Name: Palaeococcus ferrophilus DMJ
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16852

Type strain:

Species: Palaeococcus ferrophilus

Strain Designation: DMJ

Culture col. no.: DSM 13482, JCM 10417, ATCC BAA-128

Strain history: K. Takai strain DMJ.

NCBI tax ID(s): 588319 (strain), 83868 (species)

SI-ID 49475

DSM 13482, JCM 10417, ATCC BAA-128

Section

Palaeococcus ferrophilus DMJ is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney, 1338 m depth.

anaerobe
hyperthermophilic
16S sequence
Archaea
genome sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	*Thermococci*
	Order	*Thermococcales*
	Family	*Thermococcaceae*
	Genus	*Palaeococcus*
	Species	**Palaeococcus ferrophilus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Palaeococcus ferrophilus Takai et al. 2000

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

PALAEOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 377a)

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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

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #5059]			growth	80 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	80 °C

[Ref.: #5059]	Temperature range	hyperthermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	hyperthermophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

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

[Ref.: #5059]	Sample type/isolated from	deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney, 1338 m depth
[Ref.: #5059]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Ogasawara-Bonin Arc
[Ref.: #5059]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #5059]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #5059]	Continent	Asia

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Myojin Knoll, Okinawa Trough
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

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

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AB019239 (>99% sequence identity) for Palaeococcus ferrophilus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	12
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	12

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.: #5059]	Palaeococcus ferriphilus gene for small subunit rRNA, partial sequence	AB019239	1409	ENA	588319 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Palaeococcus ferrophilus DSM 13482	GCA_000966265	contig	GenBank	588319 tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Palaeococcus ferrophilus DMJ, DSM 13482	2501025505	draft	JGI IMG/M	588319 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Palaeococcus ferrophilus DSM 13482	588319.9	wgs	PATRIC	588319 tax ID	*

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GC-content

53.5 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 13482, JCM 10417, ATCC BAA-128

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SI-ID 49475

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Palaeococcus ferrophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney.	Takai K, Sugai A, Itoh T, Horikoshi K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-50-2-489	2000	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 13482

#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) .

#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 .

#85861

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-ID49475.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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