Name: Haloferax elongans SA5
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 24080

Type strain:

Species: Haloferax elongans

Strain Designation: SA5

Culture col. no.: DSM 27209, ATCC BAA-1513, JCM 14791, UNSW 104100

Strain history: <- JCM <- M. A. Allen, University of New South Wales; SA5

NCBI tax ID(s): 1230453 (strain), 403191 (species)

SI-ID 343798

ATCC BAA-1513, JCM 14791

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Haloferax elongans SA5 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative archaeon that was isolated from microbial mats from Hamelin Pool.

Gram-negative
rod-shaped
aerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence
Archaea

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

	Last LPSN update	09-12-2024 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	*Archaea*
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	*Halobacteria*
	Order	*Halobacteriales*
	Family	*Haloferacaceae*
	Genus	*Haloferax*
	Species	**Haloferax elongans**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Haloferax elongans Allen et al. 2008

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32347]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #32347]	Cell length	12 µm

[Ref.: #32347]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

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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 at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #20969]	growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #32347]	growth	30-55 °C
[Ref.: #32347]	optimum	53 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32347]			optimum	7.4
[Ref.: #32347]			growth	07-09

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #32347]		NaCl		growth	9.86-29.58	%
[Ref.: #32347]		NaCl		optimum	17.4	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #32347]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32347]	glycerol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32347]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32347]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32347]	trehalose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #32347]		indole ChEBI	yes

	Physiological tests	Metabolite	Indole test
[Ref.: #32347]		indole ChEBI	+

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #32347]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #32347]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #32347]	gelatinase	+

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

[Ref.: #20969]	Sample type/isolated from	microbial mats from Hamelin Pool
[Ref.: #20969]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Shark Bay
[Ref.: #20969]	Country	Australia
[Ref.: #20969]	Country ISO 3 Code	AUS
[Ref.: #20969]	Continent	Australia and Oceania
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Microbial community	#Microbial mat

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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.: #20969]	Haloferax elongans strain SA5 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ860977	1379	GenBank ENA	1230453 tax ID
[Ref.: #124043]	Haloferax elongans gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 14791.	AB477972	1433	GenBank ENA	1230453 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #124043]	Haloferax elongans gene for 16S rRNA, complete sequence, strain: JCM 14791.	AB663375	1473	GenBank ENA	1230453 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #20969]	GC-content	61.4 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
[Ref.: #32347]	GC-content	61.4 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 27209, ATCC BAA-1513, JCM 14791, UNSW 104100

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SI-ID 343798

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Haloferax elongans sp. nov. and Haloferax mucosum sp. nov., isolated from microbial mats from Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Australia.	Allen MA, Goh F, Leuko S, Echigo A, Mizuki T, Usami R, Kamekura M, Neilan BA, Burns BP	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65360-0	2008	*

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 )

#20969

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 27209

#32347

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 #28578 (see below)

#88045

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID343798.1 )

#124043

Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .

#28578

IJSEM 798 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65360-0 , PubMed 18398172 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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