Halalkalibacterium halodurans (DSM 2513, ATCC 21591, A-59)

Name: Halalkalibacterium halodurans (DSM 2513, ATCC 21591, A-59)
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BacDive ID 1113

Type strain

Strain Designation A-59

Culture col. no. DSM 2513 ATCC 21591 A-59 JCM 9148 CGMCC 1.3606 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 86665

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- ATCC (Bacillus alcalophilus subsp. halodurans) <- K. Horikoshi, A-59 (Bacillus sp.) JCM <-- K. Horikoshi A-59.

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Halalkalibacterium halodurans A-59 is a bacterium that was isolated from soil.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 37614

ATCC 21591,DSM 2513,JCM 9148,BCRC 10040,CCRC 10040,CGMCC 1.3606

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:11

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Halalkalibacterium

Species Halalkalibacterium halodurans

Full scientific name Halalkalibacterium halodurans (Nielsen et al. 1995 ex Boyer et al. 1973) Joshi et al. 2022

Synonyms (5)

Alkalihalobacillus okuhidensis
Bacillus okuhidensis
Bacillus halodurans
"Bacillus alcalophilus subsp. halodurans"
Alkalihalobacillus halodurans

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Halalkalibacterium halodurans** (18)	Type strain
1112	H. halodurans PN 80, B-3881, DSM 497, ATCC 27557, NRRL ... (type strain)
1114	H. halodurans PN 61, C 367, DSM 6939, NCIB 10313
1115	H. halodurans PN 62, C 371, DSM 6940, NCIB 10316
1116	H. halodurans BB 16, DSM 6944
1117	H. halodurans PN 30, C 364, DSM 8718, NCIB 10310
1118	H. halodurans PN 39, C 378, DSM 9774, NCIMB 10323
1119	H. halodurans C-125, DSM 18197, ATCC BAA-125, JCM 9153, ...
1199	H. halodurans No. 44, 44, DSM 13666, CIP 107631, JCM 10945, ...
23692	H. halodurans PN 20, C 354, DSM 9757, NCIMB 10304
23693	H. halodurans PN 28, C 357, DSM 9758, NCIMB 10307
23694	H. halodurans PN 29, C 358, DSM 9759, NCIMB 10308
23695	H. halodurans PN 31, C 365, DSM 9760, NCIMB 10311
23696	H. halodurans PN 32, C 366, DSM 9761, NCIMB 10312
23697	H. halodurans PN 36, C 375, DSM 9762, NCIMB 10320
23698	H. halodurans PN 37, C 376, DSM 9773, NCIMB 10321
23699	H. halodurans PN 40, C 410, DSM 9775, NCIMB 10324
23700	H. halodurans PN 41, C 411, DSM 9776, NCIMB 10325
23701	H. halodurans PN 42, C 412, DSM 9777, NCIMB 10326

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1101	ALKALINE NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 31)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ALKALINE NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 31) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Na2CO3 anhydrous 5.3 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l NaHCO3 4.2 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1101	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

1101

Compoundamylase, alkaline

Enzymes

67770

Valueamylase

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
1101	soil
67770	Soil

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB043856 (>99% sequence identity) for Alkalihalobacillus halodurans from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1519
Soil Samples	1545
Animal Samples	3493
Plant Samples	429
Total Samples	6986

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1101	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Bacillus sp. A-59 gene for 16S rRNA	AB043856	1528		127895

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
1101	42.8
67770	42.8	Buoyant density centrifugation (BD)
67770	42.8	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Improved genetic transformation methods for the model alkaliphile Bacillus halodurans C-125.	Wallace JG, Breaker RR.	Lett Appl Microbiol	10.1111/j.1472-765x.2011.03017.x	2011
Phylogeny	Starch hydrolysing Bacillus halodurans isolates from a Kenyan soda lake.	Hashim SO, Delgado O, Hatti-Kaul R, Mulaa FJ, Mattiasson B	Biotechnol Lett	10.1023/b:bile.0000025885.19910.d7	2004
Phylogeny	Identification of Bacillus sp. FTU strain and the study of the caa3-type oxidase homology.	Grinkevich VA, Lysenko AM, Muntyan MS, Skripnikova EV, Afrikyan EK	Biochemistry (Mosc)		1997

References

#1101	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 2513
#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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#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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Halalkalibacterium halodurans (DSM 2513, ATCC 21591, A-59)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

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Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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