Name: Magnetospira thiophila MMS-1
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133789

Type strain:

Species: Magnetospira thiophila

Strain Designation: MMS-1

Culture col. no.: ATCC BAA-1438, JCM 17960

Strain history: C. T. Lefèvre <-- D. A. Bazylinski MMS-1.

NCBI tax ID(s): 549691 (species)

Section

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

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Rhodospirillales*
	Family	*Thalassospiraceae*
	Genus	*Magnetospira*
	Species	**Magnetospira thiophila**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Magnetospira thiophila Williams et al. 2012

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #30508]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #30508]	Cell length	2.75 µm

[Ref.: #30508]	Cell width	0.35 µm

[Ref.: #30508]	Cell shape	spiral-shaped

[Ref.: #30508]	Motility	yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

		Temperature
[Ref.: #30508]	growth	05-37 °C
[Ref.: #30508]	optimum	25 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	25 °C

[Ref.: #30508]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #30508]

Oxygen tolerance

microaerophile

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #30508]	acetate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30508]	malate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #30508]	succinate ChEBI	+	carbon source

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #30508]	Sample type/isolated from	hypersaline environment

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Mud and water from a salt marsh in Woods Hole
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Massachusetts
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	North America
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Isolation sources categories

#Condition

#Saline

What are isolation sources categories?

[Ref.: #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

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #30508]	Magnetospira thiophila strain MMS-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU861390	1417	GenBank	549691 tax ID

[Ref.: #30508]	GC-content	47.2 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	47.2 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #30508]

Culture collection no.

ATCC BAA-1438, JCM 17960

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 )

#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 (see below)

#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 .

#26840

IJSEM 2443 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.037697-0 , PubMed 22140150 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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