Halobacterium salinarum (DSM 670, NRC 34020, NCMB 2152)

Name: Halobacterium salinarum (DSM 670, NRC 34020, NCMB 2152)
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BacDive ID 5910

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 670 NRC 34020 NCMB 2152 IAM 13167 ATCC 43214 2 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 2242

Special Collections DSMZ JCM JMRC

History DSMZ <- D. Keradjopoulos <- W. Stoeckenius <- NRC JCM <-- IAM 13167 <-- K. Horikoshi.

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Halobacterium salinarum DSM 670 is an archaeon of the family Halobacteriaceae.

Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 41713

ATCC 43214,NCMB 777,NCMB 2152,CIP 106292,DSM 3751,IAM 13167,JCM 8980,NCIMB 777,DSM 670,IFO 14716,NBRC 14716,CGMCC 1.1959,CGMCC 1.2379,JCM 20854,DSM 15623

@ref 20215

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

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Halobacteriaceae

Genus Halobacterium

Species Halobacterium salinarum

Full scientific name Halobacterium salinarum corrig. (Harrison and Kennedy 1922) Elazari-Volcani 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (9)

Halobacterium halobium
"Halobacter cutirubrum"
Halobacterium cutirubrum
"Bacterium halobium"
Halobacterium piscisalsi
Halobacterium salinarium
"Pseudomonas salinaria"
"Halobacter salinaria"
"Serratia cutirubra"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Halobacterium salinarum** (13)	Type strain
5912	H. salinarum 91-R6, DSM 3754, ATCC 33171, JCM 8978, NCMB ... (type strain)
5908	H. salinarum 1, DSM 668, ATCC 19700
5909	H. salinarum 63-R2, DSM 669, ATCC 33170, NRC 34001, JCM ...
5911	H. salinarum R1, DSM 671, CCUG 24034, JCM 9409, ATCC 29341, ...
23038	H. salinarum DS21, GRB, DSM 22414
24073	H. salinarum GRB-mut326-P577, DSM 21899, MUT mut326, MUT ...
134335	H. salinarum HPC1-2, BCC 24372, JCM 14661, PCU 302
161096	H. salinarum JCM 10927
162900	H. salinarum JCM 20370, IAM 12046
165991	H. salinarum JCM 9118, CCM 2148
165992	H. salinarum JCM 9119, CCM 2088
165993	H. salinarum JCM 9120, CCM 2090
165994	H. salinarum JCM 9121, CCM 2084

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
353	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
353	HALOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 97)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HALOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 97) Composition: NaCl 250.0 g/l Agar 20.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 20.0 g/l Yeast extract 10.0 g/l Casamino acids 7.5 g/l Na3-citrate 3.0 g/l KCl 2.0 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.05 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.0002 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
353	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
353	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Halobacterium salinarum DSM 670	complete	2596583669	2242	88.63

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Genome comparison reveals that Halobacterium salinarum 63-R2 is the origin of the twin laboratory strains NRC-1 and R1.	Pfeiffer F, Dyall-Smith M.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.1365	2023
	One Advantage of Being Polyploid: Prokaryotes of Various Phylogenetic Groups Can Grow in the Absence of an Environmental Phosphate Source at the Expense of Their High Genome Copy Numbers.	Bruck P, Wasser D, Soppa J.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms11092267	2023
Pathogenicity	Spherical particles of halophilic archaea correlate with exposure to low water activity--implications for microbial survival in fluid inclusions of ancient halite.	Fendrihan S, Dornmayr-Pfaffenhuemer M, Gerbl FW, Holzinger A, Grosbacher M, Briza P, Erler A, Gruber C, Platzer K, Stan-Lotter H.	Geobiology	10.1111/j.1472-4669.2012.00337.x	2012
Genetics	Whole-genome comparison between the type strain of Halobacterium salinarum (DSM 3754^T ) and the laboratory strains R1 and NRC-1.	Pfeiffer F, Losensky G, Marchfelder A, Habermann B, Dyall-Smith M.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.974	2020
	Haloarchaea and the formation of gas vesicles.	Pfeifer F.	Life (Basel)	10.3390/life5010385	2015
	Experimental characterization of Cis-acting elements important for translation and transcription in halophilic archaea.	Brenneis M, Hering O, Lange C, Soppa J.	PLoS Genet	10.1371/journal.pgen.0030229	2007
	Regulated polyploidy in halophilic archaea.	Breuert S, Allers T, Spohn G, Soppa J.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0000092	2006
Metabolism	Fermentative arginine degradation in Halobacterium salinarium (formerly Halobacterium halobium): genes, gene products, and transcripts of the arcRACB gene cluster.	Ruepp A, Soppa J.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.178.16.4942-4947.1996	1996
	Archaeosomes varying in lipid composition differ in receptor-mediated endocytosis and differentially adjuvant immune responses to entrapped antigen.	Sprott GD, Sad S, Fleming LP, Dicaire CJ, Patel GB, Krishnan L.	Archaea	10.1155/2003/569283	2003
	Production and characterization of an organic solvent activated protease from haloalkaliphilic bacterium Halobiforma sp. strain BNMIITR.	Gupta M, Choudhury B, Navani NK.	Heliyon	10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25084	2024
	Optimization of Growth and Carotenoid Production by Haloferax mediterranei Using Response Surface Methodology.	Montero-Lobato Z, Ramos-Merchante A, Fuentes JL, Sayago A, Fernandez-Recamales A, Martinez-Espinosa RM, Vega JM, Vilchez C, Garbayo I.	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md16100372	2018
Metabolism	Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins as Untapped Reservoir of Polyextremophilic Prokaryotes of Biotechnological Interest.	Varrella S, Tangherlini M, Corinaldesi C.	Mar Drugs	10.3390/md18020091	2020
	Poly(A) polymerase modification and reverse transcriptase PCR amplification of environmental RNA.	Botero LM, D'Imperio S, Burr M, McDermott TR, Young M, Hassett DJ.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.71.3.1267-1275.2005	2005
Phylogeny	Structural diversity of membrane lipids in members of Halobacteriaceae.	Kamekura M, Kates M	Biosci Biotechnol Biochem	10.1271/bbb.63.969	1999
Enzymology	Catalytic properties and potential of an extracellular protease from an extreme halophile.	Ryu K, Kim J, Dordick JS	Enzyme Microb Technol	10.1016/0141-0229(94)90165-1	1994

References

#353	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 670
#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 )
#20216	Curators of the JMRC: Jena Microbial Resource Collection (JMRC):
#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;
#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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Halobacterium salinarum (DSM 670, NRC 34020, NCMB 2152)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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