Name: Thiobacter subterraneus C55
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 17945

Type strain:

Species: Thiobacter subterraneus

Strain Designation: C55

Culture col. no.: DSM 16629, ATCC BAA-941, JCM 12421

Strain history: H. Hirayama C55.

NCBI tax ID(s): 279810 (species)

SI-ID 135140

ATCC BAA-941, DSM 16629, JCM 12421

Section

Thiobacter subterraneus C55 is a microaerophile, thermophilic bacterium that was isolated from subsurface hot aquifer water in the Hishikari gold mine.

microaerophile
thermophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Betaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Burkholderiales*
	Family	[Burkholderiales, not assigned to family]
	Genus	*Thiobacter*
	Species	**Thiobacter subterraneus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thiobacter subterraneus Hirayama et al. 2005

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

THIOBACTER MJ MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1011a)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #6533]			growth	50 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	55 °C

[Ref.: #6533]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	thermophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

microaerophile

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #6533]	Sample type/isolated from	subsurface hot aquifer water in the Hishikari gold mine
[Ref.: #6533]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Kagoshima Prefecture
[Ref.: #6533]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #6533]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #6533]	Continent	Asia

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Subsurface geothermal aquifer water in the Hishikari gold mine
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Kagoshima
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AB180657 (>99% sequence identity) for Thiobacter subterraneus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	122
Soil Samples	80
Animal Samples	23
Plant Samples	6
Total Samples	231

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #6533]	Thiobacter subterraneus gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB180657	1452	ENA	279810 tax ID

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GC-content

66.9 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 16629, ATCC BAA-941, JCM 12421

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SI-ID 135140

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thiobacter subterraneus gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately chemolithoautotrophic, thermophilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from a subsurface hot aquifer.	Hirayama H, Takai K, Inagaki F, Nealson KH, Horikoshi K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63389-0	2005	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16629

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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 )

#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 .

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Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID135140.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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