Name: Halomonas almeriensis M8
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 6048

Type strain:

Species: Halomonas almeriensis

Strain Designation: M8

Culture col. no.: DSM 23775, CECT 7050, LMG 22904, CIP 108960

Strain history: CIP <- 2005, CECT <- F. Martinez-Checa: strain M8

NCBI tax ID(s): 308163 (species)

SI-ID 366364

LMG 22904, CECT 7050, CIP 108960, DSM 23775

Special Collections

Section

Halomonas almeriensis M8 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from hypersaline water from a saltern.

Gram-negative
rod-shaped
aerobe
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Oceanospirillales*
	Family	*Halomonadaceae*
	Genus	*Halomonas*
	Species	**Halomonas almeriensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Halomonas almeriensis Martínez-Checa et al. 2005

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #31490]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #116261]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #31490]	Cell length	2.25 µm

[Ref.: #31490]	Cell width	0.75 µm

[Ref.: #31490]	Cell shape	rod-shaped
[Ref.: #116261]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #31490]	Motility	no
[Ref.: #116261]	Motility	no

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Pigment production

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

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Culture medium

MEDIUM 72- for trypto casein soja agar

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

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Culture medium

CIP Medium 204

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

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Culture medium

CIP Medium 72

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

		Temperature
[Ref.: #17369]	growth	28 °C
[Ref.: #31490]	growth	15-37 °C
[Ref.: #31490]	optimum	26 °C
[Ref.: #40066]	growth	30 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #31490]			optimum	8
[Ref.: #31490]			growth	06-10

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #31490]		NaCl		growth	05-25	%
[Ref.: #31490]		NaCl		optimum	7.5	%

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Observation

aggregates in clumps

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #31490]	alanine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #116261]	nitrate ChEBI	-	reduction
[Ref.: #116261]	nitrite ChEBI	-	reduction
[Ref.: #31490]	serine ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #116261]		indole ChEBI	no

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #31490]	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
[Ref.: #68382]	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	* from API zym
[Ref.: #116261]	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
[Ref.: #68382]	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	* from API zym
[Ref.: #31490]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #116261]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #68382]	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	esterase (C 4)	+		* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	lipase (C 14)	-		* from API zym
[Ref.: #116261]	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
[Ref.: #68382]	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	* from API zym
[Ref.: #68382]	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	-		* from API zym
[Ref.: #116261]	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
[Ref.: #116261]	oxidase	-
[Ref.: #68382]	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	* from API zym
[Ref.: #116261]	urease	-	3.5.1.5
[Ref.: #68382]	valine arylamidase	+		* from API zym
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API® zym:

Note that the displayed test results represent raw data and therefore may deviate!

	API ID	Control	2-naphthyl phosphateAlkaline phosphatase	2-naphthyl butyrateEsterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	2-naphthyl myristateLipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	N-benzoyl-DL-arginine-2-naphthylamideTrypsin	N-glutaryl-phenylalanine-2-naphthylamidealpha- Chymotrypsin	2-naphthyl phosphateAcid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	6-Br-2-naphthyl-alphaD-galactpyranosidealpha- Galactosidase	2-naphthyl-betaD-galactpyranosidebeta- Galactosidase	Naphthol-AS-BI-betaD-glucuronidebeta- Glucuronidase	2-naphthyl-alphaD-glucopyranosidealpha- Glucosidase	6-Br-2-naphthyl-betaD-glucopyranosidebeta- Glucosidase	1-naphthyl-N-acetyl-betaD-glucosaminideN-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	6-Br-2-naphthyl-alphaD-mannopyranosidealpha- Mannosidase	2-naphthyl-alphaL-fucopyranosidealpha- Fucosidase
[Ref.: #116261]	11577	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #17369]	Sample type/isolated from	hypersaline water from a saltern
[Ref.: #17369]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Almería, Cabo de Gata
[Ref.: #17369]	Country	Spain
[Ref.: #17369]	Country ISO 3 Code	ESP
[Ref.: #17369]	Continent	Europe

[Ref.: #116261]	Sample type/isolated from	Environment, Saltern water
[Ref.: #116261]	Country	Spain
[Ref.: #116261]	Country ISO 3 Code	ESP
[Ref.: #116261]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	-
#Condition	#Saline	-

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #17369]	Biosafety level	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
[Ref.: #116261]	Biosafety level	1	Risk group (French classification)

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #17369]	Halomonas almeriensis strain M8 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY858696	1459	GenBank ENA	308163 tax ID

[Ref.: #17369]	GC-content	63.5 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
[Ref.: #31490]	GC-content	63.5 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 23775, CECT 7050, LMG 22904, CIP 108960

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SI-ID 366364

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Structural elucidation of a novel phosphoglycolipid isolated from six species of Halomonas.	Giordano A, Vella FM, Romano I, Gambacorta A	J Lipid Res	10.1194/jlr.M700152-JLR200	2007	*
Phylogeny	Halomonas almeriensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium from Cabo de Gata, Almeria, south-east Spain.	Martinez-Checa F, Bejar V, Martinez-Canovas MJ, Llamas I, Quesada E	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63676-0	2005	*

References

#17369

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 23775

#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 )

#31490

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 #27788 (see below)

#40066 ; Curators of the CIP;

#68382

Automatically annotated from API zym .

#75535

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID366364.1 )

#116261 Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108960

#27788

IJSEM 2007 2005 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63676-0 , PubMed 16166703 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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