title: Acetohalobium arabaticum
text: # Acetohalobium arabaticum
  
  Acetohalobium arabaticum is the type species of the genus Acetohalobium. It is a prokaryote that can expand its genetic code from 20 to 21 amino acids (by including pyrrolysine) under different conditions of growth.
  
  ## Strains
  
  Strain $Z-7288^T$ (= DSM 5501 = ATCC 49924) is the type strain of the species.
  
  