Alcanivorax balearicus (DSM 23776, CECT 5683, LMG 22508)

Name: Alcanivorax balearicus (DSM 23776, CECT 5683, LMG 22508)
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BacDive ID 395

Type strain

Strain Designation MACL04

Culture col. no. DSM 23776 CECT 5683 LMG 22508 MACL04 CIP 109716

NCBI tax ID(s) 413232

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains CIP

History <- CECT <- E. Velázquez <- R. Rivas, Depart. Microbiol. y Gen., Univ. Salamanca, Spain CIP <- 2007, CECT <- 2004, E. Velazquez, Salamanca Univ., Salamanca, Spain: strain MACL04

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Alcanivorax balearicus MACL04 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from water from a subterranean saline lake.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 131631

LMG 22508,CECT 5683,CIP 109716,DSM 23776

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:17:51

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Oceanospirillales

Family Alcanivoracaceae

Genus Alcanivorax

Species Alcanivorax balearicus

Full scientific name Alcanivorax balearicus Rivas et al. 2007

Synonyms (1)

Alloalcanivorax balearicus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
32069	negative	rod-shaped
116715	negative	rod-shaped
125438	negative		98.5

Colony morphology

17370

Incubation period2-3 days

Pigmentation

32069

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
17370	ALCANIVORAX BALERICUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1289)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ALCANIVORAX BALERICUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1289) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Peptone 10.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l Beef extract 5.0 g/l Distilled water
37823	MEDIUM 666 - for Alcanivorax		Distilled water make up to (1.000 l);Sodium chloride (30.000 g);Agar (15.000 g);Yeast extract (5.000 g);Tryptone (10.000 g)
116715	CIP Medium 325	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17370	positive	growth	28
32069	positive	growth	04-37
32069	positive	optimum	28
37823	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
32069	positive	optimum	7
32069	positive	growth	5.5-9	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
32069	aerobe
116715	obligate aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		94.29

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
32069	NaCl	positive	growth	0-15 %
32069	NaCl	positive	optimum	7.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32069	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
32069	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
32069	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
32069	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
32069	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
32069	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
116715	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
116715	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	+	reduction
32069	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	+	carbon source
32069	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	carbon source
32069	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
116715	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
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
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
32069	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
116715	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
32069	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	+		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
116715	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
116715	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
116715	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17370	water from a subterranean saline lake	Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Lake Martel	Spain	ESP	Europe
116715	Environment, Lake Martel, saline lake	Palma de Mallorca	Spain	ESP	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY686709 (>99% sequence identity) for Alcanivorax from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	8225
Soil Samples	778
Animal Samples	1456
Plant Samples	237
Total Samples	10696

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17370	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
116715	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2553214v1 assembly for Alloalcanivorax balearicus MACL04	contig	GCA_025532145	1177182.5	8116363110	1177182	63.52

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
17370	Alcanivorax balearicus strain MACL04 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY686709	1540		1177182

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
17370	62.8	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
32069	62.8

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Alcanivorax balearicus MACL04 MACL04
NCBI: GCA_025532145.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.87	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	83.64	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	94.29	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.50	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	87.76	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Rapid Colonisation of Plastic Surfaces by Marine Alcanivorax Bacteria Is Flagellum-Dependent and Influenced by Polymer Type and Photo-Weathering State.	Davidov K, Itzahri S, Kartha A, Orr G, Lang Z, Navon-Venezia S, Oren M.	Environ Microbiol	10.1111/1462-2920.70102	2025
Phylogeny	Alcanivorax xenomutans sp. nov., a hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium isolated from a shrimp cultivation pond.	Rahul K, Sasikala C, Tushar L, Debadrita R, Ramana CV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.061168-0	2014
Phylogeny	Alcanivorax balearicus sp. nov., isolated from Lake Martel.	Rivas R, Garcia-Fraile P, Peix A, Mateos PF, Martinez-Molina E, Velazquez E	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64912-0	2007

References

#17370	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 23776
#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 )
#28316	IJSEM 1331 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64912-0 , PubMed 17551053 )
#32069	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 #28316
#37823	; Curators of the CIP;
#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 .
#116715	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 109716
#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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Alcanivorax balearicus (DSM 23776, CECT 5683, LMG 22508)

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

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_025532145

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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References

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