Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus (DSM 8511, RB 3)

Name: Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus (DSM 8511, RB 3)
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Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 8511 RB 3

NCBI tax ID(s) 35813

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History <- V. Yurkov, RB3

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Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus DSM 8511 is an aerobe, chemoorganotroph, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from cyanobacterial mat from hot spring.

Gram-negative motile coccus-shaped aerobe chemoorganotroph genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 43722

ATCC 700004,DSM 8511,NCIMB 13352

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:17:47

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Acetobacteraceae

Genus Roseococcus

Species Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus

Full scientific name Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus Yurkov et al. 1994

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
23246	negative	1.3-1.6 µm	0.9-1.3 µm	coccus-shaped		monotrichous, polar

Colony morphology

23246

Colony colorpink

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Name
23246		bacteriochlorophyll a
23246		carotenoid pigment

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3292	ERYTHROMICROBIUM AND ROSEOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 767)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ERYTHROMICROBIUM AND ROSEOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 767) Composition: Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na-acetate 1.0 g/l Bacto peptone 1.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.3 g/l NH4Cl 0.3 g/l KCl 0.3 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.05 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0002 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0001 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 3e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 2e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1e-05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
3292	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

23246

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Nutrition type

@ref	Type
23246	chemoorganotroph
23246	photoheterotroph

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
23246	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
23246	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	-	growth
23246	16150 ChEBI	benzoate	-	growth
23246	17968 ChEBI	butyrate	-	growth
23246		casein	+	hydrolysis
23246	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
23246	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	-	growth
23246	15740 ChEBI	formate	-	growth
23246	28757 ChEBI	fructose	-	growth
23246	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	-	growth
23246	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
23246	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+/-	growth
23246	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+/-	growth
23246	29805 ChEBI	glycolate	-	growth
23246	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
23246	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+/-	growth
23246	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	-	growth
23246	17790 ChEBI	methanol	-	growth
23246	17272 ChEBI	propionate	-	growth
23246	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
23246	33942 ChEBI	ribose	-	growth
23246	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	hydrolysis
23246	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
23246	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	growth
23246	132950 ChEBI	tartrate	-	growth
23246	16094 ChEBI	thiosulfate	+	oxidation
23246	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	-	hydrolysis

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.	Resistance conc.
23246	2637	amikacin
23246	28669	bacitracin
23246	17698	chloramphenicol	100 µg (disc)
23246	48923	erythromycin
23246	71321	fusidate	0.5 µg (disc)
23246	17833	gentamicin
23246	6104	kanamycin
23246	6472	lincomycin
23246	7507	neomycin
23246	17334	penicillin		20 Unit (disc)
23246	8309	polymyxin b	100 Unit (disc)
23246	17076	streptomycin	50 µg (disc)
23246	27902	tetracycline
23246	28001	vancomycin

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
23246	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
23246	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
23246	Ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase	-	4.1.1.39

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Freshwater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Environmental	#Microbial community	#Microbial mat
#Host	#Microbial	#Bacteria

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
3292	cyanobacterial mat from hot spring	Lake Baykal region	Russia	RUS	Asia
23246	freshwater cyanobacterial mat of a thermal alkaline sulfide spring (54°C; pH 9.3; 7.4 mg of sulfide per liter; 1.6 mg of oxygen per liter)

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence X72908 (>99% sequence identity) for Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	8
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples
Total Samples	10

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3292	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
124043	ASM1731157v1 assembly for Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus RB-3	contig	GCA_017311575	35813.3	2994953509	35813	65.67

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
3292	R.thiosulatophilus gene for 16S rRNA	X72908	1426		35813

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
23246	70.40	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	The Effect of Tellurite on Highly Resistant Freshwater Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs and Their Strategies for Reduction.	Maltman C, Yurkov V	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms3040826	2015
Metabolism	Albidovulum inexpectatum gen. nov., sp. nov., a nonphotosynthetic and slightly thermophilic bacterium from a marine hot spring that is very closely related to members of the photosynthetic genus Rhodovulum.	Albuquerque L, Santos J, Travassos P, Nobre MF, Rainey FA, Wait R, Empadinhas N, Silva MT, da Costa MS.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.68.9.4266-4273.2002	2002
Phylogeny	Roseococcus microcysteis sp. nov., isolated from a Microcystis aeruginosa culture sample.	Kim W, Kim M, Park W.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005185	2021

References

#3292	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 8511
#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 )
#23246	VLADIMIR YURKOV, ERKO STACKEBRANDT, ANDREW HOLMES, JOHN A. FUERST, P. HUGENHOLTZ, JOCHEN GOLECKI, NASSER GAD'ON, VLADIMIR M. GORLENKO, ELENA I. KOMPANTSEVA, GERHART DREWS: Phylogenetic Positions of Novel Aerobic, Bacteriochlorophyll a-Containing Bacteria and Description of Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., Erythromicrobium ramosum gen. nov., sp. nov., and Erythrobacter litoralis sp. nov.. IJSEM 44: 427 - 434 1994 ( DOI 10.1099/00207713-44-3-427 , PubMed 7520734 )
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus (DSM 8511, RB 3)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_017311575

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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