Thermococcus coalescens (DSM 16538, JCM 12540, TS1)

Name: Thermococcus coalescens (DSM 16538, JCM 12540, TS1)
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BacDive ID 16886

Type strain

Strain Designation TS1

Culture col. no. DSM 16538 JCM 12540 TS1

NCBI tax ID(s) 227597

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- T. Kuwabara, Graduate School Life and Environmental Sci., Univ. Tsukuba; TS1 T. Kuwabara TS1.

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Thermococcus coalescens TS1 is an archaeon that was isolated from hydrothermal vent fluid.

16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 281470

DSM 16538,JCM 12540

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:22:05

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Thermococci

Order Thermococcales

Family Thermococcaceae

Genus Thermococcus

Species Thermococcus coalescens

Full scientific name Thermococcus coalescens Kuwabara et al. 2005

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6476	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)
6476	positive	growth	90
67770	positive	growth	85

Physiology and metabolism

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	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
6476	hydrothermal vent fluid	Suiyo Seamount (28° 34' 17'' N 140° 38' 38'' E) at a depth of 1380 m	Japan	JPN	Asia	28.5714	140.644 28.5714/140.644
67770	Hydrothermal fluid from Suiyo Seamount	Izu-Bonin Arc	Pacific Ocean

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6476	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6476	Thermococcus coalescens gene for 16S rRNA	AB107767	1489		227597

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
6476	53.9
67770	53.9	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermococcus coalescens sp. nov., a cell-fusing hyperthermophilic archaeon from Suiyo Seamount.	Kuwabara T, Minaba M, Iwayama Y, Inouye I, Nakashima M, Marumo K, Maruyama A, Sugai A, Itoh T, Ishibashi JI, Urabe T, Kamekura M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63432-0	2005

References

#6476	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16538
#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;
#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 coalescens (DSM 16538, JCM 12540, TS1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

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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