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Virgibacillus sp. (CCUG 48257)

Name: Virgibacillus sp. (CCUG 48257)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 153008

Type strain

Culture col. no. CCUG 48257

NCBI tax ID(s) 1872700

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CCUG 48257 is an aerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Industry,tobacco.

aerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 215109

CCUG 48257

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:06:43

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Virgibacillus

Full scientific name Virgibacillus Heyndrickx et al. 1998

Synonyms (2)

Paracerasibacillus
Salibacillus

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
58058	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

58058

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68371	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68371	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	29016 ChEBI	arginine	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E
68371	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation	from API 20E
68371	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68371	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68371	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E
68371	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68371	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68371	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	25094 ChEBI	lysine	-	degradation	from API 20E
68371	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68371	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68371	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	-	degradation	from API 20E
68371		Potassium 2-ketogluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371		Potassium 5-ketogluconate	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68371	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68371	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	fermentation	from API 20E
68371	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source	from API 20E
68371	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid
68368	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	hydrolysis	from API 20E
68371	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	builds acid from	from API 50CH acid

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite
68368	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	from API 20E
68368	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide	from API 20E
68368	35581 ChEBI	indole	from API 20E

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
68368	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-	from API 20E
68368	35581 ChEBI	indole		from API 20E

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68368	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6	from API 20E
68368	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API 20E
68368	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1	from API 20E
68368	gelatinase	-		from API 20E
68368	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18	from API 20E
68368	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17	from API 20E
68368	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1	from API 20E
68368	urease	-	3.5.1.5	from API 20E

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

58058

Fatty acid	Percentage	ECL
C15:0 ANTEISO	41.7	14.711
C15:0 ISO	19.9	14.621
C17:0 anteiso	14.2	16.722
C16:0 iso	7.3	15.626
C17:0 iso	5.1	16.629
C14:0 ISO	4.8	13.618
C16:0	2.6	16
C16:1 ω7c alcohol	1.4	15.386
C18:2 ω6,9c/C18:0 ANTE	1	17.724
C18:1 ω9c	0.6	17.769
C17:1 ISO I/C16:0 DMA	0.5	16.481
C16:1 ω11c	0.4	15.757
C17:1 ω10c ISO	0.4	16.387

API 20E

@ref	ONPG	ADH (Arg)	LDC (Lys)	ODC	CIT	H2S productionH2S	URE	TDA (Trp)	IND	Acetoin production (Voges Proskauer test)VP	GEL	GLU	MAN	INO	Sor	RHA	SAC	MEL	AMY	ARA	OX	Nitrite productionNO2	Reduction to N2N2	MotilityMOB	Growth on MacConkey mediumMAC	OF-O	OF-F
58058	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.	not determinedn.d.

API 50CHac

@ref	ControlQ	GLY	ERY	DARA	LARA	RIB	DXYL	LXYL	ADO	MDX	GAL	GLU	FRU	MNE	SBE	RHA	DUL	INO	MAN	SOR	MDM	MDG	NAG	AMY	ARB	ESC	SAL	CEL	MAL	LAC	MEL	SAC	TRE	INU	MLZ	RAF	AMD	GLYG	XLT	GEN	TUR	LYX	TAG	DFUC	LFUC	DARL	LARL	GNT	2KG	5KG
58058	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Engineered product

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
58058	Industry,tobacco	2003-10-01	Sweden	SWE	Europe

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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 )
#58058	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 48257
#68368	Automatically annotated from API 20E .
#68371	Automatically annotated from API 50CH acid .
#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 sp. (CCUG 48257)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology