Natrialba aegyptia (DSM 13077, JCM 11194, 40)

Name: Natrialba aegyptia (DSM 13077, JCM 11194, 40)
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BacDive ID 5963

Type strain

Strain Designation 40, 48-98

Culture col. no. DSM 13077 JCM 11194 40 48-98 NBRC 102636 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1227491 129789

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- B. H. A. Rehm; 40 <- F. F. Hezayen DSM 13077 <-- B. H. A. Rehm <-- F. F. Hezayen 40.

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Natrialba aegyptia 40 is an archaeon that produces amino acids and was isolated from hypersaline soil.

amino acid production genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 100798

DSM 13077,JCM 11194,NCIMB 13831,NBRC 102636

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:06

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Natrialbaceae

Genus Natrialba

Species Natrialba aegyptia

Full scientific name Natrialba aegyptia corrig. Hezayen et al. 2001

Synonyms (1)

Natrialba aegyptiaca

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4899	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
4899	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)
4899	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

@ref	Compound	Excreted
67770	Extracellular poly(glutamic acid)

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4899	hypersaline soil	30 km to the nord of Aswan	Egypt	EGY	Africa
67770	Hypersaline soil close to Aswan		Egypt	EGY	Africa

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4899	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	ASM33753v1 assembly for Natrialba aegyptia DSM 13077	contig	GCA_000337535	1227491.4	2531839261	1227491	65.28

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Natrialba aegyptia gene for 16S rRNA, complete sequence, strain: JCM 11194	AB663454	1472		129789
4899	Natrialba aegyptiaca 16S small subunit ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	AF251941	1447		129789

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	61.5	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: Natrialba aegyptia DSM 13077
NCBI: GCA_000337535

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	59.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	71.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	73.50	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	84.20	no

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
	Exploring the antimicrobial potential of two haloarchaeal strains belonging to the genera Halopiger and Natrialba isolated from the Algerian Sahara	Quadri I, Hassani I, Hacene H.	Iran J Microbiol		2025
	Life in the brine of Lunenburg, Germany: unveiling microorganisms associated with Zechstein salt deposits.	Runzheimer K, Schwab L, Engel D, Schaudinn C, Laue M, Rebrosova K, Beblo-Vranesevic K, Azizah M, Leuko S.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2025.1625916	2025
	Phylogenomics of Haloarchaea: The Controversy of the Genera Natrinema-Haloterrigena.	de la Haba RR, Minegishi H, Kamekura M, Shimane Y, Ventosa A.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2021.740909	2021
Genetics	Phylogenetically driven sequencing of extremely halophilic archaea reveals strategies for static and dynamic osmo-response.	Becker EA, Seitzer PM, Tritt A, Larsen D, Krusor M, Yao AI, Wu D, Madern D, Eisen JA, Darling AE, Facciotti MT.	PLoS Genet	10.1371/journal.pgen.1004784	2014
Phylogeny	Archaeal Haloarcula californiae Icosahedral Virus 1 Highlights Conserved Elements in Icosahedral Membrane-Containing DNA Viruses from Extreme Environments.	Demina TA, Pietila MK, Svirskaite J, Ravantti JJ, Atanasova NS, Bamford DH, Oksanen HM.	mBio	10.1128/mbio.00699-16	2016
Phylogeny	Halovarius luteus gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from a salt lake.	Mehrshad M, Amoozegar MA, Makhdoumi A, Rasooli M, Asadi B, Schumann P, Ventosa A.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.000279	2015

References

#4899	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 13077
#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;
#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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Natrialba aegyptia (DSM 13077, JCM 11194, 40)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000337535

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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