Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus (DSM 22704, JCM 16185, SJ4)

Name: Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus (DSM 22704, JCM 16185, SJ4)
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BacDive ID 11781

Type strain

Strain Designation SJ4

Culture col. no. DSM 22704 JCM 16185 SJ4

NCBI tax ID(s) 646529 885581

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- D. Alazard, Lab. Microbiol. de l'IRD, Univ. de Provence et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France; SJ4 <- D. Alazard {2000} D. Alazard SJ4.

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Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus SJ4 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from sediment from an acid mining effluent decantation pond.

anaerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 402365

JCM 16185,DSM 22704

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:20:39

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Desulfitobacteriaceae

Genus Desulfosporosinus

Species Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus

Full scientific name Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus Alazard et al. 2012

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16474	DESULFOSPOROSINUS ACIDIPHILUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1250)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFOSPOROSINUS ACIDOPHILUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1250) Composition: KH2PO4 9.97009 g/l D-Fructose 3.48953 g/l Na2HPO4 0.997009 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.498504 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.498504 g/l Yeast extract 0.498504 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.448654 g/l KCl 0.0498504 g/l Ca(NO3)2 x 4 H2O 0.0199402 g/l HCl 0.00249252 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00149551 g/l NaOH 0.000498504 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000498504 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000189432 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.97009e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.97009e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.97906e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.98504e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.98504e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.98504e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.58923e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.39282e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.99402e-05 g/l Biotin 1.99402e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.98205e-06 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.98804e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.99103e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.99402e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.97009e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
16474	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

16474

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	propanol degradation	100	7 of 7
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	100	7 of 7
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	isoleucine metabolism	100	8 of 8
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	alanine metabolism	89.66	26 of 29
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	89.29	25 of 28
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	88.89	8 of 9
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	citric acid cycle	85.71	12 of 14
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	85.71	6 of 7
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	85.29	29 of 34
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	3-chlorocatechol degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	hydrogen production	80	4 of 5
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	80	8 of 10
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	chorismate metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	nitrate assimilation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	leucine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	glycolysis	76.47	13 of 17
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	75.56	34 of 45
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	butanoate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	biotin biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	purine metabolism	74.47	70 of 94
66794	histidine metabolism	72.41	21 of 29
66794	NAD metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	propionate fermentation	70	7 of 10
66794	starch degradation	70	7 of 10
66794	threonine metabolism	70	7 of 10
66794	urea cycle	69.23	9 of 13
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	68.75	11 of 16
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	flavin biosynthesis	66.67	10 of 15
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	66.67	4 of 6
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	65.38	17 of 26
66794	glutathione metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	degradation of sugar acids	64	16 of 25
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	63.64	7 of 11
66794	non-pathway related	63.16	24 of 38
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	61.54	56 of 91
66794	lipid metabolism	61.29	19 of 31
66794	polyamine pathway	60.87	14 of 23
66794	degradation of pentoses	60.71	17 of 28
66794	tryptophan metabolism	60.53	23 of 38
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	60	3 of 5
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	lysine metabolism	59.52	25 of 42
66794	cysteine metabolism	55.56	10 of 18
66794	d-xylose degradation	54.55	6 of 11
66794	proline metabolism	54.55	6 of 11
66794	methionine metabolism	53.85	14 of 26
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	53.85	7 of 13
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	1,4-dihydroxy-6-naphthoate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	50	5 of 10
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	kanosamine biosynthesis II	50	1 of 2
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	lactate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	arginine metabolism	50	12 of 24
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	50	6 of 12
66794	toluene degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	dolichol and dolichyl phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	denitrification	50	1 of 2
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	45.45	5 of 11
66794	phenol degradation	45	9 of 20
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	44.44	4 of 9
66794	allantoin degradation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	degradation of hexoses	44.44	8 of 18
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	ascorbate metabolism	40.91	9 of 22
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	gallate degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	40	2 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	sulfate reduction	38.46	5 of 13
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	37.5	6 of 16
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	tyrosine metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	methane metabolism	33.33	1 of 3
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	33.33	5 of 15
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	33.33	4 of 12
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	30	3 of 10
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	23.53	4 of 17
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	22.73	5 of 22

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Pond (small)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Condition	#Acidic	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
16474	sediment from an acid mining effluent decantation pond	Chessy les Mines	France	FRA	Europe
67770	Acid mining effluent decantation pond sediment at Chessy-Les-Mines		France	FRA	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FJ951625 (>99% sequence identity) for Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	154
Soil Samples	129
Animal Samples	370
Plant Samples	38
Total Samples	691

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16474	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM25511v3 assembly for Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus SJ4	complete	GCA_000255115	646529.3	2506783061	646529	97.36

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
16474	Desulfosporosinus acidophilus SJ4 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	FJ951625	1538		646529

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
16474	42.3	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus SJ4, DSM 22704
IMG: 2506783061

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	89.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	77.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	77.90	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	84.80	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus SJ4 SJ4
NCBI: GCA_000255115.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	53.92	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	78.55	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	86.64	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	84.06	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	86.58	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	68.64	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Next generation sequencing data of a defined microbial mock community.	Singer E, Andreopoulos B, Bowers RM, Lee J, Deshpande S, Chiniquy J, Ciobanu D, Klenk HP, Zane M, Daum C, Clum A, Cheng JF, Copeland A, Woyke T.	Sci Data	10.1038/sdata.2016.81	2016
	Codon usage bias reveals genomic adaptations to environmental conditions in an acidophilic consortium.	Hart A, Cortes MP, Latorre M, Martinez S.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0195869	2018
Metabolism	The Sporomusa type Nfn is a novel type of electron-bifurcating transhydrogenase that links the redox pools in acetogenic bacteria.	Kremp F, Roth J, Muller V.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-020-71038-2	2020
Metabolism	Anaerobic Degradation of the Plant Sugar Sulfoquinovose Concomitant With H₂S Production: Escherichia coli K-12 and Desulfovibrio sp. Strain DF1 as Co-culture Model.	Burrichter A, Denger K, Franchini P, Huhn T, Muller N, Spiteller D, Schleheck D.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2018.02792	2018
Genetics	Complete genome sequences of Desulfosporosinus orientis DSM765T, Desulfosporosinus youngiae DSM17734T, Desulfosporosinus meridiei DSM13257T, and Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus DSM22704T.	Pester M, Brambilla E, Alazard D, Rattei T, Weinmaier T, Han J, Lucas S, Lapidus A, Cheng JF, Goodwin L, Pitluck S, Peters L, Ovchinnikova G, Teshima H, Detter JC, Han CS, Tapia R, Land ML, Hauser L, Kyrpides NC, Ivanova NN, Pagani I, Huntmann M, Wei CL, Davenport KW, Daligault H, Chain PS, Chen A, Mavromatis K, Markowitz V, Szeto E, Mikhailova N, Pati A, Wagner M, Woyke T, Ollivier B, Klenk HP, Spring S, Loy A	J Bacteriol	10.1128/JB.01392-12	2012
	Acetate Degradation at Low pH by the Moderately Acidophilic Sulfate Reducer Acididesulfobacillus acetoxydans gen. nov. sp. nov.	Sanchez-Andrea I, van der Graaf CM, Hornung B, Bale NJ, Jarzembowska M, Sousa DZ, Rijpstra WIC, Sinninghe Damste JS, Stams AJM.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2022.816605	2022
Phylogeny	Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus sp. nov.: a moderately acidophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from acid mining drainage sediments : New taxa: Firmicutes (Class Clostridia, Order Clostridiales, Family Peptococcaceae).	Alazard D, Joseph M, Battaglia-Brunet F, Cayol JL, Ollivier B	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-010-0309-4	2010

References

#16474	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22704
#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) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#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 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus (DSM 22704, JCM 16185, SJ4)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000255115

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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