Sporosalibacterium tautonense (DSM 28179, VKM B-2948, MRo-4)

Name: Sporosalibacterium tautonense (DSM 28179, VKM B-2948, MRo-4)
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BacDive ID 140261

Type strain

Strain Designation MRo-4

Culture col. no. DSM 28179 VKM B-2948 MRo-4

NCBI tax ID(s) 1859103

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- O. A. Podosokorskaya, Winogradsky Inst. Microbiol., RAS, Moscow, Russia; MRo-4 <- O. A. Podosokorskaya {2013}

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Sporosalibacterium tautonense MRo-4 is an obligate anaerobe, moderately halophilic, organotroph bacterium that was isolated from microbial mat developed under the flow of subsurface water in a gold mine at a depth of 3.54 km below the surface.

spore-forming Gram-positive rod-shaped obligate anaerobe moderately halophilic organotroph 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 405281

VKM B-2948,DSM 28179

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:34

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Tissierellales

Family Thermohalobacteraceae

Genus Sporosalibacterium

Species Sporosalibacterium tautonense

Full scientific name Sporosalibacterium tautonense Podosokorskaya et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape
43213	positive	5-20 µm	0.2-0.3 µm	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
42868	MARINITOGA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 904)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MARINITOGA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 904) Composition: Sea Salt 30.0 g/l PIPES 6.0 g/l D-Glucose 2.5 g/l Tryptone 1.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.5 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
42868	positive	growth	40
43213	positive	maximum	50
43213	positive	minimum	25
43213	positive	optimum	42
43213	positive	growth	20-50

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43213	positive	maximum	8.8
43213	positive	minimum	7
43213	positive	optimum	7.4-7.9
43213	positive	growth	7.0-8.8	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43213

Oxygen toleranceobligate anaerobe

Nutrition type

43213

Typeorganotroph

Spore formation

43213

Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Halophily level	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration	Salt
43213	moderately halophilic	positive	growth	100 g/L
43213		positive	optimum	20 g/L	NaCl
43213		positive	minimum	0.5 %(w/v)	NaCl
43213		positive	optimum	2 %(w/v)	NaCl
43213		positive	maximum	10 %(w/v)	NaCl

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43213	30089 ChEBI	acetate	-	growth
43213	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	-	growth
43213	28427 ChEBI	arabinoxylan	-	growth
43213	29125 ChEBI	arsenate	-	electron acceptor
43213	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	+	fermentation
43213		casein hydrolysate	-	growth
43213	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	fermentation
43213	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	+	fermentation
43213	17029 ChEBI	chitin	+	fermentation
43213	18276 ChEBI	dihydrogen	-	growth
43213	33403 ChEBI	elemental sulfur	-	electron acceptor
43213	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	-	growth
43213	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	fermentation
43213	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	growth
43213	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	electron acceptor
43213	28260 ChEBI	galactose	-	growth
43213	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	growth
43213	17234 ChEBI	glucose	-	growth
43213	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	growth
43213	24996 ChEBI	lactate	-	growth
43213	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	growth
43213	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	growth
43213	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	-	growth
43213	17790 ChEBI	methanol	-	growth
43213	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	electron acceptor
43213	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	electron acceptor
43213	17309 ChEBI	pectin	-	growth
43213		peptone	+	fermentation
43213	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	growth
43213	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	-	growth
43213	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	fermentation
43213	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	growth
43213	16189 ChEBI	sulfate	-	electron acceptor
43213	17359 ChEBI	sulfite	-	electron acceptor
43213	16094 ChEBI	thiosulfate	-	electron acceptor
43213		tryptone	-	growth
43213	10057 ChEBI	xanthan	+	fermentation
43213	37166 ChEBI	xylan	-	growth
43213	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-	growth
43213		yeast extract	+	fermentation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-
#Environmental	#Microbial community	#Microbial mat

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Sampling date
42868	microbial mat developed under the flow of subsurface water in a gold mine at a depth of 3.54 km below the surface	northern margin of the Witwatersrand Basin, near Carletonville, TauTona gold mine at a depth of 3.54 km below the surface	South Africa	ZAF	Africa	-26.4161	27.4275 -26.4161/27.4275
43213	microbial mat of TauTona gold mine	TauTona gold mine located at the northern margin of the Witwatersrand Basin, near Carletonville, South Africa			Africa	-26	27 -26/27	2013-04-17

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KX371568 (>99% sequence identity) for Sporosalibacterium tautonense subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	96
Soil Samples	20
Animal Samples	63
Plant Samples	3
Total Samples	182

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
42868	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
42868	Sporosalibacterium tautonense strain MRo-4 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KX371568	1520		1859103

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43213	32.9	genome sequence analysis
42868	32.9	sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Sporosalibacterium tautonense sp. nov., a thermotolerant, halophilic, hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Sporosalibacterium.	Podosokorskaya OA, Merkel AY, Heerden EV, Cason ED, Kopitsyn DS, Vasilieva M, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Kublanov IV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001737	2017

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 )
#42868	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 28179
#43213	Olga A. Podosokorskaya, Alexander Y. Merkel, Esta van Heerden, Errol D. Cason, Dmitry S. Kopitsyn, Maria Vasilieva, Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya and Ilya V. Kublanov: Sporosalibacterium tautonense sp. nov., a thermotolerant, halophilic, hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Sporosalibacterium. IJSEM 67: 1457 - 1461 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001737 , PubMed 27974092 )
#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 .
#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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Sporosalibacterium tautonense (DSM 28179, VKM B-2948, MRo-4)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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