Name: Thermococcus litoralis A3
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16863

Type strain:

Species: Thermococcus litoralis

Strain Designation: A3

Culture col. no.: DSM 5474

Strain history: <- A. Neuner, A3

NCBI tax ID(s): 2265 (species)

SI-ID 47932

DSM 5474

Special Collections

DSMZ

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Section

Thermococcus litoralis A3 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from shallow marine thermal spring.

anaerobe
16S sequence
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	*Thermococcus*
	Species	**Thermococcus litoralis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thermococcus litoralis Neuner et al. 2001

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MARINE THERMOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 760)

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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

THERMOCOCCUS LITORALIS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 623)

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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.: #2176]			growth	83 °C

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.: #2176]	Sample type/isolated from	shallow marine thermal spring
[Ref.: #2176]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Vulcano island
[Ref.: #2176]	Country	Italy
[Ref.: #2176]	Country ISO 3 Code	ITA
[Ref.: #2176]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

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

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AY099180 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	104
Soil Samples	4
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	108

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.: #2176]	Thermococcus litoralis partial 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM 5474	HG942392	1354	GenBank ENA	2265 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus litoralis strain DSM 5474 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY099180	1447	GenBank ENA	2265 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus litoralis strain DSM 5474 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer region, complete sequence	AY099216	183	GenBank ENA	2265 tax ID	*

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GC-content

40.0 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 5474

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SI-ID 47932

References

#2176

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 5474

#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 )

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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 .

#85871

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-ID47932.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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