Alkalihalobacillus alkalilacus (JCM 32184, MTCC 12637, KCTC 33880)

Name: Alkalihalobacillus alkalilacus (JCM 32184, MTCC 12637, KCTC 33880)
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BacDive ID 158725

Type strain

Strain Designation AK73

Culture col. no. JCM 32184 MTCC 12637 KCTC 33880 AK73

NCBI tax ID(s) 1983720

Special Collections JCM KCTC Literature strains

History JCM <-- P. Anil Kumar; MTCC, India; AK73.

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Alkalihalobacillus alkalilacus AK73 is an aerobe, chemoorganotroph, spore-forming bacterium that was isolated from a sediment sample collected from the haloalkaline Sambhar lake, Jaipur.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 24937

KCTC 33880,JCM 32184

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:44:02

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Alkalihalobacillus

Species Alkalihalobacillus alkalilacus

Full scientific name Alkalihalobacillus alkalilacus (Singh et al. 2018) Gupta et al. 2020

Synonyms (2)

Bacillus alkalilacus
"Shouchella alkalilacus"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
65472	positive	2.5-3.3 µm	0.7-0.9 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Incubation period	Medium used
65472	1-2 mm	yellowish	2 days	marine agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
65472	Marine agar (MA)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
65472	positive	growth	15-42
65472	positive	optimum	30-37
67770	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
65472	positive	optimum	9
65472	positive	growth	7-12	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

65472

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Nutrition type

65472

Typechemoorganotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore description	Type of spore	Spore formation
65472	central endospores	endospore

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
65472	NaCl	positive	growth	0-10 %(w/v)
65472	NaCl	positive	optimum	2 %(w/v)

Observation

@ref	Observation
65472	divide by binary fission
65472	menaquinone 7 (MK-7) is the major respiratory quinone
65472	the cell-wall peptidoglycan contains meso-diaminopimelic acid
65472	polar lipids are diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, one unidentified aminophospholipid, four unidentified phospholipids and three unidentified lipids
67770	quinones: MK-7

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
65472	2509 ChEBI	agar	-	hydrolysis
65472		casein	-	hydrolysis
65472	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
65472	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
65472		O-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactopyranosid	-	hydrolysis
65472	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
65472	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	hydrolysis
65472	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	hydrolysis
65472	53425 ChEBI	tween 60	-	hydrolysis
65472	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
65472	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test	Indole test
65472	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
65472	17234 ChEBI	glucose		-
65472	35581 ChEBI	indole			-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
65472	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
65472	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6
65472	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
65472	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
65472	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
65472	nitrate reductase	-	1.7.99.4
65472	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
65472	phenylalanine deaminase	-	4.3.1.5
65472	pyrrolidonyl arylamidase	+	3.4.19.3
65472	tyrosine arylamidase	+
65472	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

65472

Fatty acid	Percentage
C15:0 anteiso	23.9
C15:0 iso	13.9
C16:0	11.6
C17:0 anteiso	10.5
C16:0 iso	9.5
C14:0 iso	4.5
C16:1ω7c alcohol	3.8
C17:0 iso	3.2
C16:1ω11c	3.1
C18:0	3
C16:1ω7c and/or C16:1ω6c and/or iso-C1	2.7
C17:1 iso I and/or C17:1 anteiso B	2.6
C14:0	1.4
C18:1ω7c and/or C18:1ω6c	0.6

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Condition	#Alkaline	-
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature	Isolation procedure
65472	a sediment sample collected from the haloalkaline Sambhar lake, Jaipur	Rajasthan	India	IND	Asia	26.9253	75.197 26.9253/75.197	Zobell's marine agar	5 days	37	sediment sample was serially diluted (up to 10-fold dilution) in 2 % (w/v) NaCl solution and 100 µl of each dilution was spread-plated on Zobell's marine agar (MA; HiMedia) plates
67770	Sediment from Sambhar lake	Jaipur, Rajasthan	India	IND	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Bacillus sp. AK73 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain AK73, isolate SK 14A/4	LT844663	1455		1983720

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
65472	54	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
67770	51.7-56.3	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Alkalihalobacterium elongatum gen. nov. sp. nov.: An Antibiotic-Producing Bacterium Isolated From Lonar Lake and Reclassification of the Genus Alkalihalobacillus Into Seven Novel Genera.	Joshi A, Thite S, Karodi P, Joseph N, Lodha T.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2021.722369	2021

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 )
#65472	Harjodh Singh, Manpreet Kaur, Shivani Sharma, Lakhwinder Kaur, Sunita Mishra, Naga Radha Srinivas Tanuku, Anil Kumar Pinnaka: Bacillus alkalilacus sp. nov., isolated from a sediment sample from a lake in India. IJSEM 68: 1665 - 1671 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002726 , PubMed 29616894 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Alkalihalobacillus alkalilacus (JCM 32184, MTCC 12637, KCTC 33880)

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

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Fatty acid profile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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