Name: Ignicoccus islandicus DSM 13165
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 4189

Type strain:

Species: Ignicoccus islandicus

Culture col. no.: DSM 13165, ATCC 700957, Kol 8

Strain history: <- H. Huber and K. O. Stetter, Univ. Regensburg, Germany; Kol8 <- K. O. Stetter {1989}

NCBI tax ID(s): 940295 (strain), 54259 (species)

SI-ID 49425

DSM 13165, ATCC 700957

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Ignicoccus islandicus DSM 13165 is an anaerobe, chemolithoautotroph, spore-forming archaeon that was isolated from sandy sediments.

coccus-shaped
Gram-negative
motile
spore-forming
anaerobe
chemolithoautotroph
16S sequence
Archaea
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Thermoproteota*
	Class	*Thermoprotei*
	Order	*Desulfurococcales*
	Family	*Desulfurococcaceae*
	Genus	*Ignicoccus*
	Species	**Ignicoccus islandicus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Ignicoccus islandicus Huber et al. 2000

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #23219]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #23219]	Cell length	1.2-3.0 µm

[Ref.: #23219]	Cell shape	coccus-shaped

[Ref.: #23219]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #23219]	Flagellum arrangement	polytrichous, monopolar

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

IGNICOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 897)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #4955]	growth	90 °C
[Ref.: #23219]	growth	70-98 °C
[Ref.: #23219]	optimum	90 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #23219]			optimum	5.8
[Ref.: #23219]			growth	3.8-6.5

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #4955]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #23219]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #69480]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe Confidence in %91.911

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Nutrition type

chemolithoautotroph

[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %94.605
[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	yes Confidence in %100

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #23219]		NaCl		growth	0.3-5.5	%
[Ref.: #23219]		NaCl		optimum	2	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #23219]	nitrate ChEBI	-	electron acceptor
[Ref.: #23219]	sulfate ChEBI	-	electron acceptor
[Ref.: #23219]	sulfite ChEBI	-	electron acceptor
[Ref.: #23219]	thiosulfate ChEBI	-	electron acceptor

	Pathway	Enzyme coverage	Annotated reactions
	Pathway annotation	Computationally determined by
[Ref.: #66794]	hydrogen production	100	5 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	ribulose monophosphate pathway	100	2 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	flavin biosynthesis	93.33	14 of 15
[Ref.: #66794]	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	valine metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	palmitate biosynthesis	77.27	17 of 22
[Ref.: #66794]	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	coenzyme A metabolism	75	3 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	71.43	5 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	threonine metabolism	70	7 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	1,4-dihydroxy-6-naphthoate biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
[Ref.: #66794]	NAD metabolism	66.67	12 of 18
[Ref.: #66794]	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	pantothenate biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
[Ref.: #66794]	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	methionine metabolism	65.38	17 of 26
[Ref.: #66794]	purine metabolism	63.83	60 of 94
[Ref.: #66794]	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	isoleucine metabolism	62.5	5 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	62.5	5 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	pyrimidine metabolism	60	27 of 45
[Ref.: #66794]	glycolysis	58.82	10 of 17
[Ref.: #66794]	ubiquinone biosynthesis	57.14	4 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	57.14	16 of 28
[Ref.: #66794]	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	d-mannose degradation	55.56	5 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	pentose phosphate pathway	54.55	6 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	vitamin B1 metabolism	53.85	7 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	denitrification	50	1 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	tryptophan metabolism	50	19 of 38
[Ref.: #66794]	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	heme metabolism	50	7 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	50	7 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
[Ref.: #66794]	polyamine pathway	47.83	11 of 23
[Ref.: #66794]	urea cycle	46.15	6 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	leucine metabolism	46.15	6 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	sulfate reduction	46.15	6 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	alanine metabolism	44.83	13 of 29
[Ref.: #66794]	histidine metabolism	44.83	13 of 29
[Ref.: #66794]	lipid A biosynthesis	44.44	4 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	serine metabolism	44.44	4 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	cysteine metabolism	44.44	8 of 18
[Ref.: #66794]	citric acid cycle	42.86	6 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	tyrosine metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	creatinine degradation	40	2 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	glycine betaine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	3-chlorocatechol degradation	40	2 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	lipid metabolism	38.71	12 of 31
[Ref.: #66794]	arginine metabolism	37.5	9 of 24
[Ref.: #66794]	phenol degradation	35	7 of 20
[Ref.: #66794]	isoprenoid biosynthesis	34.62	9 of 26
[Ref.: #66794]	oxidative phosphorylation	34.07	31 of 91
[Ref.: #66794]	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	33.33	2 of 6
[Ref.: #66794]	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	methane metabolism	33.33	1 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	33.33	3 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	lysine metabolism	33.33	14 of 42
[Ref.: #66794]	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	L-lactaldehyde degradation	33.33	1 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	degradation of hexoses	33.33	6 of 18
[Ref.: #66794]	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	30	3 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	non-pathway related	28.95	11 of 38
[Ref.: #66794]	mevalonate metabolism	28.57	2 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	glutathione metabolism	28.57	4 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	vitamin B6 metabolism	27.27	3 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	proline metabolism	27.27	3 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	27.27	3 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	methanogenesis from CO2	25	3 of 12
[Ref.: #66794]	butanoate fermentation	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	25	3 of 12
[Ref.: #66794]	degradation of pentoses	21.43	6 of 28
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Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #4955]	Sample type/isolated from	sandy sediments
[Ref.: #4955]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Kolbeinsey Ridge north of Iceland
[Ref.: #4955]	Country	Iceland
[Ref.: #4955]	Country ISO 3 Code	ISL
[Ref.: #4955]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sandy
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #4955]	I.islandicus 16S rRNA gene	X99562	1469	GenBank ENA	940295 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Ignicoccus islandicus DSM 13165	GCA_001481685	complete	GenBank ENA	940295 tax ID	*

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GC-content

41 mol%

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Ignicoccus islandicus DSM 13165 DSM 13165 NCBI: GCA_001481685.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	100	no

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Ignicoccus islandicus DSM 13165 DSM 13165 NCBI: GCA_001481685.1
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	72.917	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	91.911	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	95.281	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	94.605	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	81.992	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	60.289	yes

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 13165, ATCC 700957, Kol 8

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SI-ID 49425

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Ignicoccus gen. nov., a novel genus of hyperthermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic Archaea, represented by two new species, Ignicoccus islandicus sp nov and Ignicoccus pacificus sp nov. and Ignicoccus pacificus sp. nov.	Huber H, Burggraf S, Mayer T, Wyschkony I, Rachel R, Stetter KO	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-50-6-2093	2000	*

References

#4955

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 13165

#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 )

#23219

H Huber, S Burggraf, T Mayer, I Wyschkony, R Rachel, K O Stetter: Ignicoccus gen. nov., a novel genus of hyperthermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic Archaea, represented by two new species, Ignicoccus islandicus sp nov and Ignicoccus pacificus sp nov. and Ignicoccus pacificus sp. nov.. IJSEM 50: 2093 - 2100 2000 ( DOI 10.1099/00207713-50-6-2093 , PubMed 11155984 )

#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 )

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#73689

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID49425.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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