Bacillus canaveralius (ATCC BAA-1493, MTCC 8908, KSC SF8b)

Name: Bacillus canaveralius (ATCC BAA-1493, MTCC 8908, KSC SF8b)
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BacDive ID 133510

Type strain

Culture col. no. ATCC BAA-1493 MTCC 8908 KSC SF8b

NCBI tax ID(s) 1403243

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Bacillus canaveralius ATCC BAA-1493 is an aerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium that was isolated from built environment.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

ATCC BAA-1493 MTCC 8908 KSC SF8b

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:58

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Bacillus

Species Bacillus canaveralius

Full scientific name Bacillus canaveralius Newcombe et al. 2009

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29234	positive	4 µm	1 µm	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
29234	positive	growth	15-45
29234	positive	optimum	32

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
29234	positive	optimum	7.4
29234	positive	growth	7.0-10.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

29234

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

29234

Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29234	NaCl	positive	growth	0.5-15 %
29234	NaCl	positive	optimum	7.25 %

Observation

29234

Observationaggregates in clumps

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29234	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
29234	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
29234	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
29234	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
29234	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
29234	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29234	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
29234	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29234	gelatinase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Engineered	#Built environment

Isolation

29234

Sample typebuilt environment

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ870688 (>99% sequence identity) for Bacillus canaveralius subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	32
Soil Samples	31
Animal Samples	9
Plant Samples	8
Total Samples	80

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
29234	Bacillus canaveralius strain KSC SF8b 16S ribosomal RNA (rrn) gene, partial sequence	DQ870688	1323		1403243

GC content

29234

GC-content (mol%)40.50

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Stress	Dry heat sterilization modelling for spacecraft applications.	Flax B, Tortora A, Yeung Y, Schubert WW, McDonnell G.	J Appl Microbiol	10.1111/jam.15748	2022
	Establishing Sterility Assurance for Bacillus canaveralius 29669 Spores Under High Heat Exposure.	Dean ZS, DiNicola M, Klonicki E, Roberts S, Clement BG, Guan L.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2022.909997	2022
Phylogeny	Bacillus canaveralius sp. nov., an alkali-tolerant bacterium isolated from a spacecraft assembly facility.	Newcombe D, Dekas A, Mayilraj S, Venkateswaran K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.009167-0	2009

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 )
#25655	IJSEM 2015 2009 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.009167-0 , PubMed 19567559 )
#29234	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 #25655
#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 .

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Bacillus canaveralius (ATCC BAA-1493, MTCC 8908, KSC SF8b)

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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