Thalassospira tepidiphila (DSM 18888, JCM 14578, 1-1B)

Name: Thalassospira tepidiphila (DSM 18888, JCM 14578, 1-1B)
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BacDive ID 13968

Type strain

Strain Designation 1-1B

Culture col. no. DSM 18888 JCM 14578 1-1B

NCBI tax ID(s) 393657

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Thalassospira tepidiphila 1-1B is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-negative, motile prokaryote that was isolated from petroleum-contaminated seawater in a beachsimulation tank during a bioremediation experiment.

Gram-negative motile spiral-shaped facultative anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 343474

DSM 18888,JCM 14578

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:50:13

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Thalassospiraceae

Genus Thalassospira

Species Thalassospira tepidiphila

Full scientific name Thalassospira tepidiphila Kodama et al. 2008

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape
32424	negative	1.45 µm	0.25 µm	spiral-shaped
125439	negative
125438	negative

Pigmentation

32424

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
7759	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
7759	positive	growth	30-40
32424	positive	growth	08-45
32424	positive	optimum	43
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
32424	positive	optimum	7
32424	positive	growth	05-10

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
32424	facultative anaerobe
125439	aerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.1

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
32424	NaCl	positive	growth	02-14 %
32424	NaCl	positive	optimum	3 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32424	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
32424	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
32424	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
32424	22653 ChEBI	asparagine	+	carbon source
32424	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	carbon source
32424	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
32424	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
32424	33984 ChEBI	fucose	+	carbon source
32424	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
32424	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
32424	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
32424	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
32424	27570 ChEBI	histidine	+	carbon source
32424	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	+	carbon source
32424	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
32424	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
32424	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
32424	51850 ChEBI	methyl pyruvate	+	carbon source
32424	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	carbon source
32424	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
32424	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
32424	26490 ChEBI	quinate	+	carbon source
32424	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source
32424	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
32424	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	carbon source
32424	27248 ChEBI	urocanic acid	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32424	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
32424	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Engineered	#Bioremediation
#Engineered	#Built environment
#Engineered	#Contamination
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
7759	petroleum-contaminated seawater in a beachsimulation tank during a bioremediation experiment	Kamaishi City	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Petroleum-contaminated seawater in a beach-simulation tank during a bioremediation experiment

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB265822 (>99% sequence identity) for Thalassospira from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	7649
Soil Samples	540
Animal Samples	378
Plant Samples	159
Total Samples	8726

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7759	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	ASM1192768v1 assembly for Thalassospira tepidiphila DSM 18888	scaffold	GCA_011927685	393657.3	2829832560	393657	77.27
124043	ASM3952309v1 assembly for Thalassospira tepidiphila JCM 14578	scaffold	GCA_039523095			393657	73.45

Genome browser: GCA_011927685

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7759	Thalassospira tepidiphila gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB265822	1414		1177930

GC content

32424

GC-content (mol%)55.1

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Thalassospira tepidiphila DSM 18888
NCBI: GCA_011927685

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	77.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	92.40	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Thalassospira tepidiphila strain DSM 18888
PATRIC: 393657.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.00	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	92.69	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.64	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	69.01	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.29	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	84.84	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thalassospira indica sp. nov., isolated from deep seawater.	Liu Y, Lai Q, Du J, Sun F, Shao Z	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001449	2016
Phylogeny	Thalassospira tepidiphila sp. nov., a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium isolated from seawater.	Kodama Y, Stiknowati LI, Ueki A, Ueki K, Watanabe K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65476-0	2008

References

#7759	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18888
#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 )
#32424	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 #28647 (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 .
#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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Thalassospira tepidiphila (DSM 18888, JCM 14578, 1-1B)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_011927685

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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