Paralkalibacillus indicireducens (JCM 31808, NCIMB 15080, Bps-1)

Name: Paralkalibacillus indicireducens (JCM 31808, NCIMB 15080, Bps-1)
Creator: BacDive
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BacDive ID 141039

Type strain

Strain Designation Bps-1

Culture col. no. JCM 31808 NCIMB 15080 Bps-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1920268

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History T. Tamura and I. Yumoto; AIST, Japan; Bps-1.

Links

Paralkalibacillus indicireducens Bps-1 is a facultative anaerobe, halophilic, spore-forming bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from indigo fermentation liquor used for dyeing, produced from sukumo obtained from craft centre in Data City, Hokkaido, Japan.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132811

JCM 31808

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:33:47

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Paralkalibacillus

Species Paralkalibacillus indicireducens

Full scientific name Paralkalibacillus indicireducens Hirota et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43919	positive	1.1-2.0 µm	0.5-0.8 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43919	0.5-2.0 mm	creamy-white	circular	3 days	PYG-2 medium

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition
43919	PYG-2 medium		8 g/L peptone, 3 g/L yeast extract, 10 g/L D-glucose, 1 ml/L metal mixture, 10 g/L Na2CO3, pH 10

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43919	positive	growth	18-40
43919	positive	optimum	33
67770	positive	growth	28

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43919	positive	optimum	9-10	alkaliphile
43919	positive	growth	8-11

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43919

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore description	Type of spore	Spore formation
43919	spherical endospores at the terminal position in the not swollen sporangia	endospore

Halophily

@ref	Halophily level	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43919	halophilic	NaCl	positive	growth	0-10 %(w/v)
43919		NaCl	positive	optimum	7 %(w/v)

Observation

@ref	Observation
43919	quinone MK-7
67770	quinones: MK-7

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43919	16808 ChEBI	2-dehydro-D-gluconate	+	builds acid from
43919	58143 ChEBI	5-dehydro-D-gluconate	+	builds acid from
43919	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from
43919	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	builds acid from
43919		casein	-	hydrolysis
43919	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds acid from
43919	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	-	hydrolysis
43919	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	builds acid from
43919	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	builds acid from
43919	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
43919	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from
43919	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	builds acid from
43919	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	builds acid from
43919	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	+	builds acid from
43919	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	builds acid from
43919	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	builds acid from
43919	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from
43919	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	+	builds acid from
43919	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds acid from
43919	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from
43919	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from
43919	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
43919	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from
43919	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	builds acid from
43919	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from
43919	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from
43919	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from
43919	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	builds acid from
43919	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from
43919	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from
43919	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds acid from
43919	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	-	builds acid from
43919	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	builds acid from
43919	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from
43919	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	+	builds acid from
43919	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from
43919	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43919	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	builds acid from
43919	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	-	builds acid from
43919	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	-	builds acid from
43919	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	builds acid from
43919	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
43919	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
43919	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	builds acid from
43919	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	builds acid from
43919	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	-	hydrolysis
43919	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	-	hydrolysis
43919	53425 ChEBI	tween 60	-	hydrolysis
43919	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis
43919	37166 ChEBI	xylan	-	hydrolysis
43919	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43919	6-phospho-beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.85
43919	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43919	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1
43919	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43919	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43919	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
43919	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43919	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43919	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
43919	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43919	chymotrypsin	+	3.4.4.5
43919	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3
43919	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43919	esterase (C 4)	+
43919	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
43919	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43919	lipase (C 14)	-
43919	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43919	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
43919	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
43919	urease	+	3.5.1.5
43919	valine arylamidase	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Biodegradation	#Composting
#Environmental	#Microbial community	-
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
43919	indigo fermentation liquor used for dyeing, produced from sukumo (composted Polygonum indigo leaves) obtained from craft centre in Data City, Hokkaido, Japan	Data City, Hokkaido	Japan	JPN	Asia	42.4708	140.875 42.4708/140.875	sukumo/extract medium	15 ml sukumo hydrolysate, 2 g indigo carmine, 15 g gellan gum in 885 ml distilled water, pH 10	2 days	27
67770	Indigo fermentation liquor from a craft centre in Data City	Hokkaido	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LC197841 (>99% sequence identity) for Paralkalibacillus indicireducens subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	28
Soil Samples	78
Animal Samples	53
Plant Samples	28
Total Samples	187

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
43919	Paralkalibacillus indicireducens gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: M3-6	LC197841

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	40.3	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Paralkalibacillus indicireducens gen., nov., sp. nov., an indigo-reducing obligate alkaliphile isolated from indigo fermentation liquor used for dyeing.	Hirota K, Nishita M, Matsuyama H, Yumoto I	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002248	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 )
#43919	Kikue Hirota, Masatoshi Nishita, Hidetoshi Matsuyama, Isao Yumoto: Paralkalibacillus indicireducens gen., nov., sp. nov., an indigo-reducing obligate alkaliphile isolated from indigo fermentation liquor used for dyeing. IJSEM 67: 4050 - 4056 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002248 , PubMed 28905696 )
#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 )

Rate our new design

Content

About us

Paralkalibacillus indicireducens (JCM 31808, NCIMB 15080, Bps-1)

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

Observation

Metabolite utilization

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

BacDive

Help

Social Media