Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (JCM 3865)

Name: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (JCM 3865)
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BacDive ID 164861

Type strain

Culture col. no. JCM 3865

NCBI tax ID(s) 920

Special Collections JCM

History Y. Katayama THI135 <-- H. Kakuta.

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Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans JCM 3865 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Acid mine water of a mine at Shimokawa.

mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 64241

JCM 3865

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:39:58

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Acidithiobacillia

Order Acidithiobacillales

Family Acidithiobacillaceae

Genus Acidithiobacillus

Species Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans

Full scientific name Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (Temple and Colmer 1951) Kelly and Wood 2000

Synonyms (1)

Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans** (13)	Type strain
118	A. ferrooxidans TM, DSM 14882, ATCC 23270, NCIMB 8455 (type strain)
111	A. ferrooxidans DSM 583
112	A. ferrooxidans DSM 584
113	A. ferrooxidans DSM 585
114	A. ferrooxidans F221, DSM 1927
115	A. ferrooxidans N-Fe3, DSM 9464
116	A. ferrooxidans NFe-4, DSM 9465
117	A. ferrooxidans Tf18, DSM 11477
120	A. ferrooxidans SP5/1, DSM 24419, JCM 39165
130137	A. ferrooxidans R1, DSM 29444
162005	A. ferrooxidans JCM 17309
164860	A. ferrooxidans JCM 3863, ATCC 19859, BCRC 13033, NCIMB 9490
165617	A. ferrooxidans JCM 7812

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
67770	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-8

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
67770	Acid mine water of a mine at Shimokawa	Hokkaido	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FN686785 (>99% sequence identity) for Acidithiobacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	432
Soil Samples	127
Animal Samples	60
Plant Samples	27
Total Samples	646

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans partial 16S rRNA gene, strain JCM3865	FN686785	1412		920

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	57.4	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Anaerobic respiration using Fe(3+), S(0), and H(2) in the chemolithoautotrophic bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans.	Ohmura N, Sasaki K, Matsumoto N, Saiki H.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.184.8.2081-2087.2002	2002

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 )
#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 .
#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 ferrooxidans (JCM 3865)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

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