Name: Haloferax larsenii ZJ206
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 24077

Type strain:

Species: Haloferax larsenii

Strain Designation: ZJ206

Culture col. no.: DSM 27190, CGMCC 1.5347, JCM 13917

Strain history: X.-W. Xu ZJ206.

NCBI tax ID(s): 1227460 (strain), 302484 (species)

Section

Haloferax larsenii ZJ206 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative archaeon that was isolated from solar saltern.

Gram-negative
motile
aerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence
Archaea
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	07-12-2022 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	"Euryarchaeota"
	Class	Halobacteria
	Order	*Haloferacales*
	Family	*Haloferacaceae*
	Genus	*Haloferax*
	Species	**Haloferax larsenii**
	Full Scientific Name (PNU)	Haloferax larsenii Xu et al. 2007

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #31872]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #31872]	Cell width	0.8-1.5 µm
[Ref.: #31872]	Motility	yes

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

HALOBACTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 372)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #20966]	growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #31872]	growth	25-55 °C
[Ref.: #31872]	optimum	42-45 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	37 °C

[Ref.: #20966]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #31872]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #31872]			optimum	6.5-7
[Ref.: #31872]			growth	6-8.5

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #31872]		NaCl		growth	5.8-27.84	%
[Ref.: #31872]		NaCl		optimum	12.76-19.72	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #31872]	alanine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	glycerol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	lactate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	malate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #31872]	ornithine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	pyruvate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	succinate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31872]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source
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	Metabolite production	Metabolite
[Ref.: #31872]		hydrogen sulfide ChEBI
[Ref.: #31872]		indole ChEBI

	Physiological tests	Metabolite	Indole test
[Ref.: #31872]		indole ChEBI	+

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #31872]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #31872]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #20966]	Sample type/isolated from	solar saltern
[Ref.: #20966]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Zhe-Jiang Province
[Ref.: #20966]	Country	China
[Ref.: #20966]	Country ISO 3 Code	CHN
[Ref.: #20966]	Continent	Asia

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Solar saltern in Zhe-Jiang Province
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	China
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	CHN
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Condition

#Saline

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AY838278 (>99% sequence identity) for Haloferax from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	21
Soil Samples	8
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	31

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #20966]	Haloferax larsenii strain ZJ206 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY838278	1473	ENA	302484 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Haloferax larsenii JCM 13917 JCM 13917	GCA_000336955	contig	GenBank	1227460 tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Haloferax larsenii JCM 13917	2554235500	draft	JGI IMG/M	1227460 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Haloferax larsenii JCM 13917	1227460.3	wgs	PATRIC	1227460 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #20966]	GC-content	62.2 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
[Ref.: #31872]	GC-content	61.4-63 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 27190, CGMCC 1.5347, JCM 13917

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Associated Passport(s) in StrainInfo

699450, 699449

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Activity-guided separation and characterization of new halocin HA3 from fermented broth of Haloferax larsenii HA3.	Kumar V, Tiwari SK	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-017-0930-6	2017	*
Phylogeny	Isolation and characterization of extremely halophilic CO-oxidizing Euryarchaeota from hypersaline cinders, sediments and soils and description of a novel CO oxidizer, Haloferax namakaokahaiae Mke2.3T, sp. nov.	McDuff S, King GM, Neupane S, Myers MR	FEMS Microbiol Ecol	10.1093/femsec/fiw028	2016	*
Phylogeny	Haloferax larsenii sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from a solar saltern.	Xu XW, Wu YH, Wang CS, Oren A, Zhou PJ, Wu M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64573-0	2007	*

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 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

#20966

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 27190

#31872

Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #28132 (see below)

#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) .

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#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 .

#28132

IJSEM 717 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64573-0 , PubMed 17392193 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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