Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans (DSM 22545, VKM B-2573, D-501)

Name: Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans (DSM 22545, VKM B-2573, D-501)
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BacDive ID 131182

Type strain

Strain Designation D-501

Culture col. no. DSM 22545 VKM B-2573 D-501

NCBI tax ID(s) 639200

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- M. Grabovich, Voronezh State Univ., Russia; D-501 <- E. Gridneva, M. Grabovich and G. Dubinina

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Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans D-501 is a bacterium that was isolated from sulfur mat of a sulfide thermal spring .

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 377104

DSM 22545,VKM B-2573

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:37:33

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Sphaerotilaceae

Genus Sphaerotilus

Species Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans

Full scientific name Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans Gridneva et al. 2011

Synonyms (1)

Sphaerotilus sulfidivorans

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence	Motility
125439	negative	96.741
125439		90.135

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16391	SPHAEROTILUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 51)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SPHAEROTILUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 51) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Beef extract 5.0 g/l Distilled water
16391	MODIFIED SPHAEROTILUS NATANS SSP. SULFIDIVORANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1664a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: Modified Sphaerotilus natans ssp. sulfidivorans medium (DSMZ Medium 1664a) Composition: Na2S2SO3 2.0 g/l Peptone 1.0 g/l (NH4)Cl 0.6 g/l Na-lactate 0.4 g/l Na2HPO4 x 7 H2O 0.07 g/l CaCl2 0.056 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.05 g/l Co(NO3)2 0.05 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.046 g/l K2HPO4 0.044 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.035 g/l Calcium pantothenate 0.025 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 0.025 g/l Nicotinic acid 0.025 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.025 g/l KH2PO4 0.018 g/l EDTA 0.01 g/l Riboflavin 0.005 g/l Vitamin B12 0.0005 g/l H3BO3 0.0005 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.0005 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0005 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.00025 g/l MnSO4 x 4 H2O 0.0001 g/l Folic acid 0.0001 g/l Biotin 5e-05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
16391	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	aerobe	95.188

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.451

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Sulfuric	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
16391	sulfur mat of a sulfide thermal spring (34–37 °C)	Northern Caucasus, Petushok spring	Russia	RUS	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FJ871054 (>99% sequence identity) for Sphaerotilus natans subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	16039
Soil Samples	1888
Animal Samples	5244
Plant Samples	1544
Total Samples	24715

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16391	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM4054535v1 assembly for Sphaerotilus sulfidivorans D-501	contig	GCA_040545355		2928243794	639200	70.11
66792	ASM1342697v1 assembly for Sphaerotilus sulfidivorans D-501	contig	GCA_013426975	639200.4	8118759999	639200	54.2

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
16391	Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans strain D-501 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	FJ871054	1426		639200

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
16391	69.2	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: ASM4054535v1 assembly for Sphaerotilus sulfidivorans D-501
NCBI: GCA_040545355

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	95.19	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	90.14	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	96.74	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.45	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	[Detection and analysis of sulfur metabolism genes in Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans representatives].	Belousova EV, Chernousova EIu, Dubinina GA, Turova TP, Grabovich MIu.	Mikrobiologiia	10.1134/s0026261713050020	2013
	The benzoyl-CoA pathway serves as a genomic marker to identify the oxygen requirements in the degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons.	Godinez-Perez CM, Loza A, Hurtado JM, Gutierrez-Rios RM.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1308626	2023
Phylogeny	Taxonomic characterization of Sphaerotilus microaerophilus sp. nov., a sheath-forming microaerophilic bacterium of activated sludge origin.	Narihara S, Chida S, Matsunaga N, Akimoto R, Akimoto M, Hagio A, Mori T, Nittami T, Sato M, Mun S, Kang H, Back JH, Takeda M.	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-024-03991-9	2024
Phylogeny	Reclassification of Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans Gridneva et al. 2011 as Sphaerotilus sulfidivorans sp. nov. and comparative genome analysis of the genus Sphaerotilus.	Grabovich MY, Smolyakov DD, Beletsky AV, Mardanov AV, Gureeva MV, Markov ND, Rudenko TS, Ravin NV	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-020-02158-6	2021
Phylogeny	Taxonomic investigation of representatives of the genus Sphaerotilus: descriptions of Sphaerotilus montanus sp. nov., Sphaerotilus hippei sp. nov., Sphaerotilus natans subsp. natans subsp. nov. and Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans subsp. nov., and an emended description of the genus Sphaerotilus.	Gridneva E, Chernousova E, Dubinina G, Akimov V, Kuever J, Detkova E, Grabovich M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.023887-0	2010

References

#16391	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22545
#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) .
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans (DSM 22545, VKM B-2573, D-501)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_040545355

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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