Name: Haloferax mucosum PA12
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 24081

Type strain:

Species: Haloferax mucosum

Strain Designation: PA12

Culture col. no.: DSM 27191, ATCC BAA 1512, JCM 14792, UNSW 104200, CGMCC 1.8488

Strain history: M. Allen PA12.

NCBI tax ID(s): 662479 (strain), 403181 (species)

Section

Haloferax mucosum PA12 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative archaeon that was isolated from pustular microbial mat from Hemelin Pool.

Gram-negative
rod-shaped
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 mucosum**
	Full Scientific Name (PNU)	Haloferax mucosum Allen et al. 2008

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32347]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #32347]	Cell shape	rod-shaped
[Ref.: #32347]	Motility	no

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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.: #20970]	growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #32347]	growth	23-55 °C
[Ref.: #32347]	optimum	47.5 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	37 °C

[Ref.: #20970]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #32347]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32347]			optimum	7.4
[Ref.: #32347]			growth	06-10

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
[Ref.: #32347]		indole ChEBI

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

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #32347]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #32347]		gelatinase	+

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

[Ref.: #20970]	Sample type/isolated from	pustular microbial mat from Hemelin Pool
[Ref.: #20970]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Shark Bay
[Ref.: #20970]	Country	Australia
[Ref.: #20970]	Country ISO 3 Code	AUS
[Ref.: #20970]	Continent	Australia and Oceania

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Pustular microbial mat from Hemelin Pool
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Shark Bay, Western Australia
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Australia
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	AUS
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Australia and Oceania
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Built environment	#Water reservoir (Aquarium/pool)
#Environmental	#Microbial community	#Microbial mat

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ860980 (>99% sequence identity) for Haloferax from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	3
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	5

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.: #20970]	Haloferax mucosum strain PA12 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ860980	1362	ENA	662479 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Haloferax mucosum ATCC BAA-1512 ATCC BAA-1512	GCA_000337815	contig	GenBank	662479 tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Haloferax mucosum PA12	2508501020	draft	JGI IMG/M	662479 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Haloferax mucosum PA12	2529293244	draft	JGI IMG/M	662479 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #20970]	GC-content	61.4 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
[Ref.: #32347]	GC-content	60.8 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 27191, ATCC BAA 1512, JCM 14792, UNSW 104200, CGMCC 1.8488

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Associated Passport(s) in StrainInfo

802380, 802381, 802382

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Cultivation	Physicochemical characterization and emulsifying properties of a novel exopolysaccharide produced by haloarchaeon Haloferax mucosum.	Lopez-Ortega MA, Rodriguez-Hernandez AI, Camacho-Ruiz RM, Cordova J, Lopez-Cuellar MDR, Chavarria-Hernandez N, Gonzalez-Garcia Y	Int J Biol Macromol	10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.09.087	2019	*
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 )

#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 )

#20970

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 27191

#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)

#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 .

#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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