Thermococcus thioreducens (DSM 14981, ATCC BAA-394, JCM 12859)

Name: Thermococcus thioreducens (DSM 14981, ATCC BAA-394, JCM 12859)
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BacDive ID 16881

Type strain

Strain Designation OGL-20P

Culture col. no. DSM 14981 ATCC BAA-394 JCM 12859 OGL-20P

NCBI tax ID(s) 277988

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

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Thermococcus thioreducens OGL-20P is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from deep-sea black smoker chimney debris in sediment mud at the Rainbow hydrothermal vent site at a depth of 2300 m.

anaerobe hyperthermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 309513

ATCC BAA-394,DSM 14981,JCM 12859

@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 thioreducens

Full scientific name Thermococcus thioreducens Pikuta et al. 2007

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	95.6

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5651	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
5651	positive	growth	84	hyperthermophilic
67770	positive	growth	82	hyperthermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
5651	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		95.4

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Mud (Sludge)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Latitude	Longitude
5651	deep-sea black smoker chimney debris in sediment mud at the Rainbow hydrothermal vent site at a depth of 2300 m	Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Azores (Mid-Atlantic Ridge 36.2° N 33.9° W)	36.2	-33.9 36.2/-33.9
67770	Black smoker chimney material from the Rainbow hydrothermal vent site on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF394925 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	9
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	9

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5651	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	ASM221454v1 assembly for Thermococcus thioreducens OGL-20P	complete	GCA_002214545	277988.6	2773858064	277988	98.65
66792	IMG-taxon 2654588132 annotated assembly for Thermococcus thioreducens OGL-20P	scaffold	GCA_900109425	277988.5	2654588132	277988	77.96
66792	ASM141871v1 assembly for Thermococcus thioreducens DSM 14981	contig	GCA_001418715	277988.4	2681813416	277988	67.38

Genome browser: GCA_002214545

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5651	Thermococcus thioreducens 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; intergenic spacer and tRNA-Ala gene, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF394925	1885		277988

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
5651	52.9	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: Thermococcus thioreducens OGL-20P
NCBI: GCA_002214545

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	95.40	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	73.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	95.60	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Thermococcus thioreducens OGL-20P
NCBI: GCA_002214545.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	67.73	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	85.90	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	86.72	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	86.77	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	78.43	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	78.46	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Draft genome sequence of sulfur-reducing archaeon Thermococcus thioreducens DSM 14981(T).	Hong SJ, Park CE, Park GS, Kim MC, Jung BK, Shin JH	Braz J Microbiol	10.1016/j.bjm.2016.04.031	2016
Phylogeny	Backbone 1H, 15N, and 13C resonance assignments and secondary structure of a novel protein OGL-20P(T)-358 from hyperthermophile Thermococcus thioreducens sp. nov.	Wilson R, Hughes R, Curto E, Ng J, Twigg P	Mol Cells	1152	2007
Phylogeny	Thermococcus thioreducens sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic, obligately sulfur-reducing archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent.	Pikuta EV, Marsic D, Itoh T, Bej AK, Tang J, Whitman WB, Ng JD, Garriott OK, Hoover RB	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65057-0	2007

References

#5651	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14981
#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 thioreducens (DSM 14981, ATCC BAA-394, JCM 12859)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell 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_002214545

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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