Bifidobacterium thermophilum (DSM 20209, C3/12)

Name: Bifidobacterium thermophilum (DSM 20209, C3/12)
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BacDive ID 1720

Type strain

Strain Designation C3/12

Culture col. no. DSM 20209 C3/12

NCBI tax ID(s) 33905

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Bifidobacterium thermophilum C3/12 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from rumen.

anaerobe mesophilic genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 9654

LMG 11599,DSM 20209,KCTC 3470

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:10

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Bifidobacteriales

Family Bifidobacteriaceae

Genus Bifidobacterium

Species Bifidobacterium thermophilum

Full scientific name Bifidobacterium thermophilum corrig. Mitsuoka 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

Bifidobacterium thermophilium

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Bifidobacterium thermophilum** (8)	Type strain
1721	B. thermophilum P2-91, DSM 20210, ATCC 25525, CIP 105420, ... (type strain)
1722	B. thermophilum RU 326, DSM 20212, ATCC 25866, JCM 1268, ...
158889	B. thermophilum BSM-130-P53-3C, DSM 102827
165461	B. thermophilum JCM 7031
165462	B. thermophilum JCM 7033
165463	B. thermophilum JCM 7034
165464	B. thermophilum JCM 7036
165480	B. thermophilum JCM 7088, ATCC 25867, LMG 18893

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Motility	Confidence
125438		95

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
8478	BIFIDOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 58)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BIFIDOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 58) Composition: Glucose 10.0 g/l Casein peptone 10.0 g/l Bacto Soytone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l NaHCO3 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.08 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.05 g/l KH2PO4 0.04 g/l K2HPO4 0.04 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.02 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.01 g/l Tween 80 Resazurin Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
8478	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

8478

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		91.855
125439		90.8

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
8478	A21.06	A4ß L-Orn(L-Lys)-D-Glu

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Rumen

Isolation

8478

Sample typerumen

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8478	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID
66792	ASM2853927v1 assembly for Bifidobacterium thermophilum DSM 20209	contig	GCA_028539275	33905.45	33905

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Bifidobacterium thermophilum DSM 20209
NCBI: GCA_028539275

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	90.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	62.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	75.50	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative aerobe	70.00	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Bifidobacterium thermophilum DSM 20209
NCBI: GCA_028539275.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	76.06	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	82.45	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	93.68	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	91.86	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.09	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	95.00	no

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogenetic diversity of core rumen microbiota as described by cryo-ET.	Wimmer BH, Morais S, Zalk R, Mizrahi I, Medalia O.	Microlife	10.1093/femsml/uqad010	2023
Open source anaerobic and temperature-controlled in vitro model enabling real-time release studies with live bacteria.	Christfort JF, Polhaus CJM, Bondegaard PW, Chang TJ, Hwu ET, Hagner Nielsen L, Zor K, Boisen A.	HardwareX	10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00275	2022

References

#8478	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 20209
#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) .
#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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Bifidobacterium thermophilum (DSM 20209, C3/12)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Murein

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_028539275

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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