Name: Halorubrum aethiopicum SAH-A6
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 158600

Type strain:

Species: Halorubrum aethiopicum

Strain Designation: SAH-A6

Culture col. no.: KCCM 43215, JCM 31519

Strain history: S. W. Roh; Div. of Convergence Anal., Korea Basic Sci. Inst. (KBSI), South Korea; SAH-A6.

NCBI tax ID(s): 1758255 (species)

Section

Halorubrum aethiopicum SAH-A6 is a Gram-negative, ovoid-shaped archaeon that forms circular colonies and was isolated from commercial rock salt from Lake Afdera.

colony-forming
Gram-negative
ovoid-shaped
16S sequence
Archaea
genome sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	*Halobacteria*
	Order	*Haloferacales*
	Family	*Halorubraceae*
	Genus	*Halorubrum*
	Species	**Halorubrum aethiopicum**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Halorubrum aethiopicum Gibtan et al. 2018

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #65316]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #65316]	Cell length	0.5-0.8 µm
[Ref.: #65316]	Cell length	1-1.5 µm

[Ref.: #65316]	Cell shape	ovoid-shaped
[Ref.: #65316]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #65316]	Cell width	0.4-0.6 µm

[Ref.: #65316]	Colony color	red
[Ref.: #65316]	Colony shape	circular

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

		Temperature
[Ref.: #65316]	growth	30-55 °C
[Ref.: #65316]	optimum	37-45 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	37 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #65316]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #65316]			growth	6-9

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #65316]		NaCl		growth	15-30	%
[Ref.: #65316]		NaCl		optimum	20-25	%

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Observation

Does not require Mg2+ for growth.

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #65316]	acetate ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	casein	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #65316]	citrate ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	dna ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #65316]	fumarate ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	gelatin ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #65316]	glucose ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	glycerol ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	L-alanine ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #65316]	L-alanine ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	L-arginine ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #65316]	L-arginine ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	L-aspartate ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	L-glutamate ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #65316]	L-glutamate ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	L-lysine ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	L-malate ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	lactate ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	lactose ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	maltose ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	mannitol ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #65316]	pyruvate ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #65316]	pyruvate ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	sorbitol ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	starch ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	starch ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #65316]	succinate ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #65316]	succinate ChEBI	+	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	sucrose ChEBI	-	assimilation
[Ref.: #65316]	tween 20 ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #65316]	tween 40 ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #65316]	tween 80 ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
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	Metabolite	Antibiotic sensitivity	Concentration		Antibiotic resistance	Concentration
[Ref.: #65316]	ampicillin ChEBI				yes	10	µg (disc)
[Ref.: #65316]	cycloheximide ChEBI				yes	30	µg (disc)
[Ref.: #65316]	erythromycin ChEBI				yes	15	µg (disc)
[Ref.: #65316]	gentamicin ChEBI				yes	10	µg (disc)
[Ref.: #65316]	kanamycin ChEBI				yes	30	µg (disc)
[Ref.: #65316]	nalidixic acid ChEBI				yes	30	µg (disc)
[Ref.: #65316]	rifampicin ChEBI	yes	30	µg (disc)
[Ref.: #65316]	streptomycin ChEBI				yes	10	µg (disc)
[Ref.: #65316]	tetracycline ChEBI				yes	30	µg (disc)
[Ref.: #65316]	vancomycin ChEBI				yes	30	µg (disc)

	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #65316]		hydrogen sulfide ChEBI	no
[Ref.: #65316]		indole ChEBI	no

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #65316]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #65316]	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #65316]	urease	-	3.5.1.5

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #65316]	Sample type/isolated from	commercial rock salt from Lake Afdera
[Ref.: #65316]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Lake Afdera
[Ref.: #65316]	Country	Ethiopia
[Ref.: #65316]	Country ISO 3 Code	ETH
[Ref.: #65316]	Continent	Africa
[Ref.: #65316]	Geographic location	13.2833°/40.9166°
[Ref.: #65316]	Enrichment culture	modified growth medium
[Ref.: #65316]	Enrichment culture composition	NaCl concentration of 20 % (w/v)
[Ref.: #65316]	Enrichment culture duration	2-4 weeks
[Ref.: #65316]	Enrichment culture temperature	50 ̊C

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Commercial rock salt in Ethiopia
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Geologic
#Condition	#Saline	-

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Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #65316]	16S rRNA gene sequence	KX150521		GenBank

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Halorubrum aethiopicum SAH-A6	GCA_001542905	contig	GenBank	1758255 tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Halorubrum aethiopicum SAH-A6	2684622567	draft	JGI IMG/M	1758255 tax ID	*

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GC-content

68 mol%

genome sequence analysis

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

KCCM 43215, JCM 31519

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Halorubrum aethiopicum sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from commercial rock salt.	Gibtan A, Song HS, Kim JY, Kim YB, Park N, Park K, Lee SJ, Kwon J, Roh SW, Lee HS	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002525	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 )

#65316

Ashagrie Gibtan, Hye Seon Song, Joon Yong Kim, Yeon Bee Kim, Nakyeong Park, Kyounghee Park, Sang-Jae Lee, Joseph Kwon, Seong Woon Roh, Han-Seung Lee: Halorubrum aethiopicum sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from commercial rock salt. IJSEM 68: 416 - 422 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002525 , PubMed 29227219 )

#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) .

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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