| Strain number | NIES-2137 | |||
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| Phylum | Rhodophyta | |||
| Class | Cyanidiophyceae | |||
| Scientific name | Cyanidium caldarium (Tilden) Geitler | |||
| Synonym | ||||
| Former name | ||||
| Common name | Red alga | |||
| Locality (Date of collection) | Nikko-Yumoto Hot spring, Nikko, Tochigi, Japan | |||
| Latitude / Longitude | ||||
| Habitat (Isolation source) | Hot spring | |||
| History | < IAM (2007) < Nagashima, Hideyuki (1991) | |||
| Isolator (Date of isolation) | Fukuda, I. (1958-**-**) | |||
| Identified by | Fukushima, Hiroshi; Nagashima, Hideyuki | |||
| State of strain | Subculture; Unialgal; Clonal; Axenic[2018 Jan] | |||
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Culture condition (Preculture condition) |
Medium:
M-Allen
Temperature: 20 C Light intensity: 5-11 µmol photons/m2/sec, L/D cycle: 10L:14D Duration: 5 M |
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| Gene information | ||||
| Cell size (min - max) | 2 - 4 μm | |||
| Organization | Unicellular | |||
| Characteristics | ||||
| Other strain no. |
Other collection strain no. : IAM R-11
Other strain no. : RK-1 |
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| Remarks | Axenic | |||
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Related strain information
(Large number of orders and same genus or species)
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| Strain number | Scientific name | Common name | Habitat (Isolation source) | Characteristics |
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NIES-3891 |
Cyanidium caldarium | Red alga | Hot spring (Hot Spring water) | Benthic ; Thermophilic ; Acidophilic |
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NIES-551 |
Cyanidium caldarium | Red alga | Acidophilic ; Floridean starch (Shimonaga et al. 2007) | |
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Related strain information
(Used in same reference)
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| Strain number | Scientific name | Common name | Habitat (Isolation source) | Characteristics |
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NIES-700 |
Rhodomonas baltica | Marine | Authentic strain | |
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NIES-254 |
Pyramimonas parkeae | Marine (Seawater) | Red tide ; Prey for Oxyrrhis marina NIES-494 and NIES-3607 | |
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NIES-4107 |
Gymnomonas nepalensis | Green alga | Terrestrial (NIES-3572) | Authentic strain (Watanabe & Nakada 2018) ; Type specimen (NIES-50015, Holotype) |
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NIES-250 |
Galdieria sp. | Red alga | Hot spring | Acidophilic |
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NIES-4452 |
Chloromonas fukushimae | Green alga ; Snow alga | Terrestrial (Snow) | Cryophilic ; Heterothallic ; Isogamous ; Mating type (+) ; Life cycle (Matsuzaki et al. 2020) |
| Reference |
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Ohta, N., Nagashima, H., Kawano, S., Kuroiwa, T.
1992
Isolation of the chloroplast DNA and the sequence of the trnK gene from Cyanidium caldarium strain RK-1.
Plant Cell Physiol.,
33,
657-661.
Keywords: chloroplast DNA; Cyanidium caldarium; transfer RNA-lysine Strain(s): 250, 2137 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a078302 Hamana, K., Matsuzaki, S., Niitsu, M., Samejima, K., Nagashima, H. 1990 Polyamines of unicellular thermoacidophilic red alga Cyanidium caldarium. Phytochemistry, 29, 377-380. Keywords: Cyanidium caldarium; Rhodophyta; red algae; polyamines; chemotaxonomy Strain(s): 250, 2137, 3891 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9422(90)85082-Q Nagashima, H. & Fukuda, I. 1983 Floridosides in unicellular hot spring algae. Phytochemistry, 22, 1949-1951. Keywords: Cyanidium caldarium; Chroococcidiopsis sp.; hot spring algae; chemotaxonomy; low MW carbohydrates; floridoside; iso-floridoside; autotroph; heterotroph Strain(s): 250, 2137, 3891 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9422(83)80020-X Mikulic, P., Beardall, J. 2014 Contrasting ecotoxicity effects of zinc on growth and photosynthesis in a neutrophilic alga (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) and an extremophilic alga (Cyanidium caldarium). Chemosphere, 112, 402-411. Keywords: Photosynthesis; Algae; Zinc; Extremophile; Neutrophile; Acclimation Strain(s): 2137 PubMed: 25048933 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.04.049 Takaichi, S., Yokoyama, A., Mochimaru, M., Uchida, H., Murakami, A. 2016 Carotenogenesis diversification in phylogenetic lineages of Rhodophyta. J. Phycol., 52, 329-338. Keywords: alloxanthin; antheraxanthin; carotenogenesis; carotenoid; Cryptophyta; Glaucophyta; lutein; red algae; Rhodophyta; Zeaxanthin Strain(s): 697, 700, 705, 1332, 2137, 2138, 4696 PubMed: 27273528 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12411 Hirooka, S., Tomita, R., Fujiwara, T., Ohnuma, M., Kuroiwa, H., Kuroiwa, T., Miyagishima, S. 2020 Efficient open cultivation of cyanidialean red algae in acidified seawater. Sci Rep, 10, 13794 (article ID). Strain(s): 2137, 3377 PubMed: 32839467 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70398-z Jong, L. W., Fujiwara, T., Hirooka, S., Miyagishima, S. 2021 Cell size for commitment to cell division and number of successive cell divisions in cyanidialean red algae. Protoplasma, 258, 1103–1118. Keywords: Cell cycle; Cyanidiales; Cyanidioschyzon; Cyanidium; Galdieria; Multiple fission Strain(s): 2137, 3377 PubMed: 33675395 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-021-01628-y Mikulic, P. & Beardall, J. 2021 Oxidative and anti-oxidative responses to metal toxicity in an extremophilic alga (Cyanidium caldarium) and a neutrophilic alga (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii). Phycologia, 60, 513-523. Keywords: Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species (ROS); Zinc toxicity Strain(s): 2137 DOI: 10.1080/00318884.2021.1984044 Nagao, R., Ueno, Y., Furutani, M., Kato, K., Shen, J.-R., Akimoto, S. 2023 Biochemical and spectroscopic characterization of PSI‑LHCI from the red alga Cyanidium caldarium. Photosynth. Res., 156, 315–323. Keywords: Cyanidium caldarium; Excitation-energy transfer; PSI-LHCI; Red algae Strain(s): 2137 PubMed: 36781711 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-00999-y Hamana, K., Furuchi, T., Hayashi, H., Uemura, T., Niitsu, M. 2023 Additional polyamine analysis of the algae belonging to the phyla Glaucophyta, Rhodophyta and Chlorophyta. ─Polyamine analysis of algae V─ Microb. Resour. Syst., 39, 33-40. Keywords: alga; Chlorophyta; Glaucophyta; polyamine; Rhodophyta Strain(s): 226, 250, 254, 550, 551, 626, 1298, 1332, 1703, 1836, 2137, 2163, 2164, 2165, 2166, 2252, 2353, 2894, 3377, 3645, 3867, 3891, 3892, 4107, 4390, 4452, 4696 DOI: 10.60369/microresys.39.1_33 Kato, K., Hamaguchi, T., Kumazawa, M., Nakajima, Y., Ifuku, K., Hirooka, S., Hirose, Y., Miyagishima, S., Suzuki, T., Kawakami, K., Dohmae, N., Yonekura, K., Shen, J.-R., Nagao, R. 2024 The structure of PSI-LHCI from Cyanidium caldarium provides evolutionary insights into conservation and diversity of red-lineage LHCs. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 121, e2319658121 (article ID). Keywords: light-harvesting complex; photosynthesis; photosystem; red alga Strain(s): 2137 PubMed: 38442179 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2319658121 Oka, Y., Yoshida, M., Minoda, A., Leproux, P., Watanabe, M. M., Kano, H. 2021 Label-free detection of polysulfides and glycogen of Cyanidium caldarium using ultra-multiplex coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microspectroscopy. J. Raman Spectrosc., 52, 2572-2580. Keywords: algae; CARS; microscopy; microspectroscopy; supercontinuum Strain(s): 2137 DOI: 10.1002/jrs.6142 Kato, K., Kumazawa, M., Nakajima, Y., Suzuki, T., Dohmae, N., Shen, J., Ifuku, K., Nagao, R. 2025 Structure of a photosystem I supercomplex from Galdieria sulphuraria close to an ancestral red alga. Sci. Adv., 11, eadv7488 (article ID). Strain(s): 2137, 3638 PubMed: 40378202 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv7488 Takahashi, I. Y., Suzuki, T., Hirooka, S., Dohmae, N., Miyagishima, S., Nagao, R. 2025 Comparative analysis of biochemical and sequence features of PSI-LHCI supercomplexes from Cyanidium caldarium NIES-551 and Cyanidiococcus yangmingshanensis NIES-2137. Photosynth. Res., 163, 48 (article ID). Keywords: Cyanidiophyceae; PSI-LHCI; NIES-551; NIES-2137 Strain(s): 551, 2137 PubMed: 40960655 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-025-01169-y |
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