Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 1927, F221)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 1927, F221)
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BacDive ID 114

Type strain

Strain Designation F221

Culture col. no. DSM 1927 F221

NCBI tax ID(s) 920

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- K. Bosecker, Bundesanstalt fuer Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hannover, Germany; F221 <- K. Bosecker; {1975}

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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans F221 is a bacterium that was isolated from mine water.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47512

DSM 1927

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:24:57

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Acidithiobacillia

Order Acidithiobacillales

Family Acidithiobacillaceae

Genus Acidithiobacillus

Species Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans

Full scientific name Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (Temple and Colmer 1951) Kelly and Wood 2000

Synonyms (1)

Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans** (13)	Type strain
118	A. ferrooxidans TM, DSM 14882, ATCC 23270, NCIMB 8455 (type strain)
111	A. ferrooxidans DSM 583
112	A. ferrooxidans DSM 584
113	A. ferrooxidans DSM 585
115	A. ferrooxidans N-Fe3, DSM 9464
116	A. ferrooxidans NFe-4, DSM 9465
117	A. ferrooxidans Tf18, DSM 11477
120	A. ferrooxidans SP5/1, DSM 24419, JCM 39165
130137	A. ferrooxidans R1, DSM 29444
162005	A. ferrooxidans JCM 17309
164860	A. ferrooxidans JCM 3863, ATCC 19859, BCRC 13033, NCIMB 9490
164861	A. ferrooxidans JCM 3865
165617	A. ferrooxidans JCM 7812

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	96.048

Colony morphology

671

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
671	LEPTOSPIRILLUM (HH) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 882)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: LEPTOSPIRILLUM (HH) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 882) Composition: FeSO4 x 7 H2O 19.98 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.146853 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.131868 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0529471 g/l KH2PO4 0.0269731 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 7.59241e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.79321e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 6.69331e-05 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 6.39361e-05 g/l H3BO3 3.0969e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 9.99001e-06 g/l H2SO4 Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
671	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.231

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
671	mine water	Forstenau	Austria	AUT	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
671	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1885426v1 assembly for Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans F221	contig	GCA_018854265	920.124	3063953	0

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
124043	Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strain DSM 1927 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	KX894704	1536		920

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans F221
NCBI: GCA_018854265.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	96.05	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	76.19	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	53.16	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.23	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	91.93	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	71.68	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Genomic evolution of the class Acidithiobacillia: deep-branching Proteobacteria living in extreme acidic conditions.	Moya-Beltran A, Beard S, Rojas-Villalobos C, Issotta F, Gallardo Y, Ulloa R, Giaveno A, Degli Esposti M, Johnson DB, Quatrini R.	ISME J	10.1038/s41396-021-00995-x	2021

References

#671	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1927
#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) .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 1927, F221)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_018854265

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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