Symbiobacterium thermophilum (DSM 24528, IAM 14863, JCM 14929)

Name: Symbiobacterium thermophilum (DSM 24528, IAM 14863, JCM 14929)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 18012

Type strain

Strain Designation T

Culture col. no. DSM 24528 IAM 14863 JCM 14929 T

NCBI tax ID(s) 292459 2734

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- T. Itoh, JCM; JCM 14929 <- K. Ueda, Nihon University, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa, Japan; T K. Ueda strain T.

Links

Symbiobacterium thermophilum T is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from Compost.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 88609

IAM 14863,JCM 14929,DSM 24528

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:22:22

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Symbiobacteriaceae

Genus Symbiobacterium

Species Symbiobacterium thermophilum

Full scientific name Symbiobacterium thermophilum Ohno et al. 2000

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17691	SYMBIOBACTERIUM THERMOPHILUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1293)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SYMBIOBACTERIUM THERMOPHILUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1293) Composition: Tryptone 10.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l NH4HCO3 3.2 g/l NaNO3 1.7 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17691	positive	growth	60
67770	positive	growth	60

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

17691

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Observation

@ref	Observation
67770	Production of Tryptophanase and beta-tyrosinase in association with Bacillus strain S
67770	quinones: MK-6

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Ec
67770	tryptophanase	4.1.99.1

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	denitrification	100	2 of 2
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	threonine metabolism	100	10 of 10
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	isoleucine metabolism	87.5	7 of 8
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	86.67	13 of 15
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	85.71	6 of 7
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	83.33	5 of 6
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	82.14	23 of 28
66794	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	propionate fermentation	80	8 of 10
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	leucine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	biotin biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	NAD metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	purine metabolism	71.28	67 of 94
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	71.11	32 of 45
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	70.33	64 of 91
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
66794	serine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	66.67	6 of 9
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	d-mannose degradation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	alanine metabolism	65.52	19 of 29
66794	histidine metabolism	65.52	19 of 29
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	65.38	17 of 26
66794	methionine metabolism	65.38	17 of 26
66794	citric acid cycle	64.29	9 of 14
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	proline metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	lysine metabolism	61.9	26 of 42
66794	urea cycle	61.54	8 of 13
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	60	3 of 5
66794	hydrogen production	60	3 of 5
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	60	3 of 5
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	60	6 of 10
66794	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	57.14	4 of 7
66794	nitrate assimilation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	tryptophan metabolism	55.26	21 of 38
66794	lipid metabolism	54.84	17 of 31
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	54.55	6 of 11
66794	arginine metabolism	54.17	13 of 24
66794	sulfate reduction	53.85	7 of 13
66794	non-pathway related	52.63	20 of 38
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	quinate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	50	5 of 10
66794	lactate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	dolichol and dolichyl phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	sphingosine metabolism	50	3 of 6
66794	1,4-dihydroxy-6-naphthoate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	gluconeogenesis	50	4 of 8
66794	tyrosine metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	glutathione metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	cysteine metabolism	50	9 of 18
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	44.44	4 of 9
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	43.75	7 of 16
66794	degradation of pentoses	42.86	12 of 28
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	ascorbate metabolism	40.91	9 of 22
66794	glycogen metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	flavin biosynthesis	40	6 of 15
66794	vitamin K metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	starch degradation	40	4 of 10
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	gallate degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	degradation of hexoses	38.89	7 of 18
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	38.46	5 of 13
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	38.24	13 of 34
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	37.5	3 of 8
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	polyamine pathway	34.78	8 of 23
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	33.33	4 of 12
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	methane metabolism	33.33	1 of 3
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	31.25	5 of 16
66794	phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	30.77	4 of 13
66794	aclacinomycin biosynthesis	28.57	2 of 7
66794	d-xylose degradation	27.27	3 of 11
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	26.67	4 of 15
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	phenol degradation	25	5 of 20
66794	vitamin E metabolism	25	1 of 4
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	22.22	4 of 18
66794	heme metabolism	21.43	3 of 14

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Biodegradation	#Composting

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17691	Compost	Hiroshima	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Compost in Hiroshima		Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB004913 (>99% sequence identity) for Symbiobacterium thermophilum subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	404
Soil Samples	1451
Animal Samples	4551
Plant Samples	620
Total Samples	7026

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17691	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	ASM990v1 assembly for Symbiobacterium thermophilum IAM 14863 IAM14863	complete	GCA_000009905	292459.5	637000306	292459	96.44

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
17691	Symbiobacterium thermophilum DNA for 16S rRNA	AB004913	1479		2734

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
17691	68	sequence analysis
67770	68.7	genome sequence analysis
67770	65.1	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Symbiobacterium thermophilum IAM 14863 IAM14863
NCBI: GCA_000009905

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	56.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	50.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	78.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	66.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Symbiobacterium thermophilum IAM 14863 IAM14863
NCBI: GCA_000009905.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	54.63	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	55.01	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	65.55	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	76.87	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	61.51	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	72.50	no

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Phylogeny	Influence of environmental factors on biodegradation of quinalphos by Bacillus thuringiensis.	Gangireddygari VSR, Kalva PK, Ntushelo K, Bangeppagari M, Djami Tchatchou A, Bontha RR.	Environ Sci Eur	10.1186/s12302-017-0109-x	2017
	Transcriptional regulatory network discovery via multiple method integration: application to e. coli K12.	Sun J, Tuncay K, Haidar AA, Ensman L, Stanley F, Trelinski M, Ortoleva P.	Algorithms Mol Biol	10.1186/1748-7188-2-2	2007
	Functional Promiscuity of Homologues of the Bacterial ArsA ATPases.	Castillo R, Saier MH.	Int J Microbiol	10.1155/2010/187373	2010
Enzymology	Continuous production of NADP by immobilized Brevibacterium ammoniagenes cells.	Murata K, Kato J, Chibata I.	Biotechnol Bioeng	10.1002/bit.260210511	1979
Metabolism	Cloning of a gene cluster involved in the catabolism of p-nitrophenol by Arthrobacter sp. strain JS443 and characterization of the p-nitrophenol monooxygenase.	Perry LL, Zylstra GJ.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.01849-06	2007
	Horizontal gene transfer of zinc and non-zinc forms of bacterial ribosomal protein S4.	Chen K, Roberts E, Luthey-Schulten Z.	BMC Evol Biol	10.1186/1471-2148-9-179	2009
Phylogeny	Across bacterial phyla, distantly-related genomes with similar genomic GC content have similar patterns of amino acid usage.	Lightfield J, Fram NR, Ely B.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0017677	2011
Metabolism	An alternative succinate (2-oxoglutarate) transport system in Rhizobium tropici is induced in nodules of Phaseolus vulgaris.	Batista S, Patriarca EJ, Tate R, Martinez-Drets G, Gill PR.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.00252-09	2009
Metabolism	Formation of Se (0) nanoparticles by Duganella sp. and Agrobacterium sp. isolated from Se-laden soil of North-East Punjab, India.	Bajaj M, Schmidt S, Winter J.	Microb Cell Fact	10.1186/1475-2859-11-64	2012
	Heavy metal induced stress on wheat: phytotoxicity and microbiological management.	Rizvi A, Zaidi A, Ameen F, Ahmed B, AlKahtani MDF, Khan MS.	RSC Adv	10.1039/d0ra05610c	2020
Metabolism	Divulging diazotrophic bacterial community structure in Kuwait desert ecosystems and their N2-fixation potential.	Suleiman MK, Quoreshi AM, Bhat NR, Manuvel AJ, Sivadasan MT.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0220679	2019
Metabolism	A method for the production of D-tagatose using a recombinant Pichia pastoris strain secreting beta-D-galactosidase from Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus and a recombinant L-arabinose isomerase from Arthrobacter sp. 22c.	Wanarska M, Kur J.	Microb Cell Fact	10.1186/1475-2859-11-113	2012
Metabolism	Improving protein extraction and separation methods for investigating the metaproteome of anaerobic benzene communities within sediments.	Benndorf D, Vogt C, Jehmlich N, Schmidt Y, Thomas H, Woffendin G, Shevchenko A, Richnow HH, von Bergen M.	Biodegradation	10.1007/s10532-009-9261-3	2009
Enzymology	Correlation between detection of a plasmid and high-level virulence of Vibrio nigripulchritudo, a pathogen of the shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris.	Reynaud Y, Saulnier D, Mazel D, Goarant C, Le Roux F.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02680-07	2008
	A database of bacterial lipoproteins (DOLOP) with functional assignments to predicted lipoproteins.	Babu MM, Priya ML, Selvan AT, Madera M, Gough J, Aravind L, Sankaran K.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.188.8.2761-2773.2006	2006
	Annotation of Protein Domains Reveals Remarkable Conservation in the Functional Make up of Proteomes Across Superkingdoms.	Nasir A, Naeem A, Khan MJ, Nicora HD, Caetano-Anolles G.	Genes (Basel)	10.3390/genes2040869	2011
Metabolism	Bacteria mediate methylation of iodine in marine and terrestrial environments.	Amachi S, Kamagata Y, Kanagawa T, Muramatsu Y.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.67.6.2718-2722.2001	2001
Phylogeny	Bioinformatic characterization of the 4-Toluene Sulfonate Uptake Permease (TSUP) family of transmembrane proteins.	Shlykov MA, Zheng WH, Chen JS, Saier MH.	Biochim Biophys Acta	10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.12.005	2012
Phylogeny	Comparative genomic analyses of the bacterial phosphotransferase system.	Barabote RD, Saier MH.	Microbiol Mol Biol Rev	10.1128/mmbr.69.4.608-634.2005	2005
	Abyssomicin biosynthesis: formation of an unusual polyketide, antibiotic-feeding studies and genetic analysis.	Gottardi EM, Krawczyk JM, von Suchodoletz H, Schadt S, Muhlenweg A, Uguru GC, Pelzer S, Fiedler HP, Bibb MJ, Stach JE, Sussmuth RD.	Chembiochem	10.1002/cbic.201100172	2011
	Species-specific oligonucleotides for enumeration of Pseudomonas putida F1, Burkholderia sp. strain JS150, and Bacillus subtilis ATCC 7003 in biodegradation experiments.	DuTeau NM, Rogers JD, Bartholomay CT, Reardon KF.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.64.12.4994-4999.1998	1998
	In silico analysis of methyltransferase domains involved in biosynthesis of secondary metabolites.	Ansari MZ, Sharma J, Gokhale RS, Mohanty D.	BMC Bioinformatics	10.1186/1471-2105-9-454	2008
	Defense against cannibalism: the SdpI family of bacterial immunity/signal transduction proteins.	Povolotsky TL, Orlova E, Tamang DG, Saier MH.	J Membr Biol	10.1007/s00232-010-9260-7	2010
Enzymology	Distribution of membrane-bound monoamine oxidase in bacteria.	Murooka Y, Doi N, Harada T.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.38.4.565-569.1979	1979
	The TetR family of transcriptional repressors.	Ramos JL, Martinez-Bueno M, Molina-Henares AJ, Teran W, Watanabe K, Zhang X, Gallegos MT, Brennan R, Tobes R.	Microbiol Mol Biol Rev	10.1128/mmbr.69.2.326-356.2005	2005
Metabolism	Cohesion group approach for evolutionary analysis of aspartokinase, an enzyme that feeds a branched network of many biochemical pathways.	Lo CC, Bonner CA, Xie G, D'Souza M, Jensen RA.	Microbiol Mol Biol Rev	10.1128/mmbr.00024-09	2009
Metabolism	Detection and characterization of a thermophilic biotin biosynthetic enzyme, 7-keto-8-aminopelargonic acid synthase, from various thermophiles.	Kubota T, Izumi Y	Biosci Biotechnol Biochem	10.1271/bbb.110807	2012
Enzymology	Essential role of amino acid position 71 in substrate preference by meso-diaminopimelate dehydrogenase from Symbiobacterium thermophilum IAM14863.	Zhang Y, Ma Q, Dong M, Zhang X, Chen Y, Gao X, Song Y	Enzyme Microb Technol	10.1016/j.enzmictec.2018.01.001	2018
Enzymology	Cloning, expression, purification and preliminary X-ray analysis of a putative metagenome-derived lipase.	Fersini F, Dall'Antonia Y, Chow J, Streit WR, Mueller-Dieckmann J	Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun	10.1107/S1744309112025651	2012
Phylogeny	Mesorhizobium carmichaelinearum sp. nov., isolated from Carmichaelineae spp. root nodules.	De Meyer SE, Andrews M, James EK, Willems A.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003120	2019
Phylogeny	Bacillus qingshengii sp. nov., a rock-weathering bacterium isolated from weathered rock surface.	Xi J, He LY, Huang Z, Sheng XF.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.061929-0	2014
Phylogeny	Oricola cellulosilytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a cellulose-degrading bacterium of the family Phyllobacteriaceae isolated from surface seashore water, and emended descriptions of Mesorhizobium loti and Phyllobacterium myrsinacearum.	Hameed A, Shahina M, Lai WA, Lin SY, Young LS, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Young CC.	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-014-0370-6	2015
Phylogeny	Exiguobacterium soli sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.	Chaturvedi P, Prabahar V, Manorama R, Pindi PK, Bhadra B, Begum Z, Shivaji S.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.2008/000067-0	2008
Phylogeny	Bacillus herbersteinensis sp. nov.	Wieser M, Worliczek H, Kampfer P, Busse HJ.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63660-0	2005
Genetics	Dakarella massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., strain ND3^T: a new bacterial genus isolated from the female genital tract.	Dione N, Rathored J, Tomei E, Lagier JC, Khelaifia S, Robert C, Bretelle F, Raoult D, Fournier PE, Fenollar F.	New Microbes New Infect	10.1016/j.nmni.2017.05.003	2017
Phylogeny	Symbiobacterium thermophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a symbiotic thermophile that depends on co-culture with a Bacillus strain for growth.	Ohno M, Shiratori H, Park MJ, Saitoh Y, Kumon Y, Yamashita N, Hirata A, Nishida H, Ueda K, Beppu T	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-50-5-1829	2000

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