Hydrogenophilus islandicus (DSM 21442, JCM 16106, 16C)

Name: Hydrogenophilus islandicus (DSM 21442, JCM 16106, 16C)
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BacDive ID 6137

Type strain

Strain Designation 16C, C16

Culture col. no. DSM 21442 JCM 16106 16C C16

NCBI tax ID(s) 545536

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History DSMZ <- J. Örlygsson, Univ. Akureyri, Iceland; 16C JCM <-- J. Orlygsson 16C.

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Hydrogenophilus islandicus 16C is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from hot spring.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 406195

JCM 16106,DSM 21442

@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 islandicus

Full scientific name Hydrogenophilus islandicus Vésteinsdóttir et al. 2011

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29875	negative	2.6 µm	0.4 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

29875

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15708	MINERAL MEDIUM FOR CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC GROWTH (H-3) (DSMZ Medium 81)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MINERAL MEDIUM FOR CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC GROWTH (H-3) (DSMZ Medium 81) Composition: Agar 20.1005 g/l Na2HPO4 x 2 H2O 2.91457 g/l KH2PO4 2.31156 g/l NH4Cl 1.00503 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.502512 g/l Ferric ammonium citrate 0.0502513 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0100503 g/l NaVO3 x H2O 0.00502512 g/l Calcium pantothenate 0.00251256 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.00251256 g/l Nicotinic acid 0.00251256 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 0.00251256 g/l H3BO3 0.00150754 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00100503 g/l Riboflavin 0.000502513 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000502513 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.000150754 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.000150754 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000100503 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 5.02513e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 5.02513e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.00503e-05 g/l Biotin 5.02513e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
15708	positive	growth	50
29875	positive	optimum	55
67770	positive	growth	60

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
29875	positive	optimum	7

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

29875

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

29875

Spore formationno

Observation

@ref	Observation
29875	aggregates in chains
67770	quinones: Q-8

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29875	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
29875	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
29875	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
29875	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
29875	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
29875	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	carbon source
29875	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source

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
15708	hot spring	Hveragerdi - Graendalur	Iceland	ISL	Europe
67770	Hot spring in Graendalur		Iceland	ISL	Europe

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence EU625664 (>99% sequence identity) for Hydrogenophilus islandicus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	27
Soil Samples	4
Animal Samples	92
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	124

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15708	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15708	Hydrogenophilus islandicus strain 16C 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU625664	1493		545536

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
15708	63.9	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
29875	63.9

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

References

#15708	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21442
#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 )
#26249	IJSEM 290 2011 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.023572-0 , PubMed 20228213 )
#29875	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26249
#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 islandicus (DSM 21442, JCM 16106, 16C)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Observation

Metabolite utilization

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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