Name: Salibacterium halochares DSM 21373
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 1298

Type strain:

Species: Salibacterium halochares

Culture col. no.: DSM 21373, LMG 24571, MSS 4

Strain history: <- A.-I. Koukkou <- P. Lazoura, Univ. Ioannina, Dept. Chemistry, Greece; MSS4

NCBI tax ID(s): 520043 (species)

SI-ID 406614

DSM 21373

Section

Salibacterium halochares DSM 21373 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive bacterium that was isolated from solar salterns.

Gram-positive
motile
rod-shaped
aerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Bacilli*
	Order	*Caryophanales*
	Family	*Bacillaceae*
	Genus	*Salibacterium*
	Species	**Salibacterium halochares**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Salibacterium halochares (Pappa et al. 2010) Reddy et al. 2015

Synonym

Bacillus halochares

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #29494]	Gram stain	positive

[Ref.: #29494]	Cell length	2.6 µm

[Ref.: #29494]	Cell width	0.6 µm

[Ref.: #29494]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #29494]	Motility	yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MODIFIED BACTO MARINE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 514d)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #15655]	growth	30 °C
[Ref.: #29494]	growth	26-45 °C
[Ref.: #29494]	optimum	37 °C

[Ref.: #15655]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #29494]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #29494]			optimum	8
[Ref.: #29494]			growth	06-09

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

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Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #29494]		NaCl		growth	5.8-23.2	%
[Ref.: #29494]		NaCl		optimum	14.5	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #29494]	acetate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29494]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29494]	esculin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #29494]	glycerol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29494]	lactose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29494]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29494]	mannitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29494]	ribose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29494]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #29494]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #29494]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #15655]	Sample type/isolated from	solar salterns
[Ref.: #15655]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Mesolongi
[Ref.: #15655]	Country	Greece
[Ref.: #15655]	Country ISO 3 Code	GRC
[Ref.: #15655]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Condition

#Saline

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AM982516 (>99% sequence identity) for Salibacterium halochares subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples
Total Samples	1

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #15655]	Bacillus halochares partial 16S rRNA gene, strain MSS4	AM982516	1426	ENA	520043 tax ID

[Ref.: #15655]	GC-content	47.2 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
[Ref.: #29494]	GC-content	47.2 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 21373, LMG 24571, MSS 4

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SI-ID 406614

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Salibacterium nitratireducens sp. nov., a haloalkalitolerant bacterium isolated from a water sample from Sambhar salt lake, India.	Singh H, Kaur M, Singh S, Mishra S, Kumar S, Vemuluri VR, Tanuku NRS, Pinnaka AK	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003021	2018	*
Phylogeny	Salibacterium lacus sp. nov., a halophilic, non-spore-forming bacterium isolated from sediment of a saline lake.	Wang YQ, Liu XM, Tang J, Yang GQ, Yu Z	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002467	2017	*
Phylogeny	Salibacterium halotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from a salt pan, reclassification of Bacillus qingdaonensis as Salibacterium qingdaonense comb. nov. and Bacillus halochares as Salibacterium halochares comb. nov.	Vishnuvardhan Reddy S, Thirumala M, Sasikala C, Venkata Ramana C	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000572	2015	*
Phylogeny	Bacillus halochares sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from a solar saltern.	Pappa A, Sanchez-Porro C, Lazoura P, Kallimanis A, Perisynakis A, Ventosa A, Drainas C, Koukkou AI	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.014233-0	2009	*

References

#15655

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21373

#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 )

#29494

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 #25894 (see below)

#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 .

#70949

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID406614.1 )

#25894

IJSEM 1432 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.014233-0 , PubMed 19671720 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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