Halobacterium salinarum (BCC 24372, JCM 14661, PCU 302)

Name: Halobacterium salinarum (BCC 24372, JCM 14661, PCU 302)
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BacDive ID 134335

Type strain

Strain Designation HPC1-2

Culture col. no. BCC 24372 JCM 14661 PCU 302 HPC1-2

NCBI tax ID(s) 2242

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History W. Visessanguan HPC1-2.

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Halobacterium salinarum HPC1-2 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-negative, motile archaeon that was isolated from salt fermented fish.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped facultative anaerobe 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 288080

JCM 14661

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:10

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Halobacteriaceae

Genus Halobacterium

Species Halobacterium salinarum

Full scientific name Halobacterium salinarum corrig. (Harrison and Kennedy 1922) Elazari-Volcani 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (9)

Halobacterium halobium
"Halobacter cutirubrum"
Halobacterium cutirubrum
"Bacterium halobium"
Halobacterium piscisalsi
Halobacterium salinarium
"Pseudomonas salinaria"
"Halobacter salinaria"
"Serratia cutirubra"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Halobacterium salinarum** (14)	Type strain
5912	H. salinarum 91-R6, DSM 3754, ATCC 33171, JCM 8978, NCMB ... (type strain)
5908	H. salinarum 1, DSM 668, ATCC 19700
5909	H. salinarum 63-R2, DSM 669, ATCC 33170, NRC 34001, JCM ...
5910	H. salinarum DSM 670, JCM 20854, ATCC 43214, IAM 13167, ...
5911	H. salinarum R1, DSM 671, CCUG 24034, JCM 9409, ATCC 29341, ...
23038	H. salinarum DS21, GRB, DSM 22414
100563	H. salinarum ST033385(HKI),
24073	H. salinarum GRB-mut326-P577, DSM 21899, MUT mut326, MUT ...
161096	H. salinarum JCM 10927
162900	H. salinarum JCM 20370, IAM 12046
165991	H. salinarum JCM 9118, CCM 2148
165992	H. salinarum JCM 9119, CCM 2088
165993	H. salinarum JCM 9120, CCM 2090
165994	H. salinarum JCM 9121, CCM 2084

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
32504	negative	01-02 µm	0.5-1 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

32504

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
32504	positive	growth	20-60
32504	positive	optimum	37-40
67770	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
32504	positive	optimum	7-7.5
32504	positive	growth	05-08

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

32504

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Spore formation

32504

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
32504	NaCl	positive	growth	15.08-24.94 %
32504	NaCl	positive	optimum	19.72-24.94 %

Observation

@ref	Observation
32504	aggregates in chains
67770	quinones: MK-8

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32504	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
32504	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
32504	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32504	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
32504	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Food production	#Seafood
#Host	#Fishes	-
#Condition	#Saline	-
#Engineered	#Food production	#Fermented

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
32504	salt fermented fish
67770	Salt-fermented fish product (pla-ra) of Thailand

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB545861 (>99% sequence identity) for Halobacterium salinarum from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	26
Soil Samples	5
Animal Samples	2
Plant Samples
Total Samples	33

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
32504	Halobacterium sp. HPC1-2 gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB285020	1375	2242
67770	Halobacterium piscisalsi gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 14661	AB545861	1473	2242
124043	Halobacterium piscisalsi gene for 16S rRNA, complete sequence, strain: JCM 14661.	AB663361	1473	2242

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
32504	65.5
67770	65.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Halobacterium piscisalsi Yachai et al. 2008 is a later heterotypic synonym of Halobacterium salinarum Elazari-Volcani 1957.	Minegishi H, Echigo A, Shimane Y, Kamekura M, Tanasupawat S, Visessanguan W, Usami R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.036905-0	2011
Phylogeny	Halobacterium piscisalsi sp. nov., from fermented fish (pla-ra) in Thailand.	Yachai M, Tanasupawat S, Itoh T, Benjakul S, Visessanguan W, Valyasevi R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65592-0	2008

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 )
#28724	IJSEM 2136 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65592-0 , PubMed 18768619 )
#32504	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 #28724
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Halobacterium salinarum (BCC 24372, JCM 14661, PCU 302)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

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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