Virgibacillus subterraneus (DSM 22441, CGMCC 1.7734, H57B72)

Name: Virgibacillus subterraneus (DSM 22441, CGMCC 1.7734, H57B72)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 1493

Type strain

Strain Designation H57B72

Culture col. no. DSM 22441 CGMCC 1.7734 H57B72

NCBI tax ID(s) 621109

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- X. Wang, Chinese Acad. Sci. (CAS), Beijing; H57B72

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Virgibacillus subterraneus H57B72 is an aerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium that was isolated from subsurface saline soil.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 406306

DSM 22441

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:16

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Virgibacillus

Species Virgibacillus subterraneus

Full scientific name Virgibacillus subterraneus Wang et al. 2010

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29725	positive	01-03 µm	0.1-0.3 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

29725

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16335	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaCl 70.0 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l MnSO4 Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
16335	positive	growth	30
29725	positive	growth	10-50
29725	positive	optimum	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
29725	positive	optimum	7.5
29725	positive	growth	06-09	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
29725	aerobe
125439	facultative anaerobe	92.016

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
29725
125438		91.279

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29725	NaCl	positive	growth	0-25 %
29725	NaCl	positive	optimum	9 %

Observation

29725

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29725	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
29725	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
29725	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
29725	33984 ChEBI	fucose	+	carbon source
29725	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
29725	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
29725	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
29725	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
29725	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
29725	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
29725	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
29725	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source
29725	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
29725	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
29725	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
29725	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
29725	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
29725	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29725	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29725	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
29725	gelatinase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
16335	subsurface saline soil	Qinghai Province, Qaidam basin	China	CHN	Asia	37.0639	94.7281 37.0639/94.7281

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FJ746573 (>99% sequence identity) for Virgibacillus subterraneus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	0
Soil Samples	3
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	4

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16335	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 2671180086 annotated assembly for Virgibacillus subterraneus CGMCC 1.7734	contig	GCA_900110695	621109.3	2671180086	621109	74.69

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
16335	Virgibacillus subterraneus strain H57B72 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	FJ746573	1481		621109

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
16335	37.1	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
29725	37.1

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: IMG-taxon 2671180086 annotated assembly for Virgibacillus subterraneus CGMCC 1.7734
BV-BRC: 621109.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	92.02	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	52.59	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	73.98	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	84.54	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Virgibacillus subterraneus strain CGMCC 1.7734
PATRIC: 621109.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	83.07	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.34	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	91.28	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	83.21	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.80	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	83.52	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Phenomics and Genomics Reveal Adaptation of Virgibacillus dokdonensis Strain 21D to Its Origin of Isolation, the Seawater-Brine Interface of the Mediterranean Sea Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basin Discovery.	Zeaiter Z, Marasco R, Booth JM, Prosdocimi EM, Mapelli F, Callegari M, Fusi M, Michoud G, Molinari F, Daffonchio D, Borin S, Crotti E.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.01304	2019
Phylogeny	Virgibacillus subterraneus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic Gram-positive bacterium isolated from subsurface saline soil.	Wang X, Xue Y, Ma Y	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.019554-0	2010

References

#16335	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22441
#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 )
#26108	IJSEM 2763 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.019554-0 , PubMed 20061492 )
#29725	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26108
#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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Virgibacillus subterraneus (DSM 22441, CGMCC 1.7734, H57B72)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

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

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900110695

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

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