Name: Chitinivorax tropicus KL-9
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 23450

Type strain:

Species: Chitinivorax tropicus

Strain Designation: KL-9

Culture col. no.: DSM 27165, BCRC 80168, LMG 25530

Strain history: <- LMG <- W.-M. Chen, Natl. Kaohsiung Marine Univ. Taiwan

NCBI tax ID(s): 714531 (species)

SI-ID 368524

LMG 25530, BCRC 80168, DSM 27165

Section

Chitinivorax tropicus KL-9 is a facultative anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from freshwater lake.

Gram-negative
motile
rod-shaped
facultative anaerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Betaproteobacteria*
	Order	[Betaproteobacteria, not assigned to order]
	Family	[Betaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]
	Genus	*Chitinivorax*
	Species	**Chitinivorax tropicus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Chitinivorax tropicus Chen et al. 2012

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #30230]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.994

[Ref.: #30230]	Cell length	3 µm

[Ref.: #30230]	Cell width	0.35 µm

[Ref.: #30230]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #30230]	Motility	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	yes Confidence in %96.672

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Pigment production

yes

Multimedia content

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Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

REACTIVATION WITH LIQUID MEDIUM 830 (DSMZ Medium 830c)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #19141]	growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #30230]	growth	15-40 °C
[Ref.: #30230]	optimum	33.5 °C

[Ref.: #19141]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #30230]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #30230]			optimum	8
[Ref.: #30230]			growth	07-09

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

facultative anaerobe

[Ref.: #30230]	Ability of spore formation	no
[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %96
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %99.97

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #30230]		NaCl		growth	0-1	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #30230]	alanine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	asparagine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	citrate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	galacturonate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	gluconate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	glutamate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	glycogen ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	inosine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	itaconate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	L-alaninamide ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	L-arabitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	lactose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	leucine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	melibiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #30230]	ornithine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	ribitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	serine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	succinate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	threonine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	tween 40 ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30230]	tween 80 ChEBI	+	carbon source
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	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #30230]	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
[Ref.: #30230]	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
[Ref.: #30230]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #30230]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #19141]	Sample type/isolated from	freshwater lake
[Ref.: #19141]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Jin-Shih Lake
[Ref.: #19141]	Country	Taiwan
[Ref.: #19141]	Country ISO 3 Code	TWN
[Ref.: #19141]	Continent	Asia
[Ref.: #19141]	Geographic location	22.6656°/120.3260°
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Freshwater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)

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Global distribution of 16S sequence GU362099 (>99% sequence identity) for Chitinivorax tropicus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	573
Soil Samples	508
Animal Samples	213
Plant Samples	29
Total Samples	1323

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #19141]	Chitinivorax tropicus strain KL-9 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	GU362099	1454	ENA	714531 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Chitinivorax tropicus DSM 27165	GCA_014202905	scaffold	GenBank	714531 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Chitinivorax tropicus strain DSM 27165	714531.3	wgs	PATRIC	714531 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Chitinivorax tropicus DSM 27165	2861653689	draft	JGI IMG/M	714531 tax ID	*

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GC-content

64.6 mol%

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Chitinivorax tropicus DSM 27165 NCBI: GCA_014202905.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	96	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Chitinivorax tropicus DSM 27165 NCBI: GCA_014202905.1
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	yes	81.243	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	98.038	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	96.658	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	54.223	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	95.344	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	91.994	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	86.112	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	95.354	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	89.99	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	88.03	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 27165, BCRC 80168, LMG 25530

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SI-ID 368524

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Chitinivorax tropicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitinolytic bacterium isolated from a freshwater lake.	Chen WM, Yang SH, Huang WC, Cheng CY, Sheu SY	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.031310-0	2011	*

References

#19141

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 27165

#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 )

#30230

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 #26573 (see below)

#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) .

#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 .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#87602

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID368524.1 )

#26573

IJSEM 1086 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.031310-0 , PubMed 21705448 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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