Thiomicrospira cyclica (DSM 14477, JCM 11371, ALM 1)

Name: Thiomicrospira cyclica (DSM 14477, JCM 11371, ALM 1)
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BacDive ID 11912

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 14477 JCM 11371 ALM 1

NCBI tax ID(s) 147268

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History <- D. Y. Sorokin; ALM1

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Thiomicrospira cyclica DSM 14477 is an obligate aerobe, chemolithoautotroph, motile bacterium that was isolated from water.

motile obligate aerobe chemolithoautotroph 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 101019

DSM 14477,JCM 11371

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:20:42

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Beggiatoales

Family Piscirickettsiaceae

Genus Thiomicrospira

Species Thiomicrospira cyclica

Full scientific name Thiomicrospira cyclica (Sorokin et al. 2002) Boden et al. 2017

Synonyms (2)

Thioalkalimicrobium cyclicum
Thialkalimicrobium cyclicum

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell width	Motility
43182	1 µm	0.3-0.4 µm

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Medium used
43182	reddish	Thiosulfate agar

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5370	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)
5370	positive	growth	28

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43182	positive	maximum	10.6
43182	positive	minimum	7.5
43182	positive	optimum	9.5	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	1.5 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
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5370	water	California, Lake Mono	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5370	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5370	Thioalkalimicrobium cyclum 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF329082	1500		717773

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
5370	49.6	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
43182	47

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Interesting Halophilic Sulphur-Oxidising Bacteria with Bioleaching Potential: Implications for Pollutant Mobilisation from Mine Waste.	Opara CB, Kamariah N, Spooren J, Pollmann K, Kutschke S.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms11010222	2023
Phylogeny	Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria in Soap Lake (Washington State), a meromictic, haloalkaline lake with an unprecedented high sulfide content.	Sorokin DY, Foti M, Pinkart HC, Muyzer G.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02087-06	2007
Genetics	Complete genome sequence of the haloalkaliphilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic thiosulfate and sulfide-oxidizing gamma-proteobacterium Thioalkalimicrobium cyclicum type strain ALM 1 (DSM 14477(T)).	Kappler U, Davenport K, Beatson S, Lapidus A, Pan C, Han C, Montero-Calasanz Mdel C, Land M, Hauser L, Rohde M, Goker M, Ivanova N, Woyke T, Klenk HP, Kyrpides NC	Stand Genomic Sci	10.1186/s40793-016-0162-x	2016
Phylogeny	Thioalkalimicrobium cyclicum sp. nov. and Thioalkalivibrio jannaschii sp. nov., novel species of haloalkaliphilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from hypersaline alkaline Mono Lake (California).	Sorokin DY, Gorlenko VM, Tourova TP, Tsapin AI, Nealson KH, Kuenen GJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-52-3-913	2002

References

#5370	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14477
#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 )
#66793	Mukherjee et al.: GEBA: 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. 35: 676 - 683 2017 ( DOI 10.1038/nbt.3886 , PubMed 28604660 )
#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 cyclica (DSM 14477, JCM 11371, ALM 1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Multimedia

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

Literature

References

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