito adulticidal Chromobacterium sp. Panama causes transgenerational impacts on fitness parameters and elicits xenobiotic gene responses.	Short SM, van Tol S, Smith B, Dong Y, Dimopoulos G.	Parasit Vectors	10.1186/s13071-018-2822-8	2018
Phylogeny	Chromobacterium amazonense sp. nov. isolated from water samples from the Rio Negro, Amazon, Brazil.	Menezes CB, Tonin MF, Correa DB, Parma M, de Melo IS, Zucchi TD, Destefano SA, Fantinatti-Garboggini F	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-015-0397-3	2015
Phylogeny	Chromobacterium vaccinii sp. nov., isolated from native and cultivated cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) bogs and irrigation ponds.	Soby SD, Gadagkar SR, Contreras C, Caruso FL	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.045161-0	2012

References

#19310	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 25150
#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 )
#27148	IJSEM 1840 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.045161-0 , PubMed 22984138 )
#30817	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 #27148
#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) .
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#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 .
#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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Chromobacterium vaccinii (DSM 25150, ATCC BAA-2314, MWU205)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Compound production

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API 20NE

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000971335

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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References

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