Thermococcus aggregans (DSM 12819, JCM 10137, TY)

Name: Thermococcus aggregans (DSM 12819, JCM 10137, TY)
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BacDive ID 16874

Type strain

Strain Designation TY

Culture col. no. DSM 12819 JCM 10137 TY DSM 10597

NCBI tax ID(s) 110163

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- JCM <- F. Canganella JCM <-- F. Canganella TY.

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Thermococcus aggregans TY is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from hydrothermal vent site .

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49367

DSM 12819,JCM 10137,DSM 10597

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:28:53

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Thermococci

Order Thermococcales

Family Thermococcaceae

Genus Thermococcus

Species Thermococcus aggregans

Full scientific name Thermococcus aggregans Canganella et al. 1998

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4834	MARINE THERMOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 760)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MARINE THERMOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 760) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4834	positive	growth	85
67770	positive	growth	85

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
4834	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe	99.601

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		91.266

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

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

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4834	hydrothermal vent site (2000 m)	Gulf of California, Guaymas Basin	USA	USA	North America
67770	Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent	Gulf of California	Pacific Ocean

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence Y08384 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2
Soil Samples	0
Animal Samples	0
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	2

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4834	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2402299v1 assembly for Thermococcus aggregans TY	chromosome	GCA_024022995	110163.4	8057066893	110163	88.23

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4834	Thermococcus aggregans 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM 10597	Y08384	1301		110163

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4834	42	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
67770	42	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM2402299v1 assembly for Thermococcus aggregans TY
NCBI: GCA_024022995

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	60.14	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	66.73	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	82.80	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Thermococcus aggregans TY
NCBI: GCA_024022995.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	66.47	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	87.90	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	86.04	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	91.27	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	76.52	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	78.21	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Biotechnological applications of archaeal enzymes from extreme environments.	Cabrera MA, Blamey JM.	Biol Res	10.1186/s40659-018-0186-3	2018
Phylogeny	Thermococcus guaymasensis sp. nov. and Thermococcus aggregans sp. nov., two novel thermophilic archaea isolated from the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent site.	Canganella F, Jones WJ, Gambacorta A, Antranikian G	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-48-4-1181	1998

References

#4834	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12819
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Thermococcus aggregans (DSM 12819, JCM 10137, TY)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_024022995

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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