Thermococcus fumicolans (DSM 12820, CIP 104690, JCM 10128)

Name: Thermococcus fumicolans (DSM 12820, CIP 104690, JCM 10128)
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BacDive ID 16879

Type strain

Strain Designation ST557

Culture col. no. DSM 12820 CIP 104690 JCM 10128 ST557

NCBI tax ID(s) 46540

Special Collections DSMZ JCM CIP

History <- JCM <- CIP <- A. Godfroy (the strain designation CIP 104680 appears to be a printing error) CIP 104690 <-- A. Godfroy ST557.

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Thermococcus fumicolans ST557 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent.

anaerobe hyperthermophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49368

DSM 12820,CIP 104690,JCM 10128

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:50:57

Domain Methanobacteriati

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Thermococci

Order Thermococcales

Family Thermococcaceae

Genus Thermococcus

Species Thermococcus fumicolans

Full scientific name Thermococcus fumicolans Godfroy and Meunier 1996

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4835	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)	Range
4835	positive	growth	85	hyperthermophilic
67770	positive	growth	85	hyperthermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

4835

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

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

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4835	deep-sea hydrothermal vent	North Fiji Basin	Fiji	FJI	Australia and Oceania
67770	Deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the Northern Fiji Basin

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4835	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Thermococcus fumicolans gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain:JCM 10128	AB055122	1422	46540
20218	Thermococcus fumicolans gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain:ST557	AB055128	1422	46540
20218	Thermococcus fumicolans strain ST557 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer region, complete sequence	AY099212	183	46540
4835	T.fumicolans 16S ribosomal RNA	Z70250	1309	46540
4835	Thermococcus fumicolans strain ST557 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY099176	1441	46540

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4835	54	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
4835	55	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermococcus fumicolans sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the north Fiji Basin.	Godfroy A, Meunier JR, Guezennec J, Lesongeur F, Raguenes G, Rimbault A, Barbier G	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-46-4-1113	1996

References

#4835	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12820
#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;
#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 fumicolans (DSM 12820, CIP 104690, JCM 10128)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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