Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus (DSM 101864, MCCC 1A01871, S606)

Name: Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus (DSM 101864, MCCC 1A01871, S606)
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BacDive ID 132647

Type strain

Strain Designation S606

Culture col. no. DSM 101864 MCCC 1A01871 S606

NCBI tax ID(s) 1795632

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Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus S606 is an obligate anaerobe, chemolithoautotroph, hyperthermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from sulfide from a deep-sea chimney wall, depth of 2771 m.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped obligate anaerobe chemolithoautotroph hyperthermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 398234

DSM 101864

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:34

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Thermodesulfobacteria

Order Thermodesulfobacteriales

Family Thermodesulfobacteriaceae

Genus Thermodesulfatator

Species Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus

Full scientific name Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus Lai et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
24932	negative	1.0-1.8 µm	0.5-0.7 µm	rod-shaped		monotrichous, polar
125439	negative

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
24436	DESULFONAUTICUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 383b)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFONAUTICUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 383b) Composition: NaCl 20.8747 g/l Na2SO4 2.9821 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 2.9821 g/l Na2CO3 0.994036 g/l Na-acetate 0.994036 g/l KCl 0.497018 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.397614 g/l NH4Cl 0.29821 g/l KH2PO4 0.198807 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.149105 g/l HCl 0.00248509 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00149105 g/l NaOH 0.000497018 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000497018 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000188867 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.94036e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.94036e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.95825e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.97018e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.97018e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.97018e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.97018e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.97018e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.97018e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.57853e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.38569e-05 g/l Biotin 1.98807e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.98807e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.96421e-06 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.97614e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.98211e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.98807e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.94036e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
24436	positive	growth	65	thermophilic
24932	positive	growth	50.0-80.0	hyperthermophilic
24932	positive	optimum	65.0-70.0	thermophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
24932	positive	optimum	6.5-7.0
24932	positive	growth	5.5-8.0

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
24932	obligate anaerobe
125439	anaerobe

Nutrition type

24932

Typechemolithoautotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		97.5

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
24932	NaCl	positive	growth	1.5-4.5 %
24932	NaCl		optimum	2.5-3.0 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
24932	33403 ChEBI	elemental sulfur	-	electron acceptor
24932	16830 ChEBI	methylamine	-	carbon source
24932	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
24932		peptone	-	carbon source
24932	16189 ChEBI	sulfate	+	electron acceptor
24932	16189 ChEBI	sulfate	+	reduction
24932	17359 ChEBI	sulfite	-	electron acceptor
24932	16094 ChEBI	thiosulfate	-	electron acceptor
24932		yeast extract	-	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Condition	#Sulfuric	-
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Latitude	Longitude
24436	sulfide from a deep-sea chimney wall, depth of 2771 m	Indian Ocean, site JL-Dive90-S01	International waters	-38.3	50.0833 -38.3/50.0833
24932	deep-sea hydrothermal vent sulfide sample collected at a depth of 2764 m from a chimney wall

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24436	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM164232v1 assembly for Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus S606	contig	GCA_001642325	1795632.6	2744054635	1795632	49.18

Genome browser: GCA_001642325

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24436	Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus strain S606 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KU681513	1514		1795632

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24932	43.1	genome sequence analysis
24436	43.1	sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus S606
NCBI: GCA_001642325

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	97.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	66.50	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.80	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	98.20	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium from the Indian Ocean.	Lai Q, Cao J, Dupont S, Shao Z, Jebbar M, Alain K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001297	2016

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 )
#24436	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 101864
#24932	Q. C. Lai, Junwei,Dupont, Samuel,Shao, Zongze,Jebbar, Mohamed,Alain, Karine: Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium from the Indian Ocean. IJSEM 66: 3978 - 3982 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001297 , PubMed 27405298 )
#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) .
#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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Thermodesulfatator autotrophicus (DSM 101864, MCCC 1A01871, S606)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001642325

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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