Pseudothermotoga lettingae (DSM 14385, ATCC BAA-301, NBRC 107922)

Name: Pseudothermotoga lettingae (DSM 14385, ATCC BAA-301, NBRC 107922)
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BacDive ID 17070

Type strain

Strain Designation TMO

Culture col. no. DSM 14385 ATCC BAA-301 NBRC 107922 TMO

NCBI tax ID(s) 177758

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- M. Balk, Wageningen University, Laboratory of Microbiology, Netherlands; TMO <- M. Balk {2000}

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Pseudothermotoga lettingae TMO is an anaerobe, thermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from thermophilic sulfate-reducing bioreactor.

anaerobe thermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 101014

NBRC 107922,ATCC BAA-301,DSM 14385

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:22:07

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermotogota

Class Thermotogae

Order Thermotogales

Family Thermotogaceae

Genus Pseudothermotoga

Species Pseudothermotoga lettingae

Full scientific name Pseudothermotoga lettingae (Balk et al. 2002) Bhandari and Gupta 2014

Synonyms (1)

Thermotoga lettingae

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	98.4

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5332	PSEUDOTHERMOTOGA LETTINGAE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 664a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PSEUDOTHERMOTOGA LETTINGAE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 664a) Composition: Na2S2O3 x 5 H2O 5.0 g/l D-Glucose 4.0 g/l Na2CO3 1.5 g/l NH4Cl 1.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.5 g/l Yeast extract 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.3 g/l KH2PO4 0.3 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.2 g/l KCl 0.1 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.03 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.015 g/l NaCl 0.01 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.005 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0018 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0018 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.001 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.001 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0003 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.0002 g/l H3BO3 0.0001 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.0001 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.0001 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 4e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 3e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
5332	positive	growth	65	thermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
5332	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	92.826

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		90.2

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Engineered	#Bioreactor
#Condition	#Sulfuric
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5332	thermophilic sulfate-reducing bioreactor	Wageningen	Netherlands	NLD	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF355615 (>99% sequence identity) for Pseudothermotoga from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	31
Soil Samples	22
Animal Samples	3
Plant Samples
Total Samples	56

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5332	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1786v1 assembly for Pseudothermotoga lettingae TMO	complete	GCA_000017865	416591.5	641228511	416591	99.64

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5332	Thermotoga sp. TMO 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	AF355615	1513		416591

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
5332	39.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Pseudothermotoga lettingae TMO
IMG: 641228511

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	90.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	63.90	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.40	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	69.00	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Pseudothermotoga lettingae TMO TMO
NCBI: GCA_000017865.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	67.43	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	92.83	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	97.66	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	74.31	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	81.30	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	54.89	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermotoga lettingae sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, methanol-degrading bacterium isolated from a thermophilic anaerobic reactor.	Balk M, Weijma J, Stams AJM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-52-4-1361	2002

References

#5332	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14385
#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 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Pseudothermotoga lettingae (DSM 14385, ATCC BAA-301, NBRC 107922)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000017865

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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