Natronobacterium haloterrestre (DSM 13078, 135, 147-98)

Name: Natronobacterium haloterrestre (DSM 13078, 135, 147-98)
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BacDive ID 5872

Type strain

Strain Designation 135, 147-98

Culture col. no. DSM 13078 135 147-98 CGMCC 1.6136 CGMCC 1.3780 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 148448

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- B. Rehm <- F. F. Hezayen, Univ. Münster, Germany; 135 DSM 13078 <-- B. H. A. Rehm 135.

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Natronobacterium haloterrestre 135 is a thermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from hypersaline soil.

thermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 100670

DSM 13078,JCM 11627,CGMCC 1.3780

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:04

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Natrialbaceae

Genus Natronobacterium

Species Natronobacterium haloterrestre

Full scientific name Natronobacterium haloterrestre (Hezayen et al. 2002) Dong et al. 2025

Synonyms (1)

Halobiforma haloterrestris

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	93.9

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4900	HALOBACTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 372)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HALOBACTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 372) Composition: NaCl 200.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 20.0 g/l Agar 20.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Casamino acids 5.0 g/l Na3-citrate 3.0 g/l KCl 2.0 g/l Na glutamate 1.0 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.036 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00036 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
4900	positive	growth	42	thermophilic
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	aerobe	91.9

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		93.9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4900	hypersaline soil	100Km to the north of Aswan	Egypt	EGY	Africa
67770	Hypersaline soil close to Aswan		Egypt	EGY	Africa

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF333760 (>99% sequence identity) for Halobiforma from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	5
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	6

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4900	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
67770	IMG-taxon 2693429869 annotated assembly for Natronobacterium haloterrestre DSM 13078	scaffold	GCA_900112205	148448.7	2693429869	148448	65.96

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4900	Halobacteriaceae gen. sp. 135 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF333760	1457		148448
124043	Halobiforma haloterrestris gene for 16S rRNA, complete sequence, strain: JCM 11627.	AB663434	1471		148448

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	66.9	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Halobiforma haloterrestris DSM 13078
NCBI: GCA_900112205

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	93.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	53.90	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	93.90	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	91.90	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
	Exploring tRNA gene cluster in archaea.	Morgado SM, Vicente ACP.	Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz	10.1590/0074-02760180348	2019
Genetics	Ecological Trait-Based Digital Categorization of Microbial Genomes for Denitrification Potential.	Isokpehi RD, Kim Y, Krejci SE, Trivedi VD.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms12040791	2024
Enzymology	A novel family of tyrosine integrases encoded by the temperate pleolipovirus SNJ2.	Wang J, Liu Y, Liu Y, Du K, Xu S, Wang Y, Krupovic M, Chen X.	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/gky005	2018
Phylogeny	Characterization of a novel halophilic archaeon, Halobiforma haloterrestris gen. nov., sp. nov., and transfer of Natronobacterium nitratireducens to Halobiforma nitratireducens comb. nov.	Hezayen FF, Tindall BJ, Steinbuchel A, Rehm BHA	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-52-6-2271	2002

References

#4900	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 13078
#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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Natronobacterium haloterrestre (DSM 13078, 135, 147-98)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900112205

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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