Caulobacter henricii (DSM 4730, ATCC 15253, CCUG 49339)

Name: Caulobacter henricii (DSM 4730, ATCC 15253, CCUG 49339)
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BacDive ID 2326

Type strain

Strain Designation CB 4

Culture col. no. DSM 4730 ATCC 15253 CCUG 49339 LMG 18392 CB 4 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 69395

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG CIP

History <- ATCC <- J.S. Poindexter, CB4 CIP <- 2000, W.R. Abraham, GBF, Braunschweig, Germany <- ATCC <- J.L. Stove: strain CB 4

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Caulobacter henricii CB 4 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from pond water.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 12052

LMG 18392,ATCC 15253,DSM 4730,CIP 106446,VKM B-1495,CCUG 49339

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:16

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Caulobacterales

Family Caulobacteraceae

Genus Caulobacter

Species Caulobacter henricii

Full scientific name Caulobacter henricii Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Caulobacter henricii** (3)	Type strain
153290	C. henricii CCUG 49008
153291	C. henricii CCUG 49010
153293	C. henricii CCUG 49014

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
119873	negative	rod-shaped
125438	negative			96.963

Colony morphology

58516

Incubation period3 days

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
119873		Pyocyanin

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
1736	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
1736	CAULOBACTER MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 595)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CAULOBACTER MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 595) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Bacto peptone 2.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.2 g/l Tap water
39528	MEDIUM 341 - for Caulobacter and Brevundimonas		Distilled water make up to (995.000 ml);Magnesium sulphate heptahydrate (0.200 g);Calcium chloride dihydrate (0.100 g);Agar (15.000 g);Yeast extract (1.000 g);Peptone (2.000 g);Vitamin solution - M0655 (5.000 ml)
119873	CIP Medium 341	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1736	positive	growth	28
39528	positive	growth	30
58516	positive	growth	30
119873	positive	growth	10-37
119873	negative	growth	41

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

58516

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
119873	NaCl	positive	growth	0 %
119873	NaCl		growth	2 %
119873	NaCl		growth	4 %
119873	NaCl		growth	6 %
119873	NaCl		growth	8 %
119873	NaCl		growth	10 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
119873	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
119873	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
119873	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
119873	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
119873	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
119873	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
68382	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	+	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API zym
119873	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
119873	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
119873	gelatinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	+		from API zym
119873	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	+	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
119873	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	from API zym
119873	tryptophan deaminase	-
119873	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	+		from API zym

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
119873	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	+	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Pond (small)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
1736	pond water
58516	Pond water
119873	Environment, Freshwater pond

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ007805 (>99% sequence identity) for Caulobacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	9290
Soil Samples	16766
Animal Samples	3496
Plant Samples	8227
Total Samples	37779

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1736	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
119873	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM141405v1 assembly for Caulobacter henricii CB4	complete	GCA_001414055	69395.9	69395	94.54
124043	ASM4265466v1 assembly for Caulobacter henricii CCUG 49339	scaffold	GCA_042654665		69395	68.09

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Caulobacter henricii gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB008532	1283	69395
20218	Caulobacter henricii 16S rRNA gene	AJ007805	1381	69395
20218	Caulobacter henricii DNA for 16S ribosomal RNA, strain ATCC 15253(T)	AJ227758	1439	69395
124043	Caulobacter henricii strain ATCC 15253 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	KX881484	662	69395

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Caulobacter henricii strain CB4
PATRIC: 69395.9

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	96.96	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.65	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.39	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	88.97	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	98.00	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	67.19	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Complete Genome Sequence of Caulobacter sp. Strain S6, Obtained Using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina Sequencing.	Zhang C, Huang J, Ouyang W, Li Y, Tang Y, Guo Z, Lei P, Liu Q.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.00680-21	2021
Phylogeny	Three Phages from a Boreal Lake during Ice Cover Infecting Xylophilus, Caulobacter, and Polaromonas Species.	Laanto E, Oksanen HM.	Viruses	10.3390/v15020307	2023
Metabolism	Diverse bacterial PKS sequences derived from okadaic acid-producing dinoflagellates.	Perez R, Liu L, Lopez J, An T, Rein KS.	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md20080009	2008
Phylogeny	Conservation of the Essential Genome Among Caulobacter and Brevundimonas Species.	Scott D, Ely B	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-015-0964-x	2016
Phylogeny	Phenylobacterium montanum sp. nov., an oligotrophic, slightly acidophilic mesophile isolated from sandy soil.	Tang Y, Huang J, Huang B, Du J, Zhang C, Long Q, Li Y, Guo Z, Liu Q.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006463	2024
Phylogeny	Caulobacter soli sp. nov., isolated from soil sampled at Jiri Mountain, Republic of Korea.	Yang Y, Jin CZ, Jin FJ, Li T, Lee JM, Kim CJ, Lee HG, Jin L	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004264	2020
Phylogeny	Caulobacter hibisci sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere of Hibiscus syriacus L. (Mugunghwa flower).	Moya G, Yan ZF, Won K, Yang JE, Wang QJ, Kook M, Yi TH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002021	2017
Phylogeny	Caulobacter rhizosphaerae sp. nov., a stalked bacterium isolated from rhizosphere soil.	Sun LN, Yang ED, Hou XT, Wei JC, Yuan ZX, Wang WY	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001860	2017
Phylogeny	Caulobacter flavus sp. nov., a stalked bacterium isolated from rhizosphere soil.	Sun LN, Yang ED, Wei JC, Tang XY, Cao YY, Han GM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000585	2015
Phylogeny	Caulobacter ginsengisoli sp. nov., a novel stalked bacterium isolated from ginseng cultivating soil.	Liu QM, Ten LN, Im WT, Lee ST, Yoon MH	J Microbiol Biotechnol	JMB020-01-02	2010

References

#1736	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 4730
#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 )
#39528	; Curators of the CIP;
#58516	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 49339
#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) .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#119873	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 106446
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Caulobacter henricii (DSM 4730, ATCC 15253, CCUG 49339)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001414055

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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