Name: Viridibacillus arenosi R-17170
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 571

Type strain:

Species: Viridibacillus arenosi

Strain Designation: R-17170

Culture col. no.: DSM 16319, LMG 22166

Strain history: <- J. Heyrman; R-17170 <- A. Felske

NCBI tax ID(s): 263476 (species)

Section

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

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

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

	Last LPSN update	25-08-2022 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	Bacteria
	Phylum	Bacillota
	Class	Bacilli
	Order	Caryophanales
	Family	Bacillaceae
	Genus	Viridibacillus
	Species	Viridibacillus arenosi
	Full Scientific Name (PNU)	Viridibacillus arenosi (Heyrman et al. 2005) Albert et al. 2007

Synonym

Bacillus arenosi

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #23359]	Gram stain	variable
[Ref.: #23359]	Cell length	3.0-8.0 µm
[Ref.: #23359]	Cell width	0.8-1.0 µm
[Ref.: #23359]	Cell shape	rod-shaped
[Ref.: #23359]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #23359]	Colony size	1.0-2.0 mm
[Ref.: #23359]	Colony color	cream
[Ref.: #23359]	Colony shape	irregular
[Ref.: #23359]	Incubation period	1 day
[Ref.: #23359]	Cultivation medium used	NA

[Ref.: #23358]	Cultivation medium used	PCA, TSA and R2A

[Ref.: #23359]	Pigment production	yes
[Ref.: #23359]	Pigmentation color	pink

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

CASO AGAR (MERCK 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220)

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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

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Culture medium

NA, BFA

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium

PCA, TSA and R2A

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Culture medium growth

	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #6365]		growth	30 °C
[Ref.: #23359]		growth	20-30 °C
[Ref.: #23359]	no	growth	45 °C

[Ref.: #6365]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #23359]	Temperature range	thermophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #23359]		no	growth	5.0
[Ref.: #23359]			growth	7-9

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

[Ref.: #23359]	Spore description	abundantly,spherical and appear in terminal positions, swelling the sporangia slightly
[Ref.: #23359]	Type of spore	endospore
[Ref.: #23359]	Ability of spore formation	yes

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #23359]		NaCl		growth	5	%(w/v)
[Ref.: #23359]		NaCl	no	growth	7	%(w/v)

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #23359]	4-nitrophenyl beta-D-galactopyranoside hydrolysate	-	other
[Ref.: #23359]	casein	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #23359]	citrate ChEBI	-	other
[Ref.: #23359]	gelatin ChEBI	+/-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #23359]	hydrogen sulfide ChEBI	-	other
[Ref.: #23359]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #23359]	starch ChEBI	-	hydrolysis

	Metabolite production	Metabolite
[Ref.: #23359]		acetoin ChEBI

	Physiological tests	Metabolite	Voges-Proskauer-test
[Ref.: #23359]		acetoin ChEBI	-

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #23359]	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
[Ref.: #23359]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #23359]	cytochrome oxidase	-	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #23359]	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
[Ref.: #23359]	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
[Ref.: #23359]	urease	-	3.5.1.5

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

[Ref.: #6365]	Sample type/isolated from	soil
[Ref.: #6365]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Drentse A research area
[Ref.: #6365]	Country	Netherlands
[Ref.: #6365]	Country ISO 3 Code	NLD
[Ref.: #6365]	Continent	Europe

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental

#Terrestrial

#Soil

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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.: #23359]	Bacillus arenosi partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain LMG 22166	AJ627212	1506	GenBank	263476 tax ID

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GC-content

35.0 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 16319, LMG 22166

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Associated Passport(s) in StrainInfo

377459, 373478

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
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	*
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	*

References

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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 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

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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 )

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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 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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