Natronomonas moolapensis (DSM 18674, CECT 7526, JCM 14361)

Name: Natronomonas moolapensis (DSM 18674, CECT 7526, JCM 14361)
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BacDive ID 5898

Type strain

Strain Designation 8.8.11, CSW8.8.11

Culture col. no. DSM 18674 CECT 7526 JCM 14361 8.8.11 CSW8.8.11

NCBI tax ID(s) 268739 416273

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History DSMZ <- D. G. Burns, Univ. Melbourne, Australia; 8.8.11 JCM <-- D. Burns 8.8.11.

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Natronomonas moolapensis 8.8.11 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile archaeon that was isolated from solar saltern crystallizer pond.

Gram-negative motile coccus-shaped aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 370211

CECT 7526,DSM 18674,JCM 14361

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:16

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Halobacteriaceae

Genus Natronomonas

Species Natronomonas moolapensis

Full scientific name Natronomonas moolapensis Burns et al. 2010

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Natronomonas moolapensis** (1)	Type strain
23036	N. moolapensis 4.03.5, CSW4.03.5, DSM 18672, JCM 14360

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29282	negative	1.2 µm	coccus-shaped

Pigmentation

29282

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
7652	HALOQUADRATUM WALSBYI MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1091)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HALOQUADRATUM WALSBYI MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1091) Composition: NaCl 195.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 50.0 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 35.0 g/l KCl 5.0 g/l Tris buffer 2.4228 g/l Sodium pyruvate 1.0 g/l NaNO3 1.0 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.5 g/l NaHCO3 0.25 g/l KH2PO4 0.05 g/l Yeast extract 0.05 g/l NH4Cl 0.03 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
7652	positive	growth	37
29282	positive	growth	25-45
67770	positive	growth	37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
29282	positive	optimum	7.25
29282	positive	growth	5.5-8.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
29282	aerobe
125439	facultative anaerobe	91.95

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.212

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29282	NaCl	positive	growth	14-36
29282	NaCl	positive	optimum	8-20 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29282	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
29282	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	+	carbon source
29282	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
29282	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
29282	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	carbon source

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	chorismate metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	100	9 of 9
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	propionate fermentation	90	9 of 10
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	88.89	8 of 9
66794	isoleucine metabolism	87.5	7 of 8
66794	flavin biosynthesis	86.67	13 of 15
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	83.33	5 of 6
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	83.33	5 of 6
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	80	8 of 10
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	80	4 of 5
66794	valine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	allantoin degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	76.47	26 of 34
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	75.56	34 of 45
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	NAD metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	71.43	5 of 7
66794	photosynthesis	71.43	10 of 14
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	71.43	20 of 28
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	lipid metabolism	70.97	22 of 31
66794	threonine metabolism	70	7 of 10
66794	methionine metabolism	69.23	18 of 26
66794	purine metabolism	69.15	65 of 94
66794	alanine metabolism	68.97	20 of 29
66794	arginine metabolism	66.67	16 of 24
66794	serine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	glycolysis	64.71	11 of 17
66794	citric acid cycle	64.29	9 of 14
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	63.64	14 of 22
66794	proline metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	non-pathway related	63.16	24 of 38
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	leucine metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	60	3 of 5
66794	3-chlorocatechol degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	58.33	7 of 12
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	58.24	53 of 91
66794	heme metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
66794	cysteine metabolism	55.56	10 of 18
66794	tryptophan metabolism	55.26	21 of 38
66794	histidine metabolism	55.17	16 of 29
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	54.55	6 of 11
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	53.85	14 of 26
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	50	8 of 16
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	tyrosine metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	dolichol and dolichyl phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	vitamin E metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	urea cycle	46.15	6 of 13
66794	sulfate reduction	46.15	6 of 13
66794	lysine metabolism	45.24	19 of 42
66794	d-mannose degradation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	44.44	4 of 9
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	43.75	7 of 16
66794	mevalonate metabolism	42.86	3 of 7
66794	bacilysin biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	degradation of sugar acids	40	10 of 25
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	40	4 of 10
66794	creatinine degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	gallate degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	phenol degradation	40	8 of 20
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	36.36	4 of 11
66794	glutathione metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	polyamine pathway	34.78	8 of 23
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	33.33	6 of 18
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	33.33	4 of 12
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	29.41	5 of 17
66794	ascorbate metabolism	27.27	6 of 22
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	27.27	3 of 11
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	25	2 of 8
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	25	1 of 4
66794	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	butanoate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	degradation of pentoses	25	7 of 28
66794	alginate biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	degradation of hexoses	22.22	4 of 18

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Pond (small)
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
7652	solar saltern crystallizer pond	Geelong, Moolap, Cheetham Salt Works (38°09.841 S, 144°25.274 E)	Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania	-38.1639	144.421 -38.1639/144.421
67770	Marine solar saltern crystallizer at Moolap	Victoria	Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7652	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	ASM59105v1 assembly for Natronomonas moolapensis 8.8.11	complete	GCA_000591055	268739.6	2540341082	268739	98.59

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Natronomonas moolapensis gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB576127	1467	268739
20218	Natronomonas moolapensis gene for 16S rRNA, complete sequence, strain: JCM 14361	AB663431	1467	268739
7652	Natronomonas moolapensis 8.8.11 strain CSW8.8.11 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY498645	1311	268739

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
7652	63.4
29282	63-64
67770	63.4	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: ASM59105v1 assembly for Natronomonas moolapensis 8.8.11
BV-BRC: 268739.6

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	91.95	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	75.95	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	46.78	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.21	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Natronomonas moolapensis 8.8.11 8.8.11
NCBI: GCA_000591055.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	76.56	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	80.59	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	81.40	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.70	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	80.80	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	89.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Species Widely Distributed in Halophilic Archaea Exhibit Opsin-Mediated Inhibition of Bacterioruberin Biosynthesis.	Peck RF, Graham SM, Gregory AM.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.00576-18	2019
	Genome of the haloarchaeon Natronomonas moolapensis, a neutrophilic member of a previously haloalkaliphilic genus.	Dyall-Smith ML, Pfeiffer F, Oberwinkler T, Klee K, Rampp M, Palm P, Gross K, Schuster SC, Oesterhelt D	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00095-13	2013
Phylogeny	Natronomonas gomsonensis sp. nov., isolated from a solar saltern.	Kim TY, Kim SJ, Park SJ, Kim JG, Cha IT, Jung MY, Lee SA, Roh SW, Yim KJ, Itoh T, Rhee SK	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-013-9970-9	2013
Phylogeny	Natronomonas moolapensis sp. nov., non-alkaliphilic isolates recovered from a solar saltern crystallizer pond, and emended description of the genus Natronomonas.	Burns DG, Janssen PH, Itoh T, Minegishi H, Usami R, Kamekura M, Dyall-Smith ML	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.010132-0	2009

References

#7652	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18674
#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 )
#25698	IJSEM 1173 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.010132-0 , PubMed 19667395 )
#29282	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 #25698
#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) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Natronomonas moolapensis (DSM 18674, CECT 7526, JCM 14361)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000591055

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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