Thermocrinis albus (DSM 12173, OC 1/4)

Name: Thermocrinis albus (DSM 12173, OC 1/4)
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BacDive ID 522

Type strain

Strain Designation OC 1/4

Culture col. no. DSM 12173 OC 1/4

NCBI tax ID(s) 932678 136094

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- R. Huber and K. O. Stetter; OC 1/4 (Originally deposited as a strain of Thermocrinis ruber, but this strain does not appear to be an authentic sub-culture of strains OC 1/4)

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Thermocrinis albus OC 1/4 is a hyperthermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from pink filamentous cell masses from a hot spring.

hyperthermophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49245

DSM 12173

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:17:53

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Aquificota

Class Aquificia

Order Aquificales

Family Aquificaceae

Genus Thermocrinis

Species Thermocrinis albus

Full scientific name Thermocrinis albus Eder and Huber 2002

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Thermocrinis albus** (1)	Type strain
524	T. albus HI 11/12, DSM 14484, JCM 11386 (type strain)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4632	OS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 887)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: OS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 887) Composition: Gelrite 15.0 g/l NaHCO3 1.0 g/l Na2S2O3 x 5 H2O 1.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.03 g/l Na2SO4 0.023 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.015 g/l KCl 0.015 g/l NaCl 0.01 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.005 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0018 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0018 g/l KH2PO4 0.0017 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.001 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.001 g/l NaNO3 0.0003 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0003 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.0002 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.0001 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.0001 g/l H3BO3 0.0001 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.0001 g/l MnSO4 x 4 H2O 6e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 4e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 3e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
4632	positive	growth	80	hyperthermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

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

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4632	pink filamentous cell masses from a hot spring	Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Octopus Spring	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4632	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

4632

GC-content (mol%)47.5

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	The Dark Side of the Mushroom Spring Microbial Mat: Life in the Shadow of Chlorophototrophs. II. Metabolic Functions of Abundant Community Members Predicted from Metagenomic Analyses.	Thiel V, Hugler M, Ward DM, Bryant DA.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.00943	2017
	Complete genome sequence of Thermocrinis albus type strain (HI 11/12).	Wirth R, Sikorski J, Brambilla E, Misra M, Lapidus A, Copeland A, Nolan M, Lucas S, Chen F, Tice H, Cheng JF, Han C, Detter JC, Tapia R, Bruce D, Goodwin L, Pitluck S, Pati A, Anderson I, Ivanova N, Mavromatis K, Mikhailova N, Chen A, Palaniappan K, Bilek Y, Hader T, Land M, Hauser L, Chang YJ, Jeffries CD, Tindall BJ, Rohde M, Goker M, Bristow J, Eisen JA, Markowitz V, Hugenholtz P, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP.	Stand Genomic Sci	10.4056/sigs.761490	2010
Metabolism	Insight into the evolution of microbial metabolism from the deep-branching bacterium, Thermovibrio ammonificans.	Giovannelli D, Sievert SM, Hugler M, Markert S, Becher D, Schweder T, Vetriani C.	Elife	10.7554/elife.18990	2017
Phylogeny	Signature lipids and stable carbon isotope analyses of Octopus Spring hyperthermophilic communities compared with those of Aquificales representatives.	Jahnke LL, Eder W, Huber R, Hope JM, Hinrichs KU, Hayes JM, Des Marais DJ, Cady SL, Summons RE.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.67.11.5179-5189.2001	2001
Phylogeny	Recognition of the unsuitability of DSM 12173 as the deposited type strain of Thermocrinis ruber Huber et al. 1999, recognition of DSM 23557 as an authentic sub-culture of strain OC 1/4, the nomenclatural type of Thermocrinis ruber Huber et al. 1999 and an emended description of Thermocrinis ruber Huber et al. 1999.	Eder W, Tindall BJ, Huber H, Peplies J, Wirth R	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-020-01850-x	2020
Phylogeny	Thermocrinis minervae sp. nov., a hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing, thermophilic member of the Aquificales from a Costa Rican terrestrial hot spring.	Caldwell SL, Liu Y, Ferrera I, Beveridge T, Reysenbach AL	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.010496-0	2009
Phylogeny	Thermocrinis ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., A pink-filament-forming hyperthermophilic bacterium isolated from yellowstone national park	Huber R, Eder W, Heldwein S, Wanner G, Huber H, Rachel R, Stetter KO	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/AEM.64.10.3576-3583.1998	1998

References

#4632	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12173
#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 )
#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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Thermocrinis albus (DSM 12173, OC 1/4)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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