Bacillus spizizenii (DSM 6405, BGSC 2A3, W23 SR)

Name: Bacillus spizizenii (DSM 6405, BGSC 2A3, W23 SR)
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BacDive ID 1192

Type strain

Strain Designation W23 SR

Culture col. no. DSM 6405 BGSC 2A3 W23 SR

NCBI tax ID(s) 96241

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- BGSC (Bacillus subtilis) <- C. B. Thorne

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Bacillus spizizenii W23 SR is a bacterium of the family Bacillaceae.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 48184

DSM 6405

@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
1190	B. spizizenii W23 2A2, 2A2, DSM 6395, BGSC 2A2, WB 672
1191	B. spizizenii SB 623, DSM 6399, BGSC 2A1
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
2629	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)
2629	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ195067 (>99% sequence identity) for Bacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2854
Soil Samples	3768
Animal Samples	9674
Plant Samples	1905
Total Samples	18201

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
2629	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Bacillus subtilis subsp. spizizenii isolate DSM 6405 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ195067	1494		96241
20218	Bacillus subtilis strain DSM 6405 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ452508	1379		1423

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

#2629	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 6405
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#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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Bacillus spizizenii (DSM 6405, BGSC 2A3, W23 SR)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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