Bacillus pumilus (DSM 30596, ES2-8a2)

Name: Bacillus pumilus (DSM 30596, ES2-8a2)
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BacDive ID 762

Type strain

Strain Designation ES2-8a2

Culture col. no. DSM 30596 ES2-8a2

NCBI tax ID(s) 1408

Special Collections DSMZ ESA

History <- European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands; ES2-8a2 <- P. Rettberg and S. Barczyk, DLR, Köln, Germany

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Bacillus pumilus ES2-8a2 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from spacecraft-associated clean room class ISO 8, Herschel Space Observatory.

mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 408241

DSM 30596

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:17:56

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Bacillus

Species Bacillus pumilus

Full scientific name Bacillus pumilus Meyer and Gottheil 1901 (Approved Lists 1980)

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Bacillus pumilus** (72)	Type strain
756	B. pumilus 272, DSM 27, ATCC 7061, CCM 2144, IFO 12092, ... (type strain)
749	B. pumilus 734a, 735, DSM 354, ATCC 71, CCM 1726
750	B. pumilus 734, 736, DSM 355, ATCC 72, CCM 1697, IFO ...
751	B. pumilus CIP3.83, Mill Hill, DSM 361, ATCC 14884, ...
752	B. pumilus E 601, E601, CCUG 24142, DSM 492, ATCC 27142, ...
753	B. pumilus 29, DSM 766
754	B. pumilus DSM 1794, NCIB 10822, CN 607
755	B. pumilus 236, 726, DSM 2893, ATCC 6631, IFO 12110, ...
757	B. pumilus G1R, DSM 5549, HER 1182
758	B. pumilus DSM 8786, DSM 46309, IMET 11026, NCIB 7198
759	B. pumilus ES 20, DSM 13835
760	B. pumilus ES1-184-2, DSM 30537
761	B. pumilus ES1-215-1, DSM 30550
763	B. pumilus ES2-12c1, DSM 30606
764	B. pumilus FR2-W6Ac, DSM 30704
765	B. pumilus FR2-W7Aa, DSM 30708
766	B. pumilus FR2-W7Ab, DSM 30709
767	B. pumilus FR2-W8Aa, DSM 30714
768	B. pumilus W17/3, DSM 30786
769	B. pumilus ES2-W4c1, DSM 30628
770	B. pumilus FR2-S1Aa, DSM 30670
771	B. pumilus FR2-S4Aa, DSM 30672
772	B. pumilus FR2-S4Ab, DSM 30673
773	B. pumilus FR2-S7Ab, DSM 30678
774	B. pumilus FR2-S7Ac, DSM 30679
775	B. pumilus FR2-S11Aa-b, DSM 30681
776	B. pumilus FR2-W6Ab, DSM 30703
777	B. pumilus FR1-11con, DSM 30720
778	B. pumilus W20/5, DSM 30789
779	B. pumilus MW15/1, DSM 30805
780	B. pumilus TS1/1, DSM 30806
781	B. pumilus KO_PS 3, DSM 30833
130862	B. pumilus W2, DSM 100617
130861	B. pumilus T4_3, DSM 100541
22913	B. pumilus DSM 30004, ATCC 15716, DSM 15573, IFO 12605, ...
130168	B. pumilus b17_1, DSM 31005
130169	B. pumilus T2_3, DSM 30977
130170	B. pumilus T2_44, DSM 30997
131630	B. pumilus Stev13, DSM 103049
131631	B. pumilus Stev38, DSM 103053
131632	B. pumilus D35_1, DSM 103757
131633	B. pumilus C8_12, DSM 103869
134937	B. pumilus 7.87, CIP 102756
137078	B. pumilus CIP 51.18, CN 2731
137576	B. pumilus 520.86, CIP 102496
138631	B. pumilus CIP 52.42
138682	B. pumilus H 634, CIP 101996
138686	B. pumilus CIP 102081
139688	B. pumilus T3_14, DSM 103904
141248	B. pumilus CCUG 397
141663	B. pumilus CCUG 4626
143929	B. pumilus CCUG 21924
144775	B. pumilus CCUG 26531
144948	B. pumilus CCUG 27243
144950	B. pumilus CCUG 27263
145355	B. pumilus CCUG 28267 B
146007	B. pumilus CCUG 30128
146237	B. pumilus CCUG 30686
147025	B. pumilus CCUG 32666
147795	B. pumilus CCUG 34244
148189	B. pumilus CCUG 35011
150505	B. pumilus CCUG 41443
151344	B. pumilus CCUG 43804
151785	B. pumilus CCUG 44877
151802	B. pumilus CCUG 44940
152656	B. pumilus CCUG 47302
153625	B. pumilus CCUG 50373 A
155159	B. pumilus CCUG 56623
156911	B. pumilus CCUG 66887
173512	B. pumilus CIMB23, CIMB 05-1841, CRBIP17.23
173513	B. pumilus CIMB 05-0968, CRBIP17.25
176402	B. pumilus 45.39, DSM 117807

Morphology

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16971	CASO AGAR (MERCK 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CASO AGAR (Merck 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casein peptone 15.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l Soy peptone 5.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
16971	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Built environment	#Clean room

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
16971	spacecraft-associated clean room class ISO 8, Herschel Space Observatory	Noordwijk, European Space Research and Technology Centre	Netherlands	NLD	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FN393826 (>99% sequence identity) for Bacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	3497
Soil Samples	7187
Animal Samples	6743
Plant Samples	2902
Total Samples	20329

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16971	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
16971	Bacillus pumilus partial 16S rRNA gene, strain ES-8a2	FN393826	1381		1408

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#16971	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 30596
#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 )
#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 .
#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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