Thiobacter subterraneus (DSM 16629, ATCC BAA-941, JCM 12421)

Name: Thiobacter subterraneus (DSM 16629, ATCC BAA-941, JCM 12421)
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BacDive ID 17945

Type strain

Strain Designation C55

Culture col. no. DSM 16629 ATCC BAA-941 JCM 12421 C55

NCBI tax ID(s) 279810

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- H. Hirayama, Subground Animalcule Retrieval (SUGAR) Program, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC); C55 <- H. Hirayama {2001} JCM <-- H. Hirayama C55.

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

microaerophile 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 135140

ATCC BAA-941,DSM 16629,JCM 12421

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family "Thiobacteraceae"

Genus Thiobacter

Species Thiobacter subterraneus

Full scientific name Thiobacter subterraneus Hirayama et al. 2005

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6533	THIOBACTER MJ MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1011a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: THIOBACTER MJ MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1011a) Composition: NaHCO3 1.48368 g/l Na2S2O3 x 5 H2O 1.48368 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.41543 g/l KCl 0.326409 g/l NH4Cl 0.24728 g/l K2HPO4 0.138477 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0296736 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0148368 g/l NaCl 0.0098912 g/l Fe(NH4)2(SO4)2 x 6 H2O 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 CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.00098912 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00098912 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000296736 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.000197824 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.8912e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.8912e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.8912e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.8912e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.9456e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.9456e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.9456e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.9456e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.9456e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.9456e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.97824e-05 g/l Biotin 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)
6533	positive	growth	50
67770	positive	growth	55

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

6533

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6533	subsurface hot aquifer water in the Hishikari gold mine	Kagoshima Prefecture	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Subsurface geothermal aquifer water in the Hishikari gold mine	Kagoshima	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

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

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6533	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6533	Thiobacter subterraneus gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB180657	1452		279810

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
6533	66.9	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

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

#6533	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16629
#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 )
#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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Thiobacter subterraneus (DSM 16629, ATCC BAA-941, JCM 12421)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

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

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References

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