Bacillus sp. (DSM 30831, KO_117)

Name: Bacillus sp. (DSM 30831, KO_117)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 955

Type strain

Strain Designation KO_117

Culture col. no. DSM 30831 KO_117

NCBI tax ID(s) 83428

Special Collections DSMZ ESA

History <- European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands; KO_117 <- C. Moissl-Eichinger, Univ. Regensburg, Germany

Links

KO_117 is a bacterium that was isolated from spacecraft-associated clean room class ISO 8, Herschel Space Observatory.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 396963

DSM 30831

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:17:59

Domain Bacteria

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

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17173	TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17173	positive	growth	28

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
17173	spacecraft-associated clean room class ISO 8, Herschel Space Observatory	Kourou, Centre Spatial Guyanais	French Guiana	FRA	Middle and South America

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Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
17173	Bacillus sp. KO_CM117 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	GQ497938	1303		687903

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#17173	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 30831
#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 )
#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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