Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 24419, SP5/1, JCM 39165)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 24419, SP5/1, JCM 39165)
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BacDive ID 120

Type strain

Strain Designation SP5/1

Culture col. no. DSM 24419 SP5/1 JCM 39165

NCBI tax ID(s) 920

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- A. Klingl, Univ. Regensburg, Microbiology, Germany; SP5/1 <- H. Huber {1984} JCM <-- A. Klingl; Ludwig Maximilian Univ. of Munich, Germany; SP5/1.

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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans SP5/1 is a bacterium that was isolated from Solfatara.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 400525

DSM 24419

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:24:57

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Acidithiobacillia

Order Acidithiobacillales

Family Acidithiobacillaceae

Genus Acidithiobacillus

Species Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans

Full scientific name Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (Temple and Colmer 1951) Kelly and Wood 2000

Synonyms (1)

Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans** (13)	Type strain
118	A. ferrooxidans TM, DSM 14882, ATCC 23270, NCIMB 8455 (type strain)
111	A. ferrooxidans DSM 583
112	A. ferrooxidans DSM 584
113	A. ferrooxidans DSM 585
114	A. ferrooxidans F221, DSM 1927
115	A. ferrooxidans N-Fe3, DSM 9464
116	A. ferrooxidans NFe-4, DSM 9465
117	A. ferrooxidans Tf18, DSM 11477
130137	A. ferrooxidans R1, DSM 29444
162005	A. ferrooxidans JCM 17309
164860	A. ferrooxidans JCM 3863, ATCC 19859, BCRC 13033, NCIMB 9490
164861	A. ferrooxidans JCM 3865
165617	A. ferrooxidans JCM 7812

Morphology

Colony morphology

17673

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17673	ACIDITHIOBACILLUS (APH) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 271)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDITHIOBACILLUS (APH) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 271) Composition: FeSO4 x 7 H2O 8.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 2.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l KCl 0.1 g/l Ca(NO3)2 x 4 H2O 0.02 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17673	positive	growth	28
67770	positive	growth	30

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
17673	Solfatara	Pisciarelli	Italy	ITA	Europe
67770	Continental solfataric field at Pisciarelli		Italy	ITA	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence HM070044 (>99% sequence identity) for Acidithiobacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	68
Soil Samples	4
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	73

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17673	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
17673	Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strain SP5-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	HM070044	1297		920

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Analysis of the surface proteins of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strain SP5/1 and the new, pyrite-oxidizing Acidithiobacillus isolate HV2/2, and their possible involvement in pyrite oxidation.	Klingl A, Moissl-Eichinger C, Wanner G, Zweck J, Huber H, Thomm M, Rachel R	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-011-0720-y	2011

References

#17673	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24419
#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 .
#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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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 24419, SP5/1, JCM 39165)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony 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

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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