Priestia paraflexa (MTCC 9831, MCC 2100, KCTC 13724)

Name: Priestia paraflexa (MTCC 9831, MCC 2100, KCTC 13724)
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BacDive ID 133957

Type strain

Strain Designation RC2

Culture col. no. MTCC 9831 MCC 2100 KCTC 13724 CCM 7754 RC2 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 862644

Special Collections KCTC Literature strains CIP

History CIP <- 2013, CCM <- 2010, R.C. Kuhad, India, strain: RC2

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Priestia paraflexa RC2 is an aerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive prokaryote that was isolated from Environment, Compost.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 363836

CIP 110697,LMG 25407,KCTC 13724,CCM 7754

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:04

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Priestia

Species Priestia paraflexa

Full scientific name Priestia paraflexa (Chandna et al. 2013) Gupta et al. 2020

Synonyms (1)

Bacillus paraflexus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape	Motility
30948	positive	1.5 µm	rod-shaped
121555	positive		rod-shaped

Pigmentation

30948

Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
36451	MEDIUM 328- for nutrient agar		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Agar (15.000 g);Peptone (5.000g);Beef extract (3.000 g)
121555	CIP Medium 328			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
30948	positive	growth	15-42
30948	positive	optimum	30	mesophilic
36451	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
30948	positive	optimum	7
30948	positive	growth	05-11	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

30948

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

30948

Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30948	NaCl	positive	growth	02-10 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30948	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
30948	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
30948	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
30948	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	+	carbon source
30948	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
30948	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	carbon source
30948	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
30948	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
30948	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
30948	gelatinase	+
30948	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
121555	Environment, Compost	Delhi	India	IND	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
121555	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
30948	Bacillus paraflexus partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain RC2T, isolate L	FN999943	1409		862644

GC content

30948

GC-content (mol%)37.6

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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 )
#27278	IJSEM 4735 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.048223-0 , PubMed 23990650 )
#30948	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 #27278
#36451	; Curators of the CIP;
#121555	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 110697
#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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Priestia paraflexa (MTCC 9831, MCC 2100, KCTC 13724)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

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

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

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