Bacillus tropicus N24 | Type strain | MCCC 1A01406, KCTC 33711, LMG 28874

Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 140962

Type strain:

Species: Bacillus tropicus

Strain Designation: N24

Culture col. no.: MCCC 1A01406, KCTC 33711, LMG 28874

Section

Name and taxonomic classification
Morphology and physiology
Culture and growth conditions
Isolation, sampling and environmental information
Molecular biology
Strain availability

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Bacillus tropicus N24 is a facultative anaerobe, spore-forming, gram-positive bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from sediment of the South China Sea.

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

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

	Last LPSN update	10-09-2020 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	Bacteria
	Phylum	Firmicutes
	Class	Bacilli
	Order	Caryophanales
	Family	Bacillaceae
	Genus	Bacillus
	Species	Bacillus tropicus
	Full Scientific Name (PNU)	Bacillus tropicus Liu et al. 2017

Information on morphological and physiological propertiesMorphology and physiology

[Ref.: #43860]	Gram stain	positive
[Ref.: #43860]	Cell length	2.2-2.6 µm
[Ref.: #43860]	Cell width	1.3-1.6 µm
[Ref.: #43860]	Cell shape	rod-shaped
[Ref.: #43860]	Motility	yes
[Ref.: #43860]	Flagellum arrangement	peritrichous

[Ref.: #43860]	Colony size	2-3 mm
[Ref.: #43860]	Colony color	off-white
[Ref.: #43860]	Colony shape	circular
[Ref.: #43860]	Incubation period	2 days
[Ref.: #43860]	Cultivation medium used	Luria-Bertani agar

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #43860]	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6
[Ref.: #43860]	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
[Ref.: #43860]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #43860]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #43860]	gelatinase	+
[Ref.: #43860]	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
[Ref.: #43860]	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
[Ref.: #43860]	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1
[Ref.: #43860]	urease	-	3.5.1.5

Fatty acid profile

Type of FA analysis

whole cell analysis

Incubation medium

Tripticase soy agar

Agar/liquid

agar

Incubation temperature (°C)

Incubation time (d)

Incubation pH

Incubation oxygen condition

Treatment/condition

Software version

Sherlock 6.0B

Library/peak naming table

TSBA 6.0

System

MIS MIDI

Instrument

Agilent 6850 gas chromatograph

Method/protocol

Cutoff value

1.00

Reference

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Fatty acid	Percentage
C13:0 anteiso	1
C15:0 anteiso	4.4
C17:0 anteiso	1.7
C12:0	1
C14:0	5.5
C14:0 3OH / C16:1 iso I	1.9
C16:0	12
C16:1ω11c	1
C16:1ω7c / C15:0 iso 2OH	9.9
C16:1ω7c alcohol	1.3
C13:0 iso	7.1
C14:0 iso	5.9
C15:0 iso	18.9
C16:0 iso	7.8
C17:0 iso	5.2
C17:1 iso ω10c	3.5
C17:1 iso ω5c	2.6

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #43860]		NaCl		growth	0-9	%(w/v)
[Ref.: #43860]		NaCl		optimum	0-0.5	%(w/v)

	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #43860]	acetoin ChEBI	yes
[Ref.: #43860]	hydrogen sulfide ChEBI	no
[Ref.: #43860]	indole ChEBI	no

	Physiological tests	Metabolite	Voges-Proskauer-test
[Ref.: #43860]		acetoin ChEBI	+

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #43860]	2-dehydro-D-gluconate ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	5-dehydro-D-gluconate ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	amygdalin ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	arabinose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	arbutin ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	carboxymethylcellulose ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43860]	casein	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43860]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	citrate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43860]	D-arabinose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-arabitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-fructose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-fucose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-galactose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-glucose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-lyxose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-mannitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-mannose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-ribose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-sorbitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-tagatose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	D-xylose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	erythritol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	esculin ferric citrate	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	galactitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	gentiobiose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	glucose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	glycerol ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	glycogen ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	inulin ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	L-arabinose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	L-arabitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	L-fucose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	L-rhamnose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	L-sorbose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	L-xylose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	lactose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	maltose hydrate	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	mannitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	melezitose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	melibiose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	methyl alpha-D-mannoside ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	myo-inositol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	N-acetylglucosamine ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	potassium gluconate ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	raffinose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	rhamnose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	ribitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	salicin ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	skimmed milk	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43860]	sorbitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	starch ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	starch ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43860]	sucrose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	trehalose ChEBI	+	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	turanose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43860]	xylitol ChEBI	-	builds acid from
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Oxygen tolerance

facultative anaerobe

[Ref.: #43860]	Spore description	central elliptical endospore
[Ref.: #43860]	Type of spore	endospore
[Ref.: #43860]	Ability of spore formation	yes

Information on culture and growth conditionsCulture 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

Trypticase soy agar

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Culture medium growth

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #43860]			growth	15-45 ̊C
[Ref.: #43860]			optimum	30 ̊C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #43860]			optimum	6
[Ref.: #43860]			growth	5.0-9.0

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditionsIsolation, sampling and environmental information

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Sample type/isolated from

sediment of the South China Sea

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

What are isolation sources categories?

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Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databassMolecular biology

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GC-content

35.2 mol%

genome sequence analysis

Sequence information:

	Sequence database	Sequence accession description	Sequence accession number	Sequence type	Sequence length (bp)	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #43860]	GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ	16S rRNA gene sequence	KJ812435 GenBank	16S
[Ref.: #43860]	GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ	whole genome sequence	MACG00000000 GenBank	WGS

Availability in culture collectionsStrain availability

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Culture collection no.

MCCC 1A01406, KCTC 33711, LMG 28874

References

#20215

Leibniz Institute DSMZ D.Gleim, M.Kracht, N.Weiss et. al.: Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date - compilation of all names of Bacteria and Archaea, validly published according to the Bacteriological Code since 1. Jan. 1980, and validly published nomenclatural changes since .

#43860

Yang Liu, Juan Du, Qiliang Lai, Runying Zeng, Dezan Ye, Jun Xu, Zongze Shao: Proposal of nine novel species of the Bacillus cereus group. IJSEM 67: 2499 - 2508 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001821 )

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