Name: Thermococcus gammatolerans EJ3
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16885

Type strain:

Species: Thermococcus gammatolerans

Strain Designation: EJ3

Culture col. no.: DSM 15229, JCM 11827

Strain history: E. Jolivet EJ3.

NCBI tax ID(s): 187878 (species)

SI-ID 101006

DSM 15229, JCM 11827

Section

Thermococcus gammatolerans EJ3 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from hydrothermal chimney sample.

anaerobe
hyperthermophilic
16S sequence
Archaea
genome sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	*Thermococci*
	Order	*Thermococcales*
	Family	*Thermococcaceae*
	Genus	*Thermococcus*
	Species	**Thermococcus gammatolerans**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thermococcus gammatolerans Jolivet et al. 2003

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MARINE THERMOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 760)

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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

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Culture medium

YPS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 990)

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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

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #5769]			growth	88 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	85 °C

[Ref.: #5769]	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.: #5769]	Sample type/isolated from	hydrothermal chimney sample
[Ref.: #5769]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Guaymas Basin, 27°01'N and 111°24'W at a depth of 2,616m
[Ref.: #5769]	Geographic location	27.0167°/-111.4000°

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Chimney from a hydrothermal site in Guaymas Basin
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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.: #5769]	Thermococcus gammatolerans 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF479014	1370	ENA	593117 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermococcus gammatolerans EJ3 EJ3; DSM 15229	GCA_000022365	complete	GenBank	593117 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermococcus gammatolerans EJ3	644736411	complete	JGI IMG/M	593117 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermococcus gammatolerans EJ3	593117.10	complete	PATRIC	593117 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #5769]	GC-content	51.3 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	51.3 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Thermococcus gammatolerans EJ3 NCBI: GCA_000022365.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	81.261	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	96.07	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	95.986	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	yes	98.948	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	97.145	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	68.79	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	96.596	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	100	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	75.373	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	61.36	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 15229, JCM 11827

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SI-ID 101006

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermococcus nautili sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a hydrothermal deep-sea vent.	Gorlas A, Croce O, Oberto J, Gauliard E, Forterre P, Marguet E	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.060376-0	2014	*
Phylogeny	Thermococcus gammatolerans sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent that resists ionizing radiation.	Jolivet E, L'Haridon S, Corre E, Forterre P, Prieur D	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02503-0	2003	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15229

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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 )

#66792

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

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

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#85891

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-ID101006.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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