Acidiphilium acidophilum (DSM 700, ATCC 27807, CIP 104483)

Name: Acidiphilium acidophilum (DSM 700, ATCC 27807, CIP 104483)
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BacDive ID 30

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 700 ATCC 27807 CIP 104483

NCBI tax ID(s) 1307921 76588

Special Collections DSMZ CIP

History <- R. Guay, Université Laval, Québec, Canada <- R. Guay and M. Silver {1975} CIP <- 1995, DSM <- R. Guay <- (D.G. Lundgren)

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Acidiphilium acidophilum DSM 700 is a bacterium that was isolated from culture of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, strain TM .

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 39187

ATCC 27807,DSM 700,CIP 104483,NCIMB 12628,NCIM 5131

@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 acidophilum

Full scientific name Acidiphilium acidophilum (Harrison 1983 ex Guay and Silver 1975) Hiraishi et al. 1998

Synonyms (2)

Thiobacillus acidophilus
"Thiobacillus acidophilus"

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
363	ACIDIPHILIUM ACIDOPHILUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 108)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDIPHILIUM ACIDOPHILUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 108) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l D-Glucose 10.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 3.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 1.0 g/l KH2PO4 0.5 g/l KCl 0.1 g/l Ca(NO3)2 x 4 H2O 0.018 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 1e-05 g/l Distilled water
41191	MEDIUM 125 - for Thiobacillus acidophilus		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Potassium chloride (0.100 mg);Iron (II) sulphate heptahydrate (0.010 mg);Magnesium sulphate heptahydrate (1.000 g);Agar (15.000 g);Glucose (10.000 g);Ammonium sulphate (3.000 g);Potassium di-hydrogen phosphate (0.5
116017	CIP Medium 125	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
363	positive	growth	30
41191	positive	growth	26

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

363

Compoundthreonine deaminase

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Microbial	#Bacteria

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Isolation date
363	derived from culture of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, strain TM (D.G. Lundgren, Syracuse University, NY, USA)	Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
116017			1975

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence D86511 (>99% sequence identity) for Acidiphilium acidophilum from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	221
Soil Samples	110
Animal Samples	37
Plant Samples	8
Total Samples	376

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
363	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
116017	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID
124043	ASM2599533v1 assembly for Acidiphilium acidophilum DSM 700	contig	GCA_025995335	1307921.3	1307921

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Acidiphilium acidophilum 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA), complete sequence	AH001790	656		76588
363	Acidiphilium acidophilum gene for 16S rRNA	D86511	1419		76588

GC content

363

GC-content (mol%)62.9-63.2

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Thermodynamic restrictions determine ammonia tolerance of methanogenic pathways in Methanosarcina barkeri.	Yi Y, Dolfing J, Jin G, Fang X, Han W, Liu L, Tang Y, Cheng L.	Water Res	10.1016/j.watres.2023.119664	2023
Metabolism	Tetrathionate hydrolase from the acidophilic microorganisms.	Kanao T.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2024.1338669	2024
	Ethane-oxidising archaea couple CO₂ generation to F₄₂₀ reduction.	Lemaire ON, Wegener G, Wagner T.	Nat Commun	10.1038/s41467-024-53338-7	2024
Metabolism	Rumen microbial degradation of bromoform from red seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis) and the impact on rumen fermentation and methanogenic archaea.	Romero P, Belanche A, Jimenez E, Hueso R, Ramos-Morales E, Salwen JK, Kebreab E, Yanez-Ruiz DR.	J Anim Sci Biotechnol	10.1186/s40104-023-00935-z	2023
Enzymology	Physiological Effects of 2-Bromoethanesulfonate on Hydrogenotrophic Pure and Mixed Cultures.	Logrono W, Nikolausz M, Harms H, Kleinsteuber S.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10020355	2022
Metabolism	Production of fungal and bacterial growth modulating secondary metabolites is widespread among mycorrhiza-associated streptomycetes.	Schrey SD, Erkenbrack E, Fruh E, Fengler S, Hommel K, Horlacher N, Schulz D, Ecke M, Kulik A, Fiedler HP, Hampp R, Tarkka MT.	BMC Microbiol	10.1186/1471-2180-12-164	2012
Phylogeny	Bacteria associated with spores of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Glomus geosporum and Glomus constrictum.	Roesti D, Ineichen K, Braissant O, Redecker D, Wiemken A, Aragno M.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.71.11.6673-6679.2005	2005
Phylogeny	Distribution of Crenarchaeota representatives in terrestrial hot springs of Russia and Iceland.	Perevalova AA, Kolganova TV, Birkeland NK, Schleper C, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Lebedinsky AV.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.00972-08	2008
	Correlation Between Fe/S/As Speciation Transformation and Depth Distribution of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Acidiphilium acidophilum in Simulated Acidic Water Column.	Zhou YH, Wang C, Liu HC, Xue Z, Nie ZY, Liu Y, Wan JL, Yang Y, Shu WS, Xia JL.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2021.819804	2021
Metabolism	Biomarker panels for characterizing microbial community biofilm formation as composite molecular process.	Bosse M, Heuwieser A, Heinzel A, Lukas A, Oliveira G, Mayer B.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0202032	2018
Phylogeny	Development and application of small-subunit rRNA probes for assessment of selected Thiobacillus species and members of the genus Acidiphilium.	Peccia J, Marchand EA, Silverstein J, Hernandez M.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.66.7.3065-3072.2000	2000
Enzymology	Detection of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans in acid mine drainage environments using fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH).	Mahmoud KK, Leduc LG, Ferroni GD	J Microbiol Methods	10.1016/j.mimet.2004.10.022	2005
Metabolism	The sulfane sulfur of persulfides is the actual substrate of the sulfur-oxidizing enzymes from Acidithiobacillus and Acidiphilium spp.	Rohwerder T, Sand W	Microbiology (Reading)	10.1099/mic.0.26212-0	2003
Phylogeny	Phylogeny and photosynthetic features of Thiobacillus acidophilus and related acidophilic bacteria: its transfer to the genus Acidiphilium as Acidiphilium acidophilum comb. nov.	Hiraishi A, Nagashima KV, Matsuura K, Shimada K, Takaichi S, Wakao N, Katayama Y	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-48-4-1389	1998

References

#363	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 700
#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 )
#41191	; Curators of the CIP;
#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 .
#116017	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 104483
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Acidiphilium acidophilum (DSM 700, ATCC 27807, CIP 104483)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_025995335

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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