Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum (JCM 19597, KCTC 4262, MC-74)

Name: Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum (JCM 19597, KCTC 4262, MC-74)
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BacDive ID 140648

Type strain

Strain Designation MC-74

Culture col. no. JCM 19597 KCTC 4262 MC-74

NCBI tax ID(s) 1395169

Special Collections JCM KCTC Literature strains

History H. Minegishi MC-74.

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Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum MC-74 is a halophilic, Gram-negative, motile archaeon that forms circular colonies and was isolated from commercial salt samples.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped colony-forming halophilic 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132270

JCM 19597

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:40

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Natronoarchaeaceae

Genus Salinarchaeum

Species Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum

Full scientific name Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum Minegishi et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43289	negative	1.2-2.3 µm	0.2-0.3 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape
43289	vermillion	circular

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43289	positive	optimum	40
43289	positive	growth	20-50
67770	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43289	positive	optimum	7
43289	positive	growth	6.0-10.0	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Halophily

@ref	Halophily level	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43289	halophilic	NaCl	positive	growth	1.5-5.1 M
43289		NaCl	positive	optimum	2.6-3.1 M

Observation

@ref	Observation
43289	Cells are lysed in distilled water
43289	chitin degradation

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43289	27907 ChEBI	alpha-L-rhamnose	-	carbon source
43289		casein	-	hydrolysis
43289	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+/-	carbon source
43289	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	carbon source
43289	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+/-	carbon source
43289	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	carbon source
43289	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	carbon source
43289	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	carbon source
43289	17317 ChEBI	D-sorbose	+	carbon source
43289	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	carbon source
43289	91261 ChEBI	disodium (s)-malate	-	carbon source
43289	115156 ChEBI	disodium fumarate	+	carbon source
43289	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
43289	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	carbon source
43289	15428 ChEBI	glycine	-	carbon source
43289	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	-	carbon source
43289	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	carbon source
43289	18019 ChEBI	L-lysine	-	carbon source
43289	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	+/-	carbon source
43289	24996 ChEBI	lactate	-	carbon source
43289	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
43289	18420 ChEBI	magnesium(2+)	-	required for growth
43289	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
43289	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	+	reduction
43289	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
43289	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	+	carbon source
43289	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
43289		skimmed milk	-	hydrolysis
43289	32954 ChEBI	sodium acetate	+	carbon source
43289	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	carbon source
43289	64243 ChEBI	sodium L-glutamate	-	carbon source
43289	50144 ChEBI	sodium pyruvate	+	carbon source
43289	63675 ChEBI	sodium succinate	+	carbon source
43289	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
43289	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+/-	carbon source
43289	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
43289	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.	Resistance conc.	Group ID
43289	338412	(-)-anisomycin	50 µg (disc)
43289	28971	ampicillin		10 µg (disc)
43289	2766	aphidicolin	50 µg (disc)
43289	28669	bacitracin	10 Unit (disc)
43289	17698	chloramphenicol		30 µg (disc)
43289	48923	erythromycin	15 µg (disc)
43289	17833	gentamicin		120 µg (disc)
43289	6104	kanamycin		30 µg (disc)
43289	100147	nalidixic acid		30 µg (disc)
43289	7507	neomycin	30 µg (disc)
43289	28368	novobiocin	30 µg (disc)
43289	7660	nystatin		50 µg (disc)
43289	18208	penicillin g		10 Unit (disc)
43289		piperacillin		5 µg (disc)	16
43289	8309	polymyxin b		5 µg (disc)
43289	28077	rifampicin	5 µg (disc)
43289	17076	streptomycin		300 µg (disc)
43289	102484	sulfisoxazole		5 µg (disc)
43289		tazobactam		5 µg (disc)	16
43289	27902	tetracycline		30 µg (disc)
43289	28001	vancomycin		30 µg (disc)

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43289	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
43289	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43289	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
43289	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43289	commercial salt samples	France	France	FRA	Europe
67770	Solar salt in France

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB850662 (>99% sequence identity) for Salinarchaeum from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	10
Soil Samples	7
Animal Samples	3
Plant Samples
Total Samples	20

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
43289	Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB850662	1471		1395169

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	68	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum sp. nov., a chitin-degrading haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt.	Minegishi H, Enomoto S, Echigo A, Shimane Y, Kondo Y, Inoma A, Kamekura M, Takai K, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Ihara K, Takahashi-Ando N, Fukushima Y, Ishii S, Yoshida Y, Usami R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001941	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 )
#43289	Hiroaki Minegishi, Shigeaki Enomoto, Akinobu Echigo, Yasuhiro Shimane, Yusuke Kondo, Ayumi Inoma, Masahiro Kamekura, Ken Takai, Takashi Itoh, Moriya Ohkuma, Kunio Ihara, Naoko Takahashi-Ando, Yasumasa Fukushima, Shigeru Ishii, Yasuhiko Yoshida and Ron Usami: Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum sp. nov., a chitin-degrading haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt. IJSEM 67: 2274 - 2278 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001941 , PubMed 28671534 )
#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 .
#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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Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum (JCM 19597, KCTC 4262, MC-74)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

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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