Hydrogenophilus hirschii (DSM 11420, JCM 10831, YEL 5a)

Name: Hydrogenophilus hirschii (DSM 11420, JCM 10831, YEL 5a)
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BacDive ID 6136

Type strain

Strain Designation YEL 5a

Culture col. no. DSM 11420 JCM 10831 YEL 5a

NCBI tax ID(s) 85993

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- M. Thomm; YEL 5a <- R. Stöhr JCM <-- M. Thomm Yel 5a.

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Hydrogenophilus hirschii YEL 5a is a bacterium that was isolated from Solfatara.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49108

DSM 11420,JCM 10831,CIP 107057

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:20

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Hydrogenophilia

Order Hydrogenophilales

Family Hydrogenophilaceae

Genus Hydrogenophilus

Species Hydrogenophilus hirschii

Full scientific name Hydrogenophilus hirschii Stöhr et al. 2001

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4358	HYDROGENOTHERMUS HIRSCHII MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 783)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HYDROGENOTHERMUS HIRSCHII MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 783) Composition: MgCl2 x 6 H2O 5.5 g/l NaHCO3 2.0 g/l KCl 0.65 g/l Sulfur 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.15 g/l NH4Cl 0.15 g/l NaBr 0.1 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.03 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 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 FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.001 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.001 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0003 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.0002 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.0001 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.0001 g/l H3BO3 0.0001 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)
4358	positive	growth	60
67770	positive	growth	60

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: Q-8

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Volcanic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4358	Solfatara	Yellowstone National Park, Angle Terrace Spring	USA	USA	North America
67770	Angel Terrace Spring	Yellowstone National Park, WY	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FR749905 (>99% sequence identity) for Hydrogenophilus thermoluteolus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	965
Soil Samples	520
Animal Samples	4013
Plant Samples	282
Total Samples	5780

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4358	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Hydrogenothermophilus hirschii 16S rRNA gene, strain yel5a	AJ131694	1378		85993
4358	Hydrogenophilus hirschii partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 11420T	FR749905	1533		85993

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	61	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Hydrogenophilus islandicus sp. nov., a thermophilic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium isolated from an Icelandic hot spring.	Vesteinsdottir H, Reynisdottir DB, Orlygsson J	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.023572-0	2010
Phylogeny	Hydrogenophilus hirschii sp. nov., a novel thermophilic hydrogen-oxidizing beta-proteobacterium isolated from Yellowstone National Park.	Stohr R, Waberski A, Liesack W, Volker H, Wehmeyer U, Thomm M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-51-2-481	2001

References

#4358	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11420
#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 .
#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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Hydrogenophilus hirschii (DSM 11420, JCM 10831, YEL 5a)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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