Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans (DSM 17398, SS3)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans (DSM 17398, SS3)
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BacDive ID 119

Type strain

Strain Designation SS3

Culture col. no. DSM 17398 SS3

NCBI tax ID(s) 160808

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- M. Dopson, University of Umeå , Dept. Molecular Biology, Umeå, Sweden; SS3 <- D. Kupka; {2004}

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Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans SS3 is a bacterium that was isolated from sediment sample.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 406995

DSM 17398

@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 ferrivorans

Full scientific name Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans Hallberg et al. 2010

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans** (1)	Type strain
129	A. ferrivorans NO-37, DSM 22755, JCM 15606 (type strain)

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	92.777
125438	negative	97.5

Colony morphology

6950

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6950	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)
6950	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.32
125438		90.463

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6950	sediment sample	Taimyr, Norilsk Industrial Area, copper-nickel mining area	Russia	RUS	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6950	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	ASM21409v3 assembly for Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans SS3	complete	GCA_000214095	743299.4	2510436001	743299	98.81

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6950	Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans SS3 strain SS3 16S ribosomal RNA, complete sequence	NR_074660	1524		743299

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
6950	56.6	sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM21409v3 assembly for Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans SS3
BV-BRC: 743299.4

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	60.51	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	92.78	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	63.22	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.32	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans SS3 SS3
NCBI: GCA_000214095.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	78.81	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	54.92	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.46	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.46	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	74.05	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans SS3 presents little RNA transcript response related to cold stress during growth at 8 °C suggesting it is a eurypsychrophile.	Christel S, Fridlund J, Watkin EL, Dopson M.	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-016-0882-2	2016
	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
	Proteomics Reveal Enhanced Oxidative Stress Responses and Metabolic Adaptation in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Biofilm Cells on Pyrite.	Bellenberg S, Huynh D, Poetsch A, Sand W, Vera M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.00592	2019
Phylogeny	Molecular Systematics of the Genus Acidithiobacillus: Insights into the Phylogenetic Structure and Diversification of the Taxon.	Nunez H, Moya-Beltran A, Covarrubias PC, Issotta F, Cardenas JP, Gonzalez M, Atavales J, Acuna LG, Johnson DB, Quatrini R.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.00030	2017

References

#6950	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17398
#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) .
#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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Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans (DSM 17398, SS3)

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_000214095

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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