Staphylothermus hellenicus (DSM 12710, JCM 10830, P8)

Name: Staphylothermus hellenicus (DSM 12710, JCM 10830, P8)
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BacDive ID 4203

Type strain

Strain Designation P8

Culture col. no. DSM 12710 JCM 10830 P8

NCBI tax ID(s) 591019 84599

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History DSMZ <- M. Thomm, Univ. Kiel, Germany; P8 <- H. Arab and M. Thomm {1997} JCM <-- M. Thomm P8.

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Staphylothermus hellenicus P8 is an anaerobe, coccus-shaped archaeon that forms irregular colonies and was isolated from hydrothermal site off Palaeochori Bay.

coccus-shaped colony-forming anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49346

DSM 12710,JCM 10830

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:53

Domain Archaea

Phylum Thermoproteota

Class Thermoprotei

Order Desulfurococcales

Family Desulfurococcaceae

Genus Staphylothermus

Species Staphylothermus hellenicus

Full scientific name Staphylothermus hellenicus Arab et al. 2000

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell shape
23227	0.8-1.3 µm	coccus-shaped

Colony morphology

23227

Colony shapeirregular

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4794	STETTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 795)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: STETTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 795) Composition: Sulfur 9.82318 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 5.40275 g/l Peptone 1.96464 g/l Yeast extract 0.982318 g/l KCl 0.638507 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.491159 g/l KH2PO4 0.491159 g/l NaHCO3 0.157171 g/l NaBr 0.0982318 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0442043 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0221022 g/l SrCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0147348 g/l NaCl 0.0147348 g/l Na3-citrate 0.00982318 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00736739 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00294695 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00265226 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00265226 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00147348 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.00147348 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000491159 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.000294695 g/l H3BO3 0.000147348 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.000147348 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.000147348 g/l KI 4.91159e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 5.89391e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 4.42043e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4794	positive	growth	85
23227	positive	growth	70-90
23227	positive	optimum	85
67770	positive	growth	85

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
23227	positive	optimum	6.0
23227	positive	growth	4.5-7.0

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
4794	anaerobe
23227	obligate anaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		93.831

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
23227	NaCl	positive	growth	2-8 %
23227	NaCl	positive	optimum	4 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
23227	yeast extract	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4794	hydrothermal site off Palaeochori Bay	Aegean Sea, Milos	Greece	GRC	Europe
23227	geothermally heated sediment at Palaeochori Bay, located at a depth of 9.4 m
67770	Geothermally heated sediment at Palaeochori Bay	Milos	Greece	GRC	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ012645 (>99% sequence identity) for Staphylothermus hellenicus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	67
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples	0
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	68

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4794	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	ASM9246v1 assembly for Staphylothermus hellenicus DSM 12710	complete	GCA_000092465	591019.7	646564573	591019	98.77

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
23227	Staphylothermus achaiicus (isolate P8) 16S rRNA gene, partial	AJ012645	1372		591019

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4794	38	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
4794	36.8	sequence analysis
67770	38.8	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM9246v1 assembly for Staphylothermus hellenicus DSM 12710
BV-BRC: 591019.7

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	75.66	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	54.63	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	80.18	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	55.81	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Staphylothermus hellenicus DSM 12710 DSM 12710
NCBI: GCA_000092465.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	70.32	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	89.36	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	93.70	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.83	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	79.05	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	77.44	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Phenotype-driven assessment of the ancestral trajectory of sulfur biooxidation in the thermoacidophilic archaea Sulfolobaceae.	Willard DJ, H Manesh MJ, Bing RG, Alexander BH, Kelly RM.	mBio	10.1128/mbio.01033-24	2024
	Complete genome sequence of Staphylothermus hellenicus P8.	Anderson I, Wirth R, Lucas S, Copeland A, Lapidus A, Cheng JF, Goodwin L, Pitluck S, Davenport K, Detter JC, Han C, Tapia R, Land M, Hauser L, Pati A, Mikhailova N, Woyke T, Klenk HP, Kyrpides N, Ivanova N.	Stand Genomic Sci	10.4056/sigs.2054696	2011
	Comparative analysis of amino acid sequences from mesophiles and thermophiles in respective of carbon-nitrogen hydrolase family.	Devi S, Sharma N, Savitri, Bhalla TC.	3 Biotech	10.1007/s13205-012-0111-3	2013
	The canonical single-stranded DNA-binding protein is not an essential replication factor but an RNA chaperon in Saccharolobus islandicus.	Xiao Y, Jiang Z, Zhang M, Zhang X, Gan Q, Yang Y, Wu P, Feng X, Ni J, Dong X, She Q, Huang Q, Shen Y.	iScience	10.1016/j.isci.2023.108389	2023
Enzymology	The N-terminal beta-sheet of the hyperthermophilic endoglucanase from Pyrococcus horikoshii is critical for thermostability.	Yang TC, Legault S, Kayiranga EA, Kumaran J, Ishikawa K, Sung WL.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.07576-11	2012
	Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Archaea: A Comparison of the Whole-Genome-Based CVTree Approach with 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis.	Zuo G, Xu Z, Hao B.	Life (Basel)	10.3390/life5010949	2015
	Gene fusion analysis in the battle against the African endemic sleeping sickness.	Trimpalis P, Koumandou VL, Pliakou E, Anagnou NP, Kossida S.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0068854	2013
Metabolism	The archaeal Ced system imports DNA.	van Wolferen M, Wagner A, van der Does C, Albers SV.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.1513740113	2016
	Transmission of the PabI family of restriction DNA glycosylase genes: mobility and long-term inheritance.	Kojima KK, Kobayashi I.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/s12864-015-2021-3	2015
Phylogeny	The dispersed archaeal eukaryome and the complex archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes.	Koonin EV, Yutin N.	Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol	10.1101/cshperspect.a016188	2014
Genetics	Gene-Family Extension Measures and Correlations.	Carmi G, Bolshoy A.	Life (Basel)	10.3390/life6030030	2016
	SORGOdb: Superoxide Reductase Gene Ontology curated DataBase.	Lucchetti-Miganeh C, Goudenege D, Thybert D, Salbert G, Barloy-Hubler F.	BMC Microbiol	10.1186/1471-2180-11-105	2011
Metabolism	Phylogenomic reconstruction of archaeal fatty acid metabolism.	Dibrova DV, Galperin MY, Mulkidjanian AY.	Environ Microbiol	10.1111/1462-2920.12359	2014
Phylogeny	Thermococcus aegaeicus sp. nov. and Staphylothermus hellenicus sp. nov., two novel hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from geothermally heated vents off Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece.	Arab H, Volker H, Thomm M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-50-6-2101	2000

References

#4794	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12710
#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 )
#23227	H Arab, H Völker, M Thomm: Thermococcus aegaeicus sp. nov. and Staphylothermus hellenicus sp. nov., two novel hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from geothermally heated vents off Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece. IJSEM 50: 2101 - 2108 2000 ( DOI 10.1099/00207713-50-6-2101 , PubMed 11155985 )
#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) .
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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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Staphylothermus hellenicus (DSM 12710, JCM 10830, P8)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000092465

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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