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Clostridium thermoaceticum (DSM 11768, 6)

BacDive ID 16814

Type strain

Strain Designation 6

Culture col. no. DSM 11768 6

NCBI tax ID(s) 1525

Special Collections DSMZ

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Clostridium thermoaceticum 6 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from utra heat-treated soup.

anaerobe genome sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49172

DSM 11768

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:28:52

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium thermoaceticum

Full scientific name Clostridium thermoaceticum Fontaine et al. 1942 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (6)

Clostridium thermaceticum
Moorella thermoacetica
Neomoorella thermoacetica
Clostridium thermoautotrophicum
Moorella thermoautotrophica
Clostridium thermautotrophicum

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4480	MOORELLA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 60)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MOORELLA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 60) Composition: Glucose 17.9462 g/l K2HPO4 6.97906 g/l Yeast extract 4.98505 g/l Tryptone 4.98505 g/l KH2PO4 4.48654 g/l Na2CO3 1.99402 g/l (NH4)2SO4 0.498505 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.299103 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.299103 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0997009 g/l Fe(NH4)2(SO4)2 0.0398804 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.00239283 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000498505 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 0.000149551 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4480	positive	growth	60

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
4480	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Food production	#Food

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4480	utra heat-treated soup	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4480	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	ASM187406v1 assembly for Neomoorella thermoacetica DSM 11768	contig	GCA_001874065	1525.6	2703719213	1525	59.14

Genome browser: GCA_001874065

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Diaspora project based on:
ASM187406v1 assembly for Neomoorella thermoacetica DSM 11768
PATRIC: GCA_001874065

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	49.08	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.18	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	61.31	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	67.41	no

Predictions from Diaspora project based on:
Moorella thermoacetica strain DSM 11768
PATRIC: 1525.6

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	54.14	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	91.37	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	73.60	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	93.18	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	77.18	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	70.82	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Thermophilic Moorella thermoacetica as a platform microorganism for C1 gas utilization: physiology, engineering, and applications.	Jia D, Deng W, Hu P, Jiang W, Gu Y.	Bioresour Bioprocess	10.1186/s40643-023-00682-z	2023
	Genome-Based Comparison of All Species of the Genus Moorella, and Status of the Species Moorella thermoacetica and Moorella thermoautotrophica.	Redl S, Poehlein A, Esser C, Bengelsdorf FR, Jensen TO, Jendresen CB, Tindall BJ, Daniel R, Durre P, Nielsen AT.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.03070	2019

References

#4480	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11768
#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) .
#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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Clostridium thermoaceticum (DSM 11768, 6)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_001874065

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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