Acidiphilium cryptum (DSM 2390, KG-4, KG-4p)

Name: Acidiphilium cryptum (DSM 2390, KG-4, KG-4p)
Creator: BacDive
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BacDive ID 27

Type strain

Strain Designation KG-4, KG-4p

Culture col. no. DSM 2390 KG-4 KG-4p

NCBI tax ID(s) 524

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- A.P. Harrison, Jr., KG-4p (Isolated from a culture of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans) <- O.H. Tuovinen, KG-4 <- F. Shafia and R.F. Wilkinson, Jr.

Links

Acidiphilium cryptum KG-4 is a bacterium that was isolated from copper mine effluent.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47607

DSM 2390

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:17:46

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Acetobacteraceae

Genus Acidiphilium

Species Acidiphilium cryptum

Full scientific name Acidiphilium cryptum Harrison 1981

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Acidiphilium cryptum** (3)	Type strain
26	A. cryptum Lhet2, DSM 2389, ATCC 33463, JCM 21277, IAM ... (type strain)
28	A. cryptum 44het, AP-44, DSM 2613
29	A. cryptum N-Het2, DSM 9467

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1069	ACIDIPHILIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 269)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDIPHILIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 269) Composition: (NH4)2SO4 2.0 g/l D-Glucose 1.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l Yeast extract 0.3 g/l KCl 0.1 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1069	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Engineered	#Waste	#Wastewater
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Geologic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1069	copper mine effluent	Utah	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1069	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

1069

GC-content (mol%)68.1

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#1069	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 2390
#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 )
#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 )

Rate our new design

Content

About us