Thermoplasma volcanium (DSM 4300, KD 3, JCM 9572)

Name: Thermoplasma volcanium (DSM 4300, KD 3, JCM 9572)
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BacDive ID 17019

Type strain

Strain Designation KD 3

Culture col. no. DSM 4300 KD 3 JCM 9572 IFO 15439 NBRC 15439

NCBI tax ID(s) 50339

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- A. Segerer and K.O. Stetter, KD 3 IFO 15439 <-- DSM 4300 <-- A. Segerer and K. O. Stetter KD3.

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Thermoplasma volcanium KD 3 is an archaeon that was isolated from acid continental solfatara.

Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47826

DSM 4300,JCM 9572,IFO 15439,NBRC 15439

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:22:06

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Thermoplasmata

Order Thermoplasmatales

Family Thermoplasmataceae

Genus Thermoplasma

Species Thermoplasma volcanium

Full scientific name Thermoplasma volcanium Segerer et al. 1988

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Thermoplasma volcanium** (2)	Type strain
17018	T. volcanium GSS 1, GSS1, DSM 4299, ATCC 51530, JCM 9571, ... (type strain)
17020	T. volcanium KO 2, DSM 4301

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1644	THERMOPLASMA VOLCANIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 398)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: THERMOPLASMA VOLCANIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 398) Composition: Glucose 5.0 g/l Sulfur 4.0 g/l KH2PO4 3.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 1.0 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.25 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.2 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1644	positive	growth	60
67770	positive	growth	60

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Volcanic
#Condition	#Acidic	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1644	acid continental solfatara	Java, Bandung, Kawa Domas	Indonesia	IDN	Asia
67770	Solfatara	Kawah Domas, Bandung	Indonesia	IDN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1644	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
1644	40.0
67770	40	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Structural insights into an equilibrium folding intermediate of an archaeal ankyrin repeat protein.	Low C, Weininger U, Neumann P, Klepsch M, Lilie H, Stubbs MT, Balbach J.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.0710657105	2008

References

#1644	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 4300
#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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Thermoplasma volcanium (DSM 4300, KD 3, JCM 9572)

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

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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