Sulfuracidifex metallicus (DSM 6482, Kra 23, JCM 9184)

Name: Sulfuracidifex metallicus (DSM 6482, Kra 23, JCM 9184)
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BacDive ID 16655

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 6482 Kra 23 JCM 9184 NBRC 15436 IFO 15436

NCBI tax ID(s) 47303

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

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Sulfuracidifex metallicus DSM 6482 is a thermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from solfataric field.

thermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 48214

DSM 6482,JCM 9184,IFO 15436,NBRC 15436

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:50:54

Domain Thermoproteati

Phylum Thermoproteota

Class Thermoprotei

Order Sulfolobales

Family Sulfolobaceae

Genus Sulfuracidifex

Species Sulfuracidifex metallicus

Full scientific name Sulfuracidifex metallicus (Huber and Stetter 1992) Itoh et al. 2020

Synonyms (1)

Sulfolobus metallicus

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
2693	SULFOLOBUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 88)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SULFOLOBUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 88; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Sulfur powder 4.9505 g/l (NH4)2SO4 1.28713 g/l KH2PO4 0.277228 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.247525 g/l Yeast extract 0.19802 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0693069 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.019802 g/l Na2B4O7 x 10 H2O 0.00445545 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00178218 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000217822 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 4.95049e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 2.9703e-05 g/l VOSO4 x 2 H2O 2.9703e-05 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 9.90099e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
2693	positive	growth	65	thermophilic
67770	positive	growth	65	thermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Volcanic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
2693	solfataric field	Krafla area	Iceland	ISL	Europe
67770	Solfatara in Krafla		Iceland	ISL	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
2693	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	ASM972951v1 assembly for Sulfuracidifex metallicus DSM 6482 = JCM 9184	contig	GCA_009729515	523847.9	8062131675	523847	76.78
124043	ASM3283487v1 assembly for Sulfuracidifex metallicus DSM 6482 = JCM 9184	complete	GCA_032834875			523847	69.35
67770	ASM131604v1 assembly for Sulfuracidifex metallicus DSM 6482 = JCM 9184	contig	GCA_001316045	523847.5	2681813032	523847	12.59

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Sulfuracidifex metallicus 16S rRNA gene, almost full-length sequence	D85519	1433		523847
2693	S.metallicus DNA for 16S ribosomal RNA gene	X90479	1395		523847

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
2693	38.0
67770	37	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
67770	38	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Sulfuracidifex metallicus DSM 6482 = JCM 9184
NCBI: GCA_001316045

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	66.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	53.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	72.50	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	87.60	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Chalcopyrite bioleaching efficacy by extremely thermoacidophilic archaea leverages balanced iron and sulfur biooxidation.	Manesh MJH, Willard DJ, John KM, Kelly RM.	Bioresour Technol	10.1016/j.biortech.2024.131198	2024
Genetics	Phenotype-driven assessment of the ancestral trajectory of sulfur biooxidation in the thermoacidophilic archaea Sulfolobaceae.	Willard DJ, H Manesh MJ, Bing RG, Alexander BH, Kelly RM.	mBio	10.1128/mbio.01033-24	2024
	Genome Sequences of Five Type Strain Members of the Archaeal Family Sulfolobaceae, Acidianus ambivalens, Acidianus infernus, Stygiolobus azoricus, Sulfuracidifex metallicus, and Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis.	Counts JA, Vitko NP, Kelly RM.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.01490-19	2020
	Fluorescence Lectin Bar-Coding of Glycoconjugates in the Extracellular Matrix of Biofilm and Bioaggregate Forming Microorganisms.	Neu TR, Kuhlicke U.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms5010005	2017
	The biology of thermoacidophilic archaea from the order Sulfolobales.	Lewis AM, Recalde A, Brasen C, Counts JA, Nussbaum P, Bost J, Schocke L, Shen L, Willard DJ, Quax TEF, Peeters E, Siebers B, Albers SV, Kelly RM.	FEMS Microbiol Rev	10.1093/femsre/fuaa063	2021
Pathogenicity	Molecular characterization of copper and cadmium resistance determinants in the biomining thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus metallicus.	Orell A, Remonsellez F, Arancibia R, Jerez CA.	Archaea	10.1155/2013/289236	2013
Enzymology	Highly stable L-lysine 6-dehydrogenase from the thermophile Geobacillus stearothermophilus isolated from a Japanese hot spring: characterization, gene cloning and sequencing, and expression.	Heydari M, Ohshima T, Nunoura-Kominato N, Sakuraba H.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.70.2.937-942.2004	2004
Phylogeny	Diversity, abundance, and activity of archaeal populations in oil-contaminated groundwater accumulated at the bottom of an underground crude oil storage cavity.	Watanabe K, Kodama Y, Hamamura N, Kaku N.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.68.8.3899-3907.2002	2002
Metabolism	Presence of acetyl coenzyme A (CoA) carboxylase and propionyl-CoA carboxylase in autotrophic Crenarchaeota and indication for operation of a 3-hydroxypropionate cycle in autotrophic carbon fixation.	Menendez C, Bauer Z, Huber H, Gad'on N, Stetter KO, Fuchs G.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.181.4.1088-1098.1999	1999
Metabolism	Use of lectins to in situ visualize glycoconjugates of extracellular polymeric substances in acidophilic archaeal biofilms.	Zhang RY, Neu TR, Bellenberg S, Kuhlicke U, Sand W, Vera M	Microb Biotechnol	10.1111/1751-7915.12188	2014
Metabolism	Biofilm formation and interspecies interactions in mixed cultures of thermo-acidophilic archaea Acidianus spp. and Sulfolobus metallicus.	Castro C, Zhang R, Liu J, Bellenberg S, Neu TR, Donati E, Sand W, Vera M	Res Microbiol	10.1016/j.resmic.2016.06.005	2016
Metabolism	Visualization and analysis of EPS glycoconjugates of the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus metallicus.	Zhang R, Neu TR, Zhang Y, Bellenberg S, Kuhlicke U, Li Q, Sand W, Vera M	Appl Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1007/s00253-015-6775-y	2015
Phylogeny	Sulfuracidifex tepidarius gen. nov., sp. nov. and transfer of Sulfolobus metallicus Huber and Stetter 1992 to the genus Sulfuracidifex as Sulfuracidifex metallicus comb. nov.	Itoh T, Miura T, Sakai HD, Kato S, Ohkuma M, Takashina T	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003981	2020

References

#2693	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 6482
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Sulfuracidifex metallicus (DSM 6482, Kra 23, JCM 9184)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_009729515

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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