Thiococcus pfennigii (DSM 228, 9111)

Name: Thiococcus pfennigii (DSM 228, 9111)
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BacDive ID 2467

Type strain

Strain Designation 9111

Culture col. no. DSM 228 9111

NCBI tax ID(s) 1057

Special Collections DSMZ

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Thiococcus pfennigii 9111 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Salt marshes.

anaerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47099

DSM 228

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:19

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Chromatiales

Family Chromatiaceae

Genus Thiococcus

Species Thiococcus pfennigii

Full scientific name Thiococcus pfennigii (Eimhjellen 1970) Imhoff et al. 1998

Synonyms (1)

Thiocapsa pfennigii

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Thiococcus pfennigii** (2)	Type strain
2465	T. pfennigii 8013, DSM 226
2466	T. pfennigii 8816, DSM 227

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	96.5

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
56	PFENNIG'S MEDIUM I (modified 1988, for purple sulfur bacteria) (DSMZ Medium 28)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PFENNIG'S MEDIUM I (DSMZ Medium 28) Composition: NaHCO3 1.5 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.592592 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.500001 g/l KCl 0.349999 g/l KH2PO4 0.349999 g/l Ammonium chloride 0.349999 g/l Pyruvic acid sodium salt 0.25 g/l Dextrose 0.25 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.25 g/l Yeast extract 0.25 g/l Ammonium acetate 0.25 g/l Na2-EDTA 0.003 g/l Resazurin 0.00225 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0011 g/l Vitamin B12 0.001 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00019 g/l MnCl2 x 2 H2O 5e-05 g/l ZnCl2 4.2e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.4e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 1.8e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 2e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
56	positive	growth	25	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		95.6

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Salt marsh
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

Sample typeSalt marshes

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FN293055 (>99% sequence identity) for Thioflavicoccus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	377
Soil Samples	3
Animal Samples	7
Plant Samples
Total Samples	387

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
56	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
66792	ASM1658393v1 assembly for Thiococcus pfennigii DSM 228	scaffold	GCA_016583935	1057.10	8062261639	1057

Genome browser: GCA_016583935

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Thiococcus pfennigii strain DSM 228 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF675611	565		1057
56	Thiococcus pfennigii partial 16S rRNA gene, strain 4252 = DSM 228	FN293055	1459		1057

GC content

GC-content (mol%)69.4

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Thiococcus pfennigii DSM 228
NCBI: GCA_016583935

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	95.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	70.10	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	79.10	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	68.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Thiococcus pfennigii DSM 228
NCBI: GCA_016583935.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	96.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	67.79	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	73.92	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.83	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	89.58	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	62.60	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Osmotic Adaptation and Compatible Solute Biosynthesis of Phototrophic Bacteria as Revealed from Genome Analyses.	Imhoff JF, Rahn T, Kunzel S, Keller A, Neulinger SC.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms9010046	2020

References

#56	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 228
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#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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Thiococcus pfennigii (DSM 228, 9111)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_016583935

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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