Halorussus halophilus (CGMCC 1.12866, JCM 30239, ZS-3)

Name: Halorussus halophilus (CGMCC 1.12866, JCM 30239, ZS-3)
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BacDive ID 163753

Type strain

Strain Designation ZS-3

Culture col. no. CGMCC 1.12866 JCM 30239 ZS-3

NCBI tax ID(s) 2650975

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History H.-L. Cui; Jiangsu Univ., China; ZS-3.

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Halorussus halophilus ZS-3 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from Sediment of Zhoushan marine solar saltern in Zhejiang Province.

Gram-negative motile pleomorphic-shaped colony-forming aerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 131846

JCM 30239

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:09:17

Domain Methanobacteriati

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Halobacteriaceae

Genus Halorussus

Species Halorussus halophilus

Full scientific name Halorussus halophilus Ding et al. 2020

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
68071	negative	1.0-6.0 µm	0.8-1.0 µm	pleomorphic-shaped
68071				rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Colony shape
68071	red	circular

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
68071	positive	growth	25-42
68071	positive	optimum	37	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
68071	positive	optimum	7
68071	positive	growth	5.5-9.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

68071

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
68071	NaCl	positive	growth	1.4-4.8 M
68071	NaCl	positive	optimum	2.6 M
68071	MgCl2	positive	growth	0.0-1.0 M
68071	MgCl2	positive	optimum	0.1 M

Observation

@ref	Observation
68071	Cells lyse in distilled water and the minimal NaCl concentration to prevent cell lysis is 10% (w/v).
68071	The polar lipids are phosphatidylglycerol (PG), phosphatidylglycerol phosphate methyl ester (PGP-Me), phosphatidylglycerol sulfate (PGS), three major glycolipids, and two minor glycolipids
68071	The three major glycolipids are GL1, GL2 and GL4, while the two unidentified minor glycolipids are GL3 and GL5

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68071	30089 ChEBI	acetate	-	growth
68071		casein	+	hydrolysis
68071	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
68071	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	growth
68071	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	carbon source
68071	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
68071	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	carbon source
68071	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	growth
68071	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	carbon source
68071	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	growth
68071	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	growth
68071	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	growth
68071	28262 ChEBI	dimethyl sulfoxide	-	anaerobic growth
68071	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	+	carbon source
68071	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
68071	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
68071	15428 ChEBI	glycine	-	growth
68071	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	-	growth
68071	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	anaerobic growth
68071	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	growth
68071	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	-	growth
68071	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	growth
68071		L-lactate	+	carbon source
68071	18019 ChEBI	L-lysine	-	growth
68071	15589 ChEBI	L-malate	+	carbon source
68071	15729 ChEBI	L-ornithine	+	growth
68071	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	growth
68071	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	growth
68071	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	growth
68071	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	anaerobic growth
68071	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
68071	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
68071	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	hydrolysis
68071	28017 ChEBI	starch	+	carbon source
68071	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
68071	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
68071	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
68071	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68071	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
68071	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68071	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68071	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
67770	Sediment of Zhoushan marine solar saltern in Zhejiang Province		China	CHN	Asia
68071	sediment of marine solar saltern	Zhejiang Province	China	CHN	Asia	29.9489	122.339 29.9489/122.339

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KJ689292 (>99% sequence identity) for Halobacteriaceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	183
Soil Samples	83
Animal Samples	16
Plant Samples	8
Total Samples	290

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Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
68071	ASM883154v1 assembly for Halorussus halophilus ZS-3	complete	GCA_008831545	2650975.3	3001289820	2650975	97.56

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
68071	Halorussus halophilus from China 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KJ689292	1472		1515596

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
68071	61.5	genome sequence analysis
67770	61.51	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Halorussus halophilus ZS-3
NCBI: GCA_008831545.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	75.04	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	79.15	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	83.06	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	79.45	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	84.34	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	86.50	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Halorussus halophilus sp. nov., A Novel Halophilic Archaeon Isolated from a Marine Solar Saltern.	Ding Y, Han D, Cui HL	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-020-01921-8	2020

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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68071	Yi Ding, Dong Han, Heng-Lin Cui: Halorussus halophilus sp. nov., A Novel Halophilic Archaeon Isolated from a Marine Solar Saltern. Curr Microbiol 77: 1321 - 1327 2020 ( DOI 10.1007/s00284-020-01921-8 )
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#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 )
#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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Halorussus halophilus (CGMCC 1.12866, JCM 30239, ZS-3)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_008831545

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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