Chryseobacterium tenax (DSM 16811, NCIMB 14026, EP105)

Name: Chryseobacterium tenax (DSM 16811, NCIMB 14026, EP105)
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BacDive ID 5509

Type strain

Strain Designation EP105

Culture col. no. DSM 16811 NCIMB 14026 EP105

NCBI tax ID(s) 191577

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- L. A. O'Sullivan; EP105

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Chryseobacterium tenax EP105 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from epilithon-covered stones from River Taff.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 237164

NCIMB 14026,DSM 16811

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Weeksellaceae

Genus Chryseobacterium

Species Chryseobacterium tenax

Full scientific name Chryseobacterium tenax (O'Sullivan et al. 2006) Hahnke et al. 2017

Synonyms (1)

Epilithonimonas tenax

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
31634	negative	1-2.5 µm	0.6-0.7 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative				99.642
125438					93
125438	negative				98.5

Pigmentation

31634

Productionyes

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6610	OXOID NUTRIENT BROTH (DSMZ Medium 948)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: OXOID NUTRIENT BROTH (DSMZ Medium 948) Composition: Nutrient broth 13.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6610	positive	growth	20
31634	positive	growth	04-30
31634	positive	optimum	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
31634	positive	optimum	7
31634	positive	growth	7

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
31634	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	98.923

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
31634
125438		91.294
125439		99.735

Observation

31634

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31634	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
31634	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	+	carbon source
31634	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
31634	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
31634	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
31634	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
31634	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
31634	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
31634	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	+	carbon source
31634	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
31634	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source
31634	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
31634	26986 ChEBI	threonine	+	carbon source
31634	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31634	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
31634	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Geologic
#Host	#Plants	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6610	epilithon-covered stones from River Taff	Cardiff	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF493696 (>99% sequence identity) for Epilithonimonas tenax from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	303
Soil Samples	46
Animal Samples	201
Plant Samples	33
Total Samples	583

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6610	1	Risk group (German 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	ASM42848v1 assembly for Epilithonimonas tenax DSM 16811	scaffold	GCA_000428485	1121870.4	2524023241	1121870	58.15

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6610	Epilithonimonas tenax strain EP105 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF493696	1305		191577

GC content

6610

GC-content (mol%)37.5

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM42848v1 assembly for Epilithonimonas tenax DSM 16811
NCBI: GCA_000428485

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.92	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.64	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	83.79	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.74	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Epilithonimonas tenax DSM 16811 DSM 16811
NCBI: GCA_000428485.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	97.81	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	89.48	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	91.29	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.43	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	93.00	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes.	Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2016.02003	2016
Phylogeny	Epilithonimonas psychrotolerans sp. nov., isolated from alpine permafrost.	Ge L, Zhao Q, Sheng H, Wu J, An L	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000489	2015
Phylogeny	Epilithonimonas ginsengisoli sp. nov., isolated from soil of a ginseng field.	Hoang VA, Kim YJ, Ponnuraj SP, Nguyen NL, Hwang KH, Yang DC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.065466-0	2014
Phylogeny	Culturable phylogenetic diversity of the phylum 'Bacteroidetes' from river epilithon and coastal water and description of novel members of the family Flavobacteriaceae: Epilithonimonas tenax gen. nov., sp. nov. and Persicivirga xylanidelens gen. nov., sp. nov.	O'Sullivan LA, Rinna J, Humphreys G, Weightman AJ, Fry JC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63941-0	2006

References

#6610	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16811
#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 )
#27917	IJSEM 169 2006 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63941-0 , PubMed 16403883 )
#31634	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 #27917
#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) .
#66793	Mukherjee et al.: GEBA: 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. 35: 676 - 683 2017 ( DOI 10.1038/nbt.3886 , PubMed 28604660 )
#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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Chryseobacterium tenax (DSM 16811, NCIMB 14026, EP105)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000428485

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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References

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