Name: Thermus caldifontis NBRC 112415
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 140694

Type strain:

Species: Thermus caldifontis

Culture col. no.: NBRC 112415, CCTCC AB 2016305, YIM 73026

NCBI tax ID(s): 1930763 (species)

Section

Thermus caldifontis NBRC 112415 is an aerobe, thermophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from sediment sample collected from the Qucai Geothermal Field.

colony-forming
Gram-negative
rod-shaped
aerobe
thermophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Deinococcota*
	Class	*Deinococci*
	Order	*Thermales*
	Family	*Thermaceae*
	Genus	*Thermus*
	Species	**Thermus caldifontis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thermus caldifontis Khan et al. 2017

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #43463]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.789

[Ref.: #43463]	Cell length	1.6-3.1 µm

[Ref.: #43463]	Cell width	0.4-0.5 µm

[Ref.: #43463]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #43463]	Colony color	Yellow, opaque
[Ref.: #43463]	Colony shape	circular

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #43463]			growth	50-70 °C
[Ref.: #43463]			optimum	60 °C

[Ref.: #43463]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #69480]	Temperature range	thermophilic Confidence in %100

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #43463]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #43463]			growth	6-8

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %98
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %99.809

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #43463]		NaCl		growth	1	%(w/v)

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #43463]	casein	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43463]	cellobiose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	D-fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	D-galactose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	D-glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	D-mannitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	D-mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	D-ribose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	D-trehalose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	D-xylose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	disodium malate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	esculin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43463]	gelatin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43463]	glucose ChEBI	-	builds acid from
[Ref.: #43463]	glycerol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	L-arabinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	L-arginine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	L-asparagine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	L-proline ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	L-serine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	L-sorbose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	L-tyrosine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	lactose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	myo-inositol ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #43463]	raffinose ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	ribitol ChEBI	-	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	starch ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43463]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #43463]	tween 20 ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43463]	tween 40 ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43463]	tween 60 ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43463]	tween 80 ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
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	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #43463]		indole ChEBI	no

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #43463]	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
[Ref.: #43463]	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
[Ref.: #43463]	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
[Ref.: #43463]	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
[Ref.: #43463]	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
[Ref.: #43463]	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
[Ref.: #43463]	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21
[Ref.: #43463]	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
[Ref.: #43463]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #43463]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #43463]	esterase (C 4)	+
[Ref.: #43463]	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
[Ref.: #43463]	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
[Ref.: #43463]	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
[Ref.: #43463]	urease	-	3.5.1.5
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Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

Reference

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Fatty acid	Percentage
C15:0 iso	34.4
C16:0 iso	14.4
C17:0 iso	12.7
C15:0 anteiso	10.2

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

[Ref.: #43463]	Sample type/isolated from	sediment sample collected from the Qucai Geothermal Field
[Ref.: #43463]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Western Tibet
[Ref.: #43463]	Country	China
[Ref.: #43463]	Country ISO 3 Code	CHN
[Ref.: #43463]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental

#Terrestrial

#Sediment

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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.: #43463]	16S rRNA gene sequence	KX580314		GenBank

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermus caldifontis YIM 73026	GCA_003336745	scaffold	GenBank	1930763 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermus caldifontis strain YIM 73026	1930763.4	wgs	PATRIC	1930763 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermus caldifontis YIM 73026	2758568001	draft	JGI IMG/M	1930763 tax ID	*

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GC-content

65.4 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Thermus caldifontis YIM 73026 NCBI: GCA_003336745.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	98	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Thermus caldifontis YIM 73026 NCBI: GCA_003336745.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	87.949	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	97.691	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	95.794	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	95.371	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	74.327	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	83.025	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	93.755	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	86.986	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	100	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	83.779	no

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Culture collection no.

NBRC 112415, CCTCC AB 2016305, YIM 73026

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermus caldifontis sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring.	Khan IU, Habib N, Hussain F, Xian WD, Amin A, Zhou EM, Ahmed I, Zhi XY, Li WJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002037	2017	*
Phylogeny	Description of five novel thermophilic species of the genus Thermus: Thermus hydrothermalis sp. nov., Thermus neutrinimicus sp. nov., Thermus thalpophilus sp. nov., Thermus albus sp. nov., and Thermus altitudinis sp. nov., isolated from hot spring sediments.	Li MM, Lv AP, Zhao ZY, Xian WD, Lian ZH, OuYang YT, Ming H, Tan S, Jiao JY, Zhou EM, Liu L, Li WJ	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/j.syapm.2022.126361	2022	*

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 )

#43463

Inam Ullah Khan, Neeli Habib, Firasat Hussain, Wen-Dong Xian, Arshia Amin, En-Min Zhou, ftikhar Ahmed, Xiao-Yang Zhi, Wen-Jun Li: Thermus caldifontis sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring. IJSEM 67: 2868 - 2872 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002037 , PubMed 28853682 )

#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) .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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