Oceanithermus desulfurans (DSM 15757, NBRC 100063, St55B)

Name: Oceanithermus desulfurans (DSM 15757, NBRC 100063, St55B)
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BacDive ID 16713

Type strain

Strain Designation St55B

Culture col. no. DSM 15757 NBRC 100063 St55B

NCBI tax ID(s) 1227550 227924

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- K. Mori, Natl. Inst. of Technol. and Evaluation (NITE), Japan; St55B

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Oceanithermus desulfurans St55B is a bacterium that was isolated from chimney in the Suiyo Seamount in the Izu-Bonin Arc .

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 134302

DSM 15757,NBRC 100063

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Deinococcota

Class Deinococci

Order Thermales

Family Thermaceae

Genus Oceanithermus

Species Oceanithermus desulfurans

Full scientific name Oceanithermus desulfurans Mori et al. 2004

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6101	OCEANITHERMUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1149)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: OCEANITHERMUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1149) Composition: NaCl 20.0 g/l Yeast extract 2.0 g/l NaNO3 1.7 g/l K2HPO4 0.78 g/l KH2PO4 0.75 g/l NH4Cl 0.53 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.36 g/l Na2SO4 0.14 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.128 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.1 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.0135 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0012 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.001 g/l ZnCl2 0.001 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 0.00026 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 0.00025 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.00024 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00024 g/l H3BO3 0.0001 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.0001 g/l D-Calcium pantothenate 5e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 5e-05 g/l Riboflavin 5e-05 g/l Lipoic acid 5e-05 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 5e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 5e-05 g/l Folic acid 2e-05 g/l Biotin 2e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 1e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6101	positive	growth	60

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	91.4

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		90.9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6101	chimney in the Suiyo Seamount (at a depth of 1390 m) in the Izu-Bonin Arc (28° 34' N 140° 39' E)	Western Pacific	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB107956 (>99% sequence identity) for Oceanithermus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	157
Soil Samples	55
Animal Samples	25
Plant Samples
Total Samples	237

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6101	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	ASM1420167v1 assembly for Oceanithermus desulfurans DSM 15757	contig	GCA_014201675	227924.3	2861248673	227924	74.73
66792	ASM799101v1 assembly for Oceanithermus desulfurans NBRC 100063	contig	GCA_007991015	1227550.3		1227550	70.17

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6101	Oceanithermus desulfurans gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB107956	1383		1227550

GC content

6101

GC-content (mol%)71.1

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Oceanithermus desulfurans NBRC 100063
NCBI: GCA_007991015

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	90.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	65.10	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	85.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	91.40	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Oceanithermus desulfurans NBRC 100063
PATRIC: 1227550.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	72.14	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	73.04	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	75.48	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	54.64	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	53.86	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	79.87	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Oceanithermus desulfurans sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, sulfur-reducing bacterium isolated from a sulfide chimney in Suiyo Seamount.	Mori K, Kakegawa T, Higashi Y, Nakamura KI, Maruyama A, Hanada S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02962-0	2004

References

#6101	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15757
#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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Oceanithermus desulfurans (DSM 15757, NBRC 100063, St55B)

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_014201675

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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