Name: Meiothermus taiwanensis WR-220
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16706

Type strain:

Species: Meiothermus taiwanensis

Strain Designation: WR-220

Culture col. no.: DSM 14543, ATCC BAA-400, CCRC 17171

Strain history: <- M.-Y. Chen; WR-220

NCBI tax ID(s): 172827 (species)

SI-ID 113541

DSM 14543, ATCC BAA-400, CCRC 17171, BCRC 17171

Other strains from Meiothermus taiwanensis

M. taiwanensis WR-30, DSM 14542, ATCC BAA-399, ... (type strain)

Section

Meiothermus taiwanensis WR-220 is a thermophilic bacterium that was isolated from hot springs.

thermophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Deinococcota*
	Class	*Deinococci*
	Order	*Thermales*
	Family	*Thermaceae*
	Genus	*Meiothermus*
	Species	**Meiothermus taiwanensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Meiothermus taiwanensis Chen et al. 2002

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MODIFIED CASTENHOLZ MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 86a)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #5381]			growth	55 °C

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Temperature range

thermophilic

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #5381]	Sample type/isolated from	hot springs
[Ref.: #5381]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Taipei, Wu-Rai
[Ref.: #5381]	Country	Taiwan
[Ref.: #5381]	Country ISO 3 Code	TWN
[Ref.: #5381]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

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

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #5381]	Meiothermus taiwanensis strain WR-220 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF418002	1482	ENA	172827 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Meiothermus taiwanensis WR-220	GCA_003568585	complete	GenBank	1339250 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Meiothermus taiwanensis WR-220	1339250.5	complete	PATRIC	1339250 tax ID	*

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GC-content

61.9 mol%

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Meiothermus taiwanensis WR-220 WR-220 NCBI: GCA_003568585.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	87.978	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	94.056	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	93.023	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	96.8	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	87.885	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	91.156	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	94.055	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	83.576	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	99.701	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	91.508	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 14543, ATCC BAA-400, CCRC 17171

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SI-ID 113541

Literature:

	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Enzymatic decolorization of melanoidins from molasses wastewater by immobilized keratinase.	Zhang Z, Li D, Zhang X	Bioresour Technol	10.1016/j.biortech.2019.02.049	2019	*
Enzymology	The discovery of novel heat-stable keratinases from Meiothermus taiwanensis WR-220 and other extremophiles.	Wu WL, Chen MY, Tu IF, Lin YC, EswarKumar N, Chen MY, Ho MC, Wu SH	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-017-04723-4	2017	*
Phylogeny	Meiothermus taiwanensis sp. nov., a novel filamentous, thermophilic species isolated in Taiwan.	Chen MY, Lin GH, Lin YT, Tsay SS	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-52-5-1647	2002	*
Metabolism	High-efficiency decomposition of eggshell membrane by a keratinase from Meiothermus taiwanensis.	Lien YC, Lai SJ, Lin CY, Wong KP, Chang MS, Wu SH	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-022-18474-4	2022	*
	Synergic action of an inserted carbohydrate-binding module in a glycoside hydrolase family 5 endoglucanase.	Ye TJ, Huang KF, Ko TP, Wu SH	Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol	10.1107/S2059798322002601	2022	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14543

#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 )

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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) .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#85725

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID113541.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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