Haloarcula marismortui MBLA

Hwang, Chi Young, Cho, Eui-Sang, Jung, Dong-Hyun, Lee, Ki-Eun, Cha, In-Tae & Seo, Won-Jae Chi and Myung-Ji, 2023, A report of sixteen unrecorded haloarchaea species in Korea, isolated from a solar saltern, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 45-53 : 51

Description of Haloarcula marismortui MBLA 0131

Cells are Gram-stain-negative and pleomorphic rod-shaped cells with 1.5-1.9 μm in width by 2.2-2.7 μm in length. Colonies are red, circular, and flat after 14 days of incubation on DBCM2 at 37℃. Catalase activity is positive, but oxidase activity is negative. Growth occurs at 30-45℃ (optimum, 37℃), 10-30% NaCl (optimum, 20%), and pH 6.0-8.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and lysed in distilled water. D- Glucose, D- galactose, maltose, sucrose, D- fructose, D- ribose, D- arabinose, L- rhamnose, trehalose, L- sorbose, D- mannitol, pyruvate, succinate, malate, fumarate, acetate, L- glycine, L- glutamate, and L- arginine are utilized as sole energy sources for growth; but D- mannose, lactose, D- xylose, raffinose, glycerol, DL- lactate, citrate, L- histidine, L- alanine, L- lysine, and L- ornithine are not utilized. The NCBI accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence is OP077342. Strain MBLA0131 (= NIBR ARC000509749 ) was isolated from a solar saltern in Siheung , Gyeonggi-do Province, Korea (37°24′08.6″N, 126° 45′22.7″E) .