Sulfophobococcus zilligii (DSM 11193, JCM 10309, K1)

Name: Sulfophobococcus zilligii (DSM 11193, JCM 10309, K1)
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BacDive ID 4204

Type strain

Strain Designation K1

Culture col. no. DSM 11193 JCM 10309 K1

NCBI tax ID(s) 53426

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

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Sulfophobococcus zilligii K1 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from hot alkaline spring.

anaerobe hyperthermophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49047

DSM 11193,JCM 10309

@ref 20215

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

Domain Thermoproteati

Phylum Thermoproteota

Class Thermoprotei

Order Desulfurococcales

Family Desulfurococcaceae

Genus Sulfophobococcus

Species Sulfophobococcus zilligii

Full scientific name Sulfophobococcus zilligii Hensel et al. 1997

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4231	SULFOPHOBOCOCCUS ZILLIGII MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 770)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SULFOPHOBOCOCCUS ZILLIGII MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 770) Composition: Glycine 1.49254 g/l Trypticase peptone 0.995025 g/l Yeast extract 0.995025 g/l Na2CO3 0.228855 g/l Dithiothreitol 0.149254 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0656716 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0497512 g/l Na2-EDTA 0.0318408 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0308458 g/l KCl 0.0308458 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.0022199 g/l ZnCl2 0.00202687 g/l Na2B4O7 x 10 H2O 0.00173731 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000482587 g/l H2SO4 Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
4231	positive	growth	90	hyperthermophilic
67770	positive	growth	85	hyperthermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

4231

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Alkaline	-
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4231	hot alkaline spring	Hveragerdi	Iceland	ISL	Europe
67770	Hot alkaline spring near Hveragerdi		Iceland	ISL	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence X98064 (>99% sequence identity) for Sulfophobococcus zilligii subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	160
Soil Samples	20
Animal Samples	13
Plant Samples	4
Total Samples	197

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4231	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4231	S.zilligii 16S rRNA gene	X98064	1463		53426

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4231	54.7	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#4231	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11193
#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 .
#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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