Cellulophaga baltica (DSM 24729, ATCC 700862, CIP 106307)

Name: Cellulophaga baltica (DSM 24729, ATCC 700862, CIP 106307)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 5501

Type strain

Strain Designation NN015840

Culture col. no. DSM 24729 ATCC 700862 CIP 106307 LMG 18535 NCIMB 13610 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 76594

Special Collections DSMZ CIP Literature strains

History DSMZ <- NCIMB <- J. E. Johansen CIP <- 1999, P. Nielsen, Novo Nordisk, Denmark: strain NN015840 <- J.E. Johansen

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Cellulophaga baltica NN015840 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from surface of brown alga Fucus serattus L..

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 12967

LMG 18535,ATCC 700862,CIP 106307,NCIMB 13610,DSM 24729

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:11

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Flavobacteriaceae

Genus Cellulophaga

Species Cellulophaga baltica

Full scientific name Cellulophaga baltica Johansen et al. 1999

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
43372	negative	2.2-4.5 µm	0.6-0.8 µm	rod-shaped
116720	negative			rod-shaped
125439	negative				99.645
125438					95.5
125438	negative				97.982

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used	Incubation period
17745					1-2 days
43372	7 mm	Yellow with flame-like edge	circular	TSA+20% sea salt
43372	0.5-1 mm	pale yellow	circular	CYT

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
43372		flexirubin type pigments

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
17745	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
39487	Marine agar (MA)		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Marine agar (55.100 g)
43372	TSA+20% sea salt
43372	CYT
116720	CIP Medium 13	Medium recipe at CIP
116720	CIP Medium 326	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17745	positive	growth	28
39487	positive	growth	25
43372	positive	maximum	32
43372	positive	optimum	25
116720	positive	growth	5-30
116720	negative	growth	37
116720	negative	growth	41
116720	negative	growth	45

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
43372	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	96.961

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.623
125438		92.117

Halophily

@ref	Halophily level	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43372		Marine salts	positive	growth	10-50 %
43372	slightly halophilic	Marine salts	positive	optimum	20 %
116720		NaCl	positive	growth	2-4 %
116720		NaCl		growth	0 %
116720		NaCl		growth	6 %
116720		NaCl		growth	8 %
116720		NaCl		growth	10 %

Observation

43372

ObservationColony morphology changes significantly depending on the temperature, substrate and salinity.

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43372	16763 ChEBI	2-oxobutanoate	+	assimilation
43372	30916 ChEBI	2-oxoglutarate	-	assimilation
43372	28644 ChEBI	2-oxopentanoate	-	assimilation
43372	16724 ChEBI	4-hydroxybutyrate	-	assimilation
43372	2509 ChEBI	agar	+	hydrolysis
43372	2509 ChEBI	agar	+	degradation
43372	58187 ChEBI	alginate	+	degradation
43372	17665 ChEBI	alpha-D-glucose 6-phosphate	+	assimilation
43372	36219 ChEBI	alpha-lactose	-	assimilation
43372	8295 ChEBI	beta-hydroxybutyrate	+	assimilation
43372	3435 ChEBI	carrageenan	+	degradation
43372		casein	+	hydrolysis
43372		casein	+	degradation
43372	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	+	assimilation
43372	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	assimilation
43372	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	assimilation
43372	18024 ChEBI	D-galacturonic acid	-	assimilation
43372	8391 ChEBI	D-gluconate	-	assimilation
43372	14314 ChEBI	D-glucose 6-phosphate	-	assimilation
43372	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
43372	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	assimilation
43372	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	assimilation
43372	16551 ChEBI	D-trehalose	+	assimilation
43372	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	-	assimilation
43372	4767 ChEBI	elastin	+	degradation
116720	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
43372	15740 ChEBI	formate	-	assimilation
43372	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	degradation
43372	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	+	assimilation
43372	29042 ChEBI	glucose 1-phosphate	-	assimilation
43372	32323 ChEBI	glucuronamide	+	assimilation
43372	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	assimilation
116720	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	-	hydrolysis
43372	85249 ChEBI	hydroxyethylcellulose	+	degradation
43372	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation
43372	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	+	assimilation
43372	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	assimilation
43372	15729 ChEBI	L-ornithine	-	assimilation
43372	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	-	assimilation
43372	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	assimilation
43372	16857 ChEBI	L-threonine	-	assimilation
43372	6359 ChEBI	lactulose	-	assimilation
43372	15792 ChEBI	malonate	-	assimilation
116720	15792 ChEBI	malonate	-	assimilation
43372	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation
43372	37657 ChEBI	methyl D-glucoside	-	assimilation
43372	51850 ChEBI	methyl pyruvate	+	assimilation
43372	75146 ChEBI	monomethyl succinate	-	assimilation
43372	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	assimilation
116720	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
116720	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
43372	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	assimilation
43372	33951 ChEBI	psicose	-	assimilation
43372	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	assimilation
43372	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
43372	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	degradation
43372	30031 ChEBI	succinate	-	assimilation
43372	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	assimilation
116720	35020 ChEBI	tributyrin	-	hydrolysis
43372	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	assimilation
43372	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	-	assimilation

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
116720	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
116720	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	+
116720	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
116720	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
116720	amylase	+
68382	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API zym
116720	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
116720	caseinase	+	3.4.21.50
43372	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
116720	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
43372	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
68382	esterase (C 4)	-		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
116720	gamma-glutamyltransferase	+	2.3.2.2
116720	gelatinase	+
116720	lecithinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
116720	lipase	-
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
116720	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
116720	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
116720	oxidase	-
116720	phenylalanine ammonia-lyase	-	4.3.1.24
116720	protease	+
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
116720	tryptophan deaminase	-
116720	tween esterase	-
116720	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
116720	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	+	-	-

API biotype100

@ref	ControlQ	D-glucose as carbon sourceGLU	D-fructose as carbon sourceFRU	D-galactose as carbon sourceGAL	D-trehalose as carbon sourceTRE	D-mannose as carbon sourceMNE	L-sorbose as carbon sourceSBE	D-melibiose as carbon sourceMEL	sucrose as carbon sourceSAC	D-raffinose as carbon sourceRAF	maltotriose as carbon sourceMTE	maltose as carbon sourceMAL	lactose as carbon sourceLAC	lactulose as carbon sourceLTE	1-O-methyl-beta-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGa	1-O-methyl-alpha-galactopyranoside as carbon sourceMaGa	D-cellobiose as carbon sourceCEL	gentiobiose as carbon sourceGEN	1-O-methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside as carbon sourceMbGu	esculin as carbon sourceESC	D-ribose as carbon sourceRIB	L-arabinose as carbon sourceARA	D-xylose as carbon sourceXYL	palatinose as carbon sourcePLE	L-rhamnose as carbon sourceRHA	L-fucose as carbon sourceFUC	D-melezitose as carbon sourceMLZ	D-arabitol as carbon sourceDARL	L-arabitol as carbon sourceLARL	xylitol as carbon sourceXLT	dulcitol as carbon sourceDUL	D-tagatose as carbon sourceTAG	glycerol as carbon sourceGLY	myo-inositol as carbon sourceINO	D-mannitol as carbon sourceMAN	maltitol as carbon sourceMTL	D-turanose as carbon sourceTUR	D-sorbitol as carbon sourceSOR	adonitol as carbon sourceADO	hydroxyquinoline-beta-glucuronide as carbon sourceHBG	D-lyxose as carbon sourceLYX	i-erythritol as carbon sourceERY	1-O-methyl-alpha-D-glucoside as carbon sourceMDG	3-O-methyl-D-glucose as carbon source3MDG	D-saccharate as carbon sourceSAT	mucate as carbon sourceMUC	L-tartrate as carbon sourceLTAT	D-tartrate as carbon sourceDTAT	meso-tartrate as carbon sourceMTAT	D-malate as carbon sourceDMLT	L-malate as carbon sourceLMLT	cis-aconitate as carbon sourceCATE	trans-aconitate as carbon sourceTATE	tricarballylate as carbon sourceTTE	citrate as carbon sourceCIT	D-glucuronate as carbon sourceGRT	D-galacturonate as carbon sourceGAT	2-ketogluconate as carbon source2KG	5-ketogluconate as carbon source5KG	tryptophan as carbon sourceTRY	N-acetyl-D-glucosamine as carbon sourceNAG	D-gluconate as carbon sourceGNT	phenylacetate as carbon sourcePAC	protocatechuate as carbon sourcePAT	4-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcepOBE	quinate as carbon sourceQAT	gentisate as carbon sourceGTE	3-hydroxybenzoate as carbon sourcemOBE	benzoate as carbon sourceBAT	3-phenylpropionate as carbon sourcePPAT	m-coumarate as carbon sourceCMT	trigonelline as carbon sourceTGE	betaine as carbon sourceBET	putrescine as carbon sourcePCE	4-aminobutyrate as carbon sourceABT	histamine as carbon sourceHIN	DL-lactate as carbon sourceLAT	caprate as carbon sourceCAP	caprylate as carbon sourceCYT	L-histidine as carbon sourceHIS	succinate as carbon sourceSUC	fumarate as carbon sourceFUM	glutarate as carbon sourceGRE	DL-glycerate as carbon sourceGYT	5-aminovalerate as carbon sourceAVT	ethanolamine as carbon sourceETN	tryptamine as carbon sourceTTN	D-glucosamine as carbon sourceGLN	itaconate as carbon sourceITA	3-hydroxybutyrate as carbon source3OBU	L-aspartate as carbon sourceAPT	L-glutamate as carbon sourceGTT	L-proline as carbon sourcePRO	D-alanine as carbon sourceDALA	L-alanine as carbon sourceLALA	L-serine as carbon sourceSER	malonate as carbon sourceMNT	propionate as carbon sourcePROP	L-tyrosine as carbon sourceTYR	2-ketoglutarate as carbon source2KT
116720	not determinedn.d.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Algae	#Brown Algae
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Host species	Isolation date
17745	surface of brown alga Fucus serattus L.	Baltic Sea	Denmark	DNK	Europe			Fucus serattus
43372	surface of the brown alga Fucus serratus	Bornholm (Island in Baltic Sea)	Denmark	DNK	Europe	55	14 55/14
116720	Surface of brown alga Fucus serratus L.	Baltic Sea	Denmark	DNK	Europe				1995

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ005972 (>99% sequence identity) for Cellulophaga from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	605
Soil Samples	22
Animal Samples	25
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	652

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17745	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
116720	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	IMG-taxon 2622736528 annotated assembly for Cellulophaga baltica DSM 24729	scaffold	GCA_900102165	76594.4	2622736528	76594	62.89

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
17745	Cytophaga baltica 16S rRNA gene, type strain NN015840, partial	AJ005972	1474		76594

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43372	33	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: IMG-taxon 2622736528 annotated assembly for Cellulophaga baltica DSM 24729
NCBI: GCA_900102165

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	96.96	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.65	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	78.25	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.62	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Cellulophaga baltica DSM 24729
NCBI: GCA_900102165.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.98	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	98.71	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	89.05	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.12	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.75	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	95.50	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	To gel or not to gel - Tuning the sulfation pattern of carrageenans to expand their field of application.	Fuchs A, Hupfeld E, Sieber V.	Carbohydr Polym	10.1016/j.carbpol.2024.121930	2024
Biotechnology	Biocatalytic Conversion of Carrageenans for the Production of 3,6-Anhydro-D-galactose.	Fuchs A, Romeis D, Hupfeld E, Sieber V.	J Agric Food Chem	10.1021/acs.jafc.3c08613	2024
	Glitter-like iridescence within the bacteroidetes especially Cellulophaga spp.: optical properties and correlation with gliding motility.	Kientz B, Ducret A, Luke S, Vukusic P, Mignot T, Rosenfeld E.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0052900	2012
	Elucidation of the O-antigen structure of Escherichia coli O93 and characterization of its biosynthetic genes.	Furevi A, Stahle J, Muheim C, Gkotzis S, Daley DO, Udekwu KI, Widmalm G	Glycobiology	10.1093/glycob/cwac069	2022
Phylogeny	Description of Cellulophaga baltica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Cellulophaga fucicola gen. nov., sp. nov. and reclassification of [Cytophaga] lytica to Cellulophaga lytica gen. nov., comb. nov.	Johansen JE, Nielsen P, Sjoholm C	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-49-3-1231	1999

References

#17745	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24729
#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 )
#39487	; Curators of the CIP;
#43372	Jens E. Johansen, Preben Nielsen, Carsten Sjraholm: Description of Cellulophaga baltica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Cellulophaga fucicola gen. nov., sp. nov. and reclassification of Cytophaga Iytica to Cellulophaga lytica gen. nov., comb. nov.. IJSB 49: 1231 - 1240 1999 ( DOI 10.1099/00207713-49-3-1231 , PubMed 10425785 )
#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 .
#116720	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 106307
#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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Cellulophaga baltica (DSM 24729, ATCC 700862, CIP 106307)

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

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API biotype100

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900102165

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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