Magnetospira thiophila (ATCC BAA-1438, JCM 17960, MMS-1)

Name: Magnetospira thiophila (ATCC BAA-1438, JCM 17960, MMS-1)
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Type strain

Strain Designation MMS-1

Culture col. no. ATCC BAA-1438 JCM 17960 MMS-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 549691

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History JCM <-- C. T. Lefèvre <-- D. A. Bazylinski MMS-1.

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Magnetospira thiophila MMS-1 is a microaerophile, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from hypersaline environment.

Gram-negative motile spiral-shaped microaerophile 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 393567

JCM 17960

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:10

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Thalassospiraceae

Genus Magnetospira

Species Magnetospira thiophila

Full scientific name Magnetospira thiophila Williams et al. 2012

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
30508	negative	2.75 µm	0.35 µm	spiral-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
30508	positive	growth	05-37
30508	positive	optimum	25
67770	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

30508

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30508	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
30508	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
30508	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
30508	hypersaline environment
67770	Mud and water from a salt marsh in Woods Hole	Massachusetts	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EU861390 (>99% sequence identity) for Magnetospira thiophila subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	93
Soil Samples	5
Animal Samples	2
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	101

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Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
30508	Magnetospira thiophila strain MMS-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU861390	1417		549691

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
30508	47.2
67770	47.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Magnetospira thiophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine magnetotactic bacterium that represents a novel lineage within the Rhodospirillaceae (Alphaproteobacteria).	Williams TJ, Lefevre CT, Zhao W, Beveridge TJ, Bazylinski DA	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.037697-0	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 )
#26840	IJSEM 2443 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.037697-0 , PubMed 22140150 )
#30508	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 #26840
#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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Magnetospira thiophila (ATCC BAA-1438, JCM 17960, MMS-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Metabolite utilization

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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