Desulfurococcus mucosus (DSM 2161, ATCC 35582, Hvv 3/9)

Name: Desulfurococcus mucosus (DSM 2161, ATCC 35582, Hvv 3/9)
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BacDive ID 4197

Type strain

Strain Designation Hvv 3/9

Culture col. no. DSM 2161 ATCC 35582 Hvv 3/9 JCM 9186

NCBI tax ID(s) 675631 2275

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

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Desulfurococcus mucosus Hvv 3/9 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from acidic water from solfataric field.

anaerobe hyperthermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 93022

ATCC 35582,DSM 2161,JCM 9186

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:45

Domain Thermoproteati

Phylum Thermoproteota

Class Thermoprotei

Order Desulfurococcales

Family Desulfurococcaceae

Genus Desulfurococcus

Species Desulfurococcus mucosus

Full scientific name Desulfurococcus mucosus Zillig and Stetter 1983

Synonyms (1)

Desulfurococcus mobilis

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Desulfurococcus mucosus** (1)	Type strain
4198	D. mucosus O7/1, DSM 2162, ATCC 35584, JCM 9187 (type strain)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
986	SULFOLOBUS MEDIUM (ANAEROBIC) (DSMZ Medium 88a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SULFOLOBUS MEDIUM (ANAEROBIC) (DSMZ Medium 88a; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Sulfur 10.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 1.3 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.5 g/l KH2PO4 0.28 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.25 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.07 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.02 g/l Na2B4O7 x 10 H2O 0.0045 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.0018 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00022 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 5e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l VOSO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 1e-05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
986	positive	growth	85	hyperthermophilic
67770	positive	growth	85	hyperthermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
986	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe	99.4

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic
#Condition	#Acidic
#Condition	#Sulfuric

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
986	acidic water from solfataric field	Hveravellir	Iceland	ISL	Europe
67770	Acidic hot spring in Hveravellir		Iceland	ISL	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence M36474 (>99% sequence identity) for Desulfurococcus mucosus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	16
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	4
Plant Samples
Total Samples	20

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
986	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
67770	ASM100608v1 assembly for Desulfurococcus mucosus DSM 2161	scaffold	GCA_001006085	675631.5	2513237118	675631	59.41

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
986	D.mobilis ribosomal 16S RNA gene	M36474	1650		2275

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	50.8	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: Desulfurococcus mucosus DSM 2161
NCBI: GCA_001006085

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	61.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	51.50	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	62.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.40	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Data on the optimization of an archaea-specific probe-based qPCR assay.	Bomberg M, Miettinen H.	Data Brief	10.1016/j.dib.2020.106610	2020
Metabolism	The Prodigal Compound: Return of Ribosyl 1,5-Bisphosphate as an Important Player in Metabolism.	Hove-Jensen B, Brodersen DE, Manav MC.	Microbiol Mol Biol Rev	10.1128/mmbr.00040-18	2019
Phylogeny	The methanol dehydrogenase gene, mxaF, as a functional and phylogenetic marker for proteobacterial methanotrophs in natural environments.	Lau E, Fisher MC, Steudler PA, Cavanaugh CM.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0056993	2013
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
Genetics	Permanent draft genome sequence of Desulfurococcus mobilis type strain DSM 2161, a thermoacidophilic sulfur-reducing crenarchaeon isolated from acidic hot springs of Hveravellir, Iceland.	Susanti D, Johnson EF, Lapidus A, Han J, Reddy TB, Pilay M, Ivanova NN, Markowitz VM, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Mukhopadhyay B	Stand Genomic Sci	10.1186/s40793-015-0128-4	2016
Phylogeny	Marinobacter nitratireducens sp. nov., a halophilic and lipolytic bacterium isolated from coastal surface sea water.	Vaidya B, Kumar R, Korpole S, Tanuku NRS, Pinnaka AK.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.000218	2015

References

#986	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 2161
#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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Desulfurococcus mucosus (DSM 2161, ATCC 35582, Hvv 3/9)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001006085

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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