Name: Thermococcus atlanticus MA898
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16882

Type strain:

Species: Thermococcus atlanticus

Strain Designation: MA898

Culture col. no.: DSM 15226, CIP 107420, JCM 16138

Strain history: M.-A. Cambon-Bonavita MA898.

NCBI tax ID(s): 155321 (species)

SI-ID 134310

CIP 107420, DSM 15226, JCM 16138

Special Collections

Section

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

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 atlanticus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thermococcus atlanticus Cambon-Bonavita et al. 2004

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

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #5766]			growth	85 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	85 °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.: #5766]	Sample type/isolated from	hydrothermal sample, Blacksmoker
[Ref.: #5766]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Mid Atlantic Ridge, TAG (26°N)

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Deep-sea hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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Isolation sources categories

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

What are isolation sources categories?

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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

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.: #5766]	Thermococcus atlantis 16S rRNA gene, strain MA898	AJ310754	1844	GenBank ENA	155321 tax ID

[Ref.: #5766]	GC-content	50 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	50 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 15226, CIP 107420, JCM 16138

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SI-ID 134310

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

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15226

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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;

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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 .

#85890

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-ID134310.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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