Parageobacillus thermantarcticus (DSM 9572, LMG 23032, M1)

Name: Parageobacillus thermantarcticus (DSM 9572, LMG 23032, M1)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 1438

Type strain

Strain Designation M1, R-35644

Culture col. no. DSM 9572 LMG 23032 M1 R-35644

NCBI tax ID(s) 186116

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- A. Gambacorta; M1

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Parageobacillus thermantarcticus M1 is an obligate aerobe, chemoorganotroph, spore-forming bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from geothermal soil.

colony-forming rod-shaped motile Gram-positive spore-forming chemoorganotroph obligate aerobe Bacteria 16S sequence genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 10542

LMG 17953,DSM 9572,ATCC 700235,LMG 23032,KCTC 3974

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:15

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Parageobacillus

Species Parageobacillus thermantarcticus

Full scientific name Parageobacillus thermantarcticus (Nicolaus et al. 2002) Aliyu et al. 2019

Synonyms (4)

"Parageobacillus thermantarcticus"
Geobacillus thermantarcticus
Bacillus thermoantarcticus
Bacillus thermantarcticus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
23042	positive	3.0-5.0 µm	0.5-2.0 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period
23042	<0.5 mm	whitish to cream	circular	1 day

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3640	BACILLUS THERMANTARCTICUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 675)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACILLUS THERMANTARCTICUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 675) Composition: Yeast extract 6.0 g/l NaCl 3.0 g/l Soil extract Distilled water
23042	trypticase soy agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
3640	positive	growth	55
23042	positive	growth	37.0
23042	positive	growth	80.0
23042	positive	optimum	60.0

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
23042	positive	optimum	6.0
23042	positive	growth	5.5-9.0	alkaliphile
23042		growth	5.0
23042	positive	growth	9.0

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
23042	obligate aerobe
125439	facultative anaerobe	93.579

Nutrition type

23042

Typechemoorganotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore description	Type of spore	Spore formation
23042	ellipsoidal,terminal or subterminal,in swollen sporangia	endospore

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
23042	NaCl	positive	growth	<3.0 %
23042	NaCl		growth	5.0 %
23042	NaCl	positive	growth	1.0 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
23042	16808 ChEBI	2-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	builds acid from
23042	17426 ChEBI	5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	builds acid from
23042	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	builds acid from
23042	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	builds acid from
23042		casein	-	hydrolysis
23042	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	builds gas from
23042	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	builds acid from
23042	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
23042	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	builds acid from
23042	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	builds acid from
23042	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	builds gas from
23042	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from
23042	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from
23042	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	builds gas from
23042	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
23042	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	-	builds acid from
23042	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	builds gas from
23042	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	builds acid from
23042	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	builds acid from
23042	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds gas from
23042	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	builds acid from
23042	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from
23042	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
23042	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from
23042	28260 ChEBI	galactose	-	builds gas from
23042	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	builds acid from
23042	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
23042	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	builds acid from
23042	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	builds acid from
23042	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
23042	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	builds gas from
23042	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	builds acid from
23042	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from
23042	606565 ChEBI	hippurate	-	degradation
23042	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from
23042	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from
23042	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from
23042	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	builds acid from
23042	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	builds gas from
23042	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	+	builds acid from
23042	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from
23042	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from
23042	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	builds gas from
23042	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from
23042	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	-	builds acid from
23042	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from
23042	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from
23042	37657 ChEBI	methyl D-glucoside	-	builds gas from
23042	37657 ChEBI	methyl D-glucoside	+	builds acid from
23042	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from
23042	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	builds acid from
23042	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
23042		O-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactopyranosid	-	hydrolysis
23042	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	carbon source
23042	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	builds acid from
23042	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	-	builds acid from
23042	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from
23042	33942 ChEBI	ribose	-	builds acid from
23042	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	builds gas from
23042	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	builds acid from
23042	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	-	builds acid from
23042	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	builds gas from
23042	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
23042	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	builds acid from
23042	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	builds gas from
23042	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
23042	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	builds gas from
23042	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from
23042	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
23042	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source
23042	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	builds gas from
23042	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	builds acid from
23042	18186 ChEBI	tyrosine	-	degradation
23042	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from
23042	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source
23042		yeast extract	+	growth

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
23042	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
23042	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
23042	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Citrate test	Indole test
23042	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	+
23042	16947 ChEBI	citrate		-
23042	35581 ChEBI	indole			-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
23042	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
23042	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
23042	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
23042	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
23042	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
23042	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1
23042	urease	-	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Geologic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Continent
3640	geothermal soil	Mount Melbourne	Australia and Oceania

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FR749959 (>99% sequence identity) for Bacillaceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2043
Soil Samples	4724
Animal Samples	5920
Plant Samples	1962
Total Samples	14649

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3640	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	IMG-taxon 2654588109 annotated assembly for Parageobacillus thermantarcticus M1	scaffold	GCA_900111865	186116.3	2654588109	186116	57.3

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
3640	Geobacillus thermantarcticus partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain R-35644T	FN428692	1508		186116

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
3640	53.7	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
23042	53.7

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: IMG-taxon 2654588109 annotated assembly for Parageobacillus thermantarcticus M1
NCBI: GCA_900111865

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	93.58	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	74.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	68.34	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	66.84	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Parageobacillus thermantarcticus M1
NCBI: GCA_900111865.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	78.72	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	88.62	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	74.32	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	89.55	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	69.57	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	84.95	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Elucidating the biotechnological potential of the genera Parageobacillus and Saccharococcus through comparative genomic and pan-genome analysis.	Mol M, de Maayer P.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/s12864-024-10635-1	2024
	Extremophilic Microorganisms for the Green Synthesis of Antibacterial Nanoparticles.	Romano I, Vitiello G, Gallucci N, Di Girolamo R, Cattaneo A, Poli A, Di Donato P.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10101885	2022
Phylogeny	Taxonomic revision of the genus Geobacillus: emendation of Geobacillus, G. stearothermophilus, G. jurassicus, G. toebii, G. thermodenitrificans and G. thermoglucosidans (nom. corrig., formerly 'thermoglucosidasius'); transfer of Bacillus thermantarcticus to the genus as G. thermantarcticus comb. nov.; proposal of Caldibacillus debilis gen. nov., comb. nov.; transfer of G. tepidamans to Anoxybacillus as A. tepidamans comb. nov.; and proposal of Anoxybacillus caldiproteolyticus sp. nov.	Coorevits A, Dinsdale AE, Halket G, Lebbe L, De Vos P, Van Landschoot A, Logan NA	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.030346-0	2011

References

#3640	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 9572
#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 )
#23042	An Coorevits,Anna E. Dinsdale,Gillian Halket,Liesbeth Lebbe,Paul De Vos,Anita Van Landschoot,Niall A. Logan: Taxonomic revision of the genus Geobacillus : emendation of Geobacillus , G. stearothermophilus , G. jurassicus , G. toebii , G. thermodenitrificans and G. thermoglucosidans (nom. corrig., formerly 'thermoglucosidasius'); transfer of Bacillus thermantarcticus to the genus as G. thermantarcticus comb. nov.; proposal of Caldibacillus debilis gen. nov., comb. nov.; transfer of G. tepidamans to Anoxybacillus as A. tepidamans comb. nov.; and proposal of Anoxybacillus caldiproteolyticus sp. nov.. IJSEM 62: 1470 - 1485 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.030346-0 , PubMed 21856988 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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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Parageobacillus thermantarcticus (DSM 9572, LMG 23032, M1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900111865

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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