Picrophilus oshimae (DSM 9789, JCM 10054, KAW 2/2)

Name: Picrophilus oshimae (DSM 9789, JCM 10054, KAW 2/2)
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BacDive ID 11900

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 9789 JCM 10054 KAW 2/2 ATCC 700036

NCBI tax ID(s) 1122961 46632

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- W. Zillig; KAW 2/2 <- C. Schleper and G. Pühler {1994} DSM 9789 <-- W. Zillig KAW2/2.

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Picrophilus oshimae DSM 9789 is an archaeon that was isolated from solfataric field.

genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 45393

ATCC 700036,DSM 9789,JCM 10054

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:20:41

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Thermoplasmata

Order Thermoplasmatales

Family Picrophilaceae

Genus Picrophilus

Species Picrophilus oshimae

Full scientific name Picrophilus oshimae Schleper et al. 1996

Synonyms (1)

Picrophilus torridus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Picrophilus oshimae** (1)	Type strain
11901	P. oshimae DSM 9790, JCM 10055, KAW 2/3, NBRC 100828

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	98.6

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3735	SULFOLOBUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 88)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SULFOLOBUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 88; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Yeast extract 1.9802 g/l (NH4)2SO4 1.28713 g/l KH2PO4 0.277228 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.247525 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0693069 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.019802 g/l Na2B4O7 x 10 H2O 0.00445545 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00178218 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000217822 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 4.95049e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 2.9703e-05 g/l VOSO4 x 2 H2O 2.9703e-05 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 9.90099e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
3735	positive	growth	55
67770	positive	growth	55

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Volcanic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
3735	solfataric field	Hokkaido, Kawayu	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Dry, hot soil in the vicinity of Kawayu	Hokkaido	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence X84901 (>99% sequence identity) for Picrophilus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	38
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	40

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3735	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
67770	IMG-taxon 2579779151 annotated assembly for Picrophilus oshimae DSM 9789	contig	GCA_900176435	1122961.3	2579779151	1122961	78.38

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
3735	P.oshimae 16S rRNA gene	X84901	1470		46632

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
3735	36	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: Picrophilus oshimae DSM 9789
NCBI: GCA_900176435

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	84.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	71.50	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.60	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	78.80	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Genome-based reclassification of Picrophilus torridus Zillig et al. 1996 as a later heterotypic synonym of Picrophilus oshimae Schleper et al. 1996.	Habib N, Narsing Rao MP, Jan SA, Banerjee A, Thamchaipenet A, Li WJ.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005851	2023
	Characterization of plasmid pPO1 from the hyperacidophile Picrophilus oshimae.	Angelov A, Voss J, Liebl W.	Archaea	10.1155/2011/723604	2011
Metabolism	An Initial Proteomic Analysis of Biogas-Related Metabolism of Euryarchaeota Consortia in Sediments from the Santiago River, México.	Barrera-Rojas J, Gurubel-Tun KJ, Rios-Castro E, Lopez-Mendez MC, Sulbaran-Rangel B.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms11071640	2023
Phylogeny	Picrophilus gen. nov., fam. nov.: a novel aerobic, heterotrophic, thermoacidophilic genus and family comprising archaea capable of growth around pH 0.	Schleper C, Puehler G, Holz I, Gambacorta A, Janekovic D, Santarius U, Klenk HP, Zillig W.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.177.24.7050-7059.1995	1995
	Living at the Extremes: Extremophiles and the Limits of Life in a Planetary Context.	Merino N, Aronson HS, Bojanova DP, Feyhl-Buska J, Wong ML, Zhang S, Giovannelli D.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.00780	2019
Phylogeny	Acidiplasma aeolicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a euryarchaeon of the family Ferroplasmaceae isolated from a hydrothermal pool, and transfer of Ferroplasma cupricumulans to Acidiplasma cupricumulans comb. nov.	Golyshina OV, Yakimov MM, Lunsdorf H, Ferrer M, Nimtz M, Timmis KN, Wray V, Tindall BJ, Golyshin PN	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.009639-0	2009

References

#3735	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 9789
#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 )
#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 .
#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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Picrophilus oshimae (DSM 9789, JCM 10054, KAW 2/2)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900176435

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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