Name: Thermaerobacter litoralis KW1
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 18043

Type strain:

Species: Thermaerobacter litoralis

Strain Designation: KW1

Culture col. no.: DSM 17372, JCM 13210

Strain history: R. Tanaka KW1.

NCBI tax ID(s): 317015 (species)

SI-ID 297363

DSM 17372, JCM 13210

Section

Thermaerobacter litoralis KW1 is an aerobe, thermophilic, Gram-variable bacterium that was isolated from Sediment sample, coastal hydrothermal beach.

Gram-variable
motile
rod-shaped
aerobe
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	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Clostridia*
	Order	*Eubacteriales*
	Family	*Syntrophomonadaceae*
	Genus	*Thermaerobacter*
	Species	**Thermaerobacter litoralis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thermaerobacter litoralis Tanaka et al. 2006

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #31760]	Gram stain	variable

[Ref.: #31760]	Cell length	01-03 µm

[Ref.: #31760]	Cell width	0.3-0.8 µm

[Ref.: #31760]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #31760]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #31760]

Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #6840]

Culture medium

BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)

[Ref.: #6840]

Culture medium growth

[Ref.: #6840]

Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

[Ref.: #6840]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #6840]	growth	55 °C
[Ref.: #31760]	growth	52-78 °C
[Ref.: #31760]	optimum	70 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	70 °C

[Ref.: #6840]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #31760]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	thermophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #31760]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #31760]			growth	5.5-9

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #31760]

Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

[Ref.: #31760]

Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #31760]		NaCl		growth	0-4.5	%
[Ref.: #31760]		NaCl		optimum	1	%

[Ref.: #31760]

Observation

aggregates in chains

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #31760]	acetate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31760]	alanine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31760]	aspartate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31760]	glycine ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31760]	proline ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31760]	pyruvate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31760]	succinate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31760]	threonine ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #31760]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #31760]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

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

[Ref.: #6840]	Sample type/isolated from	Sediment sample, coastal hydrothermal beach
[Ref.: #6840]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Satsuma peninsula, Kagoshima Prefecture
[Ref.: #6840]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #6840]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #6840]	Continent	Asia

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Coastal hydrothermal field on the Satsuma Peninsula
[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

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Coast

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AY936496 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermaerobacter litoralis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	10
Soil Samples	28
Animal Samples	24
Plant Samples	4
Total Samples	66

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

[Ref.: #6840]

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.: #6840]	Thermaerobacter litoralis strain KW1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY936496	1522	ENA	317015 tax ID

[Ref.: #6840]	GC-content	70.8 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	70.8 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #6840]

Culture collection no.

DSM 17372, JCM 13210

[Ref.: #87032]

SI-ID 297363

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermaerobacter composti sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic bacterium isolated from compost.	Yabe S, Kato A, Hazaka M, Yokota A	J Gen Appl Microbiol	10.2323/jgam.55.323	2009	*
Phylogeny	Thermaerobacter litoralis sp. nov., a strictly aerobic and thermophilic bacterium isolated from a coastal hydrothermal field.	Tanaka R, Kawaichi S, Nishimura H, Sako Y	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64203-0	2006	*

References

#6840

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17372

#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 )

#31760

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 #28033 (see below)

#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 .

#87032

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-ID297363.1 )

#28033

IJSEM 1531 2006 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64203-0 , PubMed 16825625 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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