Name: Acidithiobacillus caldus KU
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 126

Type strain:

Species: Acidithiobacillus caldus

Strain Designation: KU

Culture col. no.: DSM 8584, ATCC 51756

Strain history: <- K. B. Hallberg; KU

NCBI tax ID(s): 637389 (strain), 33059 (species)

SI-ID 43164

ATCC 51756, DSM 8584

Special Collections

DSMZ

Other strains from Acidithiobacillus caldus

Section

Acidithiobacillus caldus KU is a Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from coal spoil enrichment culture K of P. Norris, Univ. of Warwick.

Gram-negative
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Acidithiobacillia*
	Order	*Acidithiobacillales*
	Family	*Acidithiobacillaceae*
	Genus	*Acidithiobacillus*
	Species	**Acidithiobacillus caldus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Acidithiobacillus caldus (Hallberg and Lindström 1995) Kelly and Wood 2000

	Synonym	"Fervidacidithiobacillus* caldus"*
	Synonym	Thiobacillus caldus

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %97.97

[Ref.: #3313]

Incubation period

2-3 days

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #3313]

Culture medium

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 150a)

[Ref.: #3313]

Culture medium growth

[Ref.: #3313]

Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

[Ref.: #3313]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #3313]			growth	45 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #69481]

Ability of spore formation

no Confidence in %100

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

[Ref.: #3313]	Sample type/isolated from	coal spoil enrichment culture K of P. Norris, Univ. of Warwick
[Ref.: #3313]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Kingsbury
[Ref.: #3313]	Country	United Kingdom
[Ref.: #3313]	Country ISO 3 Code	GBR
[Ref.: #3313]	Continent	Europe
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Engineered

#Laboratory

#Lab enrichment

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence Z29975 (>99% sequence identity) for Acidithiobacillus caldus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	855
Soil Samples	217
Animal Samples	359
Plant Samples	22
Total Samples	1453

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

[Ref.: #3313]

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.: #3313]	T.caldus (DSM 8584) gene for 16S ribosomal RNA	Z29975	1460	GenBank ENA	637389 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Acidithiobacillus caldus strain DSM8584 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; intergenic spacer, tRNA-Ile (trnI) and tRNA-Ala (trnA) genes, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF512808	438	GenBank ENA	637389 tax ID	*

Genome sequence information:

Only first 5 entries are displayed. Click here to see all.

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756	2811995294	complete	JGI IMG/M	637389 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Acidithiobacillus caldus KU	GCA_018853545	contig	GenBank ENA	33059 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756 DSM 8584	GCA_018853615	contig	GenBank ENA	637389 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756	637389.19	plasmid	PATRIC	637389 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756	637389.17	plasmid	PATRIC	637389 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756	637389.3	wgs	PATRIC	637389 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #3313]

GC-content

63.9 mol%

thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756 ATCC 51756 NCBI: GCA_000175575.2
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	100	no

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756 ATCC 51756 NCBI: GCA_000175575.2
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.97	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	82.514	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	55.682	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.217	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	92.532	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	52.47	no

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #3313]

Culture collection no.

DSM 8584, ATCC 51756

[Ref.: #69809]

SI-ID 43164

Literature:

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Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Occurrence, integrity and functionality of AcaML1-like viruses infecting extreme acidophiles of the Acidithiobacillus species complex.	Covarrubias PC, Moya-Beltran A, Atavales J, Moya-Flores F, Tapia PS, Acuna LG, Spinelli S, Quatrini R	Res Microbiol	10.1016/j.resmic.2018.07.005	2018	*
Metabolism	Diguanylate cyclase null mutant reveals that C-Di-GMP pathway regulates the motility and adherence of the extremophile bacterium Acidithiobacillus caldus.	Castro M, Deane SM, Ruiz L, Rawlings DE, Guiliani N	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0116399	2015	*
Metabolism	Architecture and gene repertoire of the flexible genome of the extreme acidophile Acidithiobacillus caldus.	Acuna LG, Cardenas JP, Covarrubias PC, Haristoy JJ, Flores R, Nunez H, Riadi G, Shmaryahu A, Valdes J, Dopson M, Rawlings DE, Banfield JF, Holmes DS, Quatrini R	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0078237	2013	*
Genetics	Complete genome sequence of temperate bacteriophage AcaML1 from the extreme acidophile Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756.	Tapia P, Flores FM, Covarrubias PC, Acuna LG, Holmes DS, Quatrini R	J Virol	10.1128/JVI.02261-12	2012	*
Phylogeny	Isolation and characterization of Acidithiobacillus caldus from a sulfur-oxidizing bacterial biosensor and its role in detection of toxic chemicals.	Hassan SH, Van Ginkel SW, Kim SM, Yoon SH, Joo JH, Shin BS, Jeon BH, Bae W, Oh SE	J Microbiol Methods	10.1016/j.mimet.2010.05.008	2010	*
Genetics	Draft genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic bacterium Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756 reveals metabolic versatility in the genus Acidithiobacillus.	Valdes J, Quatrini R, Hallberg K, Dopson M, Valenzuela PD, Holmes DS	J Bacteriol	10.1128/JB.00843-09	2009	*
Phylogeny	Characterization of Thiobacillus caldus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic acidophile.	Hallberg KB, Lindstrom EB	Microbiology (Reading)	10.1099/13500872-140-12-3451	1994	*

References

#3313

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 8584

#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 )

#66792

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#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 .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#69809

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID43164.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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