Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 29444, R1)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (DSM 29444, R1)
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BacDive ID 130137

Type strain

Strain Designation R1

Culture col. no. DSM 29444 R1

NCBI tax ID(s) 920

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- M. Vera, Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Germany; R1 <- W. Sand, Hamburg Univ. Technol., Germany; {1988}

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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans R1 is a bacterium that was isolated from rock samples, Ilba mine.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 403407

DSM 29444

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:37:18

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
120	A. ferrooxidans SP5/1, DSM 24419, JCM 39165
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

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
21445	LEPTOSPIRILLUM (HH) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 882)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: LEPTOSPIRILLUM (HH) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 882) Composition: FeSO4 x 7 H2O 19.98 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.146853 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.131868 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0529471 g/l KH2PO4 0.0269731 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 7.59241e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.79321e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 6.69331e-05 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 6.39361e-05 g/l H3BO3 3.0969e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 9.99001e-06 g/l H2SO4 Distilled water
21445	ACIDIFERROBACTER (MS) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 670)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDIFERROBACTER (MS) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 670) Composition: FeSO4 x 7 H2O 20.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 2.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.25 g/l K2HPO4 0.1 g/l KCl 0.1 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
21445	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Geologic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
21445	rock samples, Ilba mine	Romania	ROU	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FN686787 (>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
21445	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21445	Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans partial 16S rRNA gene, strain R1	FN686787	1410		1689834

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phosphorus Recovery from Sewage Sludge Using Acidithiobacilli.	Pradhan SK, Heinonen-Tanski H, Veijalainen AM, Peraniemi S, Torvinen E.	Int J Environ Res Public Health	10.3390/ijerph18137135	2021

References

#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 )
#21445	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 29444
#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 29444, R1)

Name and taxonomic classification

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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