Halomicrobium mukohataei (DSM 19301, CECT 7257, AL-5)

Name: Halomicrobium mukohataei (DSM 19301, CECT 7257, AL-5)
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BacDive ID 5875

Type strain

Strain Designation AL-5

Culture col. no. DSM 19301 CECT 7257 AL-5

NCBI tax ID(s) 1069082 437163

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- M. Monteoliva-Sánchez, Univ. Granada, Campus Cartuja, Fac. Pharmacy, Spain <- C. Lizama; AL-5

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Halomicrobium mukohataei AL-5 is an aerobe, thermophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from Lake Tebenquiche.

Gram-negative rod-shaped aerobe thermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 359515

CECT 7257,DSM 19301

@ref 20215

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

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Haloarculaceae

Genus Halomicrobium

Species Halomicrobium mukohataei

Full scientific name Halomicrobium mukohataei (Ihara et al. 1997) Oren et al. 2002

Synonyms (2)

Haloarcula mukohataei
Halomicrobium katesii

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Halomicrobium mukohataei** (1)	Type strain
5874	H. mukohataei arg-2, DSM 12286, ATCC 700874, JCM 9738, ... (type strain)

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
32543	negative	2.25-2.80 µm	1.80-2.25 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative					90.4

Pigmentation

32543

Productionyes

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
8006	HALOMICROBIUM KATESII MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1164)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HALOMICROBIUM KATESII MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1164) Composition: NaCl 195.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 49.83 g/l Proteose peptone 5.0 g/l KCl 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Glucose 1.0 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.916 g/l NaBr 0.35 g/l NaHCO3 0.166 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
8006	positive	growth	37	thermophilic
32543	positive	growth	35-50
32543	positive	optimum	37-40

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
32543	positive	optimum	7-7.5
32543	positive	growth	6.5-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
32543	aerobe
125439	aerobe	92.7

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
32543
125439		94.6

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
32543	NaCl	positive	growth	20-30 %
32543	NaCl	positive	optimum	25 %

Observation

32543

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32543	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
32543	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
32543	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
32543	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
32543	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
32543	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
32543	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
32543	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
32543	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
32543	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
32543	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	+	carbon source
32543	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
32543	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32543	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
32543	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
8006	Lake Tebenquiche	Atacama Saltern	Chile	CHL	Middle and South America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JQ346761 (>99% sequence identity) for Halomicrobium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	10
Soil Samples	3
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	13

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8006	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	ASM37908v1 assembly for Halomicrobium katesii DSM 19301	scaffold	GCA_000379085	1069082.6	2516653073	1069082	73.83

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Halomicrobium katesii gene for 16S rRNA, complete sequence, strain: CECT 7257	AB663391	1473	437163
20218	Halomicrobium katesii 16S ribosomal RNA (rrn1) gene, partial sequence	JN120801	1473	437163
20218	Halomicrobium katesii 16S ribosomal RNA (rrn2) gene, partial sequence	JN120802	1473	437163
20218	Halomicrobium katesii 16S ribosomal RNA (rrn3) gene, partial sequence	JN120803	1473	437163
20218	Halomicrobium katesii DSM 19301 culture DSM:19301 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JQ346761	1270	1069082
8006	Halomicrobium katae strain Al-5 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF533994	1419	1069082

GC content

8006

GC-content (mol%)52.4

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Halomicrobium katesii DSM 19301
NCBI: GCA_000379085

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	92.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	90.40	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	58.70	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	94.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Halomicrobium katesii DSM 19301 DSM 19301
NCBI: GCA_000379085.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	76.04	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	84.70	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	80.54	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	82.73	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	77.48	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	86.03	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Dihydroxyacetone metabolism in Haloferax volcanii.	Ouellette M, Makkay AM, Papke RT.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2013.00376	2013
Genetics	Isolation and Taxonomic Characterization of Novel Haloarchaeal Isolates From Indian Solar Saltern: A Brief Review on Distribution of Bacteriorhodopsins and V-Type ATPases in Haloarchaea.	Verma DK, Chaudhary C, Singh L, Sidhu C, Siddhardha B, Prasad SE, Thakur KG.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.554927	2020
Phylogeny	Halomicrobium zhouii sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon from a marine solar saltern.	Yang X, Cui HL	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.031989-0	2011
Phylogeny	Halomicrobium katesii sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon.	Kharroub K, Lizama C, Aguilera M, Boulahrouf A, Campos V, Ramos-Cormenzana A, Monteoliva-Sanchez M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65662-0	2008

References

#8006	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19301
#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 )
#28761	IJSEM 2354 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65662-0 , PubMed 18842855 )
#32543	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 #28761
#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) .
#66793	Mukherjee et al.: GEBA: 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. 35: 676 - 683 2017 ( DOI 10.1038/nbt.3886 , PubMed 28604660 )
#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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Halomicrobium mukohataei (DSM 19301, CECT 7257, AL-5)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000379085

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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