Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans (DSM 103717, CLST)

Name: Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans (DSM 103717, CLST)
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BacDive ID 132685

Type strain

Strain Designation CLST

Culture col. no. DSM 103717 CLST

NCBI tax ID(s) 930

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- M. Acosta Grinok, Universidad Catolicá del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile; CLST <- L. Escudero;

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Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans CLST is a bacterium that was isolated from salt flat brine.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 400882

DSM 103717

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:37:55

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Acidithiobacillia

Order Acidithiobacillales

Family Acidithiobacillaceae

Genus Acidithiobacillus

Species Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans

Full scientific name Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans (Waksman and Joffe 1922) Kelly and Wood 2000

Synonyms (3)

Acidithiobacillus concretivorus
Thiobacillus thiooxidans
Thiobacillus concretivorus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans** (9)	Type strain
125	A. thiooxidans 3/TA, DSM 14887, ATCC 19377, JCM 3867, NCIMB ... (type strain)
121	A. thiooxidans DSM 504, ATCC 8085, IFO 12544, NBRC 12544, ...
122	A. thiooxidans GP5, DSM 622
123	A. thiooxidans B-S2, DSM 9463
124	A. thiooxidans Tth04, DSM 11478
137426	A. thiooxidans CIP 104766, ATCC 19703, NCIMB 8345
164862	A. thiooxidans JCM 3868, ATCC 15494
165618	A. thiooxidans JCM 7813
165619	A. thiooxidans JCM 7814

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	94.388
125438	negative	96.485

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
24475	ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 71)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 71; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Elemental sulfur 10.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 3.0 g/l KH2PO4 3.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.25 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
24475	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	facultative anaerobe	95.071

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.642
125438		91.636

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Desert
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
24475	salt flat brine	Antofagasta region, Gorbea salt flat	Chile	CHL	Middle and South America	-25.4367	-68.6981 -25.4367/-68.6981

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KX100033 (>99% sequence identity) for Acidithiobacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1330
Soil Samples	228
Animal Samples	187
Plant Samples	13
Total Samples	1758

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24475	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	ASM207986v1 assembly for Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans CLST	scaffold	GCA_002079865	930.22	2811994996	930	0

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24475	Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans strain CL 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KX100033	1536		930

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM207986v1 assembly for Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans CLST
NCBI: GCA_002079865

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	94.39	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	95.07	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	50.82	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.64	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans CLST
NCBI: GCA_002079865.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	96.49	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	83.07	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	58.38	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	91.64	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.24	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	67.28	no

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Bioleaching of Transition Metals From Limonitic Laterite Deposits and Reassessment of the Multiple Roles of Sulfur-Oxidizing Acidophiles in the Process.	Johnson DB, Smith SL, Santos AL.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2021.703177	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 )
#24475	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 103717
#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 .
#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 thiooxidans (DSM 103717, CLST)

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_002079865

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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