Name: Thioalkalimicrobium sibiricum AL7
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 11911

Type strain:

Species: Thioalkalimicrobium sibiricum

Strain Designation: AL7

Culture col. no.: DSM 13740, NCCB 100000

Strain history: <- D. Y. Sorokin; AL7

NCBI tax ID(s): 92246 (species)

Section

Thioalkalimicrobium sibiricum AL7 is an obligate aerobe, chemolithoautotroph, mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from soda lake.

motile
vibrio-shaped
chemolithoautotroph
mesophilic
obligate aerobe
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	07-12-2022 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	Thiotrichales
	Family	*Piscirickettsiaceae*
	Genus	Thioalkalimicrobium
	Species	Thioalkalimicrobium sibiricum
	Full Scientific Name (PNU)	Thioalkalimicrobium sibiricum corrig. Sorokin et al. 2001

	Synonym	Thialkalimicrobium sibiricum
	Synonym	Thioalkalimicrobium sibericum
	Synonym	**Thiomicrospira sibirica**

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #43182]	Cell length	0.8-1.5 µm
[Ref.: #43182]	Cell width	0.4-0.5 µm
[Ref.: #43182]	Cell shape	vibrio-shaped
[Ref.: #43182]	Motility	yes

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Colony color

pink

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

ALKALIPHILIC SULPHUR RESPIRING STRAINS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 925)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #5138]			growth	30 °C
[Ref.: #43182]			maximum	41 °C

[Ref.: #5138]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #43182]	Temperature range	thermophilic

		pH	pH range
[Ref.: #43182]	maximum	10.6
[Ref.: #43182]	minimum	7.5
[Ref.: #43182]	optimum	9.8-10.0	alkaliphile

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

obligate aerobe

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Nutrition type

chemolithoautotroph

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #43182]		NaCl		maximum	1.201	M

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Observation

produce carboxysomes

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #43182]	dihydrogen ChEBI	-	electron donor
[Ref.: #43182]	elemental sulfur ChEBI	+	electron donor
[Ref.: #43182]	iron ChEBI	-	electron donor
[Ref.: #43182]	manganese ChEBI	-	electron donor
[Ref.: #43182]	sulfide ChEBI	+	electron donor
[Ref.: #43182]	sulfite ChEBI	-	electron donor
[Ref.: #43182]	tetrathionate ChEBI	-	energy source
[Ref.: #43182]	tetrathionate ChEBI	+	electron donor
[Ref.: #43182]	thiocyanate ChEBI	-	electron donor
[Ref.: #43182]	thiosulfate ChEBI	+	electron donor
[Ref.: #43182]	trithionate ChEBI	+	electron donor
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	Metabolite production	Metabolite
[Ref.: #43182]		cobalamin ChEBI
[Ref.: #43182]		elemental sulfur ChEBI

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #43182]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #5138]	Sample type/isolated from	soda lake
[Ref.: #5138]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Siberia
[Ref.: #5138]	Country	Russia
[Ref.: #5138]	Country ISO 3 Code	RUS
[Ref.: #5138]	Continent	Asia

[Ref.: #43182]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	region of north-eastern Asia
[Ref.: #43182]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Condition	#Alkaline	-

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #5138]	Thioalcalomicrobium sibericum 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AF126549	1494	ENA	92246 tax ID

[Ref.: #5138]	GC-content	64.2 mol%
[Ref.: #43182]	GC-content	48.9 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 13740, NCCB 100000

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Associated Passport(s) in StrainInfo

304141, 304142

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 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

#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 )

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