Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans (DSM 622, GP5)

Name: Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans (DSM 622, GP5)
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BacDive ID 122

Type strain

Strain Designation GP5

Culture col. no. DSM 622 GP5

NCBI tax ID(s) 930

Special Collections DSMZ

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Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans GP5 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from pond water.

mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47237

DSM 622

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:46:47

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Acidithiobacillia

Order Acidithiobacillales

Family Acidithiobacillaceae

Genus Acidithiobacillus

Species Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans

Full scientific name Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans (Waksman and Joffe 1922) Kelly and Wood 2000

Synonyms (3)

Acidithiobacillus concretivorus
Thiobacillus thiooxidans
Thiobacillus concretivorus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans** (9)	Type strain
125	A. thiooxidans 3/TA, DSM 14887, ATCC 19377, JCM 3867, NCIMB ... (type strain)
121	A. thiooxidans DSM 504, ATCC 8085, IFO 12544, NBRC 12544, ...
123	A. thiooxidans B-S2, DSM 9463
124	A. thiooxidans Tth04, DSM 11478
132685	A. thiooxidans CLST, DSM 103717
137426	A. thiooxidans CIP 104766, ATCC 19703, NCIMB 8345
164862	A. thiooxidans JCM 3868, ATCC 15494
165618	A. thiooxidans JCM 7813
165619	A. thiooxidans JCM 7814

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
327	ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 71)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 71) Composition: Na2S2O3 x 5 H2O 5.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 3.0 g/l KH2PO4 3.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.25 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
327	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Pond (small)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
327	pond water	Göttingen, Kiessee	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
327	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans 16S rRNA gene (partial) and 16S-23S rRNA IGS, strain DSM 622	AM296495	511		930

GC content

327

GC-content (mol%)53.0

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#327	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 622
#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 )
#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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