Thermoplasma volcanium (DSM 4301, KO 2)

Name: Thermoplasma volcanium (DSM 4301, KO 2)
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BacDive ID 17020

Type strain

Strain Designation KO 2

Culture col. no. DSM 4301 KO 2

NCBI tax ID(s) 50339

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- A. Segerer and K.O. Stetter, KO 2

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Thermoplasma volcanium KO 2 is a thermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from acid continental solfatara.

thermophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47827

DSM 4301

@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)
17019	T. volcanium KD 3, DSM 4300, JCM 9572, IFO 15439, NBRC ...

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1645	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)	Range
1645	positive	growth	60	thermophilic

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
1645	acid continental solfatara	Krisuvik	Iceland	ISL	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1645	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

1645

GC-content (mol%)39.0

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#1645	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 4301
#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 )
#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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