Thermosyntropha tengcongensis (CGMCC 1.5161, JCM 17260, L-60)

Name: Thermosyntropha tengcongensis (CGMCC 1.5161, JCM 17260, L-60)
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BacDive ID 133732

Type strain

Strain Designation L-60

Culture col. no. CGMCC 1.5161 JCM 17260 L-60

NCBI tax ID(s) 873078

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History JCM <-- X. Dong L-60.

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Thermosyntropha tengcongensis L-60 is an anaerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from hot spring.

Gram-negative rod-shaped anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 394168

JCM 17260

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:09

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Syntrophomonadia

Order Syntrophomonadales

Family Syntrophomonadaceae

Genus Thermosyntropha

Species Thermosyntropha tengcongensis

Full scientific name Thermosyntropha tengcongensis Zhang et al. 2012

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
30325	negative	4.5-5.0 µm	0.3-0.4 µm	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
30325	positive	growth	55-70
30325	positive	optimum	60
67770	positive	growth	60

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
30325	positive	optimum	8.2
30325	positive	growth	7-9.3	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

30325

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

30325

Spore formationno

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
30325	hot spring
67770	Hot spring in the Chinese town of Tengcong

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence HM807481 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermosyntropha tengcongensis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	19
Soil Samples	0
Animal Samples	8
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	27

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
30325	Thermosyntropha tengcongensis strain L-60 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	HM807481	1546		873078

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
30325	40.3
67770	40.3	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermosyntropha tengcongensis sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium that degrades long-chain fatty acids syntrophically.	Zhang F, Liu X, Dong X	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.033456-0	2011

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 )
#26666	IJSEM 759 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.033456-0 , PubMed 21571939 )
#30325	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26666
#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 .
#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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Thermosyntropha tengcongensis (CGMCC 1.5161, JCM 17260, L-60)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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