Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum (DSM 22418, NRRL B-59232, MOL-1)

Name: Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum (DSM 22418, NRRL B-59232, MOL-1)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 24551

Type strain

Strain Designation MOL-1

Culture col. no. DSM 22418 NRRL B-59232 MOL-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 561061

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- R. A. Albert, Kleen Test Products, Port Washington, USA; MOL-1

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Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum MOL-1 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from lake water.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 402531

DSM 22418

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:24:00

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Sphingobacteriia

Order Sphingobacteriales

Family Sphingobacteriaceae

Genus Sphingobacterium

Species Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum

Full scientific name Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum Albert et al. 2013

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
30764	negative	2.5 µm	1 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative				99.4
125438	negative				98.247

Pigmentation

30764

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
20812	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
20812	positive	growth	28
30764	positive	growth	05-35

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

30764

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.1

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30764	NaCl	positive	growth	0-4.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30764	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
30764	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
30764	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
30764	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
30764	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
30764	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
30764	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
30764	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
30764	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
30764	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
30764	gelatinase	+

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	cyanate degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	teichoic acid biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	gluconeogenesis	100	8 of 8
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	NAD metabolism	94.44	17 of 18
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	92.86	13 of 14
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	90	9 of 10
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	87.5	7 of 8
66794	photosynthesis	85.71	12 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	85.71	12 of 14
66794	propanol degradation	85.71	6 of 7
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	85.71	6 of 7
66794	1,4-dihydroxy-6-naphthoate biosynthesis	83.33	5 of 6
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	threonine metabolism	80	8 of 10
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	80	4 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	purine metabolism	79.79	75 of 94
66794	alanine metabolism	79.31	23 of 29
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	77.78	35 of 45
66794	serine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	leucine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	proline metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	cysteine metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	citric acid cycle	71.43	10 of 14
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	71.43	5 of 7
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	71.43	20 of 28
66794	propionate fermentation	70	7 of 10
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	66.67	6 of 9
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	degradation of hexoses	66.67	12 of 18
66794	flavin biosynthesis	66.67	10 of 15
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	tryptophan metabolism	65.79	25 of 38
66794	histidine metabolism	65.52	19 of 29
66794	methionine metabolism	65.38	17 of 26
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	65.38	17 of 26
66794	glycolysis	64.71	11 of 17
66794	lipid metabolism	64.52	20 of 31
66794	tyrosine metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	63.64	7 of 11
66794	d-xylose degradation	63.64	7 of 11
66794	arginine metabolism	62.5	15 of 24
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	degradation of pentoses	60.71	17 of 28
66794	vitamin K metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	60	6 of 10
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	60	6 of 10
66794	starch degradation	60	6 of 10
66794	cellulose degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	non-pathway related	57.89	22 of 38
66794	lysine metabolism	57.14	24 of 42
66794	urea cycle	53.85	7 of 13
66794	degradation of sugar acids	52	13 of 25
66794	biotin biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	glutathione metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	50	6 of 12
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	47.25	43 of 91
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	sulfate reduction	46.15	6 of 13
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	45.45	5 of 11
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	44.44	8 of 18
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	43.75	7 of 16
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	41.18	7 of 17
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	40.91	9 of 22
66794	ascorbate metabolism	40.91	9 of 22
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
66794	O-antigen biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	octane oxidation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	33.33	2 of 6
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	31.25	5 of 16
66794	polyamine pathway	30.43	7 of 23
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	26.67	4 of 15
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	phenol degradation	25	5 of 20
66794	butanoate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	25	3 of 12
66794	vitamin E metabolism	25	1 of 4
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	23.08	3 of 13

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
20812	lake water	Wisconsin, Lake Michigan	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FJ156081 (>99% sequence identity) for Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	175
Soil Samples	174
Animal Samples	583
Plant Samples	103
Total Samples	1035

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
20812	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	IMG-taxon 2595699002 annotated assembly for Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum DSM 22418	scaffold	GCA_900177625	561061.3	2595699002	561061	68.93

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20812	Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum strain MOL-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	FJ156081	1525		561061

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum DSM 22418
NCBI: GCA_900177625

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	61.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.40	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative aerobe	69.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum DSM 22418
NCBI: GCA_900177625.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.25	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.95	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	81.02	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.96	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.89	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	88.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium isolated from Lake Michigan water.	Albert RA, Waas NE, Pavlons SC, Pearson JL, Ketelboeter L, Rossello-Mora R, Busse HJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.043844-0	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 )
#20812	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22418
#27095	IJSEM 952 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.043844-0 , PubMed 22659507 )
#30764	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 #27095
#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 )
#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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Sphingobacterium psychroaquaticum (DSM 22418, NRRL B-59232, MOL-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900177625

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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