Alkalispirillum mobile (DSM 12769, VKM B-3569)

Name: Alkalispirillum mobile (DSM 12769, VKM B-3569)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 4268

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 12769 VKM B-3569

NCBI tax ID(s) 85925

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- R. Kort, Dept. Microbiol., Univ. of Amsterdam

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Alkalispirillum mobile DSM 12769 is a bacterium that was isolated from cultures of Halorhodospira halophila SL-1.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 100494

VKM B-3569,DSM 12769

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:41

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Chromatiales

Family Ectothiorhodospiraceae

Genus Alkalispirillum

Species Alkalispirillum mobile

Full scientific name Alkalispirillum mobile Rijkenberg et al. 2025

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	98.2
125438	negative	97.994

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4811	ALKALISPIRILLUM MOBILIS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1446)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ALKALISPIRILLUM MOBILE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1446) Composition: Na2CO3 21.2 g/l Agar 20.0 g/l NaCl 20.0 g/l NaHCO3 13.44 g/l Na-acetate 2.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na2S2O3 1.0 g/l KH2PO4 0.8 g/l NH4Cl 0.8 g/l MgCl2 x 7 H2O 0.1 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.05 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.0018 g/l H3BO3 0.0005 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00025 g/l ZnCl2 0.0001 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 7e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 1e-05 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 1e-05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4811	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98
125438		92.643

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Laboratory	#Lab enrichment
#Host	#Microbial	#Bacteria

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species
4811	cultures of Halorhodospira halophila SL-1	Halorhodospira halophila

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF114783 (>99% sequence identity) for Alkalispirillum mobile from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	25
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	25

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4811	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM366432v1 assembly for Alkalispirillum mobile DSM 12769	scaffold	GCA_003664325	85925.3	2770939642	85925	73.79

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4811	Alkalispirillum mobile 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF114783	1464		85925

GC content

4811

GC-content (mol%)66.2

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Alkalispirillum mobile DSM 12769
NCBI: GCA_003664325

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	82.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.20	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate anaerobe	81.80	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Alkalispirillum mobile DSM 12769
NCBI: GCA_003664325.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.99	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	83.32	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	59.66	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.64	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	91.68	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	83.85	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Validation List no. 222. Valid publication of new names and new combinations effectively published outside the IJSEM.	Oren A, Goker M.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006640	2025
Metabolism	Culture-independent analysis of hydrocarbonoclastic bacterial communities in environmental samples during oil-bioremediation.	Dashti N, Ali N, Salamah S, Khanafer M, Al-Shamy G, Al-Awadhi H, Radwan SS.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.630	2019
Phylogeny	Alkalispirillum mobile gen. nov., spec. nov., an alkaliphilic non-phototrophic member of the Ectothiorhodospiraceae.	Rijkenberg MJ, Kort R, Hellingwerf KJ.	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s002030100274	2001
Phylogeny	Phylogeny and evolution of the family Ectothiorhodospiraceae based on comparison of 16S rRNA, cbbL and nifH gene sequences.	Tourova TP, Spiridonova EM, Berg IA, Slobodova NV, Boulygina ES, Sorokin DY.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65041-0	2007
Phylogeny	Metabolic versatility of haloalkaliphilic bacteria from soda lakes belonging to the Alkalispirillum-Alkalilimnicola group.	Sorokin DY, Zhilina TN, Lysenko AM, Tourova TP, Spiridonova EM.	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-005-0487-7	2006
	Comparative analysis of microbial communities from different full-scale haloalkaline biodesulfurization systems.	Gupta S, Plugge CM, Klok JBM, Muyzer G.	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-022-11771-y	2022
Phylogeny	Genomic Comparison, Phylogeny and Taxonomic Reevaluation of the Ectothiorhodospiraceae and Description of Halorhodospiraceae fam. nov. and Halochlorospira gen. nov.	Imhoff JF, Kyndt JA, Meyer TE.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10020295	2022
Metabolism	Dynamics of bacterial populations during bench-scale bioremediation of oily seawater and desert soil bioaugmented with coastal microbial mats.	Ali N, Dashti N, Salamah S, Sorkhoh N, Al-Awadhi H, Radwan S.	Microb Biotechnol	10.1111/1751-7915.12326	2016
Metabolism	Anaerobic oxidation of arsenite in Mono Lake water and by a facultative, arsenite-oxidizing chemoautotroph, strain MLHE-1.	Oremland RS, Hoeft SE, Santini JM, Bano N, Hollibaugh RA, Hollibaugh JT.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.68.10.4795-4802.2002	2002
Metabolism	Sulfide oxidation coupled to arsenate reduction by a diverse microbial community in a soda lake.	Hollibaugh JT, Budinoff C, Hollibaugh RA, Ransom B, Bano N.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.72.3.2043-2049.2006	2006
Metabolism	Alkalilimnicola ehrlichii sp. nov., a novel, arsenite-oxidizing haloalkaliphilic gammaproteobacterium capable of chemoautotrophic or heterotrophic growth with nitrate or oxygen as the electron acceptor.	Hoeft SE, Blum JS, Stolz JF, Tabita FR, Witte B, King GM, Santini JM, Oremland RS.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64576-0	2007
Phylogeny	From metagenomics to pure culture: isolation and characterization of the moderately halophilic bacterium Spiribacter salinus gen. nov., sp. nov.	Leon MJ, Fernandez AB, Ghai R, Sanchez-Porro C, Rodriguez-Valera F, Ventosa A.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.00430-14	2014
Phylogeny	Aquisalimonas asiatica gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from an alkaline, saline lake in Inner Mongolia, China.	Marquez MC, Carrasco IJ, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64916-0	2007

References

#4811	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12769
#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 )
#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) .
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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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Alkalispirillum mobile (DSM 12769, VKM B-3569)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_003664325

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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