Halostella limicola (CGMCC 1.14941, JCM 30667, LT12)

Name: Halostella limicola (CGMCC 1.14941, JCM 30667, LT12)
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BacDive ID 163855

Type strain

Strain Designation LT12

Culture col. no. CGMCC 1.14941 JCM 30667 LT12

NCBI tax ID(s) 2448456

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History H.-L. Cui; Jiangsu Univ., China; LT12.

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Halostella limicola LT12 is a Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped archaeon that forms circular colonies and was isolated from Saline soil sampled at the Tarim Basin.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped colony-forming genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132613

JCM 30667

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:39:42

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Natronoarchaeaceae

Genus Halostella

Species Halostella limicola

Full scientific name Halostella limicola Han et al. 2019

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
68037	negative	1.5-6.0 µm	0.8-1.0 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative					95.8

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
68037	1 mm	light red	circular	NHM medium

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
67770	positive	growth	37
68037	positive	growth	30-55
68037	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
68037	positive	optimum	7.5
68037	positive	growth	6.5-9.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		96.1

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
68037	NaCl	positive	growth	1.7-4.8 M
68037	NaCl	positive	optimum	3.1 M
68037	MgCl2	positive	growth	0.0-1.0 M
68037	MgCl2	positive	optimum	0.05 M

Observation

@ref	Observation
68037	The major polar lipids are PA, PG, PGP-Me and three unidentified glycolipids
68037	Cells lyse in distilled water and the minimal NaCl concentration to prevent cell lysis is 1.4 M

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68037	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
68037	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	energy source
68037		casein	+	hydrolysis
68037	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
68037	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	energy source
68037	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	carbon source
68037	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	energy source
68037	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	carbon source
68037	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	energy source
68037	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	builds acid from
68037	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	carbon source
68037	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	energy source
68037	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	builds acid from
68037	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	carbon source
68037	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	energy source
68037	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	carbon source
68037	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	energy source
68037	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	builds acid from
68037	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	carbon source
68037	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	energy source
68037	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	carbon source
68037	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	+	energy source
68037	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	carbon source
68037	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	energy source
68037	28262 ChEBI	dimethyl sulfoxide	+	anaerobic growth
68037	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	carbon source
68037	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	energy source
68037	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+	hydrolysis
68037	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
68037	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	energy source
68037	15428 ChEBI	glycine	-	carbon source
68037	15428 ChEBI	glycine	-	nitrogen source
68037	15428 ChEBI	glycine	-	energy source
68037	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide	+
68037	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	-	carbon source
68037	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	-	nitrogen source
68037	16977 ChEBI	L-alanine	-	energy source
68037	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	+	anaerobic growth
68037	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	carbon source
68037	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	nitrogen source
68037	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	-	energy source
68037	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	-	carbon source
68037	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	-	nitrogen source
68037	29991 ChEBI	L-aspartate	-	energy source
68037	18050 ChEBI	L-glutamine	+	carbon source
68037	18050 ChEBI	L-glutamine	+	nitrogen source
68037	18050 ChEBI	L-glutamine	+	energy source
68037	18019 ChEBI	L-lysine	-	carbon source
68037	18019 ChEBI	L-lysine	-	nitrogen source
68037	18019 ChEBI	L-lysine	-	energy source
68037	15589 ChEBI	L-malate	-	carbon source
68037	15589 ChEBI	L-malate	-	energy source
68037	15729 ChEBI	L-ornithine	+	carbon source
68037	15729 ChEBI	L-ornithine	+	nitrogen source
68037	15729 ChEBI	L-ornithine	+	energy source
68037	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	carbon source
68037	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	energy source
68037	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
68037	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	energy source
68037	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
68037	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	energy source
68037	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	builds acid from
68037	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
68037	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	energy source
68037	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	builds acid from
68037	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	anaerobic growth
68037	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
68037	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	+	reduction
68037	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
68037	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	energy source
68037	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
68037	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	carbon source
68037	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	energy source
68037	30031 ChEBI	succinate	-	carbon source
68037	30031 ChEBI	succinate	-	energy source
68037	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
68037	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	energy source
68037	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	builds acid from
68037	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
68037	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Methylred-test
68037	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-
68037	17234 ChEBI	glucose		+

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68037	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68037	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
68037	urease	-	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
67770	Saline soil sampled at the Tarim Basin			China	CHN	Asia
68037	saline soil	2013-09	Tarim Basin	China	CHN	Asia	41.2822	80.2458 41.2822/80.2458

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	ASM367587v1 assembly for Halostella limicola LT12	scaffold	GCA_003675875	2448456.3	2994846370	2448456	75.49

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
68037	Halostella limicola from China 16S ribosomal RNA (rrnA) gene, partial sequence	KM453694	1471		1552988
68037	Halostella limicola from China 16S ribosomal RNA (rrnB) gene, partial sequence	KM453695	1471		1552988

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
68037	67.2	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Halostella limicola LT12
NCBI: GCA_003675875

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	96.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	61.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	95.80	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	77.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Halostella limicola LT12
NCBI: GCA_003675875.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	78.19	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	82.63	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	83.91	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	84.75	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	76.33	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	84.50	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Halostella limicola sp. nov., isolated from saline soil sampled at the Tarim Basin.	Han D, Hong LG, Xu Q, Cui HL	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003643	2019

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;
#68037	Dong Han, Li-Guo Hong, Qin Xu, Heng-Lin Cui: Halostella limicola sp. nov., isolated from saline soil sampled at the Tarim Basin. IJSEM 69: 3299 - 3304 2019 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.003643 )
#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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Halostella limicola (CGMCC 1.14941, JCM 30667, LT12)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_003675875

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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