Halobacterium rubrum 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 : 49

Description of Halobacterium rubrum MBLA 0034

Cells are Gram-stain-negative and coccus-shaped cells with 1.5-1.6 μm in diameter. Colonies are red, irregular, and flat after 14 days of incubation on DBCM2 at 37℃. Catalase and oxidase activities are 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, D- galactose, D- arabinose, D- xylose, trehalose, pyruvate, acetate, and L- glutamate are utilized as sole energy sources for growth; but D- mannose, maltose, sucrose, lactose, D- fructose, D- ribose, L- rhamnose, glycerol, L- sorbose, D- mannitol, succinate, DL- lactate, malate, fumarate, citrate, L- glycine, L- histidine, L- alanine, L- arginine, L- lysine, and L- ornithine are not utilized. The NCBI accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence is OP077337. Strain MBLA0034 (= NIBR ARC000509744 ) was isolated from a solar saltern in Siheung , Gyeonggi-do Province, Korea (37°24′08.6″N, 126° 45′22.7″E) .