Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans (DSM 19093, UNIQEM U234, ASO3-1)

Name: Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans (DSM 19093, UNIQEM U234, ASO3-1)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 4047

Type strain

Strain Designation ASO3-1

Culture col. no. DSM 19093 UNIQEM U234 ASO3-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 555779 488939

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- D. Y. Sorokin, TU Delft, Dept. Biotechnology, Delft, Netherlands; ASO3-1 <- D. Y. Sorokin; {2005}

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Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans ASO3-1 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from sediments from hypersaline soda lake.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 399707

DSM 19093

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:38

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfonatronovibrionaceae

Genus Desulfonatronospira

Species Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans

Full scientific name Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans Sorokin et al. 2008

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	91.9

Colony morphology

7884

Incubation period8-14 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
7884	DESULFONATRONOSPIRA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1101)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFONATRONOSPIRA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1101) Composition: Na2CO3 94.7159 g/l NaCl 14.9551 g/l NaHCO3 14.9551 g/l Na-L-lactate 2.19342 g/l Na2SO3 1.29611 g/l K2HPO4 0.498504 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.239282 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.199402 g/l NH4Cl 0.199402 g/l Yeast extract 0.0498504 g/l EDTA 0.00498504 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00219342 g/l NaOH 0.000498504 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000199402 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.97009e-05 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 9.97009e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.98504e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.98504e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.98504e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 2.99103e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.99103e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 2.99103e-05 g/l H3BO3 2.99103e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 2.99103e-05 g/l Biotin 1.99402e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.99402e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.98804e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.99103e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.97009e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
7884	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
7884	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe	99.4

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	100	7 of 7
66794	chorismate metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	hydrogen production	100	5 of 5
66794	teichoic acid biosynthesis	100	1 of 1
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	photosynthesis	92.86	13 of 14
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	85.71	6 of 7
66794	1,4-dihydroxy-6-naphthoate biosynthesis	83.33	5 of 6
66794	starch degradation	80	8 of 10
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	valine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	flavin biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	73.33	33 of 45
66794	proline metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	NAD metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	heme metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	70.59	24 of 34
66794	purine metabolism	70.21	66 of 94
66794	threonine metabolism	70	7 of 10
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	67.86	19 of 28
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	66.67	6 of 9
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	alanine metabolism	65.52	19 of 29
66794	isoleucine metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	methionine metabolism	61.54	16 of 26
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	cysteine metabolism	61.11	11 of 18
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	60	3 of 5
66794	cellulose degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	60	6 of 10
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	59.34	54 of 91
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	57.69	15 of 26
66794	lysine metabolism	57.14	24 of 42
66794	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
66794	citric acid cycle	57.14	8 of 14
66794	glutathione metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	56.25	9 of 16
66794	nitrate assimilation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	serine metabolism	55.56	5 of 9
66794	non-pathway related	55.26	21 of 38
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	54.55	6 of 11
66794	urea cycle	53.85	7 of 13
66794	sulfate reduction	53.85	7 of 13
66794	dolichol and dolichyl phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	lactate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	50	3 of 6
66794	vitamin E metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	adipate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	histidine metabolism	48.28	14 of 29
66794	polyamine pathway	47.83	11 of 23
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	leucine metabolism	46.15	6 of 13
66794	arginine metabolism	45.83	11 of 24
66794	lipid metabolism	45.16	14 of 31
66794	tryptophan metabolism	44.74	17 of 38
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	44.44	4 of 9
66794	tyrosine metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	40	4 of 10
66794	degradation of hexoses	38.89	7 of 18
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	36.36	4 of 11
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	36.36	4 of 11
66794	degradation of pentoses	35.71	10 of 28
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	33.33	4 of 12
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	33.33	4 of 12
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	31.25	5 of 16
66794	propionate fermentation	30	3 of 10
66794	phenol degradation	30	6 of 20
66794	ascorbate metabolism	27.27	6 of 22
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	27.27	3 of 11
66794	d-xylose degradation	27.27	3 of 11
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Condition	#Alkaline	-
#Condition	#Saline	-
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Non-marine Saline and Alkaline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
7884	sediments from hypersaline soda lake	South Siberia	Russia	RUS	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EU296537 (>99% sequence identity) for Desulfonatronospira from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	33
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples
Total Samples	34

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7884	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	ASM17443v1 assembly for Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans ASO3-1	scaffold	GCA_000174435	555779.3	643886196	555779	76.15

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7884	Desulfonatronospira dismutants strain ASO3-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU296537	1528		555779

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
7884	50	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans ASO3-1
NCBI: GCA_000174435

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	88.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	60.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	91.90	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.40	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Development and Validation of Broad-Range Qualitative and Clade-Specific Quantitative Molecular Probes for Assessing Mercury Methylation in the Environment.	Christensen GA, Wymore AM, King AJ, Podar M, Hurt RA, Santillan EU, Soren A, Brandt CC, Brown SD, Palumbo AV, Wall JD, Gilmour CC, Elias DA.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01271-16	2016
	An RNA ligase partner for the prokaryotic protein-only RNase P: insights into the functional diversity of RNase P from genome mining.	Seshadri R, Gopalan V.	mBio	10.1128/mbio.00449-25	2025
	Microbial hauberks: composition and function of surface layer proteins in gammaproteobacterial methanotrophs.	Hamilton R, Gebbie W, Bowman C, Mantanona A, Kalyuzhnaya MG.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01364-24	2025
Metabolism	Gut Bacteria Involved in Ellagic Acid Metabolism To Yield Human Urolithin Metabotypes Revealed.	Iglesias-Aguirre CE, Garcia-Villalba R, Beltran D, Frutos-Lison MD, Espin JC, Tomas-Barberan FA, Selma MV.	J Agric Food Chem	10.1021/acs.jafc.2c08889	2023
Genetics	Genetic Potential of Dissulfurimicrobium hydrothermale, an Obligate Sulfur-Disproportionating Thermophilic Microorganism.	Yvenou S, Allioux M, Slobodkin A, Slobodkina G, Jebbar M, Alain K.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10010060	2021
	Biotechnological potentials of halophilic microorganisms and their impact on mankind.	Dutta B, Bandopadhyay R.	Beni Suef Univ J Basic Appl Sci	10.1186/s43088-022-00252-w	2022
	Metabolomic and Metagenomic Analysis of Two Crude Oil Production Pipelines Experiencing Differential Rates of Corrosion.	Bonifay V, Wawrik B, Sunner J, Snodgrass EC, Aydin E, Duncan KE, Callaghan AV, Oldham A, Liengen T, Beech I.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.00099	2017
	Temperate southern Australian coastal waters are characterised by surprisingly high rates of nitrogen fixation and diversity of diazotrophs.	Messer LF, Brown MV, Van Ruth PD, Doubell M, Seymour JR.	PeerJ	10.7717/peerj.10809	2021
	The Shifts of Diazotrophic Communities in Spring and Summer Associated with Coral Galaxea astreata, Pavona decussata, and Porites lutea.	Zhang Y, Yang Q, Ling J, Van Nostrand JD, Shi Z, Zhou J, Dong J.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2016.01870	2016
Metabolism	Metatranscriptomic analysis of prokaryotic communities active in sulfur and arsenic cycling in Mono Lake, California, USA.	Edwardson CF, Edwardson CF, Hollibaugh JT.	ISME J	10.1038/ismej.2017.80	2017
	Deciphering unusual uncultured magnetotactic multicellular prokaryotes through genomics.	Abreu F, Morillo V, Nascimento FF, Werneck C, Cantao ME, Ciapina LP, de Almeida LG, Lefevre CT, Bazylinski DA, de Vasconcelos AT, Lins U.	ISME J	10.1038/ismej.2013.203	2014
Metabolism	Complete genome sequence of Thermosphaera aggregans type strain (M11TL).	Spring S, Rachel R, Lapidus A, Davenport K, Tice H, Copeland A, Cheng JF, Lucas S, Chen F, Nolan M, Bruce D, Goodwin L, Pitluck S, Ivanova N, Mavromatis K, Ovchinnikova G, Pati A, Chen A, Palaniappan K, Land M, Hauser L, Chang YJ, Jeffries CC, Brettin T, Detter JC, Tapia R, Han C, Heimerl T, Weikl F, Brambilla E, Goker M, Bristow J, Eisen JA, Markowitz V, Hugenholtz P, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP.	Stand Genomic Sci	10.4056/sigs.821804	2010
Metabolism	DotU and VgrG, core components of type VI secretion systems, are essential for Francisella LVS pathogenicity.	Broms JE, Meyer L, Lavander M, Larsson P, Sjostedt A.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0034639	2012
Phylogeny	Functional gene analysis suggests different acetogen populations in the bovine rumen and tammar wallaby forestomach.	Gagen EJ, Denman SE, Padmanabha J, Zadbuke S, Al Jassim R, Morrison M, McSweeney CS.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01679-10	2010
Metabolism	The genome of the Gram-positive metal- and sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfotomaculum reducens strain MI-1.	Junier P, Junier T, Podell S, Sims DR, Detter JC, Lykidis A, Han CS, Wigginton NS, Gaasterland T, Bernier-Latmani R.	Environ Microbiol	10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02242.x	2010
	Desulfovulcanus ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic autotrophic iron and sulfate-reducing bacterium from subseafloor basalt that grows on akaganéite and lepidocrocite minerals.	Kashyap S, Musa M, Neat KA, Leopo DA, Holden JF.	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-022-01263-2	2022
	Physiological and comparative proteomic characterization of Desulfolithobacter dissulfuricans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, sulfur-disproportionating chemolithoautotroph from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent.	Hashimoto Y, Shimamura S, Tame A, Sawayama S, Miyazaki J, Takai K, Nakagawa S.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2022.1042116	2022
Metabolism	Desulfohalophilus alkaliarsenatis gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic sulfate- and arsenate-respiring bacterium from Searles Lake, California.	Blum JS, Kulp TR, Han S, Lanoil B, Saltikov CW, Stolz JF, Miller LG, Oremland RS.	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-012-0468-6	2012
Metabolism	Sulfidogenesis under extremely haloalkaline conditions by Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Desulfonatronospira delicata sp. nov. - a novel lineage of Deltaproteobacteria from hypersaline soda lakes.	Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Henstra AM, Stams AJM, Galinski EA, Muyzer G	Microbiology (Reading)	10.1099/mic.0.2007/015628-0	2008

References

#7884	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19093
#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) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#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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Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans (DSM 19093, UNIQEM U234, ASO3-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000174435

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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