Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 9464, N-Fe3)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 9464, N-Fe3)
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BacDive ID 115

Type strain

Strain Designation N-Fe3

Culture col. no. DSM 9464 N-Fe3

NCBI tax ID(s) 920

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- B. M. Goebel, University of Queensland, Department of Microbiology, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia; N-Fe3 <- B. M. Goebel {1991}

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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans N-Fe3 is a bacterium that was isolated from chalcocite overburden pond.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 48620

DSM 9464

@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
114	A. ferrooxidans F221, DSM 1927
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

Colony morphology

3582

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3582	ACIDIFERROBACTER (MS) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 670)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDIFERROBACTER (MS) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 670) Composition: FeSO4 x 7 H2O 20.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 2.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.25 g/l K2HPO4 0.1 g/l KCl 0.1 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
3582	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Pond (small)
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Geologic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
3582	chalcocite overburden pond	Mount Isa	Australia	AUS	Australia and Oceania

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3582	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
The use of synthetic agonists of quorum sensing N- acyl homoserine lactone pathway improves the bioleaching ability in Acidithiobacillus and Pseudomonas bacteria.	Caicedo JC, Villamizar S, Orlandoni G.	PeerJ	10.7717/peerj.13801	2022

References

#3582	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 9464
#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 )
#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 9464, N-Fe3)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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