"Haloarcula sinaiiensis" (DSM 8928, ATCC 33800, JCM 8862)

BacDive ID 5902

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 8928 ATCC 33800 JCM 8862 CCM 3665 IAM 13182 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 44098

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- ATCC <- W. Stoeckenius, strain BJSG-2 (Haloarcula sinaliensis) <- B. Javor JCM <-- M. Kamekura <-- M. Kate <-- W. Stoeckenius <-- B. Javor.

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"Haloarcula sinaiiensis" DSM 8928 is an archaeon that was isolated from salt brine.

genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 40696

ATCC 33800,DSM 8928,JCM 8862,CCM 3665,IAM 13182,NCIMB 2268,VKM B-1953

@ref 20215

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

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Haloarculaceae

Genus Haloarcula

Species "Haloarcula sinaiiensis"

Full scientific name Haloarcula sinaiiensis Torreblanca et al. 1986

Synonyms (1)

"Haloarcula sinaiiensis"

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3443	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)
3443	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	facultative anaerobe	92.57

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		92.134

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
3443	salt brine	Israel	ISR	Asia
67770	Brine at the Red Sea sabkha

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1820001v1 assembly for Haloarcula marismortui ATCC 33800	complete	GCA_018200015	662476.12	8112420076	662476	94.36
67770	ASM33727v1 assembly for Haloarcula marismortui ATCC 33800	contig	GCA_000337275	662476.7	2554235510	662476	61.11

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Haloarcula sinaiiensis gene for 16S rRNA, strain: ATCC33800	D14129	1471	662476
20218	Haloarcula sinaiiensis gene for 16S rRNA, strain: ATCC 33800	D14130	1470	662476
124043	Haloarcula sinaiiensis gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 8862.	AB355989	1472	662476
124043	Haloarcula sinaiiensis gene for 16S rRNA, complete sequence, strain: JCM 8862.	AB663356	1472	662476

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	59.7	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM1820001v1 assembly for Haloarcula marismortui ATCC 33800
BV-BRC: 662476.12

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	92.57	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	45.01	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	71.99	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	92.13	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Haloarcula sinaiiensis ATCC 33800 ATCC 33800
NCBI: GCA_018200015.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	77.00	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	81.92	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	78.75	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	83.50	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	80.30	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	83.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Is there a common water-activity limit for the three domains of life?	Stevenson A, Cray JA, Williams JP, Santos R, Sahay R, Neuenkirchen N, McClure CD, Grant IR, Houghton JD, Quinn JP, Timson DJ, Patil SV, Singhal RS, Anton J, Dijksterhuis J, Hocking AD, Lievens B, Rangel DE, Voytek MA, Gunde-Cimerman N, Oren A, Timmis KN, McGenity TJ, Hallsworth JE.	ISME J	10.1038/ismej.2014.219	2015
	Structure of the archaeal head-tailed virus HSTV-1 completes the HK97 fold story.	Pietila MK, Laurinmaki P, Russell DA, Ko CC, Jacobs-Sera D, Hendrix RW, Bamford DH, Butcher SJ.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.1303047110	2013
Metabolism	Identification of the minimal bacterial 2'-deoxy-7-amido-7-deazaguanine synthesis machinery.	Yuan Y, Hutinet G, Valera JG, Hu J, Hillebrand R, Gustafson A, Iwata-Reuyl D, Dedon PC, de Crecy-Lagard V.	Mol Microbiol	10.1111/mmi.14113	2018
Transcriptome	Sequencing of seven haloarchaeal genomes reveals patterns of genomic flux.	Lynch EA, Langille MG, Darling A, Wilbanks EG, Haltiner C, Shao KS, Starr MO, Teiling C, Harkins TT, Edwards RA, Eisen JA, Facciotti MT.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0041389	2012
Enzymology	Discovery of bacteriorhodopsins in Haloarchaeal species isolated from Indian solar salterns: deciphering the role of the N-terminal residues in protein folding and functional expression.	Verma DK, Baral I, Kumar A, Prasad SE, Thakur KG.	Microb Biotechnol	10.1111/1751-7915.13359	2019
Metabolism	Dihydroxyacetone metabolism in Haloferax volcanii.	Ouellette M, Makkay AM, Papke RT.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2013.00376	2013
Phylogeny	Quantifying homologous replacement of loci between haloarchaeal species.	Williams D, Gogarten JP, Papke RT.	Genome Biol Evol	10.1093/gbe/evs098	2012
	Archaeal viruses multiply: temporal screening in a solar saltern.	Atanasova NS, Demina TA, Buivydas A, Bamford DH, Oksanen HM.	Viruses	10.3390/v7041902	2015
Phylogeny	Diverse antimicrobial interactions of halophilic archaea and bacteria extend over geographical distances and cross the domain barrier.	Atanasova NS, Pietila MK, Oksanen HM.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.115	2013
Genetics	Association between the dynamics of multiple replication origins and the evolution of multireplicon genome architecture in haloarchaea.	Wu Z, Yang H, Liu J, Wang L, Xiang H.	Genome Biol Evol	10.1093/gbe/evu219	2014
	Susceptibility of halobacteria to heavy metals.	Nieto JJ, Ventosa A, Ruiz-Berraquero F.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.53.5.1199-1202.1987	1987
Phylogeny	PH1: an archaeovirus of Haloarcula hispanica related to SH1 and HHIV-2.	Porter K, Tang SL, Chen CP, Chiang PW, Hong MJ, Dyall-Smith M.	Archaea	10.1155/2013/456318	2013
	Lysis of halobacteria in bacto-peptone by bile acids.	Kamekura M, Oesterhelt D, Wallace R, Anderson P, Kushner DJ.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.54.4.990-995.1988	1988
	Complete Genome and Methylome Analysis of the Box-Shaped Halophilic Archaeon Haloarcula sinaiiensis ATCC 33800.	Fomenkov A, DasSarma P, Kennedy SP, Roberts RJ, DasSarma S	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/MRA.00619-21	2021
Genetics	Genome-Based Reclassification of Two Haloarcula Species and Characterization of Haloarcula montana sp. nov.	Liu JQ, Zhu LR, Mao YL, Ma X, Hou J.	Biology (Basel)	10.3390/biology14060615	2025

References

#3443	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 8928
#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 )
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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"Haloarcula sinaiiensis" (DSM 8928, ATCC 33800, JCM 8862)

Name and taxonomic classification

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

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_018200015

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

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