Meiothermus cerbereus (DSM 11376, GY-1)

Name: Meiothermus cerbereus (DSM 11376, GY-1)
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BacDive ID 16701

Type strain

Strain Designation GY-1

Culture col. no. DSM 11376 GY-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1122221 65552

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- M.S. da Costa, GY-1

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Meiothermus cerbereus GY-1 is a bacterium that was isolated from hot springs.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49088

DSM 11376,BCRC 17421,CCRC 17421

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:28:50

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Deinococcota

Class Deinococci

Order Thermales

Family Thermaceae

Genus Meiothermus

Species Meiothermus cerbereus

Full scientific name Meiothermus cerbereus Chung et al. 1997

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Meiothermus cerbereus** (1)	Type strain
16702	M. cerbereus GY-5, DSM 11377

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4317	CASTENHOLZ MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 86)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CASTENHOLZ MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 86; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Tryptone 1.0 g/l NaNO3 0.689 g/l Na2HPO4 x 2 H2O 0.14 g/l KNO3 0.103 g/l Sodium thiosulphate 0.1 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.1 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.1 g/l CaSO4 x 2 H2O 0.06 g/l NaCl 0.008 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.0022 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0005 g/l H3BO3 0.0005 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.00047 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 4.6e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 2.5e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 2.5e-05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4317	positive	growth	50

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	facultative anaerobe	94.486

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		94.872

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4317	hot springs	Geysir area	Iceland	ISL	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence Y13594 (>99% sequence identity) for Meiothermus cerbereus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	370
Soil Samples	19
Animal Samples	460
Plant Samples	5
Total Samples	854

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4317	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
66792	ASM62006v1 assembly for Meiothermus cerbereus DSM 11376	scaffold	GCA_000620065	1122221.3	2556921013	1122221	66.41

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4317	Meiothermus cerbereus 16S rRNA gene, strain GY-1T, partial	Y13594	1436		65552

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM62006v1 assembly for Meiothermus cerbereus DSM 11376
NCBI: GCA_000620065

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	94.49	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	87.36	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	94.87	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	41.98	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Meiothermus cerbereus DSM 11376 DSM 11376
NCBI: GCA_000620065.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	72.30	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	87.66	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	77.84	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	78.20	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	65.71	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	76.23	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Genomics-based identification of a cold adapted clade in Deinococcus.	Shen L, Hu J, Zhang L, Wu Z, Chen L, Adhikari NP, Ji M, Chen S, Peng F, Liu Y.	BMC Biol	10.1186/s12915-024-01944-8	2024
Enzymology	Thermophilic bacteria are potential sources of novel Rieske non-heme iron oxygenases.	Chakraborty J, Suzuki-Minakuchi C, Okada K, Nojiri H.	AMB Express	10.1186/s13568-016-0318-5	2017
Phylogeny	Meiothermus cerbereus sp. nov., a new slightly thermophilic species with high levels of 3-hydroxy fatty acids.	Chung AP, Rainey F, Nobre MF, Burghardt J, da Costa MS	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-47-4-1225	1997

References

#4317	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11376
#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 )
#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) .
#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 .
#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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Meiothermus cerbereus (DSM 11376, GY-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000620065

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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