Litoreibacter janthinus (DSM 26921, JCM 16492, NRIC 0772)

Name: Litoreibacter janthinus (DSM 26921, JCM 16492, NRIC 0772)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 23241

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 26921 JCM 16492 NRIC 0772 KMM 3842

NCBI tax ID(s) 670154

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History <- JCM <- N. Tanaka <- L. A. Romanenko; KMM 3842 N. Tanaka <-- L. A. Romanenko Sd1 (=KMM 3842).

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Litoreibacter janthinus DSM 26921 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from shallow sediments.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 402469

JCM 16492,DSM 26921

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:23:42

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Roseobacteraceae

Genus Litoreibacter

Species Litoreibacter janthinus

Full scientific name Litoreibacter janthinus Romanenko et al. 2011

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
29724	negative	1.9 µm	0.5 µm	rod-shaped
125438	negative				99.5
125439	negative				94.3

Colony morphology

19112

Incubation period2-3 days

Pigmentation

29724

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
19112	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
19112	positive	growth	25
29724	positive	growth	04-37
29724	positive	optimum	26.5
67770	positive	growth	25

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
29724	positive	optimum	7.75
29724	positive	growth	6.0-10.0	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
29724	aerobe
125439	aerobe	93.6

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		96.1

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29724	NaCl	positive	growth	0.5-6 %
29724	NaCl	positive	optimum	2.5 %

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-10

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	-	fermentation	from API 20NE
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation	from API 20NE
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
68369	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20NE

Metabolite tests

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

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29724	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
29724	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
68369	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20NE
68369	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API 20NE
19112	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29724	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29724	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
19112	cytochrome-c oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
29724	gelatinase	+
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
19112	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	+/-	-	+/-	+/-	-	+/-	+/-	-	-	+	+	-	not determinedn.d.

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
19112	shallow sediments	Sea of Japan	Russia	RUS	Asia
67770	Shallow sediments of the Sea of Japan		Russia	RUS

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
19112	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
67770	IMG-taxon 2617270836 annotated assembly for Litoreibacter janthinus DSM 26921	scaffold	GCA_900111945	670154.3	2617270836	670154	78

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
19112	Litoreibacter janthinus gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB518880	1437		670154

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
19112	58.5	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
29724	58.5

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Litoreibacter janthinus DSM 26921
NCBI: GCA_900111945

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	96.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	62.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	94.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	93.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Litoreibacter janthinus strain DSM 26921
PATRIC: 670154.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.50	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	94.15	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.98	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	86.25	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.93	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	74.38	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Regulation of a phage defence island by RptR, a novel repressor that controls restriction-modification systems in diverse bacteria.	Zhang Y, Schuller M, Ahel I, Blower TR, Exley RM, Tang CM.	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/gkaf645	2025
Genetics	Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria.	Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468	2020
Phylogeny	Litoreibacter ponti sp. nov., isolated from seawater.	Park S, Park JM, Park DS, Yoon JH.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.066654-0	2014
Phylogeny	Description of Litoreibacter meonggei sp. nov., isolated from the sea squirt Halocynthia roretzi, reclassification of Thalassobacter arenae as Litoreibacter arenae comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Litoreibacter Romanenko et al. 2011.	Kim YO, Park S, Nam BH, Kang SJ, Hur YB, Kim DG, Oh TK, Yoon JH.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.035113-0	2012
Phylogeny	Litoreibacter roseus sp. nov., a novel bacteriochlorophyll a-containing bacterium.	Kanamuro M, Sato-Takabe Y, Muramatsu S, Hirose S, Muramatsu Y, Takaichi S, Hanada S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004679	2021
Phylogeny	Litoreibacter albidus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Litoreibacter janthinus sp. nov., members of the class Alphaproteobacteria isolated from the seashore.	Romanenko LA, Tanaka N, Frolova GM, Svetashev VI, Mikhailov VV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.019513-0	2010

References

#19112	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 26921
#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 )
#26107	IJSEM 148 2011 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.019513-0 , PubMed 20173002 )
#29724	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 #26107
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68369	Automatically annotated from API 20NE .
#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 )
#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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Litoreibacter janthinus (DSM 26921, JCM 16492, NRIC 0772)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API 20NE

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900111945

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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