Name: Thermococcus alcaliphilus AEDII12
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16867

Type strain:

Species: Thermococcus alcaliphilus

Strain Designation: AEDII12

Culture col. no.: DSM 10322

Strain history: <- M. Keller and K. O. Stetter; AEDII12

NCBI tax ID(s): 139207 (species)

SI-ID 101005

DSM 10322

Section

Thermococcus alcaliphilus AEDII12 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from shallow marine hydrothermal system at Vulcano.

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	*Thermococcus*
	Species	**Thermococcus alcaliphilus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thermococcus alcaliphilus Keller et al. 1997

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

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Culture medium

ALKALIPHILIC THERMOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 926)

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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.: #3906]			growth	85 °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.: #3906]	Sample type/isolated from	shallow marine hydrothermal system at Vulcano
[Ref.: #3906]	Country	Italy
[Ref.: #3906]	Country ISO 3 Code	ITA
[Ref.: #3906]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Volcanic
#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

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus alcaliphilus gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain:DSM 10322	AB055121	1420	ENA	139207 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus alcaliphilus 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM 10322 Type	AJ291812	1306	ENA	139207 tax ID	*

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermococcus alcaliphilus AEDII12	GCA_024054535	contig	GenBank	139207 tax ID	*

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GC-content

42 mol%

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Thermococcus alcaliphilus AEDII12 NCBI: GCA_024054535.1
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	95.591	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	95.27	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	yes	98.772	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	97.569	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	65.457	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	96.295	no
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	77.741	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	64.431	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	100	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	81.506	no

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Culture collection no.

DSM 10322

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SI-ID 101005

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermococcus alcaliphilus sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeum growing on polysulfide at alkaline pH.	Keller M, Braun FJ, Dirmeier R, Hafenbradl D, Burggraf S, Rachel R, Stetter KO	Arch Microbiol		1995	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 10322

#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 )

#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) .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#85875

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-ID101005.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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