Halococcoides cellulosivorans (UNIQEM U975, JCM 31941, HArcel1)

Name: Halococcoides cellulosivorans (UNIQEM U975, JCM 31941, HArcel1)
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BacDive ID 164159

Type strain

Strain Designation HArcel1

Culture col. no. UNIQEM U975 JCM 31941 HArcel1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1679096

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Halococcoides cellulosivorans HArcel1 is an aerobe, extremely halophilic, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Hypersaline lakes in the Kulunda Steppe.

coccus-shaped aerobe extremely halophilic mesophilic genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 393515

JCM 31941

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:09:23

Domain Methanobacteriati

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Haloarculaceae

Genus Halococcoides

Species Halococcoides cellulosivorans

Full scientific name Halococcoides cellulosivorans Sorokin et al. 2019

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell shape	Motility
67865	0.8-3 µm	coccus-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Medium used
67865	1 mm	slightly orange	amorphous cellulose agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
67865	positive	optimum	40-45	thermophilic
67865	positive	growth	25-50

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
67865	positive	optimum	7-7.2
67865	positive	growth	6.5-8

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

67865

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Halophily level	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
67865	extremely halophilic	NaCl	positive	growth	3-5 M
67865		NaCl	positive	optimum	3.5-4 M

Observation

@ref	Observation
67865	Cells have a thin monolayer cell wall.
67865	Does not utilize organic acids or organic nitrogen compounds as carbon and energy source.
67865	Proteolytic and lipolytic activity are absent.

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
67865	16004 ChEBI	(R)-lactate	-	assimilation
67865	16651 ChEBI	(S)-lactate	-	assimilation
67865	37671 ChEBI	1,3-beta-d-glucan	-	assimilation
67865	58187 ChEBI	alginate	-	assimilation
67865	28938 ChEBI	ammonium	+	nitrogen source
67865	85146 ChEBI	carboxymethylcellulose	-	assimilation
67865	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	assimilation
67865	62968 ChEBI	cellulose	+	assimilation
67865	17029 ChEBI	chitin	-	assimilation
67865	16261 ChEBI	chitosan	-	assimilation
67865	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	-	assimilation
67865	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	-	assimilation
67865	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	assimilation
67865	18024 ChEBI	D-galacturonic acid	-	assimilation
67865	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation
67865	15748 ChEBI	D-glucuronate	-	assimilation
67865	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	-	assimilation
67865	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation
67865	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	assimilation
67865	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	assimilation
67865	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	-	assimilation
67865	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	assimilation
67865	37165 ChEBI	galactan	-	assimilation
67865	27680 ChEBI	galactomannan	-	assimilation
67865	17020 ChEBI	glucomannan	-	assimilation
67865	5417 ChEBI	glucosamine	-	assimilation
67865	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	-	assimilation
67865	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation
67865	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	-	assimilation
67865	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	assimilation
67865	25115 ChEBI	malate	-	assimilation
67865	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation
67865	28808 ChEBI	mannan	-	assimilation
67865	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	assimilation
67865	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	assimilation
67865	59640 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation
67865	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	assimilation
67865	17309 ChEBI	pectin	-	assimilation
67865	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	-	assimilation
67865	30031 ChEBI	succinate	-	assimilation
67865	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	assimilation
67865	16199 ChEBI	urea	-	assimilation
67865	37166 ChEBI	xylan	+	assimilation

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Resistance conc.
67865	28971	ampicillin	100 µg/mL
67865	17698	chloramphenicol
67865	48923	erythromycin	100 µg/mL
67865	17833	gentamicin	100 µg/mL
67865	6104	kanamycin	100 µg/mL
67865	18208	penicillin g	100 µg/mL
67865	28077	rifampicin
67865	17076	streptomycin	100 µg/mL
67865	28001	vancomycin	100 µg/mL

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
67865	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
67865	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code
67770	Hypersaline lakes in the Kulunda Steppe	Altai region	Russia	RUS
67865	Surface sediments and near-bottom brines from three hypersaline lakes with salt concentration of 280350 g l-1 and pH from 7.5 to 8.1	Kulunda Steppe, Altai region	Russia	RUS

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	ASM305836v1 assembly for Halococcoides cellulosivorans HArcel1	complete	GCA_003058365	1679096.3	8109248011	1679096	98.23

Genome browser: GCA_003058365

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67865	65.74	genome sequence analysis
67770	65.7	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Cellulose metabolism in halo(natrono)archaea: a comparative genomics study.	Elcheninov AG, Ugolkov YA, Elizarov IM, Klyukina AA, Kublanov IV, Sorokin DY.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1112247	2023
	Isolation of Halomicroarcula pellucida strain GUMF5, an archaeon from the Dead Sea-Israel possessing cellulase.	Malik AD, Furtado IJ.	3 Biotech	10.1007/s13205-021-03090-2	2022
	Natronoglomus mannanivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., beta-1,4-mannan utilizing natronoarchaea from hypersaline soda lakes.	Sorokin DY, Elcheninov AG, Bale NJ, Sinninghe Damste JS, Kublanov IV.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2024.1364606	2024
Phylogeny	Halococcoides cellulosivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic cellulose-utilizing haloarchaeon from hypersaline lakes.	Sorokin DY, Khijniak TV, Elcheninov AG, Toshchakov SV, Kostrikina NA, Bale NJ, Sinninghe Damste JS, Kublanov IV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003312	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;
#67865	Dimitry Y. Sorokin, Tatiana V. Khijniak, Alexander G. Elcheninov, Stepan V. Toshchakov, Nadezhda A. Kostrikina, Nicole J. Bale, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Ilya V. Kublanov: Halococcoides cellulosivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic cellulose-utilizing haloarchaeon from hypersaline lakes. IJSEM 69: 1327 - 1335 2019 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.003312 )
#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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Halococcoides cellulosivorans (UNIQEM U975, JCM 31941, HArcel1)

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

Antibiotic resistance

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_003058365

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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