Thermicanus aegyptius (DSM 12793, ET-5b)

Name: Thermicanus aegyptius (DSM 12793, ET-5b)
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BacDive ID 18123

Type strain

Strain Designation ET-5b

Culture col. no. DSM 12793 ET-5b

NCBI tax ID(s) 1089548 94009

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- H. L. Drake, University of Bayreuth, Department of Ecological Microbiology, Bayreuth, Germany; ET-5b <- H. L. Drake and A. Goessner {1998}

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Thermicanus aegyptius ET-5b is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from soil.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 44193

ATCC 700890,DSM 12793

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:29:10

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Thermicanaceae

Genus Thermicanus

Species Thermicanus aegyptius

Full scientific name Thermicanus aegyptius Gößner et al. 2000

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4822	SPOROMUSA ACIDOVORANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 311c)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SPOROMUSA ACIDOVORANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 311c) Composition: D-Fructose 4.97512 g/l NaCl 2.23881 g/l Yeast extract 1.99005 g/l Casitone 1.99005 g/l Na2CO3 0.995025 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.497512 g/l NH4Cl 0.497512 g/l K2HPO4 0.348259 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.298507 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.298507 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.248756 g/l KH2PO4 0.228856 g/l HCl 0.00248756 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00199005 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00149254 g/l NaOH 0.000497512 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000497512 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000189055 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.95025e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.95025e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.96517e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.97512e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.97512e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.97512e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.97512e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.97512e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.97512e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.58209e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.38806e-05 g/l Biotin 1.99005e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.99005e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.97015e-06 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.9801e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.98507e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.99005e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.95025e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4822	positive	growth	55

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
4822	anaerobe
125439	obligate anaerobe	98.936

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4822	soil	Egypt	EGY	Africa

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ242495 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermicanus aegyptius subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	132
Soil Samples	53
Animal Samples	392
Plant Samples	79
Total Samples	656

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4822	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	ASM51064v1 assembly for Thermicanus aegyptius DSM 12793	scaffold	GCA_000510645	1089548.3	2516493021	1089548	71.51

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4822	Thermicanus aegyptius 16S rRNA gene, strain ET-5b	AJ242495	1426		94009

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4822	50.3	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM51064v1 assembly for Thermicanus aegyptius DSM 12793
NCBI: GCA_000510645

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	45.75	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate anaerobe	98.94	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	52.41	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	71.52	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Thermicanus aegyptius DSM 12793 DSM 12793
NCBI: GCA_000510645.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	57.09	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	72.77	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	68.87	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	86.33	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	59.93	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	79.05	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	The Species Identification and Genomic Analysis of Haemobacillus shengwangii: A Novel Pathogenic Bacterium Isolated From a Critically Ill Patient With Bloodstream Infection.	Du Y, Li X, Liu Y, Mu S, Shen D, Fan S, Lou Z, Zhang S, Xia H, Yuan Y, Wang S.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2022.919169	2022
	Genome-Guided Analysis of Clostridium ultunense and Comparative Genomics Reveal Different Strategies for Acetate Oxidation and Energy Conservation in Syntrophic Acetate-Oxidising Bacteria.	Manzoor S, Schnurer A, Bongcam-Rudloff E, Muller B.	Genes (Basel)	10.3390/genes9040225	2018
Phylogeny	Thermicanus aegyptius gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from oxic soil, a fermentative microaerophile that grows commensally with the thermophilic acetogen Moorella thermoacetica.	Gossner AS, Devereux R, Ohnemuller N, Acker G, Stackebrandt E, Drake HL	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/AEM.65.11.5124-5133.1999	1999

References

#4822	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12793
#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 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Thermicanus aegyptius (DSM 12793, ET-5b)

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

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000510645

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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