Parageobacillus yumthangensis (MTCC 12749, KCTC 33950, JCM 32596)

Name: Parageobacillus yumthangensis (MTCC 12749, KCTC 33950, JCM 32596)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 159838

Type strain

Strain Designation AYN2

Culture col. no. MTCC 12749 KCTC 33950 JCM 32596 AYN2 MTCC 12769

NCBI tax ID(s) 2037913

Special Collections JCM KCTC Literature strains

History JCM <-- N. Thakur; Sikkim Univ., India; AYN2. KCTC <- Nagendra Thakur, Sikkim Univ.

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Parageobacillus yumthangensis AYN2 is an aerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium that forms circular colonies and has a creamy-white pigmentation.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 25538

KCTC 33950,JCM 32596

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:44:17

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Parageobacillus

Species Parageobacillus yumthangensis

Full scientific name Parageobacillus yumthangensis (Najar et al. 2018) Najar et al. 2020

Synonyms (1)

Geobacillus yumthangensis

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape
66718	positive	2.5-5 µm	0.4-0.6 µm	rod-shaped
66718
67771				rod-shaped
67771	positive

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
66718	creamy-white	circular	1 day	actinomycetes agar

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Color
66718		creamy-white

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition
66718	actinomycetes agar		2 gl-1 sodium caseinate, 0.1 gl-1 L-asparagine, 4 g l-1 sodium propionate, 0.5 gl-11 dipotassium phosphate, 0.1 gl-1 magnesium sulphate, 0.001 gl-1 ferrous sulphate, 25 gl-1 agar
66718	solid thermus agar		8 gl-1 peptone, 4 gl-1 yeast extract, 2 gl-1 NaCl

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
66718	positive	optimum	60
66718	negative	growth	80
66718	positive	growth	40-70
67770	positive	growth	60
67771	positive	growth	60

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
66718	positive	optimum	7.5-8.0
66718		growth	0-6
66718		growth	10-12
66718	positive	growth	6-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
66718	aerobe
67771	aerobe
125439	facultative anaerobe	91.18

Spore formation

@ref	Spore description	Type of spore	Spore formation
66718	spores are located at the sub-terminal to terminal positions	endospore
67771		spore

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
66718	NaCl	positive	growth	0-5 %(w/v)
66718	NaCl	positive	optimum	1 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
66718	16411 ChEBI	acetic acid	+	assimilation
66718	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	-	builds acid from
66718		casein	-	hydrolysis
66718	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	builds acid from
66718	15740 ChEBI	formate	+	assimilation
66718	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	builds acid from
66718	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	builds acid from
66718	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	assimilation
66718	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	builds acid from
66718	33942 ChEBI	ribose	-	builds acid from
66718	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	builds acid from
66718	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
66718	18222 ChEBI	xylose	-	builds acid from

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
66718	catalase	+	1.11.1.6

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

66718

Fatty acid	Percentage
C16:0 iso	13.9
C17:0 iso	13.7
C15:0 iso	12.8
C16:0	7
C17:0	4.7
C14:0	3.3
a-C17:0	3.2
C18:1	3.2
C18:0	2.6
C18:0 iso	2.3

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature	Isolation procedure
66718	the source of the Yumthang hot spring, North Sikkim, India	Yumthang hot spring, North Sikkim	India	IND	Asia	27.7929	88.7086 27.7929/88.7086	solid thermus agar	8 gl-1 peptone, 4 gl-1 yeast extract, 2 gl-1 NaCl	24 h	60	Water samples were taken from the source of the Yumthang hot spring, North Sikkim, India. Strain was isolated on solid thermus agar containing 8 gl-1 peptone, 4 gl-1 yeast extract and 2 gl-1 1NaCl with an incubation of 24h at 60°C.
67770	Yumthang hot spring	North Sikkim	India	IND	Asia
67771	From yumthang hot spring	North Sikkim	India	IND	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	ASM249437v1 assembly for Parageobacillus yumthangensis AYN2	scaffold	GCA_002494375	2037913.4	2791355095	2037913	0

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
66718	Parageobacillus yumthangensis strain AYN2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MG603320	1457		2037913

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
66718	42.11	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
67771	42.11
67770	42.11	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM249437v1 assembly for Parageobacillus yumthangensis AYN2
NCBI: GCA_002494375

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	91.18	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	66.43	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	70.24	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	79.94	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 )
#66718	Ishfaq Nabi Najar, Mingma Thundu Sherpa, Sayak Das, Kamalesh Verma, Vikash Kumar Dubey, Nagendra Thakur: Geobacillus yumthangensis sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a north-east Indian hot spring. IJSEM 68: 3430 - 3434 2018 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.003002 , PubMed 30222099 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#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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