Ureibacillus thermosphaericus (DSM 10633, HAMBI 1900, p-11)

Name: Ureibacillus thermosphaericus (DSM 10633, HAMBI 1900, p-11)
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BacDive ID 1394

Type strain

Strain Designation p-11, HAMBI:1900

Culture col. no. DSM 10633 HAMBI 1900 p-11 CIP 104857 KCTC 13004 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 51173

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains KCTC CIP

History <- M. Salkinoja-Salonen, University of Helsinki 1996, M. Andersson, Helsinki Univ., Finland: strain HAMBI:1900 CIP <- 1996, M. Andersson, Helsinki Univ., Helsinki, Finland: strain HAMBI:1900

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Ureibacillus thermosphaericus p-11 is an aerobe, spore-forming, thermophilic prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from landfill air.

spore-forming Gram-negative motile rod-shaped colony-forming aerobe thermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 14023

LMG 17959,CCM 4565,CIP 104857,DSM 10633,HAMBI 1900,NCIMB 13459,NCIMB 13819,KACC 10904,KCTC 13004

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:05

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Caryophanaceae

Genus Ureibacillus

Species Ureibacillus thermosphaericus

Full scientific name Ureibacillus thermosphaericus (Andersson et al. 1996) Fortina et al. 2001

Synonyms (1)

Bacillus thermosphaericus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Ureibacillus thermosphaericus** (4)	Type strain
1395	U. thermosphaericus 29A, DSM 12655
144378	U. thermosphaericus CCUG 24808
153360	U. thermosphaericus CCUG 49329
156715	U. thermosphaericus CCUG 64367

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
23024	negative	1.0-6.0 µm	0.5-0.7 µm	rod-shaped
123516	positive			rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period
23024	transparent	circular	1-1.5 days
123516

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
3990	TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Soil extract 500.0 g/l Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Distilled water
35171	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar		Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
123516	CIP Medium 3	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
3990	positive	growth	55	thermophilic
23024	positive	growth	37.0-60.0
23024	positive	growth	37.0	mesophilic
23024	negative	growth	65.0
35171	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
123516	positive	growth	30-55
123516	negative	growth	10
123516	negative	growth	22

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
23024	positive	growth	9.0	alkaliphile
123516	positive	growth	6

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
23024	aerobe
123516	obligate aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	91.9

Spore formation

@ref	Spore description	Type of spore	Spore formation
23024	spherical,terminal or subterminal,in swollen sporangia	endospore
123516

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
23024	NaCl	positive	growth	5.0 %
123516	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %
123516	NaCl		growth	4 %
123516	NaCl		growth	6 %
123516	NaCl		growth	8 %
123516	NaCl		growth	10 %

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
3990	A11.31	A4alpha L-Lys-D-Asp

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
23024		casein	-	hydrolysis
23024	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	builds acid from
123516	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
123516	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
23024	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
23024	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	builds acid from
123516	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	+	hydrolysis
23024	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	builds acid from
23024	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from
23024	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	builds acid from
23024	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
123516	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
123516	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	respiration
123516	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
23024	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	builds acid from
23024	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	builds acid from
23024	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
23024	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
23024	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from
23024	16199 ChEBI	urea	+	hydrolysis
23024	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	builds acid from

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
23024	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
23024	35581 ChEBI	indole
123516	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
23024	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
123516	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
123516	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
123516	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
68382	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
123516	amylase	-
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
123516	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
123516	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
123516	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
123516	DNase	-
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	-		from API zym
123516	gamma-glutamyltransferase	-	2.3.2.2
123516	gelatinase	-
123516	lecithinase	-
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
123516	lipase	-
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
123516	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	-		from API zym
123516	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
123516	oxidase	+
123516	protease	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
123516	tween esterase	-
123516	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
123516	-	-	+	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Waste	#Landfill
#Environmental	#Air	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
3990	landfill air		Finland	FIN	Europe
23024	urban air and municipal landfill sites
123516	Environment, Landfill air	Porvoo	Finland	FIN	Europe	1987

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence X90640 (>99% sequence identity) for Ureibacillus thermosphaericus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2235
Soil Samples	8797
Animal Samples	5636
Plant Samples	2808
Total Samples	19476

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3990	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
123516	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1239660v1 assembly for Ureibacillus thermosphaericus DSM 10633	contig	GCA_012396605	51173.6	8001982495	51173	57.8
66792	ASM1420252v1 assembly for Ureibacillus thermosphaericus DSM 10633	scaffold	GCA_014202525	51173.7	2861563776	51173	55.2

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Ureibacillus thermosphaericus gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB101594	1540	51173
20218	Ureibacillus thermosphaericus isolate Uth41 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU723669	539	51173
20218	Ureibacillus thermosphaericus isolate Uth60 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU723670	372	51173
20218	Ureibacillus thermosphaericus isolate Uth61 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU723671	384	51173
20218	B.thermosphaericus DNA for 16S ribosomal RNA gene	X90640	1488	51173

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
3990	37	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
23024	35.7

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Ureibacillus thermosphaericus DSM 10633
NCBI: GCA_014202525

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	60.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	61.90	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	69.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	91.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Ureibacillus thermosphaericus DSM 10633
NCBI: GCA_014202525.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	58.35	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	92.39	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	77.91	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	89.72	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	86.62	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	82.55	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of esterase-producing Ureibacillus thermosphaericus isolated from an aerobic digestor of swine waste.	Gagne A, Chicoine M, Morin A, Houde A	Can J Microbiol	10.1139/w01-096	2001
Phylogeny	Ureibacillus defluvii sp. nov., isolated from a thermophilic microbial fuel cell.	Zhou S, Tang J, Qin D, Lu Q, Yang G	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.056655-0	2014
Phylogeny	Ureibacillus suwonensis sp. nov., isolated from cotton waste composts.	Kim BY, Lee SY, Weon HY, Kwon SW, Go SJ, Park YK, Schumann P, Fritze D	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63703-0	2006
Phylogeny	Ureibacillus gen. nov., a new genus to accommodate Bacillus thermosphaericus (Andersson et al. 1995), emendation of Ureibacillus thermosphaericus and description of Ureibacillus terrenus sp. nov.	Fortina MG, Pukall R, Schumann P, Mora D, Parini C, Manachini PL, Stackebrandt E	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-51-2-447	2001

References

#3990	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 10633
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#23024	M. G. Fortina,R. Pukall,P. Schumann,D. Mora,C. Parini,P. L. Manachini,E. Stackebrandt: Ureibacillus gen. nov., a new genus to accommodate Bacillus thermosphaericus (Andersson et al. 1995), emendation of Ureibacillus thermosphaericus and description of Ureibacillus terrenus sp. nov.. IJSEM 51: 447 - 455 2001 ( DOI 10.1099/00207713-51-2-447 , PubMed 11321090 )
#35171	; Curators of the CIP;
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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 .
#123516	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 104857
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Ureibacillus thermosphaericus (DSM 10633, HAMBI 1900, p-11)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Murein

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_012396605

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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