Actibacterium mucosum (DSM 28448, CECT 7668, KCTC 23349)

Name: Actibacterium mucosum (DSM 28448, CECT 7668, KCTC 23349)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 24522

Type strain

Strain Designation R46

Culture col. no. DSM 28448 CECT 7668 KCTC 23349 R46

NCBI tax ID(s) 1454373 1087332

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Actibacterium mucosum R46 is an aerobe, mesophilic, ovoid-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from surface water.

ovoid-shaped aerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 382380

CECT 7668,KCTC 23349,DSM 28448

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:52:52

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Roseobacteraceae

Genus Actibacterium

Species Actibacterium mucosum

Full scientific name Actibacterium mucosum Lucena et al. 2012

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
30524	1 µm	0.35 µm	ovoid-shaped
125438

Colony morphology

21241

Incubation period1-2 days

Pigmentation

30524

Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
21241	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)	Range
21241	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
30524	positive	growth	15-37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
30524	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.767
125439		94

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30524	NaCl	positive	growth	1.7-5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30524	37054 ChEBI	3-hydroxybutyrate	+	carbon source
30524	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
68369	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
30524	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
30524	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
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
68369	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
30524	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
30524	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
68369	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
68369	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
30524	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
30524	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
68369	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
30524	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
30524	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
68369	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
30524	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
30524	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	carbon source
68369	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation	from API 20NE
68369	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction	from API 20NE
30524	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	carbon source
30524	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
30524	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
30524	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
68369	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20NE
68369	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20NE
30524	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

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
30524	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
30524	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
30524	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
21241	cytochrome-c oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
68369	gelatinase	+		from API 20NE
68369	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20NE

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	ceramide biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	100	10 of 10
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	IAA biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	resorcinol degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	100	8 of 8
66794	cyanate degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	octane oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	lactate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	gluconeogenesis	100	8 of 8
66794	leucine metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	90.91	10 of 11
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	90	9 of 10
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	allantoin degradation	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	87.5	7 of 8
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	85.71	6 of 7
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	85.29	29 of 34
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	83.33	5 of 6
66794	NAD metabolism	83.33	15 of 18
66794	alanine metabolism	82.76	24 of 29
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	82.22	37 of 45
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	82.14	23 of 28
66794	proline metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	purine metabolism	80.85	76 of 94
66794	methionine metabolism	80.77	21 of 26
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	3-chlorocatechol degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	80	4 of 5
66794	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	gallate degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	degradation of sugar acids	80	20 of 25
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	citric acid cycle	78.57	11 of 14
66794	degradation of pentoses	78.57	22 of 28
66794	tyrosine metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	75	9 of 12
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	d-xylose degradation	72.73	8 of 11
66794	propanol degradation	71.43	5 of 7
66794	glutathione metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	sulfate reduction	69.23	9 of 13
66794	urea cycle	69.23	9 of 13
66794	arginine metabolism	66.67	16 of 24
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	non-pathway related	65.79	25 of 38
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	64.84	59 of 91
66794	lipid metabolism	64.52	20 of 31
66794	lysine metabolism	64.29	27 of 42
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	tryptophan metabolism	63.16	24 of 38
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	62.5	10 of 16
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	61.54	16 of 26
66794	cysteine metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	polyamine pathway	60.87	14 of 23
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	threonine metabolism	60	6 of 10
66794	flavin biosynthesis	60	9 of 15
66794	propionate fermentation	60	6 of 10
66794	histidine metabolism	58.62	17 of 29
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	nitrate assimilation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	ascorbate metabolism	54.55	12 of 22
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	phenol degradation	50	10 of 20
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	47.06	8 of 17
66794	degradation of hexoses	44.44	8 of 18
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	43.75	7 of 16
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	40	6 of 15
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	38.89	7 of 18
66794	carnitine metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	methane metabolism	33.33	1 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	30	3 of 10
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	30	3 of 10
66794	starch degradation	30	3 of 10
66794	aclacinomycin biosynthesis	28.57	2 of 7
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	27.78	5 of 18
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	alginate biosynthesis	25	1 of 4

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
21241	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	not determinedn.d.

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Surface water

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
21241	surface water	Valencia, Malvarrosa Beach	Spain	ESP	Europe	39.4747	-0.3231 39.4747/-0.3231

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence HE590855 (>99% sequence identity) for Actibacterium mucosum subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	290
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples	5
Plant Samples
Total Samples	297

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
21241	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Actibacterium mucosum KCTC 23349	complete	2576861736	1454373	95.2
66792	SOAPdenovo v1.05 assembly for Actibacterium mucosum KCTC 23349	contig	2667527933	1454373	75.35

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21241	Actibacterium mucosum partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain CECT 7668T	HE590855	1412		1454373

GC content

21241

GC-content (mol%)61.3

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Actibacterium mucosum KCTC 23349
NCBI: GCA_000647975

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	94.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	65.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	89.80	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	93.80	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Actibacterium mucosum KCTC 23349
PATRIC: 1454373.5

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.00	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.77	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	84.25	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.32	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	59.34	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	A New N-Acyl Homoserine Lactone Synthase in an Uncultured Symbiont of the Red Sea Sponge Theonella swinhoei.	Britstein M, Devescovi G, Handley KM, Malik A, Haber M, Saurav K, Teta R, Costantino V, Burgsdorf I, Gilbert JA, Sher N, Venturi V, Steindler L.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.03111-15	2016
Genetics	Draft Genome Sequence of Actibacterium mucosum KCTC 23349, a Marine Alphaproteobacterium with Complex Ionic Requirements Isolated from Mediterranean Seawater at Malvarrosa Beach, Valencia, Spain.	Arahal DR, Shao Z, Lai Q, Pujalte MJ	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00486-14	2014
Phylogeny	Actibacterium atlanticum sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater of the Atlantic Ocean.	Li G, Lai Q, Sun F, Du Y, Liu X, Li G, Xie Y, Shao Z	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-014-0203-7	2014
Phylogeny	Actibacterium mucosum gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine alphaproteobacterium from Mediterranean seawater.	Lucena T, Ruvira MA, Garay E, Macian MC, Arahal DR, Pujalte MJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.038026-0	2012

References

#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 )
#21241	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 28448
#30524	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 #26856 (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) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#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 .
#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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Actibacterium mucosum (DSM 28448, CECT 7668, KCTC 23349)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

API 20NE

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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