Name: Thermococcus aegaeus BK17S6-3-b2
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16876

Type strain:

Species: Thermococcus aegaeus

Strain Designation: BK17S6-3-b2, P5

Culture col. no.: DSM 12767, JCM 10828

Strain history: M. Thomm P5.

NCBI tax ID(s): 84597 (species)

SI-ID 101004

DSM 12767, JCM 10828

Special Collections

DSMZ
JCM

Section

Thermococcus aegaeus BK17S6-3-b2 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from marine hydrothermal vent.

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 aegaeus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thermococcus aegaeus corrig. Arab et al. 2000

Synonym

Thermococcus aegaeicus

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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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #4809]			growth	88-90 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	90 °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.: #4809]	Sample type/isolated from	marine hydrothermal vent
[Ref.: #4809]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Aegean See, Palaeochori Bay, Milos
[Ref.: #4809]	Country	Greece
[Ref.: #4809]	Country ISO 3 Code	GRC
[Ref.: #4809]	Continent	Europe

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Sediment of Palaeochori Bay
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Milos
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Greece
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	GRC
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Europe
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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 AY099171 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	34
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	35

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 aegaeus strain DSM 12767 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY099171	1453	GenBank ENA	84597 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus aegaeus strain DSM 12767 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer region, complete sequence	AY099207	185	GenBank ENA	84597 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus aegeaicus (isolate P5) 16S rRNA gene, partial	AJ012643	1325	GenBank ENA	84597 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #4809]	GC-content	45 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	45.5 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 12767, JCM 10828

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SI-ID 101004

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermococcus aegaeicus sp. nov. and Staphylothermus hellenicus sp. nov., two novel hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from geothermally heated vents off Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece.	Arab H, Volker H, Thomm M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-50-6-2101	2000	*

References

#4809

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12767

#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 )

#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 .

#85884

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-ID101004.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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