Name: Bacillus swezeyi CCUG 70177
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 140690

Type strain:

Species: Bacillus swezeyi

Culture col. no.: CCUG 70177, NRRL B-41294

NCBI tax ID(s): 1925020 (species)

SI-ID 412221

CCUG 70177

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Bacillus swezeyi CCUG 70177 is a facultative anaerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from Soil in Evolution Canyon III in the Southern Negev desert.

colony-forming
Gram-positive
motile
rod-shaped
spore-forming
facultative anaerobe
16S sequence
Bacteria

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

	Last LPSN update	09-12-2024 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	*Bacteria*
	Phylum	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Bacilli*
	Order	*Caryophanales*
	Family	*Bacillaceae*
	Genus	*Bacillus*
	Species	**Bacillus swezeyi**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Bacillus swezeyi Dunlap et al. 2017

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #43459]	Gram stain	positive

[Ref.: #43459]	Cell length	2.2-3.7 µm

[Ref.: #43459]	Cell width	0.7-0.9 µm

[Ref.: #43459]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #43459]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #43459]	Colony size	3-4 mm
[Ref.: #43459]	Colony color	creamy white, mucoid
[Ref.: #43459]	Colony shape	circular
[Ref.: #43459]	Incubation period	2 days
[Ref.: #43459]	Cultivation medium used	TGY

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium

Nutrient agar (NA)

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Culture medium

Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)

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Culture medium

TGY

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Culture medium

Trypticase Soy Agar (TSA)

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Culture medium growth

		Temperature
[Ref.: #43459]	growth	15-60 °C
[Ref.: #43459]	optimum	37 °C
[Ref.: #63702]	growth	37 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #43459]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #43459]			growth	5.5-10

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #43459]	Oxygen tolerance	facultative anaerobe
[Ref.: #63702]	Oxygen tolerance	aerobe

[Ref.: #43459]	Spore description	central-paracentral ellipsoidal endospores observed with unswollen sporangia
[Ref.: #43459]	Type of spore	endospore
[Ref.: #43459]	Ability of spore formation	yes

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #43459]		NaCl		growth	0-12	%(w/v)

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #43459]	casein	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43459]	citrate ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #43459]	D-galactose ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #43459]	D-galactose ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	D-galacturonic acid ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	D-gluconate ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	D-saccharate ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #43459]	D-saccharate ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	D-sorbitol ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	formate ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	galactarate ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #43459]	galactarate ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	gelatin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43459]	glucose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43459]	L-alanine ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	lincomycin ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	melibiose ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	myo-inositol ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #43459]	myo-inositol ChEBI	+	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	nalidixic acid ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	raffinose ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	stachyose ChEBI	-	respiration
[Ref.: #43459]	starch ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
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	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #43459]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #43459]		cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

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

[Ref.: #43459]	Sample type/isolated from	Soil in Evolution Canyon III in the Southern Negev desert
[Ref.: #43459]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Nahal Shaharut
[Ref.: #43459]	Country	Israel
[Ref.: #43459]	Country ISO 3 Code	ISR
[Ref.: #43459]	Continent	Asia

[Ref.: #63702]	Sample type/isolated from	Soil
[Ref.: #63702]	Sampling date	2003-03-25
[Ref.: #63702]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Negev Desert,Evolution Canyon III
[Ref.: #63702]	Country	Israel
[Ref.: #63702]	Country ISO 3 Code	ISR
[Ref.: #63702]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Desert
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

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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.: #43459]	Bacillus swezeyi strain NRRL B-41294 Bacillus_sp_NRRL_B_41294_contig_96, whole genome shotgun sequence	MRBK01000096		GenBank ENA

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GC-content

44.3 mol%

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Culture collection no.

CCUG 70177, NRRL B-41294

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SI-ID 412221

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Bacillus swezeyi sp. nov. and Bacillus haynesii sp. nov., isolated from desert soil.	Dunlap CA, Schisler DA, Perry EB, Connor N, Cohan FM, Rooney AP	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002007	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 )

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Christopher A. Dunlap, David A. Schisler, Elizabeth B. Perry, Nora Connor, Frederick M. Cohan, Alejandro P. Rooney: Bacillus swezeyi sp. nov. and Bacillus haynesii sp. nov., isolated from desert soil. IJSEM 67: 2720 - 2725 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002007 , PubMed 28809143 )

#63702 Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 70177

#96778

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID412221.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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