Name: Halomonas kenyensis AiR-2
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 6065

Type strain:

Species: Halomonas kenyensis

Strain Designation: AiR-2

Culture col. no.: DSM 17331, VKM B-2354

Strain history: <- T. N. Zhilina, Winogradski Inst. Microbiol., RAS, Moscow; AiR-2 <- D. Yu. Sorokin

NCBI tax ID(s): 321266 (species)

SI-ID 402236

DSM 17331

Section

Halomonas kenyensis AiR-2 is a mesophilic, motile bacterium that was isolated from sediments from the five highly alkaline soda lakes of Kenya.

motile
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

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 kenyensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Halomonas kenyensis Boltyanskaya et al. 2008

Synonym

"Billgrantia kenyensis"

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.993

[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	yes Confidence in %98.055

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

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #6899]			growth	36 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %100
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %99.936

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

[Ref.: #6899]	Sample type/isolated from	sediments from the five highly alkaline soda lakes of Kenya
[Ref.: #6899]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Country of origin unknown, Africa
[Ref.: #6899]	Country	Africa
[Ref.: #6899]	Continent	Africa
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Condition	#Alkaline	-

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

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

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.: #6899]	Halomonas sp. AIR-2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY962237	1371	ENA	321266 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Halomonas kenyensis DSM 17331	GCA_013697085	contig	GenBank	321266 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Halomonas kenyensis strain DSM 17331	321266.3	wgs	PATRIC	321266 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Halomonas kenyensis DSM 17331	GCA_022341445	contig	GenBank	321266 tax ID	*

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GC-content

65.5 mol%

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Halomonas kenyensis strain DSM 17331 PATRIC: 321266.3
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	100	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Halomonas kenyensis strain DSM 17331 PATRIC: 321266.3
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	98.83	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	98.236	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	yes	93.223	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	96.536	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	91.614	no
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	91.074	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	98.482	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	90.974	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	yes	74.046	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	74.173	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 17331, VKM B-2354

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SI-ID 402236

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Halomonas saliphila sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a saline soil.	Gan L, Long X, Zhang H, Hou Y, Tian J, Zhang Y, Tian Y	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002644	2018	*
Phylogeny	Halomonas heilongjiangensis sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from saline and alkaline soil.	Dou G, He W, Liu H, Ma Y	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-015-0493-4	2015	*
Phylogeny	[Halomonas mongoliensis sp. nov. and Halomonas kenyensis sp. nov., new haloalkaliphilic denitrifiers capable of reducing N2O, isolated from soda lakes].	Boltianskaia IuV, Kevbrin VV, Lysenko AM, Kolganova TV, Turova TP, Osipov GA, Zhilina TN	Mikrobiologiia		2007	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17331

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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 )

#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) .

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Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

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Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#75552

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-ID402236.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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