Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans (DSM 14175, V8, JCM 32254)

Name: Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans (DSM 14175, V8, JCM 32254)
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BacDive ID 24820

Type strain

Strain Designation V8

Culture col. no. DSM 14175 V8 JCM 32254

NCBI tax ID(s) 1765967

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History <- P. R. Norris, University of Warwick, Department of Biological Sciences, Coventry, United Kingdom; V8 (Acidihalobacter ferrooxidans) <- P. R. Norris; {1998} E. Watkin; Curtin Univ., Australia <-- DSM 14175 <-- P. R. Norris; Univ. Warwick, UK; V8.

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Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans V8 is an aerobe, halotolerant, chemolithoautotroph bacterium that was isolated from acidic, salty water.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped aerobe halotolerant chemolithoautotroph genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 396780

JCM 32254,DSM 14175

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:24:05

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Chromatiales

Family Ectothiorhodospiraceae

Genus Acidihalobacter

Species Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans

Full scientific name Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans Khaleque et al. 2019

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
67866	negative	1 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative				96.5

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5242	ACIDIHALOBACTER FERROOXIDANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1321)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDIHALOBACTER FERROOXIDANS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1321) Composition: NaCl 14.7059 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 13.6275 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.392156 g/l K2S4O6 0.294118 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.196078 g/l Yeast extract 0.0980392 g/l K2HPO4 0.0980391 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5242	positive	growth	35
67770	positive	growth	35
67866	positive	growth	26-43
67866	positive	optimum	36

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
67866	positive	optimum	1.8
67866	positive	growth	1-3	acidophile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

67866

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Nutrition type

67866

Typechemolithoautotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		92

Halophily

@ref	Halophily level	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
67866	halotolerant	NaCl	positive	growth	0.06-0.856 M
67866		NaCl	positive	optimum	0.428 M

Observation

@ref	Observation
67866	Cells under stress sometimes are curved.
67866	Grows optimally on the sulfide mineral pyrite at 856 mM NaCl.

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
67866	15226 ChEBI	tetrathionate	+	electron donor

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic
#Condition	#Acidic
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5242	acidic, salty water	Aeolian Islands, Vulcano	Italy	ITA	Europe
67770	Acidic, salty water, Vulcano	Aeolian Islands	Italy	ITA	Europe
67866	shallow pools of acidic, salty water in Vulcano	Aeolian Islands, Vulcano	Italy	ITA	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KU213664 (>99% sequence identity) for Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	337
Soil Samples	65
Animal Samples	8
Plant Samples	8
Total Samples	418

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM197572v1 assembly for Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans V8	chromosome	GCA_001975725	1765967.4	2751185721	1765967	81.94

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5242	Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans strain DSM 14175 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KU213664	1426		1765967

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
5242	61.6	sequence analysis
67770	61.6	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Acidihalobacter ferrooxidans strain V8
PATRIC: 1765967.4

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	92.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	74.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	96.50	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	75.60	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Effect of Sodium Chloride on Pyrite Bioleaching and Initial Attachment by Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans.	Huynh D, Norambuena J, Boldt C, Kaschabek SR, Levican G, Schlomann M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.02102	2020
	Prediction and Inferred Evolution of Acid Tolerance Genes in the Biotechnologically Important Acidihalobacter Genus.	Boase K, Gonzalez C, Vergara E, Neira G, Holmes D, Watkin E	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2022.848410	2022
Phylogeny	Genome-based classification of Acidihalobacter prosperus F5 (=DSM 105917=JCM 32255) as Acidihalobacter yilgarnensis sp. nov.	Khaleque HN, Gonzalez C, Johnson DB, Kaksonen AH, Holmes DS, Watkin ELJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004519	2020
Phylogeny	Genome-based classification of two halotolerant extreme acidophiles, Acidihalobacter prosperus V6 (=DSM 14174 =JCM 32253) and 'Acidihalobacter ferrooxidans' V8 (=DSM 14175 =JCM 32254) as two new species, Acidihalobacter aeolianus sp. nov. and Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans sp. nov., respectively.	Khaleque HN, Gonzalez C, Kaksonen AH, Boxall NJ, Holmes DS, Watkin ELJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003313	2019

References

#5242	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14175
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#67866	Himel N. Khaleque, Carolina González, Anna H. Kaksonen, Naomi J. Boxall, David S. Holmes, Elizabeth L. J. Watkin: Genome-based classification of two halotolerant extreme acidophiles, Acidihalobacter prosperus V6 (=DSM 14174 =JCM 32253) and 'Acidihalobacter ferrooxidans' V8 (=DSM 14175 =JCM 32254) as two new species, Acidihalobacter aeolianus sp. nov. and Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans sp. nov., respectively. IJSEM 69: 1557 - 1565 2019 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.003313 )
#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 .
#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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Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans (DSM 14175, V8, JCM 32254)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001975725

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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