Name: Meiothermus rufus CAL-4
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16708

Type strain:

Species: Meiothermus rufus

Strain Designation: CAL-4

Culture col. no.: DSM 22234, LMG 24878

Strain history: <- M. da Costa, Univ. Coimbra, Portugal <- L. Albuquerque; CAL-4

NCBI tax ID(s): 604331 (strain), 604332 (species)

SI-ID 360702

LMG 24878, DSM 22234, NBRC 107809

Other strains from Meiothermus rufus

M. rufus CAL-12, DSM 22235, LMG 24879

Section

Meiothermus rufus CAL-4 is a thermophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from water from a hot spring.

Gram-negative
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 rufus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Meiothermus rufus Albuquerque et al. 2010

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.777

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MODIFIED THERMUS 162 MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 630)

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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

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Culture medium

THERMUS 162 MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 878)

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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.: #16217]			growth	55 °C

[Ref.: #16217]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #69480]	Temperature range	thermophilic Confidence in %99.605

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %100
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %99.986

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

[Ref.: #16217]	Sample type/isolated from	water from a hot spring
[Ref.: #16217]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Auvergne, Chaudes-Aigues hydrothermal area, Lavoire fountain
[Ref.: #16217]	Country	France
[Ref.: #16217]	Country ISO 3 Code	FRA
[Ref.: #16217]	Continent	Europe
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

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

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence FN178496 (>99% sequence identity) for Meiothermus rufus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	92
Soil Samples	7
Animal Samples	5
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	105

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.: #16217]	Meiothermus rufus DSM 22234 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain CAL-4	FN178496	1487	ENA	604331 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Meiothermus rufus DSM 22234	GCA_000423425	scaffold	GenBank	604331 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Meiothermus rufus DSM 22234	604331.3	wgs	PATRIC	604331 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Meiothermus rufus DSM 22234	2522572180	draft	JGI IMG/M	604331 tax ID	*

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GC-content

64.1±0.4 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

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

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Meiothermus rufus DSM 22234 DSM 22234 NCBI: GCA_000423425.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	100	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Meiothermus rufus DSM 22234 DSM 22234 NCBI: GCA_000423425.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	86.994	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	96.191	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	93.24	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	96.416	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	88.11	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	86.456	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	95.801	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	100	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	84.212	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	89.038	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 22234, LMG 24878

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SI-ID 360702

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Meiothermus rufus sp. nov., a new slightly thermophilic red-pigmented species and emended description of the genus Meiothermus.	Albuquerque L, Ferreira C, Tomaz D, Tiago I, Verissimo A, da Costa MS, Nobre MF	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/j.syapm.2009.05.002	2009	*

References

#16217

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22234

#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 .

#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) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#85727

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-ID360702.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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