Pseudalkalibacillus hwajinpoensis (DSM 16206, JCM 11807, KCCM 41641)

Name: Pseudalkalibacillus hwajinpoensis (DSM 16206, JCM 11807, KCCM 41641)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 1226

Type strain

Strain Designation SW-72

Culture col. no. DSM 16206 JCM 11807 KCCM 41641 SW-72 LMG 24749 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 208199

Special Collections DSMZ JCM CIP Literature strains

History DSMZ <- F. G. Priest, Univ. Edinburgh <- J.-H. Yoon; SW-72 JCM <-- J.-H. Yoon SW-72. CIP <- 2004, JCM <- 2002, J.H. Yoon: strain SW-72

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Pseudalkalibacillus hwajinpoensis SW-72 is an aerobe, spore-forming, Gram-variable bacterium that was isolated from sea water.

spore-forming Gram-variable rod-shaped aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132012

JCM 11807,DSM 16206,CIP 108441,LMG 24749

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Pseudalkalibacillus

Species Pseudalkalibacillus hwajinpoensis

Full scientific name Pseudalkalibacillus hwajinpoensis (Yoon et al. 2004) Joshi et al. 2022

Synonyms (7)

Guptibacillus hwajinpoensis
Bacillus hwajinpoensis
Alkalihalobacillus macyae
Bacillus macyae
Alkalihalobacillus hwajinpoensis
"Anaerobacillus macyae"
"Pseudalkalibacillus macyae"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29923	variable	3.25 µm	1.15 µm	rod-shaped
119993	positive			rod-shaped

Colony morphology

119993

Hemolysis ability0

Pigmentation

29923

Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
6325	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
40002	Marine agar (MA)		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Marine agar (55.100 g)
119993	CIP Medium 13	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6325	positive	growth	30
29923	positive	growth	10-40
29923	positive	optimum	32.5
40002	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	30
119993	positive	growth	10-37
119993	negative	growth	45
119993	negative	growth	55

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
29923	positive	optimum	6.5
29923	positive	growth	05-07
119993	positive	growth	6

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

29923

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
29923
125438		95.239

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29923	NaCl	positive	growth	0.1-19 %
29923	NaCl	positive	optimum	3.5 %
119993	NaCl	positive	growth	2-4 %
119993	NaCl		growth	0 %
119993	NaCl		growth	6 %
119993	NaCl		growth	8 %
119993	NaCl		growth	10 %

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-7

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68371	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
29923	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
119993	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
68371	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
29923	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
119993	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
68371	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
29923	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
29923	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	carbon source
68371	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
119993	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	+	hydrolysis
68371	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
29923	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
29923	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
68371	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
29923	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
68371	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
29923	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
119993	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
119993	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	respiration
119993	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
68371	0 ChEBI	Potassium 2-ketogluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
29923	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
68371	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
29923	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
68371	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
29923	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	carbon source
29923	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	carbon source
29923	53425 ChEBI	tween 60	+	carbon source
29923	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source
68371	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
119993	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
119993	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
119993	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
119993	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
119993	amylase	+
68382	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23	from API zym
119993	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
29923	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
119993	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
119993	DNase	+
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
119993	gamma-glutamyltransferase	-	2.3.2.2
29923	gelatinase	+
119993	gelatinase	+
119993	lecithinase	+
68382	leucine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
119993	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
119993	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
119993	oxidase	-
119993	protease	+
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
119993	tween esterase	+
119993	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
119993	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	-	-	-

API 50CHac

@ref	ControlQ	GLY	ERY	DARA	LARA	RIB	DXYL	LXYL	ADO	MDX	GAL	GLU	FRU	MNE	SBE	RHA	DUL	INO	MAN	SOR	MDM	MDG	NAG	AMY	ARB	ESC	SAL	CEL	MAL	LAC	MEL	SAC	TRE	INU	MLZ	RAF	AMD	GLYG	XLT	GEN	TUR	LYX	TAG	DFUC	LFUC	DARL	LARL	GNT	2KG	5KG
119993	not determinedn.d.	+/-	-	-	-	+/-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	+/-	+/-	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+/-	-	+/-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6325	sea water	East Sea, Hwajinpo Beach	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia
67770	Seawater	Hwajinpo Beach	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia
119993	Environment, Sea water	Hwajinpo beach	Republic of Korea	KOR	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF541966 (>99% sequence identity) for Alkalihalobacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	683
Soil Samples	316
Animal Samples	370
Plant Samples	25
Total Samples	1394

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6325	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
119993	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	ASM2927730v1 assembly for Guptibacillus hwajinpoensis DSM 16206	complete	GCA_029277305	208199.23	8117018354	208199	98.92

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6325	Bacillus hwajinpoensis 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF541966	1507		208199

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
6325	40.9	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
29923	40.9

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Pseudalkalibacillus hwajinpoensis DSM 16206
NCBI: GCA_029277305.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	76.83	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	92.82	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	71.12	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	95.24	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	89.23	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	60.81	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Phylogenomic studies and molecular markers clarifying the evolutionary relationships and classification of Pseudalkalibacillus species: proposal for the family Guptibacillaceae fam. nov. harbouring the genera Guptibacillus gen. nov. and Exobacillus gen. nov.	Bello S, Rudra B, Schellhorn HE.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006757	2025
	Two novel alkalitolerant species Pseudalkalibacillus spartinae sp. nov. and Pseudalkalibacillus sedimenti sp. nov.	Liu GH, Han S, Li B, Li RL, Shi H, Chen QQ, Alwathnani HA, Rensing C, Zhou SG.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006159	2023
	Alkalihalobacterium elongatum gen. nov. sp. nov.: An Antibiotic-Producing Bacterium Isolated From Lonar Lake and Reclassification of the Genus Alkalihalobacillus Into Seven Novel Genera.	Joshi A, Thite S, Karodi P, Joseph N, Lodha T.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2021.722369	2021
Phylogeny	Bacillus caeni sp. nov., isolated from mangrove sediment.	Mo K, Huang H, Bao S, Hu Y	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003853	2020
Phylogeny	Lottiidibacillus patelloidae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the intestinal tract of a marine limpet and reclassification of Bacillus taeanensis as Maribacillus taeanensis gen. nov., comb. nov.	Liu R, Huang Z, Dong C, Shao Z	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-018-01213-z	2019
Phylogeny	Bacillus hemicentroti sp. nov., a moderate halophile isolated from a sea urchin.	Chen YG, Zhang YQ, He JW, Klenk HP, Xiao JQ, Zhu HY, Tang SK, Li WJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.026732-0	2011
Phylogeny	Bacillus hwajinpoensis sp. nov. and an unnamed Bacillus genomospecies, novel members of Bacillus rRNA group 6 isolated from sea water of the East Sea and the Yellow Sea in Korea.	Yoon JH, Kim IG, Kang KH, Oh TK, Park YH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02678-0	2004

References

#6325	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16206
#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 )
#26294	IJSEM 803 2004 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.02678-0 , PubMed 15143027 )
#29923	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 #26294
#40002	; Curators of the CIP;
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68371	Automatically annotated from API 50CH acid .
#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 .
#119993	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108441
#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 )
#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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Pseudalkalibacillus hwajinpoensis (DSM 16206, JCM 11807, KCCM 41641)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

API 50CHac

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_029277305

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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