Thiomicrospira sibirica (DSM 13740, NCCB 100000, AL7)

Name: Thiomicrospira sibirica (DSM 13740, NCCB 100000, AL7)
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BacDive ID 11911

Type strain

Strain Designation AL7

Culture col. no. DSM 13740 NCCB 100000 AL7

NCBI tax ID(s) 92246

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- D. Y. Sorokin; AL7

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Thiomicrospira sibirica AL7 is an obligate aerobe, chemolithoautotroph, motile bacterium that was isolated from soda lake.

motile vibrio-shaped obligate aerobe chemolithoautotroph 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 101020

DSM 13740,NCCB 100000

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:27:40

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Beggiatoales

Family Piscirickettsiaceae

Genus Thiomicrospira

Species Thiomicrospira sibirica

Full scientific name Thiomicrospira sibirica (Sorokin et al. 2001) Boden et al. 2017

Synonyms (3)

Thioalkalimicrobium sibericum
Thialkalimicrobium sibiricum
Thioalkalimicrobium sibiricum

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43182	0.8-1.5 µm	0.4-0.5 µm	vibrio-shaped

Colony morphology

43182

Colony colorpink

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5138	ALKALIPHILIC SULPHUR RESPIRING STRAINS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 925)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ALKALIPHILIC SULPHUR RESPIRING STRAINS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 925) Composition: Na2CO3 20.0 g/l NaHCO3 10.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l K2HPO4 1.0 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.2 g/l H3BO3 0.0006 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0004 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0002 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 6e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 6e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 4e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 2e-05 g/l EDTA 1e-05 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 4e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5138	positive	growth	30
43182	positive	maximum	41

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43182	positive	maximum	10.6
43182	positive	minimum	7.5
43182	positive	optimum	9.8-10.0	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43182

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Nutrition type

43182

Typechemolithoautotroph

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43182	NaCl	positive	maximum	1.201 M

Observation

43182

Observationproduce carboxysomes

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43182	18276 ChEBI	dihydrogen	-	electron donor
43182	33403 ChEBI	elemental sulfur	+	electron donor
43182	18248 ChEBI	iron	-	electron donor
43182	18291 ChEBI	manganese	-	electron donor
43182	15138 ChEBI	sulfide	+	electron donor
43182	17359 ChEBI	sulfite	-	electron donor
43182	15226 ChEBI	tetrathionate	-	energy source
43182	15226 ChEBI	tetrathionate	+	electron donor
43182	18022 ChEBI	thiocyanate	-	electron donor
43182	16094 ChEBI	thiosulfate	+	electron donor
43182	15987 ChEBI	trithionate	+	electron donor

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43182	30411 ChEBI	cobalamin
43182	33403 ChEBI	elemental sulfur

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43182	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Condition	#Alkaline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5138	soda lake	Siberia	Russia	RUS	Asia
43182		region of north-eastern Asia			Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5138	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5138	Thioalcalomicrobium sibericum 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AF126549	1494		92246

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)
5138	64.2
43182	48.9

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#5138	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 13740
#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 )
#43182	Rich Boden, Kathleen M. Scott, John Williams, Sydney Russel, Kirsten Antonen, Alex W. Rae and Lee P. Hutt: An evaluation of Thiomicrospira, Hydrogenovibrio and Thioalkalimicrobium: reclassification of four species of Thiomicrospira to each Thiomicrorhabdus gen. nov. and Hydrogenovibrio, and reclassification of all four species of Thioalkalimicrobium to Thiomicrospira. IJSEM 67: 1140 - 1151 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001855 , PubMed 28581925 )
#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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Thiomicrospira sibirica (DSM 13740, NCCB 100000, AL7)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

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