Bacillus sp. (DSM 7297, Pac 2, ATCC 51157)

Name: Bacillus sp. (DSM 7297, Pac 2, ATCC 51157)
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Type strain

Strain Designation Pac 2

Culture col. no. DSM 7297 Pac 2 ATCC 51157 CIP 103557

NCBI tax ID(s) 83428

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Pac 2 is an obligate aerobe, spore-forming, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from soil.

spore-forming Gram-positive motile rod-shaped obligate aerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 42834

ATCC 51157,CIP 103557,DSM 7297

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:46:58

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Bacillus

Full scientific name Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (4)

Niallia
"Quasibacillus"
Weizmannia
"Maribacillus"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
116023	positive	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
3101	NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water
35562	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar		Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
116023	CIP Medium 3	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
3101	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
35562	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
116023	positive	growth	30-45
116023	negative	growth	10
116023	negative	growth	55

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

116023

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Spore formation

116023

Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
116023	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %
116023	NaCl		growth	4 %
116023	NaCl		growth	6 %
116023	NaCl		growth	8 %
116023	NaCl		growth	10 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
116023	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
116023	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	respiration
116023	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
116023	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test
116023	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	+

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
116023	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
116023	amylase	-
116023	caseinase	-	3.4.21.50
116023	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
116023	gelatinase	-
116023	lecithinase	+
116023	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
116023	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
116023	oxidase	-
116023	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
3101	soil	Marseille	France	FRA	Europe
116023	Environment, Soil	Marseille	France	FRA	Europe	1980

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
116023	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
3101	46.4	Buoyant density centrifugation (BD)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#3101	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 7297
#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 )
#35562	; Curators of the CIP;
#116023	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103557
#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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