Name: Priestia paraflexa RC2
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133957

Type strain:

Species: Priestia paraflexa

Strain Designation: RC2

Culture col. no.: MTCC 9831, MCC 2100, KCTC 13724, CCM 7754, CIP 110697

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

NCBI tax ID(s): 862644 (species)

Section

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

Gram-positive
motile
rod-shaped
spore-forming
aerobe
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	*Priestia*
	Species	**Priestia paraflexa**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Priestia paraflexa (Chandna et al. 2013) Gupta et al. 2020

Synonym

Bacillus paraflexus

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #30948]	Gram stain	positive
[Ref.: #121555]	Gram stain	positive

[Ref.: #30948]	Cell length	1.5 µm

[Ref.: #30948]	Cell shape	rod-shaped
[Ref.: #121555]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #30948]	Motility	yes
[Ref.: #121555]	Motility	yes

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Pigment production

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MEDIUM 328- for nutrient agar

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

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Culture medium

CIP Medium 328

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

		Temperature
[Ref.: #30948]	growth	15-42 °C
[Ref.: #30948]	optimum	30 °C
[Ref.: #36451]	growth	30 °C

[Ref.: #30948]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #36451]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #30948]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #30948]			growth	05-11

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

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Ability of spore formation

yes

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #30948]		NaCl		growth	02-10	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #30948]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30948]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30948]	melibiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30948]	ornithine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30948]	raffinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30948]	salicin ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30948]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30948]	trehalose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #30948]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #30948]	gelatinase	+
[Ref.: #30948]	urease	+	3.5.1.5

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

[Ref.: #121555]	Sample type/isolated from	Environment, Compost
[Ref.: #121555]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Delhi
[Ref.: #121555]	Country	India
[Ref.: #121555]	Country ISO 3 Code	IND
[Ref.: #121555]	Continent	Asia
* marker position based on {}

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 (French classification)

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.: #30948]	Bacillus paraflexus partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain RC2T, isolate L	FN999943	1409	GenBank	862644 tax ID

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GC-content

37.6 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

MTCC 9831, MCC 2100, KCTC 13724, CCM 7754, CIP 110697

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 )

#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 (see below)

#36451 ; Curators of the CIP;
#121555 Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 110697

#27278

IJSEM 4735 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.048223-0 , PubMed 23990650 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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