Acidicaldus organivorans (DSM 16953, Y008)

Name: Acidicaldus organivorans (DSM 16953, Y008)
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BacDive ID 79

Type strain

Strain Designation Y008

Culture col. no. DSM 16953 Y008

NCBI tax ID(s) 209650

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- D. B. Johnson, University of Wales, School of Biological Sciences, Bangor, UK; Y008 (Acidocaldus organivorus) <- D. B. Johnson {2001}

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Acidicaldus organivorans Y008 is a bacterium that was isolated from enrichment culture inoculated with a water sample from a Frying Pan thermal spring.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 297110

DSM 16953,ATCC BAA-1105

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Acetobacteraceae

Genus Acidicaldus

Species Acidicaldus organivorans

Full scientific name Acidicaldus organivorans corrig. Johnson et al. 2006

Synonyms (1)

Acidicaldus organivorus

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6665	ACIDICALDUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1038)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ACIDICALDUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1038) Composition: D-Glucose 1.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.45 g/l Yeast extract 0.2 g/l KH2PO4 0.05 g/l KCl 0.05 g/l Ca(NO3)2 x 4 H2O 0.02 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6665	positive	growth	50

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

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

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6665	enrichment culture inoculated with a water sample from a Frying Pan thermal spring	Yellowstone National Park, Gibbon river area	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY140238 (>99% sequence identity) for Acidicaldus organivorans subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	84
Soil Samples	23
Animal Samples	20
Plant Samples	9
Total Samples	136

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6665	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6665	Acidicaldus organivorans strain Y008 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY140238	1340		209650

GC content

6665

GC-content (mol%)71.8

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#6665	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16953
#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 )
#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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