Salarchaeum japonicum 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 : 52

Description of Salarchaeum japonicum MBLA 0217

Cells are Gram-stain-negative and rod-shaped cells with 0.8-1.0 μm in diameter. 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 20-50℃ (optimum, 37℃), 10- 25% NaCl (optimum, 20%), and pH 5.0-9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and lysed in distilled water. D- Glucose, maltose, L- rhamnose, pyruvate, D- mannitol, succinate, DL- lactate, malate, fumarate, acetate, L- glycine, L- alanine, L- glutamate, L- arginine, and L- lysine are utilized as sole energy sources for growth; but D- mannose, D- galactose, sucrose, lactose, D- fructose, D- ribose, D- arabinose, D- xylose, trehalose, raffinose, glycerol, L- sorbose, citrate, L- histidine, and L- ornithine are not utilized. The NCBI accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence is OP077349. Strain MBLA0217 (= NIBRARC000509756) was isolated from a solar saltern in Siheung , Gyeonggi-do Province, Korea (37°24′08.6″N, 126°45′22.7″E) .