Thermaerobacter litoralis (DSM 17372, JCM 13210, KW1)

Name: Thermaerobacter litoralis (DSM 17372, JCM 13210, KW1)
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BacDive ID 18043

Type strain

Strain Designation KW1

Culture col. no. DSM 17372 JCM 13210 KW1

NCBI tax ID(s) 317015

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History <- R. Tanaka, Kyoto University;KW1 R. Tanaka KW1.

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

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 297363

DSM 17372,JCM 13210

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Thermaerobacteria

Order Thermaerobacterales

Family Thermaerobacteraceae

Genus Thermaerobacter

Species Thermaerobacter litoralis

Full scientific name Thermaerobacter litoralis Tanaka et al. 2006

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
31760	variable	01-03 µm	0.3-0.8 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

31760

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6840	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6840	positive	growth	55
31760	positive	growth	52-78
31760	positive	optimum	70
67770	positive	growth	70

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31760	positive	optimum	7
31760	positive	growth	5.5-9	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

31760

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

31760

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31760	NaCl	positive	growth	0-4.5 %
31760	NaCl	positive	optimum	1 %

Observation

31760

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31760	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
31760	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
31760	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	carbon source
31760	15428 ChEBI	glycine	+	carbon source
31760	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
31760	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
31760	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
31760	26986 ChEBI	threonine	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31760	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
31760	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Coast

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6840	Sediment sample, coastal hydrothermal beach	Satsuma peninsula, Kagoshima Prefecture	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Coastal hydrothermal field on the Satsuma Peninsula	Kagoshima	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

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

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6840	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6840	Thermaerobacter litoralis strain KW1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY936496	1522		317015

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
6840	70.8
67770	70.8	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

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 )
#28033	IJSEM 1531 2006 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64203-0 , PubMed 16825625 )
#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
#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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Thermaerobacter litoralis (DSM 17372, JCM 13210, KW1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

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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