Clostridium thermautotrophicum (CIP 108447, DSM 1974, ATCC 33924)

Name: Clostridium thermautotrophicum (CIP 108447, DSM 1974, ATCC 33924)
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BacDive ID 136947

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 108447 DSM 1974 ATCC 33924 AIP 98-04

NCBI tax ID(s) 1525

Special Collections DSMZ CIP

History CIP <- 2004, J.P. Carlier, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain AIP 98-04 <- DSMZ

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Clostridium thermautotrophicum CIP 108447 is an anaerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Clostridiaceae.

Gram-positive rod-shaped anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47518

DSM 1974,ATCC 33924,KCTC 3246,KCTC 5016,BCRC 14412,CCRC 14412,NRRL B-23499,CIP 108447

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:55

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium thermautotrophicum

Full scientific name Clostridium thermautotrophicum corrig. Wiegel et al. 1982

Synonyms (6)

Clostridium thermaceticum
Moorella thermoacetica
Neomoorella thermoacetica
Clostridium thermoautotrophicum
Clostridium thermoaceticum
Moorella thermoautotrophica

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
36735	positive	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
36735	MEDIUM 224 - for anaerobic bacteria TGV		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Glucose (10.000 g);Yeast extract (20.000 g);Resazurin (2.000 mg);Trypto casein soy broth (30.000 g);L-Cysteine (0.500 g);Hemin solution - M00149 (25.000 ml);Vitamins solution - M00850 (10.000 ml)
36735	CIP Medium 20			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
36735	positive	growth	55

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
36735	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	90.382
125439	anaerobe	99.871

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		95.275

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
36735	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
36735	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	respiration

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
36735	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
36735		Yellowstone Natl. Park	USA	USA	North America
36735	Environment, Mud and water from hot spring	Yellowstone Natlonal Park	United States of America	USA	North America	1981

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence L09168 (>99% sequence identity) for Moorella thermoacetica from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	257
Soil Samples	87
Animal Samples	219
Plant Samples	32
Total Samples	595

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
36735	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM812189v1 assembly for Neomoorella thermoacetica ATCC 33924	contig	GCA_008121895	1525.22	1525	64.03

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
36735	Clostridium thermoautotrophicum (DSM 1974) 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) gene	L09168	1553	1560
124043	Moorella thermoautotrophica strain DSM 1974 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	DQ192549	278	1525
124043	Moorella thermoautotrophica 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM 1974	X77849	1523	1525

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM812189v1 assembly for Neomoorella thermoacetica ATCC 33924
BV-BRC: 1525.22

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.87	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	66.75	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	95.28	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	65.72	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Moorella thermoacetica strain ATCC 33924
PATRIC: 1525.22

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	53.59	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	90.38	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	74.54	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	92.53	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	77.23	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	66.54	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Acetate Production from Syngas Produced from Lignocellulosic Biomass Materials along with Gaseous Fermentation of the Syngas: A Review.	Harahap BM, Ahring BK.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms11040995	2023
Metabolism	Using gas mixtures of CO, CO₂ and H₂ as microbial substrates: the do's and don'ts of successful technology transfer from laboratory to production scale.	Takors R, Kopf M, Mampel J, Bluemke W, Blombach B, Eikmanns B, Bengelsdorf FR, Weuster-Botz D, Durre P.	Microb Biotechnol	10.1111/1751-7915.13270	2018
Metabolism	Tolerance and metabolic response of acetogenic bacteria toward oxygen.	Karnholz A, Kusel K, Gossner A, Schramm A, Drake HL.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.68.2.1005-1009.2002	2002
Enzymology	Carbonic anhydrase in Acetobacterium woodii and other acetogenic bacteria.	Braus-Stromeyer SA, Schnappauf G, Braus GH, Gossner AS, Drake HL.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.179.22.7197-7200.1997	1997
Metabolism	Degradation of glyoxylate and glycolate with ATP synthesis by a thermophilic anaerobic bacterium, Moorella sp. strain HUC22-1.	Sakai S, Inokuma K, Nakashimada Y, Nishio N.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01421-07	2008
Metabolism	Thermophilic Moorella thermoacetica as a platform microorganism for C1 gas utilization: physiology, engineering, and applications.	Jia D, Deng W, Hu P, Jiang W, Gu Y.	Bioresour Bioprocess	10.1186/s40643-023-00682-z	2023
Enzymology	Direct quantification of the enteric bacterium Oxalobacter formigenes in human fecal samples by quantitative competitive-template PCR.	Sidhu H, Holmes RP, Allison MJ, Peck AB.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.37.5.1503-1509.1999	1999
	Genome-Based Comparison of All Species of the Genus Moorella, and Status of the Species Moorella thermoacetica and Moorella thermoautotrophica.	Redl S, Poehlein A, Esser C, Bengelsdorf FR, Jensen TO, Jendresen CB, Tindall BJ, Daniel R, Durre P, Nielsen AT	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.03070	2020

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 )
#36735	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108447
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Clostridium thermautotrophicum (CIP 108447, DSM 1974, ATCC 33924)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_008121895

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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