Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans (DSM 22755, JCM 15606, NO-37)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans (DSM 22755, JCM 15606, NO-37)
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BacDive ID 129

Type strain

Strain Designation NO-37

Culture col. no. DSM 22755 JCM 15606 NO-37

NCBI tax ID(s) 160808

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- T. Itoh, JCM; JCM 15606 <- K. B. Hallberg, University of Wales, School of Biological Sciences, Bangor, UK; NO-37 <- D. B. Johnson; {2000} JCM <-- K. B. Hallberg and D. B. Johnson NO-37.

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Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans NO-37 is a bacterium that was isolated from acid mine drainage.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407002

JCM 15606,DSM 22755

@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 ferrivorans

Full scientific name Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans Hallberg et al. 2010

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans** (1)	Type strain
119	A. ferrivorans SS3, DSM 17398

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	97.47

Colony morphology

16496

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16496	ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERRIVORANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1234)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERRIVORANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1234) Composition: (NH4)2SO4 2.9703 g/l Na2SO4 1.38614 g/l K2S4O6 0.792079 g/l KCl 0.0990099 g/l K2HPO4 0.049505 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.029703 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.029703 g/l (NH4)2Ni(SO4)2 x 6 H2O 0.019802 g/l Ca(NO3)2 x 4 H2O 0.019802 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0148515 g/l NaCl 0.00990099 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00495049 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00178218 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00178218 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.000990099 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00029703 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.00019802 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.90099e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.90099e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.90099e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.9604e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.9703e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
16496	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		92.949
125439		98.831

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-8

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-
#Condition	#Acidic	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
16496	acid mine drainage	King's Mine	Norway	NOR	Europe
67770	Copper mine spoil drainage in Norway

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF376020 (>99% sequence identity) for Acidithiobacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	432
Soil Samples	127
Animal Samples	60
Plant Samples	27
Total Samples	646

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16496	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1885393v1 assembly for Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans DSM 22755	contig	GCA_018853935	160808.74	160808	0

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
16496	Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans strain NO-37 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF376020	1478		160808

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
16496	55.5	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM1885393v1 assembly for Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans DSM 22755
BV-BRC: 160808.74

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	68.45	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	81.41	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	61.65	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.83	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans strain DSM 22755
PATRIC: 160808.74

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.47	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	79.71	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.95	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	55.53	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	91.55	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	53.15	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Pangenome-level analysis of nucleoid-associated proteins in the Acidithiobacillia class: insights into their functional roles in mobile genetic elements biology.	Beard S, Moya-Beltran A, Silva-Garcia D, Valenzuela C, Perez-Acle T, Loyola A, Quatrini R.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1271138	2023
	Roles and Regulation of Quorum Sensing of Acidophiles in Bioleaching: A Review.	Luo W, Li Y, Chen S, Liang Y, Liu X.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms12030422	2024
Genetics	Genome sequencing and metabolic network reconstruction of a novel sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Acidithiobacillus Ameehan.	Wu P, Yuan Q, Cheng T, Han Y, Zhao W, Liao X, Wang L, Cai J, He Q, Guo Y, Zhang X, Lu F, Wang J, Ma H, Huang Z.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1277847	2023
Phylogeny	Molecular Systematics of the Genus Acidithiobacillus: Insights into the Phylogenetic Structure and Diversification of the Taxon.	Nunez H, Moya-Beltran A, Covarrubias PC, Issotta F, Cardenas JP, Gonzalez M, Atavales J, Acuna LG, Johnson DB, Quatrini R.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.00030	2017
Phylogeny	Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans, sp. nov.; facultatively anaerobic, psychrotolerant iron-, and sulfur-oxidizing acidophiles isolated from metal mine-impacted environments.	Hallberg KB, Gonzalez-Toril E, Johnson DB	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-009-0282-y	2009

References

#16496	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22755
#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 )
#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) .
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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 ferrivorans (DSM 22755, JCM 15606, NO-37)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Observation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_018853935

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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