Salinisphaera hydrothermalis (DSM 21483, JCM 15514, EPR 70)

Name: Salinisphaera hydrothermalis (DSM 21483, JCM 15514, EPR 70)
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BacDive ID 17788

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 21483 JCM 15514 EPR 70

NCBI tax ID(s) 563188

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History DSMZ <- C. Vetriani, Inst. Marine and Coastal Sci., Rutgers, State Univ. New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA; EPR70 <- A. Chatziefthimiou JCM <-- C. Vetriani EPR70.

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Salinisphaera hydrothermalis DSM 21483 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from diffuse-flow hydrothermal vent fluids.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 406389

JCM 15514,DSM 21483

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Nevskiales

Family Salinisphaeraceae

Genus Salinisphaera

Species Salinisphaera hydrothermalis

Full scientific name Salinisphaera hydrothermalis Crespo-Medina et al. 2009

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29053	negative	0.9 µm	0.4 µm	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15734	SALINISPHAERA HYDROTHERMALIS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1216)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SALINISPHAERA HYDROTHERMALIS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1216) Composition: NaCl 24.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 7.0 g/l Yeast extract 3.0 g/l Bacto peptone 2.5 g/l KCl 0.7 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
15734	positive	growth	28
29053	positive	growth	20-40
29053	positive	optimum	32.5
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
29053	positive	optimum	5.5
29053	positive	growth	5.0-7.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

29053

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

29053

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29053	NaCl	positive	growth	01-25 %
29053	NaCl	positive	optimum	2.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29053	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
29053	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
29053	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
29053	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
29053	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
29053	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	+	carbon source
29053	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
29053	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
29053	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
29053	51850 ChEBI	methyl pyruvate	+	carbon source
29053	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
29053	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
29053	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	+	carbon source
29053	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
29053	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
29053	53424 ChEBI	tween 20	+	carbon source
29053	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source
29053	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

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

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Latitude	Longitude
15734	diffuse-flow hydrothermal vent fluids	East Pacific Rise (9° 50' N, 104° 17' W)	9.8333	-104.283 9.8333/-104.283
67770	Diffuse-flow hydrothermal vent fluid collected from the East Pacific Rise

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EU740416 (>99% sequence identity) for Salinisphaera hydrothermalis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	938
Soil Samples	73
Animal Samples	108
Plant Samples	15
Total Samples	1134

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15734	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15734	Salinisphaera hydrothermalis strain EPR70 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU740416	1376		1304273

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
15734	64.0	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
15734	69.0
29053	64
67770	64	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Salinisphaera halophila sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from brine of a salt well.	Zhang YJ, Tang SK, Shi R, Klenk HP, Chen C, Yang LL, Zhou Y, Li WJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.035584-0	2011
Phylogeny	Salinisphaera orenii sp. nov., isolated from a solar saltern.	Park SJ, Cha IT, Kim SJ, Shin KS, Hong Y, Roh DH, Rhee SK	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.028647-0	2011
Phylogeny	Salinisphaera dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater.	Bae GD, Hwang CY, Kim HM, Cho BC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.010058-0	2009
Phylogeny	Salinisphaera hydrothermalis sp. nov., a mesophilic, halotolerant, facultatively autotrophic, thiosulfate-oxidizing gammaproteobacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and emended description of the genus Salinisphaera.	Crespo-Medina M, Chatziefthimiou A, Cruz-Matos R, Perez-Rodriguez I, Barkay T, Lutz RA, Starovoytov V, Vetriani C	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.005058-0	2009

References

#15734	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21483
#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 )
#25483	IJSEM 1497 2009 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.005058-0 , PubMed 19502342 )
#29053	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 #25483
#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 .
#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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Salinisphaera hydrothermalis (DSM 21483, JCM 15514, EPR 70)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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