Vulcanithermus mediatlanticus (DSM 14978, TR, VKM B-2292)

Name: Vulcanithermus mediatlanticus (DSM 14978, TR, VKM B-2292)
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BacDive ID 16734

Type strain

Strain Designation TR

Culture col. no. DSM 14978 TR VKM B-2292 JCM 11956

NCBI tax ID(s) 947034 206045

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- M. L. Miroshnichenko; TR M. Miroshnichenko strain TR.

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Vulcanithermus mediatlanticus TR is a microaerophile bacterium that was isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent.

microaerophile 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 111796

JCM 11956,DSM 14978,VKM B-2292

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Deinococcota

Class Deinococci

Order Thermales

Family Thermaceae

Genus Vulcanithermus

Species Vulcanithermus mediatlanticus

Full scientific name Vulcanithermus mediatlanticus Miroshnichenko et al. 2003

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5649	VULCANITHERMUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 977)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: VULCANITHERMUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 977) Composition: PIPES 3.6 g/l Tryptone 1.0 g/l Sucrose 1.0 g/l Yeast extract 0.5 g/l NH4Cl 0.33 g/l KCl 0.33 g/l KNO3 0.33 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.33 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.003 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0015 g/l NaCl 0.001 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.0005 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00018 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00018 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0001 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0001 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 3e-05 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 2e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 1e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 1e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 1e-05 g/l H3BO3 1e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 5e-06 g/l Riboflavin 5e-06 g/l Thiamine HCl 5e-06 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 5e-06 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 5e-06 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 5e-06 g/l Folic acid 2e-06 g/l Biotin 2e-06 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 4e-07 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 3e-07 g/l Vitamin B12 1e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5649	positive	growth	65
67770	positive	growth	70

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

5649

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-8

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Latitude	Longitude
5649	deep-sea hydrothermal vent	Mid-Atlantic Ridge (36°16'N, 33°54'W)	36.2667	-33.9 36.2667/-33.9
67770	Deep-sea hydrothermal chimney at the Rainbow vent field on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ507298 (>99% sequence identity) for Vulcanithermus mediatlanticus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	62
Soil Samples	25
Animal Samples	14
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	103

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5649	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Vulcanithermus medioatlanticus 16S rRNA gene, type strain TR	AJ507298	1481		947034

GC content

5649

GC-content (mol%)68.4

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Vulcanithermus mediatlanticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Thermaceae from a deep-sea hot vent.	Miroshnichenko ML, L'Haridon S, Nercessian O, Antipov AN, Kostrikina NA, Tindall BJ, Schumann P, Spring S, Stackebrandt E, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Jeanthon C	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02579-0	2003

References

#5649	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14978
#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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#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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Vulcanithermus mediatlanticus (DSM 14978, TR, VKM B-2292)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Observation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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