Name: Pyrococcus furiosus P3
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16855

Type strain:

Species: Pyrococcus furiosus

Strain Designation: P3

Culture col. no.: DSM 12594

Strain history: <- M. Thomm, Univ. Kiel, Germany; P3 <- H. Arab and M. Thomm {1997}

NCBI tax ID(s): 2261 (species)

SI-ID 406013

DSM 12594

Other strains from Pyrococcus furiosus

P. furiosus Vc 1, DSM 3638, ATCC 43587, JCM ... (type strain)

Section

Pyrococcus furiosus P3 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from shallow, marine hydrothermal vent.

anaerobe
hyperthermophilic
Archaea

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	*Pyrococcus*
	Species	**Pyrococcus furiosus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Pyrococcus furiosus Fiala and Stetter 1986

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

STETTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 795)

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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.: #4690]			growth	90 °C

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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.: #4690]	Sample type/isolated from	shallow, marine hydrothermal vent
[Ref.: #4690]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Milos, Palaeochori Bay
[Ref.: #4690]	Country	Greece
[Ref.: #4690]	Country ISO 3 Code	GRC
[Ref.: #4690]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#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

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GC-content

42.0 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 12594

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SI-ID 406013

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12594

#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 )

#85864

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-ID406013.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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