Name: Halobacterium salinarum HPC1-2
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 134335

Type strain:

Species: Halobacterium salinarum

Strain Designation: HPC1-2

Culture col. no.: BCC 24372, JCM 14661, PCU 302

Strain history: W. Visessanguan HPC1-2.

NCBI tax ID(s): 2242 (species)

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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

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	09-12-2024 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	*Archaea*
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	*Halobacteria*
	Order	*Halobacteriales*
	Family	*Halobacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Halobacterium*
	Species	**Halobacterium salinarum**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Halobacterium salinarum corrig. (Harrison and Kennedy 1922) Elazari-Volcani 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

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

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32504]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #32504]	Cell length	01-02 µm

[Ref.: #32504]	Cell width	0.5-1 µm

[Ref.: #32504]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #32504]	Motility	yes

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

		Temperature
[Ref.: #32504]	growth	20-60 °C
[Ref.: #32504]	optimum	37-40 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	37 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32504]			optimum	7-7.5
[Ref.: #32504]			growth	05-08

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

facultative anaerobe

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Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #32504]		NaCl		growth	15.08-24.94	%
[Ref.: #32504]		NaCl		optimum	19.72-24.94	%

[Ref.: #32504]	Observation	aggregates in chains
[Ref.: #67770]	Observation	quinones: MK-8

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #32504]	citrate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32504]	glycerol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32504]	lactose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #32504]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #32504]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

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

[Ref.: #32504]	Sample type/isolated from	salt fermented fish

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Salt-fermented fish product (pla-ra) of Thailand
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Food production	#Seafood
#Host	#Fishes	-
#Condition	#Saline	-
#Engineered	#Food production	#Fermented

What are isolation sources categories?

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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

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.: #32504]	Halobacterium sp. HPC1-2 gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB285020	1375	GenBank ENA	2242 tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Halobacterium piscisalsi gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 14661	AB545861	1473	GenBank ENA	2242 tax ID
[Ref.: #124043]	Halobacterium piscisalsi gene for 16S rRNA, complete sequence, strain: JCM 14661.	AB663361	1473	GenBank ENA	2242 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #32504]	GC-content	65.5 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	65.5 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

BCC 24372, JCM 14661, PCU 302

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 )

#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 (see below)

#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 .

#28724

IJSEM 2136 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65592-0 , PubMed 18768619 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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