Magnetospirillum caucaseum (DSM 28995, SO-1, VKM B-2936)

Name: Magnetospirillum caucaseum (DSM 28995, SO-1, VKM B-2936)
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BacDive ID 132529

Type strain

Strain Designation SO-1

Culture col. no. DSM 28995 SO-1 VKM B-2936

NCBI tax ID(s) 1244869

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Magnetospirillum caucaseum SO-1 is a microaerophile, chemoorganoheterotroph, motile prokaryote that was isolated from freshwater sediment from a river.

motile spiral-shaped microaerophile chemoorganoheterotroph genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 406403

DSM 28995

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:32

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Rhodospirillaceae

Genus Magnetospirillum

Species Magnetospirillum caucaseum

Full scientific name Magnetospirillum caucaseum Dziuba et al. 2016

Synonyms (1)

Paramagnetospirillum caucaseum

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement	Gram stain	Confidence
43653	1.2-3 µm	0.3 µm	spiral-shaped		lophotrichous
125439						negative	97.6

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
24318	MAGNETOSPIRILLUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 380)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MAGNETOSPIRILLUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 380) Composition: Agar 1.3 g/l (optional) KH2PO4 0.68 g/l L(+)-Tartaric acid 0.37 g/l Succinic acid 0.37 g/l NaNO3 0.12 g/l Yeast extract 0.1 g/l Na-thioglycolate 0.05 g/l Na-acetate 0.05 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.015 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.009 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0075 g/l NaCl 0.005 g/l Quinic acid 0.0038 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.0025 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0009 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0009 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0005 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0005 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.0003 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 0.0002 g/l Nicotinic acid 0.0002 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00015 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.0001 g/l Calcium pantothenate 0.0001 g/l Vitamin B12 0.0001 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 8e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 5e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 5e-05 g/l H3BO3 5e-05 g/l D-(+)-biotin 2e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 2e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 1.5e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
24318	positive	growth	28	mesophilic
43653	positive	growth	18-42
43653	positive	optimum	28-30	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
43653	positive	optimum	6.5-6.8

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43653

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

Nutrition type

43653

Typechemoorganoheterotroph

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.3

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43653	NaCl	positive	growth	0-1 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43653	17968 ChEBI	butyrate	+	growth
43653	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	assimilation
43653	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	-	assimilation
43653	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	growth
43653	17790 ChEBI	methanol	-	assimilation
43653	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	growth
43653	30929 ChEBI	tartrate	+	growth

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43653	catalase	-	1.11.1.6
43653	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Freshwater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#River (Creek)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
24318	freshwater sediment from a river	Caucasus, Kislovodsk, Ol’khovka river	Russia	RUS	Europe	43.8941	42.7209 43.8941/42.7209
43653	a sediment sample from the Ol'khovka river	Kislovodsk, Caucasus	Russia	RUS	Europe	43.894	42.72 43.894/42.72

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JX502622 (>99% sequence identity) for Magnetospirillum from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	6745
Soil Samples	1907
Animal Samples	813
Plant Samples	1062
Total Samples	10527

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24318	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	MagSO-1_1.0 assembly for Paramagnetospirillum caucaseum SO-1	contig	GCA_000342045	1244869.3	2534681903	1244869	31.62

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
24318	Magnetospirillum caucaseum strain SO-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	JX502622	1440		1244869

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43653	65.9	genome sequence analysis
24318	65.9	sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Magnetospirillum caucaseum SO-1
NCBI: GCA_000342045

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	75.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	97.60	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	67.90	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	The Disruption of an OxyR-Like Protein Impairs Intracellular Magnetite Biomineralization in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MSR-1.	Zhang Y, Wen T, Guo F, Geng Y, Liu J, Peng T, Guan G, Tian J, Li Y, Li J, Ju J, Jiang W.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.00208	2017
Phylogeny	Genome-Based Metabolic Reconstruction of a Novel Uncultivated Freshwater Magnetotactic coccus "Ca. Magnetaquicoccus inordinatus" UR-1, and Proposal of a Candidate Family "Ca. Magnetaquicoccaceae".	Koziaeva V, Dziuba M, Leao P, Uzun M, Krutkina M, Grouzdev D.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2019.02290	2019
	Magnetic Properties of Bacterial Magnetosomes Produced by Magnetospirillum caucaseum SO-1.	Gareev KG, Grouzdev DS, Kharitonskii PV, Kirilenko DA, Kosterov A, Koziaeva VV, Levitskii VS, Multhoff G, Nepomnyashchaya EK, Nikitin AV, Nikitina A, Sergienko ES, Sukharzhevskii SM, Terukov EI, Trushlyakova VV, Shevtsov M	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms9091854	2021
Phylogeny	Magnetospirillum caucaseum sp. nov., Magnetospirillum marisnigri sp. nov. and Magnetospirillum moscoviense sp. nov., freshwater magnetotactic bacteria isolated from three distinct geographical locations in European Russia.	Dziuba M, Koziaeva V, Grouzdev D, Burganskaya E, Baslerov R, Kolganova T, Chernyadyev A, Osipov G, Andrianova E, Gorlenko V, Kuznetsov B	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000994	2016

References

#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 )
#24318	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 28995
#43653	Marina Dziuba, Veronika Koziaeva, Denis Grouzdev, Ekaterina Burganskaya, Roman Baslerov, Tatjana Kolganova, Alexander Chernyadyev, Georgy Osipov, Ekaterina Andrianova, Vladimir Gorlenko, Boris Kuznetsov: Magnetospirillum caucaseum sp. nov., Magnetospirillum marisnigri sp. nov. and Magnetospirillum moscoviense sp. nov., freshwater magnetotactic bacteria isolated from three distinct geographical locations in European Russia. IJSEM 66: 2069 - 2077 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000994 , PubMed 26921147 )
#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) .
#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 .
#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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Magnetospirillum caucaseum (DSM 28995, SO-1, VKM B-2936)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000342045

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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