Balnearium lithotrophicum (DSM 16304, ATCC BAA-736, JCM 11970)

Name: Balnearium lithotrophicum (DSM 16304, ATCC BAA-736, JCM 11970)
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BacDive ID 17640

Type strain

Strain Designation 17S

Culture col. no. DSM 16304 ATCC BAA-736 JCM 11970 17S

NCBI tax ID(s) 223788

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History DSMZ <- JCM <- K. Takai; 17S JCM <-- K. Takai 17S.

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Balnearium lithotrophicum 17S is an anaerobe, motile, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent, 1385 m depth.

motile rod-shaped anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 127982

ATCC BAA-736,JCM 11970,DSM 16304

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:29:03

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Aquificota

Class Aquificia

Order Desulfurobacteriales

Family Desulfurobacteriaceae

Genus Balnearium

Species Balnearium lithotrophicum

Full scientific name Balnearium lithotrophicum Takai et al. 2003

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Gram stain	Confidence
29984	1.5-3.5 µm	0.7-1 µm	rod-shaped
125438					negative	97.304

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6353	DESULFUROBACTERIUM CRINIFEX MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 829c)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFUROBACTERIUM CRINIFEX MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 829c) Composition: Sea Salt 29.6736 g/l Sulfur 9.8912 g/l MES [2-(N-morpholino) ethane sulfonic acid] 1.92878 g/l NH4Cl 0.98912 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.49456 g/l Na2CO3 0.49456 g/l KH2PO4 0.346192 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0296736 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0148368 g/l NaCl 0.0098912 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.0049456 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00178042 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00178042 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00098912 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.00098912 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.00049456 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000296736 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.000197824 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.8912e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.8912e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.8912e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.8912e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.9456e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.9456e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.9456e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.9456e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.9456e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.9456e-05 g/l Biotin 1.97824e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.97824e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.95648e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.96736e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.8912e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6353	positive	growth	70
29984	positive	growth	35-65
29984	positive	optimum	55
67770	positive	growth	70

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
29984	positive	optimum	5.9
29984	positive	growth	4.9-7.2

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
6353	anaerobe
29984	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe	98.616

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29984	NaCl	positive	growth	1.6-5.6 %
29984	NaCl	positive	optimum	3.2 %

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
29984	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29984	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
6353	deep-sea hydrothermal vent, 1385 m depth	Suiyo Seamount in the Izu-Bonin Arc	Japan	JPN	Asia	28.5667	140.633 28.5667/140.633
67770	Deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney at the Suiyo Seamount in the Izu-Bonin Arc		Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB105049 (>99% sequence identity) for Balnearium lithotrophicum subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	30
Soil Samples	0
Animal Samples	0
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	30

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6353	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	IMG-taxon 2724679708 annotated assembly for Balnearium lithotrophicum DSM 16304	scaffold	GCA_900182585	223788.3	2724679708	223788	65.21

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6353	Balnearium lithotrophicum rrn gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB105049	1481		223788

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
6353	34.6
67770	34.6	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: IMG-taxon 2724679708 annotated assembly for Balnearium lithotrophicum DSM 16304
BV-BRC: 223788.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	98.62	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	65.94	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	69.00	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	46.27	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Balnearium lithotrophicum DSM 16304
NCBI: GCA_900182585.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.30	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	88.49	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	88.00	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.37	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	76.21	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	57.58	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Balnearium lithotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, strictly anaerobic, hydrogen-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph isolated from a black smoker chimney in the Suiyo Seamount hydrothermal system.	Takai K, Nakagawa S, Sako Y, Horikoshi K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02773-0	2003

References

#6353	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16304
#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 )
#26351	IJSEM 25 2004 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.02787-0 , PubMed 14742455 )
#29984	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26351
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Balnearium lithotrophicum (DSM 16304, ATCC BAA-736, JCM 11970)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900182585

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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