Name: Thiohalospira alkaliphila DSM 17116
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 4298

Type strain:

Species: Thiohalospira alkaliphila

Culture col. no.: DSM 17116, UNIQEM U372, ALgr 6sp

Strain history: <- D. Y. Sorokin, Dept. Biotechnol., Delft Univ. Technol., Netherlands; ALgr 6sp

NCBI tax ID(s): 476279 (species)

SI-ID 399817

DSM 17116

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Thiohalospira alkaliphila DSM 17116 is a microaerophile, mesophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from sediments of hypersaline alkaline lakes.

Gram-negative
motile
rod-shaped
mesophilic
microaerophile
16S sequence
Bacteria

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

	Last LPSN update	09-12-2024 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	*Bacteria*
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Chromatiales*
	Family	*Ectothiorhodospiraceae*
	Genus	*Thiohalospira*
	Species	**Thiohalospira alkaliphila**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thiohalospira alkaliphila Sorokin et al. 2008

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32537]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #32537]	Cell length	02-04 µm

[Ref.: #32537]	Cell width	0.4-0.5 µm

[Ref.: #32537]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #32537]	Motility	yes

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #6765]

Culture medium

THIOHALOSPIRA ALKALIPHILA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1229)

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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.: #6765]	growth	28 °C
[Ref.: #32537]	growth	35 °C
[Ref.: #32537]	optimum	35 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32537]			optimum	8.5
[Ref.: #32537]			growth	7-10.2

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #6765]	Oxygen tolerance	microaerophile
[Ref.: #32537]	Oxygen tolerance	aerobe

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Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #32537]		NaCl		growth	2.9-23.2	%
[Ref.: #32537]		NaCl		optimum	11.6	%

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Observation

aggregates in chains

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

[Ref.: #6765]	Sample type/isolated from	sediments of hypersaline alkaline lakes
[Ref.: #6765]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Libyan Desert, Wadi El Natrun
[Ref.: #6765]	Country	Egypt
[Ref.: #6765]	Country ISO 3 Code	EGY
[Ref.: #6765]	Continent	Africa
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Condition	#Alkaline	-
#Condition	#Saline	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence EU169227 (>99% sequence identity) for Thiohalospira alkaliphila subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	717
Soil Samples	59
Animal Samples	29
Plant Samples	11
Total Samples	816

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.: #6765]	Thiohalospira alkaliphila strain ALgr 6sp 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU169227	1318	GenBank ENA	476279 tax ID

[Ref.: #6765]	GC-content	65.6 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
[Ref.: #32537]	GC-content	65.6 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 17116, UNIQEM U372, ALgr 6sp

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SI-ID 399817

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thiohalospira halophila gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thiohalospira alkaliphila sp. nov., novel obligately chemolithoautotrophic, halophilic, sulfur-oxidizing gammaproteobacteria from hypersaline habitats.	Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Muyzer G, Kuenen GJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65654-0	2008	*

References

#6765

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17116

#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 )

#32537

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 #28755 (see below)

#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 .

#73790

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-ID399817.1 )

#28755

IJSEM 1685 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65654-0 , PubMed 18599717 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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