Natronobacterium texcoconense (DSM 24767, CECT 8068, JCM 17655)

Name: Natronobacterium texcoconense (DSM 24767, CECT 8068, JCM 17655)
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BacDive ID 24083

Type strain

Strain Designation B23

Culture col. no. DSM 24767 CECT 8068 JCM 17655 B23

NCBI tax ID(s) 1095778

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Natronobacterium texcoconense B23 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from saline-alkaline soil.

Gram-negative ovoid-shaped aerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 391304

CECT 8068,JCM 17655,DSM 24767

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:52:47

Domain Methanobacteriati

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Natrialbaceae

Genus Natronobacterium

Species Natronobacterium texcoconense

Full scientific name Natronobacterium texcoconense Ruiz-Romero et al. 2013

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape
31150	negative	8.5 µm	0.9 µm	ovoid-shaped

Colony morphology

21026

Incubation period>14 days

Pigmentation

31150

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
21026	NATRONOBACTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 371)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: NATRONOBACTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 371) Composition: NaCl 200.0 g/l Agar 20.0 g/l Casamino acids 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Na2CO3 5.0 g/l Na2-glutamate 1.0 g/l KH2PO4 1.0 g/l KCl 1.0 g/l NH4Cl 1.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.24 g/l CaSO4 x 2 H2O 0.17 g/l HCl 0.0025 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.0015 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00019 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.0001 g/l ZnCl2 7e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.6e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.4e-05 g/l H3BO3 6e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 2e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
21026	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
31150	positive	growth	25-45
31150	positive	optimum	37	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
31150	positive	optimum	8
31150	positive	growth	6.5-9.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

31150

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31150	NaCl	positive	growth	9.9-24.9 %
31150	NaCl	positive	optimum	17.4 %

Observation

31150

Observationaggregates in clumps

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31150	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
31150	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
31150	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
31150	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
31150	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31150	catalase	+	1.11.1.6

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Condition	#Alkaline	-
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
21026	saline-alkaline soil	former lake Texcoco (19° 30' 52'' N 98° 59' 24'' W)	Mexico	MEX	North America	19.5143	-98.99 19.5143/-98.99
67770	Soil of the former lake Texcoco		Mexico	MEX	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JN571120 (>99% sequence identity) for Natronobacterium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	1

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
21026	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	IMG-taxon 2636416047 annotated assembly for Natronobacterium texcoconense DSM 24767	scaffold	GCA_900104065	1095778.3	2636416047	1095778	69.69

Genome browser: GCA_900104065

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21026	Natronobacterium texcoconense strain B23 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JN571120	1355		1095778
124043	Natronobacterium texcoconense gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 17655.	AB935412	1473		1095778

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
21026	62.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
31150	62.5

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Natronobacterium texcoconense DSM 24767
NCBI: GCA_900104065

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	84.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	84.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	64.70	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	89.90	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Bacterial-like nitric oxide synthase in the haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronomonas pharaonis.	Orsini SS, James KL, Reyes DJ, Couto-Rodriguez RL, Gulko MK, Witte A, Carroll RK, Rice KC.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.1124	2020
Phylogeny	Natronobacterium texcoconense sp. nov., a haloalkaliphilic archaeon isolated from soil of a former lake.	Ruiz-Romero E, Sanchez-Lopez KB, Coutino-Coutino MLA, Gonzalez-Pozos S, Bello-Lopez JM, Lopez-Ramirez MP, Ramirez-Villanueva DA, Dendooven L	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.053629-0	2013

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 )
#21026	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24767
#31150	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 #27478 (see below)
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Natronobacterium texcoconense (DSM 24767, CECT 8068, JCM 17655)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900104065

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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