Thermocrinis albus (DSM 14484, JCM 11386, HI 11/12)

Name: Thermocrinis albus (DSM 14484, JCM 11386, HI 11/12)
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BacDive ID 524

Type strain

Strain Designation HI 11/12

Culture col. no. DSM 14484 JCM 11386 HI 11/12

NCBI tax ID(s) 638303 136094

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Thermocrinis albus HI 11/12 is a microaerophile, hyperthermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from whitisch steamers of the Hveragerthi area.

microaerophile hyperthermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 101009

DSM 14484,JCM 11386

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:46:53

Domain Pseudomonadati

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
522	T. albus OC 1/4, DSM 12173

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	98.477

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5375	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
5375	positive	growth	70	hyperthermophilic
67770	positive	growth	80	hyperthermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
5375	microaerophile
125439	anaerobe	97.5

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		93.276

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	hydrogen production	100	5 of 5
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	chorismate metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	100	7 of 7
66794	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	95.45	21 of 22
66794	valine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	81.82	9 of 11
66794	threonine metabolism	80	8 of 10
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	78.57	11 of 14
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	NAD metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
66794	flavin biosynthesis	66.67	10 of 15
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	serine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
66794	citric acid cycle	64.29	9 of 14
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	64.29	18 of 28
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	63.64	7 of 11
66794	purine metabolism	61.7	58 of 94
66794	urea cycle	61.54	8 of 13
66794	glycogen metabolism	60	3 of 5
66794	starch degradation	60	6 of 10
66794	arginine metabolism	58.33	14 of 24
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	57.78	26 of 45
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	57.69	15 of 26
66794	propanol degradation	57.14	4 of 7
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	57.14	4 of 7
66794	nitrate assimilation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	alanine metabolism	55.17	16 of 29
66794	proline metabolism	54.55	6 of 11
66794	sulfate reduction	53.85	7 of 13
66794	glycolysis	52.94	9 of 17
66794	adipate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	dolichol and dolichyl phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	50	4 of 8
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	gluconeogenesis	50	4 of 8
66794	1,4-dihydroxy-6-naphthoate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	50	3 of 6
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	49.45	45 of 91
66794	histidine metabolism	48.28	14 of 29
66794	methionine metabolism	46.15	12 of 26
66794	leucine metabolism	46.15	6 of 13
66794	non-pathway related	44.74	17 of 38
66794	lysine metabolism	42.86	18 of 42
66794	tyrosine metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
66794	tryptophan metabolism	42.11	16 of 38
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	41.67	5 of 12
66794	propionate fermentation	40	4 of 10
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	lipid metabolism	35.48	11 of 31
66794	polyamine pathway	34.78	8 of 23
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	33.33	3 of 9
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	33.33	6 of 18
66794	cysteine metabolism	33.33	6 of 18
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	degradation of hexoses	33.33	6 of 18
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	degradation of pentoses	32.14	9 of 28
66794	ascorbate metabolism	31.82	7 of 22
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	30	3 of 10
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	30	3 of 10
66794	glutathione metabolism	28.57	4 of 14
66794	butanoate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	25	3 of 12

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5375	whitisch steamers of the Hveragerthi area	Iceland	ISL	Europe
67770	Grayish filaments collected from a hot streamlet in Hveragerthi	Iceland	ISL	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5375	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	ASM2560v1 assembly for Thermocrinis albus DSM 14484	complete	GCA_000025605	638303.3	646564582	638303	96.98

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Thermocrinis albus 16S rRNA gene, strain HI 11/12	AJ278895	1488		638303

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	49.6	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: Thermocrinis albus DSM 14484
PATRIC: 638303.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	80.70	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	67.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	86.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	97.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Thermocrinis albus DSM 14484 DSM 14484
NCBI: GCA_000025605.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.48	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	59.28	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	83.02	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.28	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	79.41	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	55.98	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Exploring diazotrophic diversity: unveiling Nif core distribution and evolutionary patterns in nitrogen-fixing organisms.	Nichio BTL, Chaves RBR, Pedrosa FO, Raittz RT.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/s12864-024-10994-9	2025
	Immunoproteomic analysis of Clostridium botulinum type B secretome for identification of immunogenic proteins against botulism.	Sharma A, Ponmariappan S, Rani S, Alam SI, Shukla S.	Biotechnol Lett	10.1007/s10529-021-03091-4	2021
Genetics	Genomic Features of the Bundle-Forming Heliobacterium Heliophilum fasciatum.	Bender KS, Madigan MT, Williamson KL, Mayer MH, Parenteau MN, Jahnke LL, Welander PV, Sanguedolce SA, Brown AC, Sattley WM.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10050869	2022
Genetics	Improved soluble expression of the gene encoding amylolytic enzyme Amo45 by fusion with the mobile-loop-region of co-chaperonin GroES in Escherichia coli.	Wang L, Watzlawick H, Fridjonsson O, Hreggvidsson G, Altenbuchner J.	Biocatal Biotransformation	10.3109/10242422.2013.858712	2013
	nifPred: Proteome-Wide Identification and Categorization of Nitrogen-Fixation Proteins of Diaztrophs Based on Composition-Transition-Distribution Features Using Support Vector Machine.	Meher PK, Sahu TK, Mohanty J, Gahoi S, Purru S, Grover M, Rao AR.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2018.01100	2018
Metabolism	Phosphoserine Phosphatase Is Required for Serine and One-Carbon Unit Synthesis in Hydrogenobacter thermophilus.	Kim K, Chiba Y, Kobayashi A, Arai H, Ishii M.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.00409-17	2017
Genetics	Loss of Conserved Noncoding RNAs in Genomes of Bacterial Endosymbionts.	Matelska D, Kurkowska M, Purta E, Bujnicki JM, Dunin-Horkawicz S.	Genome Biol Evol	10.1093/gbe/evw007	2016
Metabolism	CO synthesized from the central one-carbon pool as source for the iron carbonyl in O2-tolerant [NiFe]-hydrogenase.	Burstel I, Siebert E, Frielingsdorf S, Zebger I, Friedrich B, Lenz O.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.1614656113	2016
	Veillonella, Firmicutes: Microbes disguised as Gram negatives.	Vesth T, Ozen A, Andersen SC, Kaas RS, Lukjancenko O, Bohlin J, Nookaew I, Wassenaar TM, Ussery DW.	Stand Genomic Sci	10.4056/sigs.2981345	2013
Enzymology	Characterization of the amicetin biosynthesis gene cluster from Streptomyces vinaceusdrappus NRRL 2363 implicates two alternative strategies for amide bond formation.	Zhang G, Zhang H, Li S, Xiao J, Zhang G, Zhu Y, Niu S, Ju J, Zhang C.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.07185-11	2012
Phylogeny	Metagenome sequence analysis of filamentous microbial communities obtained from geochemically distinct geothermal channels reveals specialization of three aquificales lineages.	Takacs-Vesbach C, Inskeep WP, Jay ZJ, Herrgard MJ, Rusch DB, Tringe SG, Kozubal MA, Hamamura N, Macur RE, Fouke BW, Reysenbach AL, McDermott TR, Jennings Rd, Hengartner NW, Xie G.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2013.00084	2013
Genetics	Genomewide comparison and novel ncRNAs of Aquificales.	Lechner M, Nickel AI, Wehner S, Riege K, Wieseke N, Beckmann BM, Hartmann RK, Marz M.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/1471-2164-15-522	2014
Metabolism	The elusive third subunit IIa of the bacterial B-type oxidases: the enzyme from the hyperthermophile Aquifex aeolicus.	Prunetti L, Brugna M, Lebrun R, Giudici-Orticoni MT, Guiral M.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0021616	2011
	Coordinating environmental genomics and geochemistry reveals metabolic transitions in a hot spring ecosystem.	Swingley WD, Meyer-Dombard DR, Shock EL, Alsop EB, Falenski HD, Havig JR, Raymond J.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0038108	2012
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
	Annotation of Protein Domains Reveals Remarkable Conservation in the Functional Make up of Proteomes Across Superkingdoms.	Nasir A, Naeem A, Khan MJ, Nicora HD, Caetano-Anolles G.	Genes (Basel)	10.3390/genes2040869	2011
Enzymology	Phylogenetic Diversity of Nitrogenase Reductase Genes and Possible Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria in Thermophilic Chemosynthetic Microbial Communities in Nakabusa Hot Springs.	Nishihara A, Thiel V, Matsuura K, McGlynn SE, Haruta S.	Microbes Environ	10.1264/jsme2.me18030	2018
Genetics	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
	Streptacidiphilus durhamensis sp. nov., isolated from a spruce forest soil.	Golinska P, Ahmed L, Wang D, Goodfellow M.	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-013-9938-9	2013
Phylogeny	New isolates and physiological properties of the Aquificales and description of Thermocrinis albus sp. nov.	Eder W, Huber R	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-001-0259-y	2002

References

#5375	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14484
#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 )
#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) .
#66793	Mukherjee et al.: GEBA: 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. 35: 676 - 683 2017 ( DOI 10.1038/nbt.3886 , PubMed 28604660 )
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Thermocrinis albus (DSM 14484, JCM 11386, HI 11/12)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Multimedia

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000025605

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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