Name: Pyrodictium abyssi AV2
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 13527

Type strain:

Species: Pyrodictium abyssi

Strain Designation: AV2

Culture col. no.: DSM 6158, JCM 9394, ATCC 49828, NBRC 100439

Strain history: DSM 6158 <-- K. O. Stetter AV2.

NCBI tax ID(s): 391605 (strain), 54256 (species)

SI-ID 42704

ATCC 49828, DSM 6158, JCM 9394, NBRC 100439

Section

Pyrodictium abyssi AV2 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from black smoker at 2011 m depth.

anaerobe
hyperthermophilic
16S sequence
Archaea

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Thermoproteota*
	Class	*Thermoprotei*
	Order	*Desulfurococcales*
	Family	*Pyrodictiaceae*
	Genus	*Pyrodictium*
	Species	**Pyrodictium abyssi**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Pyrodictium abyssi Pley and Stetter 1991

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

PYRODICTIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 283)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #2507]			growth	98 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	95 °C

[Ref.: #2507]	Temperature range	hyperthermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	hyperthermophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #2507]	Sample type/isolated from	black smoker at 2011 m depth
[Ref.: #2507]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Gulf of California, Guaymas Basin
[Ref.: #2507]	Country	Mexico
[Ref.: #2507]	Country ISO 3 Code	MEX
[Ref.: #2507]	Continent	North America

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Abyssal active 'black smoker' off Guaymas
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Mexico
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	MEX
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	North America
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #2507]	P.abyssi 16S rRNA gene	X99559	1351	ENA	391605 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Pyrodictium abyssi DSM 6158 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KC145153	1307	ENA	391605 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Pyrodictium abyssi strain NBRC 100439 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KC139249	1317	ENA	54256 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #2507]	GC-content	59.0 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	59.3 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	59 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 6158, JCM 9394, ATCC 49828, NBRC 100439

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SI-ID 42704

References

#2507

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 6158

#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 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#82718

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID42704.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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