Virgibacillus sp. (DSM 21450, CM-4)

Name: Virgibacillus sp. (DSM 21450, CM-4)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 159459

Type strain

Strain Designation CM-4

Culture col. no. DSM 21450 CM-4

NCBI tax ID(s) 1872700

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CM-4 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from activated sludge of saline sewage treatment plant.

mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 397077

DSM 21450

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:08:16

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 medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
66282	MODIFIED BACTO MARINE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 514d)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MODIFIED BACTO MARINE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 514d) Composition: Difco marine broth 37.4 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Malt extract 1.0 g/l Soy peptone 1.0 g/l Pancreatic digest of casein 1.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
66282	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	98.5

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		95.402
125439		90.3

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Waste	#Activated sludge
#Engineered	#Waste	#Water treatment plant
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
66282	activated sludge of saline sewage treatment plant	Hong Kong	China	CHN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Version 1 of the Virgibacillus hongkongensis CM-4 genome assembly for Virgibacillus sp. CM-4	contig	GCA_000445495	1354277.3	2579779111	1354277	74.07

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
66282	Halophilic bacterium CM-4 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU673373	758		528313

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Virgibacillus sp. CM-4
NCBI: GCA_000445495

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	90.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	85.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	76.20	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Virgibacillus sp. CM-4
PATRIC: 1354277.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	83.63	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.43	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	95.40	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	67.67	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.38	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	87.77	no

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 )
#66282	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21450
#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) .
#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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