Viridibacillus arenosi (DSM 16319, LMG 22166, R-17170)

Name: Viridibacillus arenosi (DSM 16319, LMG 22166, R-17170)
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BacDive ID 571

Type strain

Strain Designation R-17170

Culture col. no. DSM 16319 LMG 22166 R-17170

NCBI tax ID(s) 263476

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- J. Heyrman; R-17170 <- A. Felske

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Viridibacillus arenosi R-17170 is an aerobe, spore-forming, Gram-variable bacterium that forms irregular colonies and has a pink pigmentation.

spore-forming Gram-variable motile rod-shaped colony-forming pigmented aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 128653

LMG 22166,DSM 16319

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:03

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Viridibacillus

Species Viridibacillus arenosi

Full scientific name Viridibacillus arenosi (Heyrman et al. 2005) Albert et al. 2007

Synonyms (1)

Bacillus arenosi

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
23359	variable	3.0-8.0 µm	0.8-1.0 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
23359	1.0-2.0 mm	cream	irregular	1 day	NA
23358					PCA, TSA and R2A

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Color
23359		pink

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
6365	CASO AGAR (MERCK 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CASO AGAR (Merck 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casein peptone 15.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l Soy peptone 5.0 g/l Distilled water
23359	NA, BFA
23358	PCA, TSA and R2A

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6365	positive	growth	30
23359	positive	growth	20-30
23359	negative	growth	45

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
23359		growth	5.0
23359	positive	growth	7-9	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

23359

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore description	Type of spore	Spore formation
23359	abundantly,spherical and appear in terminal positions, swelling the sporangia slightly	endospore

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
23359	NaCl	positive	growth	5 %(w/v)
23359	NaCl		growth	7 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
23359		4-nitrophenyl beta-D-galactopyranoside hydrolysate	-	other
23359		casein	-	hydrolysis
23359	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	other
23359	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	+/-	hydrolysis
23359	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide	-	other
23359	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
23359	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
23359	15688 ChEBI	acetoin

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
23359	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
23359	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
23359	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
23359	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
23359	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
23359	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
23359	urease	-	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6365	soil	Drentse A research area	Netherlands	NLD	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ627212 (>99% sequence identity) for Viridibacillus arvi from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	689
Soil Samples	2124
Animal Samples	1411
Plant Samples	342
Total Samples	4566

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6365	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
23359	Bacillus arenosi partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain LMG 22166	AJ627212	1506		263476

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
23359	35.0	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Stress-Tolerant Viridibacillus arenosi Strain IHB B 7171 from Tea Rhizosphere as a Potential Broad-Spectrum Microbial Inoculant.	Thakur R, Sharma KC, Gulati A, Sud RK, Gulati A.	Indian J Microbiol	10.1007/s12088-017-0642-8	2017
	Microbial environment affects innate immunity in two closely related earthworm species Eisenia andrei and Eisenia fetida.	Dvorak J, Mancikova V, Pizl V, Elhottova D, Silerova M, Roubalova R, Skanta F, Prochazkova P, Bilej M.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0079257	2013
Phylogeny	Proposal of Viridibacillus gen. nov. and reclassification of Bacillus arvi, Bacillus arenosi and Bacillus neidei as Viridibacillus arvi gen. nov., comb. nov., Viridibacillus arenosi comb. nov. and Viridibacillus neidei comb. nov.	Albert RA, Archambault J, Lempa M, Hurst B, Richardson C, Gruenloh S, Duran M, Worliczek HL, Huber BE, Rossello-Mora R, Schumann P, Busse HJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65256-0	2007
Phylogeny	Viridibacillus soli sp. nov., isolated from forest soil in Ailaoshan National Nature Reserve.	Xu Y, Zhao JY, Geng Y, Yuan HR, Li LL, Wen ML, Li MG, Tang SK	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-021-02676-x	2021
Phylogeny	Bacillus arenosi sp. nov., Bacillus arvi sp. nov. and Bacillus humi sp. nov., isolated from soil.	Heyrman J, Rodriguez-Diaz M, Devos J, Felske A, Logan NA, De Vos P	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63240-0	2005

References

#6365	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16319
#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 )
#23358	Richard A. Albert, Julieta Archambault, Melissa Lempa, Beth Hurst, Christine Richardson, Stephanie Gruenloh, Metin Duran, Hanna Lucia Worliczek, Birgit E. Huber, Ramon Rosselló-Mora, Peter Schumann, Hans-Jürgen Busse: Proposal of Viridibacillus gen. nov. and reclassification of Bacillus arvi, Bacillus arenosi and Bacillus neidei as Viridibacillus arvi gen. nov., comb. nov., Viridibacillus arenosi comb. nov. and Viridibacillus neidei comb. nov.. IJSEM 57: 2729 - 2737 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65256-0 , PubMed 18048716 )
#23359	Jeroen Heyrman, Marina Rodríguez-Díaz, Joke Devos, Andreas Felske, Niall A. Logan, Paul De Vos: Bacillus arenosi sp. nov., Bacillus arvi sp. nov. and Bacillus humi sp. nov., isolated from soil. IJSEM 55: 111 - 117 2005 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63240-0 , PubMed 15653863 )
#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 .
#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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Viridibacillus arenosi (DSM 16319, LMG 22166, R-17170)

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

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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