Humidesulfovibrio arcticus (DSM 21064, VKM B-2367, B15)

Name: Humidesulfovibrio arcticus (DSM 21064, VKM B-2367, B15)
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BacDive ID 4155

Type strain

Strain Designation B15

Culture col. no. DSM 21064 VKM B-2367 B15

NCBI tax ID(s) 360296

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History <- S. Pecheritsyna, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Science, Pushchino, Russia; B15 <- S. A. Pecheritsyna; {2005}

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Humidesulfovibrio arcticus B15 is an anaerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from water brine within permafrost.

Gram-negative motile anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 369387

VKM B-2367,DSM 21064

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:39

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfovibrionaceae

Genus Humidesulfovibrio

Species Humidesulfovibrio arcticus

Full scientific name Humidesulfovibrio arcticus (Pecheritsyna et al. 2012) Waite et al. 2020

Synonyms (1)

Desulfovibrio arcticus

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Motility
29802	negative	3.0-4.0 µm	0.4-0.5 µm

Colony morphology

15538

Incubation period8-14 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15538	DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 63)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 63) Composition: MgSO4 x 7 H2O 2.0 g/l Na-DL-lactate 2.0 g/l NH4Cl 1.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na2SO4 1.0 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.1 g/l Na-thioglycolate 0.1 g/l Ascorbic acid 0.1 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
15538	positive	growth	24
29802	positive	optimum	24

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
29802	positive	optimum	6.7-7.0
29802	positive	growth	6.0-8.0

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

15538

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29802	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %
29802	NaCl	positive	optimum	0.20 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29802	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
29802	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	+	carbon source
29802	15740 ChEBI	formate	+	carbon source
29802	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
29802	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Permafrost
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
15538	water brine within permafrost	North Eurasia, Coast of Barents Sea, Varandey Peninsula	Russia	RUS	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15538	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15538	Desulfovibrio arcticus strain B15 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ296030	1425		360296

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
15538	55.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
29802	55.2

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Desulfovibrio arcticus sp. nov., a psychrotolerant sulfate-reducing bacterium from a cryopeg.	Pecheritsyna SA, Rivkina EM, Akimov VN, Shcherbakova VA	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.021451-0	2011

References

#15538	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21064
#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 )
#26179	IJSEM 33 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.021451-0 , PubMed 21317277 )
#29802	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 #26179
#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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Humidesulfovibrio arcticus (DSM 21064, VKM B-2367, B15)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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