Bacillus swezeyi (CCUG 70177, NRRL B-41294)

Name: Bacillus swezeyi (CCUG 70177, NRRL B-41294)
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BacDive ID 140690

Type strain

Culture col. no. CCUG 70177 NRRL B-41294

NCBI tax ID(s) 1925020

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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.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 412221

CCUG 70177

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:39:46

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Bacillus

Species Bacillus swezeyi

Full scientific name Bacillus swezeyi Dunlap et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43459	positive	2.2-3.7 µm	0.7-0.9 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43459	3-4 mm	creamy white, mucoid	circular	2 days	TGY

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43459	LB (Luria-Bertani) MEDIUM
43459	Nutrient agar (NA)
43459	Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A)
43459	TGY
43459	Trypticase Soy Agar (TSA)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43459	positive	growth	15-60
43459	positive	optimum	37
63702	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43459	positive	optimum	7
43459	positive	growth	5.5-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
43459	facultative anaerobe
63702	aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore description	Type of spore	Spore formation
43459	central-paracentral ellipsoidal endospores observed with unswollen sporangia	endospore

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43459	NaCl	positive	growth	0-12 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43459		casein	+	hydrolysis
43459	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	assimilation
43459	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	assimilation
43459	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	respiration
43459	18024 ChEBI	D-galacturonic acid	-	respiration
43459	8391 ChEBI	D-gluconate	+	respiration
43459	33801 ChEBI	D-saccharate	+	assimilation
43459	33801 ChEBI	D-saccharate	+	respiration
43459	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	respiration
43459	15740 ChEBI	formate	-	respiration
43459	16537 ChEBI	galactarate	+	assimilation
43459	16537 ChEBI	galactarate	+	respiration
43459	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
43459	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	builds acid from
43459	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	+	respiration
43459	6472 ChEBI	lincomycin	+	respiration
43459	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	respiration
43459	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	assimilation
43459	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	respiration
43459	100147 ChEBI	nalidixic acid	-	respiration
43459	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	respiration
43459	17164 ChEBI	stachyose	-	respiration
43459	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43459	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43459	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Desert
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
43459	Soil in Evolution Canyon III in the Southern Negev desert		Nahal Shaharut	Israel	ISR	Asia
63702	Soil	2003-03-25	Negev Desert,Evolution Canyon III	Israel	ISR	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM196981v1 assembly for Bacillus swezeyi NRRL B-41294	scaffold	GCA_001969815	2997853895	1925020	59.8

GC content

43459

GC-content (mol%)44.3

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM196981v1 assembly for Bacillus swezeyi NRRL B-41294
NCBI: GCA_001969815

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	83.52	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	64.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	66.03	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	74.13	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Thermo-Alkali-Tolerant Recombinant Laccase from Bacillus swezeyi and Its Degradation Potential against Zearalenone and Aflatoxin B₁.	Mwabulili F, Xie Y, Sun S, Ma W, Li Q, Yang Y, Jia H, Li X.	J Agric Food Chem	10.1021/acs.jafc.4c01304	2024
	Correlation Study on Antibiotic Resistance and Antibacterial Activity of Soil Microorganisms in Lop Nur.	Wen F, Chen Q, Zhao Y, Zhang X, Yang G, Jiang H, Xia Z.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms13092076	2025
Genetics	Insight into endophytic microbial diversity in two halophytes and plant beneficial attributes of Bacillus swezeyi.	Gao L, Ma JB, Huang Y, Muhammad M, Lian HT, Shurigin V, Egamberdieva D, Li WJ, Li L.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2024.1447755	2024
Genetics	Great Abilities of Shinella zoogloeoides Strain from a Landfarming Soil for Crude Oil Degradation and a Synergy Model for Alginate-Bead-Entrapped Consortium Efficiency.	Goma-Tchimbakala EJCD, Pietrini I, Dal Bello F, Goma-Tchimbakala J, Lo Russo S, Corgnati SP.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10071361	2022
	Study of diversity of mineral-forming bacteria in sabkha mats and sediments of mangrove forest in Qatar.	Farhat TM, Al Disi ZA, Ashfaq MY, Zouari N.	Biotechnol Rep (Amst)	10.1016/j.btre.2023.e00811	2023
Genetics	Discovery of Antimicrobial Phosphonopeptide Natural Products from Bacillus velezensis by Genome Mining.	Wilson J, Cui J, Nakao T, Kwok H, Zhang Y, Kayrouz CM, Pham TM, Roodhouse H, Ju KS.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.00338-23	2023
	Enhancing the Antibiotic Production by Thermophilic Bacteria Isolated from Hot Spring Waters via Ethyl Methanesulfonate Mutagenesis.	Kortam YG, Abd El-Rahim WM, Khattab AEA, Rebouh NY, Gurina RR, Barakat OS, Zakaria M, Moawad H.	Antibiotics (Basel)	10.3390/antibiotics12071095	2023
Enzymology	Isolation and diversity of sediment bacteria in the hypersaline aiding lake, China.	Guan TW, Lin YJ, Ou MY, Chen KB.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0236006	2020
	Diversity and Biocontrol Potential of Cultivable Endophytic Bacteria Associated with Halophytes from the West Aral Sea Basin.	Gao L, Ma J, Liu Y, Huang Y, Mohamad OAA, Jiang H, Egamberdieva D, Li W, Li L.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms9071448	2021
	Iturinic Lipopeptide Diversity in the Bacillus subtilis Species Group - Important Antifungals for Plant Disease Biocontrol Applications.	Dunlap CA, Bowman MJ, Rooney AP.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.01794	2019
	Salinity Stress Enhances the Antioxidant Capacity of Bacillus and Planococcus Species Isolated From Saline Lake Environment.	Hassan AHA, Alkhalifah DHM, Al Yousef SA, Beemster GTS, Mousa ASM, Hozzein WN, AbdElgawad H.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.561816	2020
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 )
#43459	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
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Bacillus swezeyi (CCUG 70177, NRRL B-41294)

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

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001969815

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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