Calidithermus chliarophilus (DSM 9957, ALT-8)

Name: Calidithermus chliarophilus (DSM 9957, ALT-8)
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BacDive ID 16704

Type strain

Strain Designation ALT-8

Culture col. no. DSM 9957 ALT-8

NCBI tax ID(s) 926560 52023

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- M. S. Da Costa, University of Coimbra

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Calidithermus chliarophilus ALT-8 is a bacterium that was isolated from hot spring.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 43992

ATCC 700543,DSM 9957,NCIMB 13439,BCRC 17113,CCRC 17113,ATCC 770543

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:22:02

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Deinococcota

Class Deinococci

Order Thermales

Family Thermaceae

Genus Calidithermus

Species Calidithermus chliarophilus

Full scientific name Calidithermus chliarophilus (Tenreiro et al. 1995) Raposo et al. 2019

Synonyms (2)

Thermus chliarophilus
Meiothermus chliarophilus

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3765	CASTENHOLZ MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 86)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CASTENHOLZ MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 86) 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 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 H3BO3 0.0005 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 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)
3765	positive	growth	50

Physiology and metabolism

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
3765	hot spring	Alcafache	Portugal	PRT	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence X84212 (>99% sequence identity) for Calidithermus chliarophilus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	2
Plant Samples
Total Samples	2

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3765	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	ASM43004v1 assembly for Calidithermus chliarophilus DSM 9957	scaffold	GCA_000430045	926560.3	2510065032	926560	29.03

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	T.chliarophilus 16S rRNA gene	X84212	1421		52023

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Calidithermus chliarophilus DSM 9957
NCBI: GCA_000430045

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	80.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	54.10	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	73.60	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	75.20	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Calidithermus chliarophilus DSM 9957 DSM 9957
NCBI: GCA_000430045.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	68.77	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	91.30	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	76.38	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	67.74	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	58.84	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	76.42	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	F-and V-ATPases in the genus Thermus and related species.	Radax C, Sigurdsson O, Hreggvidsson GO, Aichinger N, Gruber C, Kristjansson JK, Stan-Lotter H	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/S0723-2020(98)80003-9	1998
Phylogeny	Meiothermus terrae sp. nov., isolated from a geothermally heated soil sample.	Yu TT, Yin YR, Zhang YG, Yao JC, Klenk HP, Wang HF, Ming H, Zhou EM, Li WJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.055392-0	2013
Phylogeny	Thermus silvanus sp. nov. and Thermus chliarophilus sp. nov., two new species related to thermus ruber but with lower growth temperatures.	Tenreiro S, Nobre MF, da Costa MS	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-45-4-633	1995

References

#3765	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 9957
#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 )
#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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Calidithermus chliarophilus (DSM 9957, ALT-8)

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

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000430045

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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