Halorubrum distributum (DSM 23497, CGMCC 1.5336, JCM 13561)

Name: Halorubrum distributum (DSM 23497, CGMCC 1.5336, JCM 13561)
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BacDive ID 5957

Type strain

Strain Designation Fa-1

Culture col. no. DSM 23497 CGMCC 1.5336 JCM 13561 Fa-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1227483 29283

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- JCM <- S. Liu, State Key Lab. Microbial Resources, Inst. Microbiol., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; Fa-1 JCM <-- S. Liu Fa-1.

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Halorubrum distributum Fa-1 is an archaeon that was isolated from marine solar saltern.

genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 310991

CGMCC 1.5336,JCM 13561,DSM 23497

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:17

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Haloferacaceae

Genus Halorubrum

Species Halorubrum distributum

Full scientific name Halorubrum distributum (Zvyagintseva and Tarasov 1989) Oren and Ventosa 1996

Synonyms (6)

Halobacterium distributum
Halorubrum arcis
Halorubrobacterium distributum
Halobacterium distributus
Halorubrum litoreum
Halorubrum terrestre

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Halorubrum distributum** (3)	Type strain
138190	H. distributum CIP 105238, ATCC 51197, JCM 9100, NCIMB 13203, ... (type strain)
5946	H. distributum 4p, DSM 23453, JCM 10247, CGMCC 1.5397, CGMCC ...
5954	H. distributum DSM 23454, JCM 13916, CGMCC 1.5343, KCTC ...

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17240	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)
17240	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	facultative anaerobe	93.413

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.803

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Condition	#Saline	-
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Industrial production
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Coast

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17240	marine solar saltern	Fujian Province	China	CHN	Asia
67770	Marine solar saltern in Fujian		China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB663416 (>99% sequence identity) for Halorubrum from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	4
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples	0
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	5

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17240	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	ASM33739v1 assembly for Halorubrum distributum JCM 13561	contig	GCA_000337395	1227483.3	2554235508	1227483	65.58

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Halorubrum litoreum gene for 16S rRNA, complete sequence, strain: JCM 13561	AB663416	1470		409316
17240	Halorubrum litoreum strain Fa-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	EF028067	1470		409316

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
17240	64.9	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: ASM33739v1 assembly for Halorubrum distributum JCM 13561
BV-BRC: 1227483.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	93.41	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	89.04	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	54.54	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.80	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Genomic insights into Halorubrum ezzemoulense strain TC23: Genetic basis for halophilic traits and biotechnological potential.	Kesbic FI.	Sci Prog	10.1177/00368504251364316	2025
Phylogeny	Genome-based analyses reveal a synonymy among Halorubrum distributum Zvyagintseva and Tarasov 1989; Oren and Ventosa 1996, Halorubrum terrestre Ventosa et al. 2004, Halorubrum arcis Xu et al. 2007 and Halorubrum litoreum Cui et al. 2007. Emended description of Halorubrum distributum Zvyagintseva and Tarasov 1989; Oren and Ventosa 1996.	Infante-Dominguez C, de la Haba RR, Corral P, Sanchez-Porro C, Arahal DR, Ventosa A.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003956	2020
Metabolism	A Large and Phylogenetically Diverse Class of Type 1 Opsins Lacking a Canonical Retinal Binding Site.	Becker EA, Yao AI, Seitzer PM, Kind T, Wang T, Eigenheer R, Shao KS, Yarov-Yarovoy V, Facciotti MT.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0156543	2016
Genetics	Evidence from phylogenetic and genome fingerprinting analyses suggests rapidly changing variation in Halorubrum and Haloarcula populations.	Ram Mohan N, Fullmer MS, Makkay AM, Wheeler R, Ventosa A, Naor A, Gogarten JP, Papke RT.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2014.00143	2014
	Cloning and Molecular Characterization of an Alpha-Glucosidase (MalH) from the Halophilic Archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi.	Cuebas-Irizarry MF, Irizarry-Caro RA, Lopez-Morales C, Badillo-Rivera KM, Rodriguez-Minguela CM, Montalvo-Rodriguez R.	Life (Basel)	10.3390/life7040046	2017
Metabolism	Dihydroxyacetone metabolism in Haloferax volcanii.	Ouellette M, Makkay AM, Papke RT.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2013.00376	2013
Transcriptome	Population and genomic analysis of the genus Halorubrum.	Fullmer MS, Soucy SM, Swithers KS, Makkay AM, Wheeler R, Ventosa A, Gogarten JP, Papke RT.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2014.00140	2014
Phylogeny	Isolation and identification of two extremely halophilic archaea from sebkhas in the Algerian Sahara.	Khallef S, Lestini R, Myllykallio H, Houali K	Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand)		2018
	Characterization of Halorubrum sfaxense sp. nov., a New Halophilic Archaeon Isolated from the Solar Saltern of Sfax in Tunisia.	Trigui H, Masmoudi S, Brochier-Armanet C, Maalej S, Dukan S.	Int J Microbiol	10.1155/2011/240191	2011
Phylogeny	Halorubrum litoreum sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from a solar saltern.	Cui HL, Lin ZY, Dong Y, Zhou PJ, Liu SJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65268-0	2007

References

#17240	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 23497
#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 )
#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 .
#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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Halorubrum distributum (DSM 23497, CGMCC 1.5336, JCM 13561)

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

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000337395

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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