Thiomicrorhabdus frisia (DSM 12351, ATCC 700878, JB-A2)

Name: Thiomicrorhabdus frisia (DSM 12351, ATCC 700878, JB-A2)
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BacDive ID 11924

Type strain

Strain Designation JB-A2

Culture col. no. DSM 12351 ATCC 700878 JB-A2

NCBI tax ID(s) 63655

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- J. Küver, Max-Planck-Inst. Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany; JB-A2 <- T. Brinkhoff {1997}

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Thiomicrorhabdus frisia JB-A2 is a chemolithoautotroph, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from marine sediment.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped chemolithoautotroph 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 44191

ATCC 700878,DSM 12351

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Beggiatoales

Family Piscirickettsiaceae

Genus Thiomicrorhabdus

Species Thiomicrorhabdus frisia

Full scientific name Thiomicrorhabdus frisia (Brinkhoff et al. 1999) Boden et al. 2017

Synonyms (1)

Thiomicrospira frisia

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Thiomicrorhabdus frisia** (1)	Type strain
139856	T. frisia KP2, DSM 25197

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
43182	negative	1.0-2.7 µm	0.3-0.5 µm	rod-shaped		monotrichous

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony color	Medium used
43182	White	Triosulfate agar
43182	yellow	Triosulfate agar

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4710	THIOMICROSPIRA PELOPHILA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 142)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: THIOMICROSPIRA PELOPHILA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 142) Composition: NaCl 24.8756 g/l Na2S2O3 x 5 H2O 4.97512 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 1.49254 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.995025 g/l K2HPO4 0.497512 g/l Na2-EDTA 0.00995025 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00437811 g/l Bromothymol blue 0.0039801 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.00110249 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00100697 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000995025 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000320398 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.000312438 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.000298507 g/l (NH4)6Mo7O24 x 4 H2O 0.000218905 g/l Nicotinic acid 0.000199005 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 0.000199005 g/l Vitamin B12 9.95025e-05 g/l Calcium pantothenate 9.95025e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 7.9602e-05 g/l D-(+)-biotin 1.99005e-05 g/l Distilled water
43182	Triosulfate agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4710	positive	growth	30
43182	positive	maximum	39
43182	positive	minimum	3.5
43182	positive	optimum	32-35

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43182	positive	maximum	8.5	alkaliphile
43182	positive	minimum	4.2
43182	positive	optimum	6.5

Physiology and metabolism

Nutrition type

43182

Typechemolithoautotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Type of spore	Spore formation
43182	endospore
43182	exospore (microbial cyst)

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43182	NaCl	positive	optimum	0.47 M
43182	NaCl	positive	minimum	0.1 M
43182	NaCl	positive	maximum	1.24 M

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43182	28938 ChEBI	ammonium	+	nitrogen source
43182	18276 ChEBI	dihydrogen	-	electron donor
43182	15379 ChEBI	dioxygen	+	electron acceptor
43182	18248 ChEBI	iron	-	electron donor
43182	18291 ChEBI	manganese	-	electron donor
43182	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
43182	15138 ChEBI	sulfide	+	electron donor
43182	17359 ChEBI	sulfite	-	electron donor
43182	15226 ChEBI	tetrathionate	+	electron donor
43182	18022 ChEBI	thiocyanate	-	electron donor
43182	16094 ChEBI	thiosulfate	+	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
43182	hydrogenase	-	1.12.99.6
43182	nitrogenase	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4710	marine sediment	Jadebusen	Germany	DEU	Europe
43182		Frisia, coastal region of north-western Germany and north-eastern Netherlands	Germany	DEU	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF013974 (>99% sequence identity) for Thiomicrorhabdus frisia from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	534
Soil Samples	44
Animal Samples	10
Plant Samples	6
Total Samples	594

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4710	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4710	Thiomicrospira sp. JB-A2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF013974	1464		63655

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4710	39.6	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
43182	39.6

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Reclassification of Thiomicrospira hydrogeniphila (Watsuji et al. 2016) to Thiomicrorhabdus hydrogeniphila comb. nov., with emended description of Thiomicrorhabdus (Boden et al., 2017).	Boden R, Scott KM, Rae AW, Hutt LP	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002279	2017
Phylogeny	Thiomicrospira hydrogeniphila sp. nov., an aerobic, hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph isolated from a seawater tank containing a block of beef tallow.	Watsuji TO, Hada E, Miyazaki M, Ichimura M, Takai K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001250	2016
Phylogeny	Thiomicrospira kuenenii sp. nov. and Thiomicrospira frisia sp. nov., two mesophilic obligately chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria isolated from an intertidal mud flat.	Brinkhoff T, Muyzer G, Wirsen CO, Kuever J	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-49-2-385	1999

References

#4710	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12351
#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 )
#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 .
#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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Thiomicrorhabdus frisia (DSM 12351, ATCC 700878, JB-A2)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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