Salibacterium halochares (DSM 21373, LMG 24571, MSS 4)

Name: Salibacterium halochares (DSM 21373, LMG 24571, MSS 4)
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BacDive ID 1298

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 21373 LMG 24571 MSS 4

NCBI tax ID(s) 520043

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

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

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

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 406614

LMG 24571,DSM 21373

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:04

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Salibacterium

Species Salibacterium halochares

Full scientific name Salibacterium halochares (Pappa et al. 2010) Reddy et al. 2015

Synonyms (1)

Bacillus halochares

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29494	positive	2.6 µm	0.6 µm	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15655	MODIFIED BACTO MARINE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 514d)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MODIFIED BACTO MARINE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 514d) Composition: Difco marine broth 37.4 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Malt extract 1.0 g/l Soy peptone 1.0 g/l Pancreatic digest of casein 1.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
15655	positive	growth	30
29494	positive	growth	26-45
29494	positive	optimum	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
29494	positive	optimum	8
29494	positive	growth	06-09	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

29494

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

29494

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29494	NaCl	positive	growth	5.8-23.2 %
29494	NaCl	positive	optimum	14.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29494	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
29494	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
29494	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
29494	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
29494	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
29494	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
29494	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
29494	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
29494	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29494	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29494	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
15655	solar salterns	Mesolongi	Greece	GRC	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

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

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15655	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15655	Bacillus halochares partial 16S rRNA gene, strain MSS4	AM982516	1426		520043

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
15655	47.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
29494	47.2

Genome-based predictions

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 )
#25894	IJSEM 1432 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.014233-0 , PubMed 19671720 )
#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
#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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Salibacterium halochares (DSM 21373, LMG 24571, MSS 4)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

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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