Virgibacillus flavescens (DSM 29015, LMG 28381, S1-20)

Name: Virgibacillus flavescens (DSM 29015, LMG 28381, S1-20)
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BacDive ID 132443

Type strain

Strain Designation S1-20

Culture col. no. DSM 29015 LMG 28381 S1-20

NCBI tax ID(s) 1611422

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- R. Margesin, Inst. Microbiology, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria; S1-20 <- D.-C. Zhang, Chinese Acad. Sci. (CAS), Inst. of Oceanology, Beijing

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Virgibacillus flavescens S1-20 is an aerobe, Gram-variable, motile bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from marine sediment .

Gram-variable motile rod-shaped colony-forming aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 403941

LMG 28381,DSM 29015

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:42

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Virgibacillus

Species Virgibacillus flavescens

Full scientific name Virgibacillus flavescens Zhang et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43747	variable	1.9-2.2 µm	0.6-0.7 nm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
43747	Yellow	circular	MA agar

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
43747		carotenoid pigment
43747		flexirubin type pigments

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
43747	Marine agar (MA)
24232	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
43747	Trypticase Soy Agar (TSA)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
24232	positive	growth	25
43747	positive	growth	1-30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43747	positive	growth	7-9	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43747

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
24232	A11.31	A4alpha L-Lys-D-Asp

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43747	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	assimilation
43747	2509 ChEBI	agar	-	degradation
43747	58187 ChEBI	alginate	-	degradation
43747	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	carbon source
43747	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	degradation
43747		casein	+	hydrolysis
43747	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	carbon source
43747	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation
43747	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	carbon source
43747	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation
43747	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	carbon source
43747	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
43747	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation
43747	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	carbon source
43747	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	carbon source
43747	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	-	assimilation
43747	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
43747	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	carbon source
43747	28260 ChEBI	galactose	-	carbon source
43747	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
43747	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	fermentation
43747	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	carbon source
43747	15428 ChEBI	glycine	-	carbon source
43747	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation
43747	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	carbon source
43747	24996 ChEBI	lactate	-	carbon source
43747	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	carbon source
43747	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
43747	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation
43747	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	carbon source
43747	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation
43747	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	carbon source
43747	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43747	17309 ChEBI	pectin	-	degradation
43747	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	-	assimilation
43747	28044 ChEBI	phenylalanine	-	carbon source
43747	62969 ChEBI	polygalacturonic acid	-	degradation
43747	32032 ChEBI	potassium gluconate	-	assimilation
43747	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	-	carbon source
43747	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	assimilation
43747	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	degradation
43747	30031 ChEBI	succinate	-	carbon source
43747	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	carbon source
43747	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43747	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
43747	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43747	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2
43747	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43747	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43747	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43747	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
43747	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43747	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
43747	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43747	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43747	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43747	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43747	chymotrypsin	+	3.4.4.5
43747	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
43747	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43747	esterase (C 4)	+
43747	esterase Lipase (C 8)	-
43747	gelatinase	+
43747	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43747	lipase (C 14)	-
43747	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
43747	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43747	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43747	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
43747	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
43747	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1
43747	urease	-	3.5.1.5
43747	valine arylamidase	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Isolation date
24232	marine sediment (38° 45' N 123° 00' E)	Southern Yellow Sea	China	CHN	Asia	38.75	123 38.75/123
43747	Marine sediment of the Yellow Sea	Yellow Sea, China	China	CHN	Asia	38.75	123 38.75/123	2012-10-25 -

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence KP197672 (>99% sequence identity) for Virgibacillus flavescens from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	3
Soil Samples	131
Animal Samples	10
Plant Samples
Total Samples	144

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24232	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24232	Virgibacillus flavescens strain S1-20 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KP197672	1558		1611422

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24232	38.3	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Virgibacillus phasianinus sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from faeces of a Swinhoe's pheasant, Lophura swinhoii.	Tak EJ, Kim HS, Lee JY, Kang W, Sung H, Kim PS, Hyun DW, Shin NR, Roh JR, Park SD, Shim HE, Bae JW	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002650	2018
Phylogeny	Virgibacillus flavescens sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment.	Zhang DC, Schumann P, Wu J, Franca L, Neuner K, Margesin R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000846	2015

References

#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 )
#24232	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 29015
#43747	De-Chao Zhang, Peter Schumann, Jiang Wu, Luís Franca, Kathrin Neuner, Rosa Margesin: Virgibacillus flavescens sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment. IJSEM 66: 1138 - 1143 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000846 , PubMed 26674201 )
#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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Virgibacillus flavescens (DSM 29015, LMG 28381, S1-20)

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

Murein

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

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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