Name: Aquifex pyrophilus Kol5a
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 508

Type strain:

Species: Aquifex pyrophilus

Strain Designation: Kol5a

Culture col. no.: DSM 6858, JCM 9492

Strain history: DSM 6858 <-- K. O. Stetter Kol5a.

NCBI tax ID(s): 2714 (species)

SI-ID 48306

DSM 6858, JCM 9492

Section

Aquifex pyrophilus Kol5a is a hyperthermophilic bacterium that was isolated from hot marine sediments.

hyperthermophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Aquificota*
	Class	*Aquificia*
	Order	*Aquificales*
	Family	*Aquificaceae*
	Genus	*Aquifex*
	Species	**Aquifex pyrophilus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Aquifex pyrophilus Huber and Stetter 1992

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MODIFIED SME MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 534)

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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

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #2861]			growth	85 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	85 °C

[Ref.: #2861]	Temperature range	hyperthermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	hyperthermophilic

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #2861]	Sample type/isolated from	hot marine sediments
[Ref.: #2861]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Kolbeinsey Ridge north of Iceland
[Ref.: #2861]	Country	Iceland
[Ref.: #2861]	Country ISO 3 Code	ISL
[Ref.: #2861]	Continent	Europe

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Submarine hot sandy sediment at a depth of 106 m at the Kolbeinsey Ridge north of Iceland
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Isolation sources categories

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

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence M83548 (>99% sequence identity) for Aquifex pyrophilus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	270
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	270

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.: #2861]	Aquifex pyrophilus 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	M83548	1564	ENA	2714 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Aquifex pyrophilus 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer containing tRNA-Ile and tRNA-Ala genes, type strain DSM 6858T	AM259526	366	ENA	2714 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	39 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	41.5 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 6858, JCM 9492

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SI-ID 48306

References

#2861

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 6858

#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 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

#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 .

#70187

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-ID48306.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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