Thermococcus atlanticus (DSM 15226, CIP 107420, MA898)

Name: Thermococcus atlanticus (DSM 15226, CIP 107420, MA898)
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BacDive ID 16882

Type strain

Strain Designation MA898

Culture col. no. DSM 15226 CIP 107420 MA898 JCM 16138

NCBI tax ID(s) 155321

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Thermococcus atlanticus MA898 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from hydrothermal sample, Blacksmoker.

anaerobe hyperthermophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 134310

CIP 107420,DSM 15226,JCM 16138

@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 atlanticus

Full scientific name Thermococcus atlanticus Cambon-Bonavita et al. 2004

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5766	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
5766	positive	growth	85	hyperthermophilic
67770	positive	growth	85	hyperthermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

5766

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

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
5766	hydrothermal sample, Blacksmoker	Mid Atlantic Ridge, TAG (26°N)
67770	Deep-sea hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ310754 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	6
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	6

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5766	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5766	Thermococcus atlantis 16S rRNA gene, strain MA898	AJ310754	1844		155321

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)
5766	50
67770	50

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermococcus atlanticus sp nov., a hyperthermophilic Archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge [corrected].	Cambon-Bonavita MA, Lesongeur F, Pignet P, Wery N, Lambert C, Godfroy A, Querellou J, Barbier G	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-002-0301-8	2002

References

#5766	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15226
#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 )
#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 .
#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 atlanticus (DSM 15226, CIP 107420, MA898)

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

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

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