Name: Thermicanus aegyptius ET-5b
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 18123

Type strain:

Species: Thermicanus aegyptius

Strain Designation: ET-5b

Culture col. no.: DSM 12793

Strain history: <- H. L. Drake, University of Bayreuth, Department of Ecological Microbiology, Bayreuth, Germany; ET-5b <- H. L. Drake and A. Goessner {1998}

NCBI tax ID(s): 1089548 (strain), 94009 (species)

SI-ID 44193

ATCC 700890, DSM 12793

Section

Thermicanus aegyptius ET-5b is an anaerobe, spore-forming, thermophilic bacterium that was isolated from soil.

motile
spore-forming
anaerobe
thermophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Bacilli*
	Order	*Caryophanales*
	Family	"Thermicanaceae"
	Genus	*Thermicanus*
	Species	**Thermicanus aegyptius**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thermicanus aegyptius Gößner et al. 2000

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	positive Confidence in %100

[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	yes Confidence in %95.45

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

SPOROMUSA ACIDOVORANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 311c)

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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.: #4822]			growth	55 °C

[Ref.: #4822]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #69480]	Temperature range	thermophilic Confidence in %99.74

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	yes Confidence in %100
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	yes Confidence in %100

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

[Ref.: #4822]	Sample type/isolated from	soil
[Ref.: #4822]	Country	Egypt
[Ref.: #4822]	Country ISO 3 Code	EGY
[Ref.: #4822]	Continent	Africa
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental

#Terrestrial

#Soil

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ242495 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermicanus aegyptius subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	132
Soil Samples	53
Animal Samples	392
Plant Samples	79
Total Samples	656

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.: #4822]	Thermicanus aegyptius 16S rRNA gene, strain ET-5b	AJ242495	1426	ENA	94009 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermicanus aegyptius DSM 12793	GCA_000510645	scaffold	GenBank	1089548 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermicanus aegyptius DSM 12793	1089548.3	wgs	PATRIC	1089548 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermicanus aegyptius DSM 12793	2516493021	draft	JGI IMG/M	1089548 tax ID	*

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GC-content

50.3 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

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

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Thermicanus aegyptius DSM 12793 DSM 12793 NCBI: GCA_000510645.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	yes	100	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Thermicanus aegyptius DSM 12793 DSM 12793 NCBI: GCA_000510645.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	91.466	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	yes	70.853	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	yes	60.97	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	yes	62.602	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	93.824	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	yes	92.036	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	99.438	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	88.908	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	82.161	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	87.471	no

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #4822]

Culture collection no.

DSM 12793

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SI-ID 44193

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermicanus aegyptius gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from oxic soil, a fermentative microaerophile that grows commensally with the thermophilic acetogen Moorella thermoacetica.	Gossner AS, Devereux R, Ohnemuller N, Acker G, Stackebrandt E, Drake HL	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/AEM.65.11.5124-5133.1999	1999	*

References

#4822

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12793

#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 )

#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) .

#69479

João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .

#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) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#87111

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-ID44193.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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