Bacillus spizizenii (DSM 6395, BGSC 2A2, W23 2A2)

Name: Bacillus spizizenii (DSM 6395, BGSC 2A2, W23 2A2)
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BacDive ID 1190

Type strain

Strain Designation W23 2A2, 2A2

Culture col. no. DSM 6395 BGSC 2A2 W23 2A2 WB 672 2A2

NCBI tax ID(s) 96241

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- BGSC (Bacillus subtilis) <- E. W. Nester

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Bacillus spizizenii W23 2A2 is a bacterium of the family Bacillaceae.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 48181

DSM 6395

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:12

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Bacillus

Species Bacillus spizizenii

Full scientific name Bacillus spizizenii (Nakamura et al. 1999) Dunlap et al. 2020

Synonyms (1)

Bacillus subtilis subsp. spizizenii

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Bacillus spizizenii** (7)	Type strain
1193	B. spizizenii TU-B-10, DSM 15029, NRRL B-23049, JCM 12233, ... (type strain)
1187	B. spizizenii 231, NRS-231, DSM 347, ATCC 6633, CCM 1999, ...
1188	B. spizizenii DSM 618, CIP 107063
1189	B. spizizenii W 23, DSM 1087
1191	B. spizizenii SB 623, DSM 6399, BGSC 2A1
1192	B. spizizenii W23 SR, DSM 6405, BGSC 2A3
23702	B. spizizenii W23, DSM 8439, CCM 2268, IAM 12021, JCM 20354, ...

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
2471	NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
2471	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
2471	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Antibiotic profiling of wild-type bacilli led to the discovery of new lanthipeptide subtilin-producing Bacillus spizizenii strains whose 16S rDNA sequences differ from the B. spizizenii typing strain.	Helfrich M, Entian KD, Stein T.	Int Microbiol	10.1007/s10123-022-00266-5	2022

References

#2471	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 6395
#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 )
#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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Bacillus spizizenii (DSM 6395, BGSC 2A2, W23 2A2)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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References

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