Acidithiobacillus ferrianus (DSM 107098, JCM 33084, MG)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrianus (DSM 107098, JCM 33084, MG)
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BacDive ID 160797

Type strain

Strain Designation MG

Culture col. no. DSM 107098 JCM 33084 MG

NCBI tax ID(s) 2678518

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Acidithiobacillus ferrianus MG is a facultative anaerobe, chemolithoautotroph, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from sediment of acidic pond.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped facultative anaerobe chemolithoautotroph mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 397534

JCM 33084,DSM 107098

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:08:35

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Acidithiobacillia

Order Acidithiobacillales

Family Acidithiobacillaceae

Genus Acidithiobacillus

Species Acidithiobacillus ferrianus

Full scientific name Acidithiobacillus ferrianus Norris et al. 2020

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement	Confidence
68324	negative	1.2-2.5 µm	rod-shaped		polar
125439	negative					97.2

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
67734	ACIDITHIOBACILLUS (APH) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 271)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDITHIOBACILLUS (APH) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 271) Composition: FeSO4 x 7 H2O 8.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 2.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l KCl 0.1 g/l Ca(NO3)2 x 4 H2O 0.02 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
67734	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
68324	positive	optimum	28-30	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
68324	positive	optimum	2	acidophile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

68324

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Nutrition type

68324

Typechemolithoautotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
68324
125439		98.2

Observation

@ref	Observation
68324	Forms ferric iron-stained colonies on acidic ferrous iron-containing solid media
68324	Coupling oxidation of ferrous iron, sulfur and hydrogen to reduction of molecular oxygen
68324	Oxidation of sulfur and hydrogen to reduction of ferric iron

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68324	18276 ChEBI	dihydrogen	+	electron donor
68324	33403 ChEBI	elemental sulfur	+	electron donor
68324	29034 ChEBI	ferric iron	+	electron donor
68324	15226 ChEBI	tetrathionate	-	growth

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

68324

Fatty acid	Percentage
C18:1 w7c/C18:1 w6c	24.1
C18:1 w7c	24.1
C16:1 w7c/C16:1 w6c/iso-C15:0 2OH	23.1
C16:0	17.6
C14:0 3OH/iso-C16:1	9
C12:0	5.7
C19:0 cyclo w8c	5.2
C18:1 2OH	3.3
C17:0 cyclo	3.1
C16:0 3OH	2.4
C16:0 2OH	2.1
C17:0	0.9
C18:0	0.8
C19:0 10-methyl	0.6
C17:1 w8c	0.4
C18:0 3OH	0.4
C14:0	0.4
C17:0 2OH	0.3
C18:1 w5c	0.2
Iso-C15:1 / C13:0 iso 3OH	0.2
C18:0 2OH	0.2

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture
67734	sediment of acidic pond	Milos, Kalamos, the western end Agia Kyriaki,	Greece	GRC	Europe
67770	Acidic pond sediment close to the geothermal site at Kalamos on the South coast of the island of Milos		Greece	GRC	Europe
68324	acidic pond close to the geothermal site	Kalamos, Milos	Greece	GRC	Europe	Phytagel-solidified medium containing 25 mM ferrous iron at pH 2

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	MG_v5 assembly for Acidithiobacillus ferrianus MG	complete	GCA_010378095	2678518.3	2895580592	2678518	96.06

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67734	Acidithiobacillus sp. strain Milos 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MG062778	1458		1872118
67770	Acidithiobacillus ferrianus strain MG 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MN733279	1541		2678518

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67734	58.2
68324	58.2	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Acidithiobacillus ferrianus MG
NCBI: GCA_010378095

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	68.10	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	97.20	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	86.90	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	RNA transcript response by an Acidithiobacillus spp. mixed culture reveals adaptations to growth on arsenopyrite.	Barragan CE, Marquez MA, Dopson M, Montoya D.	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-021-01217-0	2021
	Pangenome-level analysis of nucleoid-associated proteins in the Acidithiobacillia class: insights into their functional roles in mobile genetic elements biology.	Beard S, Moya-Beltran A, Silva-Garcia D, Valenzuela C, Perez-Acle T, Loyola A, Quatrini R.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1271138	2023
	Molecular Identification and Acid Stress Response of an Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans Strain Isolated from Rio Tinto (Spain).	Ibanez A, Barreiro C, Diez-Galan A, Cobos R, Calvo-Pena C, Coque JJR.	Int J Mol Sci	10.3390/ijms241713391	2023
Genetics	Genome sequencing and metabolic network reconstruction of a novel sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Acidithiobacillus Ameehan.	Wu P, Yuan Q, Cheng T, Han Y, Zhao W, Liao X, Wang L, Cai J, He Q, Guo Y, Zhang X, Lu F, Wang J, Ma H, Huang Z.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1277847	2023
	From Genes to Bioleaching: Unraveling Sulfur Metabolism in Acidithiobacillus Genus.	Ibanez A, Garrido-Chamorro S, Coque JJR, Barreiro C.	Genes (Basel)	10.3390/genes14091772	2023
Genetics	Genomic evolution of the class Acidithiobacillia: deep-branching Proteobacteria living in extreme acidic conditions.	Moya-Beltran A, Beard S, Rojas-Villalobos C, Issotta F, Gallardo Y, Ulloa R, Giaveno A, Degli Esposti M, Johnson DB, Quatrini R.	ISME J	10.1038/s41396-021-00995-x	2021
Phylogeny	Acidithiobacillus ferrianus sp. nov.: an ancestral extremely acidophilic and facultatively anaerobic chemolithoautotroph.	Norris PR, Falagan C, Moya-Beltran A, Castro M, Quatrini R, Johnson DB	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-020-01157-1	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 )
#67734	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 107098
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#68324	Paul R. Norris, Carmen Falagán, Ana Moya-Beltrán, Matías Castro, Raquel Quatrini & D. Barrie Johnson: Acidithiobacillus ferrianus sp. nov.: an ancestral extremely acidophilic and facultatively anaerobic chemolithoautotroph. Extremophiles 24: 329 - 337 2020 ( DOI 10.1007/s00792-020-01157-1 )
#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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Acidithiobacillus ferrianus (DSM 107098, JCM 33084, MG)

Name and taxonomic classification