Zymomonas mobilis (DSM 12496, CCUG 17860, CIP 102538)

Name: Zymomonas mobilis (DSM 12496, CCUG 17860, CIP 102538)
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BacDive ID 132836

Type strain

Variant Isotype of BacDive ID 14289

Culture col. no. DSM 12496 CCUG 17860 CIP 102538 JCM 20722 LMG 404 3 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 542 120045

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG JCM CIP

History <- C. Drainas, Univ. Ioannina, Dept. Chemistry, Greece; ATCC 10988

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Zymomonas mobilis DSM 12496 is a mesophilic prokaryote of the family Zymomonadaceae.

mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 13909

LMG 404,ATCC 10988,CCUG 17860,CCUG 17911,DSM 424,LMG 405,LMG 430,LMG 431,NCIB 8938,NRRL B-806,CIP 102538,NCIMB 8938,IAM12663,CECT 596,CCRC 10808,NCAIM B.01327,VTT E-79099,KCTC 1535,KCTC 2414,BCRC 10808,JCM 20722,VTT E-82099,DSM 12496

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:37

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Sphingomonadales

Family Zymomonadaceae

Genus Zymomonas

Species Zymomonas mobilis

Full scientific name Zymomonas mobilis corrig. (Lindner 1928) Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

Zymomonas mobile
"Thermobacterium mobile"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Zymomonas mobilis** (7)	Type strain
14289	Z. mobilis pZM01 to pZM06, DSM 424, ATCC 10988, NCIB ... (type strain)
14288	Z. mobilis DSM 473, ATCC 29501, NCIB 8227, CIP 102539, ...
100099	Z. mobilis STI09675(IMET), IFO 14523, INA 2240, IMET ...
131031	Z. mobilis DSM 14017, PROIMI A1
132834	Z. mobilis UVS 51, DSM 12494
132835	Z. mobilis CU 1, DSM 12495
132837	Z. mobilis CU 1 Rif 2, DSM 12497

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
24624	ZYMOMONAS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 10)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ZYMOMONAS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 10) Composition: Glucose 20.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 10.0 g/l Bacto peptone 10.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
24624	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

24624

Compoundlactose

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
24624	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

GC content

24624

GC-content (mol%)49.1

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Genetic tools for engineering Zymomonas mobilis, Cereibacter sphaeroides and Novosphingobium aromaticivorans to improve production of bioenergy compounds.	Mishra S, Kumar V, Misra J, K P A, Sah B, Lal PB.	Microb Cell Fact	10.1186/s12934-025-02845-3	2025
	Construction and comparison of different vehicles for heterologous gene expression in Zymomonas mobilis.	Behrendt G, Vlachonikolou M, Tietgens H, Bettenbrock K.	Microb Biotechnol	10.1111/1751-7915.14381	2024
Biotechnology	Control of industrially relevant microbial isolates by antimicrobial agents: Implications for sugar factories.	Bruni GO, Terrell E, Klasson KT, Qi Y.	J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol	10.1093/jimb/kuaf001	2024
	Zymomonas diversity and potential for biofuel production.	Felczak MM, Bowers RM, Woyke T, TerAvest MA.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/s13068-021-01958-2	2021
Genetics	Genomic profiling of bacterial and fungal communities and their predictive functionality during pulque fermentation by whole-genome shotgun sequencing.	Chacon-Vargas K, Torres J, Giles-Gomez M, Escalante A, Gibbons JG.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-020-71864-4	2020
	Elimination of aromatic fusel alcohols as by-products of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains engineered for phenylpropanoid production by 2-oxo-acid decarboxylase replacement.	Hassing EJ, Buijs J, Blankerts N, Luttik MA, Hulster EA, Pronk JT, Daran JM.	Metab Eng Commun	10.1016/j.mec.2021.e00183	2021
Metabolism	Zymomonas mobilis as a model system for production of biofuels and biochemicals.	Yang S, Fei Q, Zhang Y, Contreras LM, Utturkar SM, Brown SD, Himmel ME, Zhang M.	Microb Biotechnol	10.1111/1751-7915.12408	2016
Transcriptome	Genome sequence of the ethanol-producing Zymomonas mobilis subsp. pomaceae lectotype strain ATCC 29192.	Kouvelis VN, Davenport KW, Brettin TS, Bruce D, Detter C, Han CS, Nolan M, Tapia R, Damoulaki A, Kyrpides NC, Typas MA, Pappas KM.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.05273-11	2011
Metabolism	Complex yeast-bacteria interactions affect the yield of industrial ethanol fermentation.	Senne de Oliveira Lino F, Bajic D, Vila JCC, Sanchez A, Sommer MOA.	Nat Commun	10.1038/s41467-021-21844-7	2021
	Proteomic and metabolomic analysis of the cellular biomarkers related to inhibitors tolerance in Zymomonas mobilis ZM4.	Chang D, Yu Z, Ul Islam Z, French WT, Zhang Y, Zhang H.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/s13068-018-1287-5	2018
Genetics	Complete genome sequence and the expression pattern of plasmids of the model ethanologen Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 and its xylose-utilizing derivatives 8b and 2032.	Yang S, Vera JM, Grass J, Savvakis G, Moskvin OV, Yang Y, McIlwain SJ, Lyu Y, Zinonos I, Hebert AS, Coon JJ, Bates DM, Sato TK, Brown SD, Himmel ME, Zhang M, Landick R, Pappas KM, Zhang Y.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/s13068-018-1116-x	2018
	Zymomonas mobilis: a novel platform for future biorefineries.	He MX, Wu B, Qin H, Ruan ZY, Tan FR, Wang JL, Shui ZX, Dai LC, Zhu QL, Pan K, Tang XY, Wang WG, Hu QC.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/1754-6834-7-101	2014
Metabolism	Transcriptional analysis of a gene cluster involved in glucose tolerance in Zymomonas mobilis: evidence for an osmoregulated promoter.	Christogianni A, Douka E, Koukkou AI, Hatziloukas E, Drainas C.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.187.15.5179-5188.2005	2005
	Inhibition of growth of Zymomonas mobilis by model compounds found in lignocellulosic hydrolysates.	Franden MA, Pilath HM, Mohagheghi A, Pienkos PT, Zhang M.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/1754-6834-6-99	2013
	Tolerance and metabolic response of Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120 towards biomass hydrolysate-derived inhibitors.	Wordofa GG, Kristensen M.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/s13068-018-1192-y	2018
	Bioethanol production from fermentable sugar juice.	Zabed H, Faruq G, Sahu JN, Azirun MS, Hashim R, Boyce AN.	ScientificWorldJournal	10.1155/2014/957102	2014
Metabolism	A Zymomonas mobilis mutant with delayed growth on high glucose concentrations.	Douka E, Koukkou AI, Vartholomatos G, Frillingos S, Papamichael EM, Drainas C.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.181.15.4598-4604.1999	1999
	Evolutionary Genomics of an Ancient Prophage of the Order Sphingomonadales.	Viswanathan V, Narjala A, Ravichandran A, Jayaprasad S, Siddaramappa S.	Genome Biol Evol	10.1093/gbe/evx024	2017
Genetics	Mining of Microbial Genomes for the Novel Sources of Nitrilases.	Sharma N, Thakur N, Raj T, Savitri, Bhalla TC.	Biomed Res Int	10.1155/2017/7039245	2017
Genetics	Not all predicted CRISPR-Cas systems are equal: isolated cas genes and classes of CRISPR like elements.	Zhang Q, Ye Y.	BMC Bioinformatics	10.1186/s12859-017-1512-4	2017
	Nucleotide sequence of the Zymomonas mobilis alcohol dehydrogenase II gene.	Yoon KH, Pack MY.	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/18.1.187	1990
Metabolism	Effect of lignocellulose-derived inhibitors on growth of and ethanol production by growth-arrested Corynebacterium glutamicum R.	Sakai S, Tsuchida Y, Nakamoto H, Okino S, Ichihashi O, Kawaguchi H, Watanabe T, Inui M, Yukawa H.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02880-06	2007
	Growth inhibition of Zymomonas mobilis ATCC 10988 by ammonium ions.	Agrawal P.	Biotechnol Bioeng	10.1002/bit.260340218	1989
Metabolism	Extension of the substrate utilization range of Ralstonia eutropha strain H16 by metabolic engineering to include mannose and glucose.	Sichwart S, Hetzler S, Broker D, Steinbuchel A.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01977-10	2011
Metabolism	Production of beta-carotene in Zymomonas mobilis and Agrobacterium tumefaciens by introduction of the biosynthesis genes from Erwinia uredovora.	Misawa N, Yamano S, Ikenaga H.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.57.6.1847-1849.1991	1991
Genetics	Batch-Learning Self-Organizing Map Identifies Horizontal Gene Transfer Candidates and Their Origins in Entire Genomes.	Abe T, Akazawa Y, Toyoda A, Niki H, Baba T.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.01486	2020
Enzymology	A comparative multidimensional LC-MS proteomic analysis reveals mechanisms for furan aldehyde detoxification in Thermoanaerobacter pseudethanolicus 39E.	Clarkson SM, Hamilton-Brehm SD, Giannone RJ, Engle NL, Tschaplinski TJ, Hettich RL, Elkins JG.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/s13068-014-0165-z	2014
	Comparison of ethanol production by different zymomonas strains.	Skotnicki ML, Lee KJ, Tribe DE, Rogers PL.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.41.4.889-893.1981	1981
Enzymology	Expression of an L-alanine dehydrogenase gene in Zymomonas mobilis and excretion of L-alanine.	Uhlenbusch I, Sahm H, Sprenger GA.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.57.5.1360-1366.1991	1991
	Lipid composition of Zymomonas mobilis: effects of ethanol and glucose.	Carey VC, Ingram LO.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.154.3.1291-1300.1983	1983
	Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of the dnaK gene of Zymomonas mobilis.	Michel GP.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.175.10.3228-3231.1993	1993
Enzymology	Expression of the Escherichia coli pmi gene, encoding phosphomannose-isomerase in Zymomonas mobilis, leads to utilization of mannose as a novel growth substrate, which can be used as a selective marker.	Weisser P, Kramer R, Sprenger GA.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.62.11.4155-4161.1996	1996
Metabolism	The glutamate uptake regulatory protein (Grp) of Zymomonas mobilis and its relation to the global regulator Lrp of Escherichia coli.	Peekhaus N, Tolner B, Poolman B, Kramer R.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.177.17.5140-5147.1995	1995
	d-Glucose Transport System of Zymomonas mobilis.	Dimarco AA, Romano AH.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.49.1.151-157.1985	1985
	Transfer of Plasmids to an Antibiotic-Sensitive Mutant of Zymomonas mobilis.	Buchholz SE, Eveleigh DE.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.52.2.366-370.1986	1986
	Cloning and sequencing of the sacA gene: characterization of a sucrase from Zymomonas mobilis.	Gunasekaran P, Karunakaran T, Cami B, Mukundan AG, Preziosi L, Baratti J.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.172.12.6727-6735.1990	1990
	Production of Acetaldehyde by Zymomonas mobilis.	Wecker MS, Zall RR.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.53.12.2815-2820.1987	1987
	R-Plasmid Transfer in Zymomonas mobilis.	Skotnicki ML, Tribe DE, Rogers PL.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.40.1.7-12.1980	1980
	The biology of Zymomonas.	Swings J, De Ley J.	Bacteriol Rev	10.1128/br.41.1.1-46.1977	1977
	Glycolytic enzymes in Zymomonas mobilis.	RAPS S, DEMOSS RD.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.84.1.115-118.1962	1962
	Energies of activation and uncoupled growth in Streptococcus faecalis and Zymomonas mobilis.	Forrest WW.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.94.5.1459-1463.1967	1967
Metabolism	Molecular analysis of the anaerobic succinate degradation pathway in Clostridium kluyveri.	Sohling B, Gottschalk G.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.178.3.871-880.1996	1996
	Frankenbacteriosis targeting interactions between pathogen and symbiont to control infection in the tick vector.	Mazuecos L, Alberdi P, Hernandez-Jarguin A, Contreras M, Villar M, Cabezas-Cruz A, Simo L, Gonzalez-Garcia A, Diaz-Sanchez S, Neelakanta G, Bonnet SI, Fikrig E, de la Fuente J.	iScience	10.1016/j.isci.2023.106697	2023
Metabolism	Different biochemical mechanisms ensure network-wide balancing of reducing equivalents in microbial metabolism.	Fuhrer T, Sauer U.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.01523-08	2009
Enzymology	Experimental identification and quantification of glucose metabolism in seven bacterial species.	Fuhrer T, Fischer E, Sauer U.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.187.5.1581-1590.2005	2005
Genetics	Genome comparison of different Zymomonas mobilis strains provides insights on conservation of the evolution.	Chen C, Wu L, Cao Q, Shao H, Li X, Zhang Y, Wang H, Tan X	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0195994	2018
Metabolism	Reconstruction of a charge balanced genome-scale metabolic model to study the energy-uncoupled growth of Zymomonas mobilis ZM1.	Motamedian E, Saeidi M, Shojaosadati SA	Mol Biosyst	10.1039/c5mb00588d	2016
Metabolism	pZMO7-Derived shuttle vectors for heterologous protein expression and proteomic applications in the ethanol-producing bacterium Zymomonas mobilis.	So LY, Chen WY, Lacap-Bugler DC, Seemann M, Watt RM	BMC Microbiol	10.1186/1471-2180-14-68	2014
Genetics	Genome sequence of the ethanol-producing Zymomonas mobilis subsp. mobilis lectotype strain ATCC 10988.	Pappas KM, Kouvelis VN, Saunders E, Brettin TS, Bruce D, Detter C, Balakireva M, Han CS, Savvakis G, Kyrpides NC, Typas MA	J Bacteriol	10.1128/JB.05395-11	2011
	Investigation of the utility of pineapple juice and pineapple waste material as low-cost substrate for ethanol fermentation by Zymomonas mobilis.	Tanaka K, Hilary ZD, Ishizaki A	J Biosci Bioeng	10.1016/s1389-1723(99)80128-5	1999
Genetics	The genome sequence of the ethanologenic bacterium Zymomonas mobilis ZM4.	Seo JS, Chong H, Park HS, Yoon KO, Jung C, Kim JJ, Hong JH, Kim H, Kim JH, Kil JI, Park CJ, Oh HM, Lee JS, Jin SJ, Um HW, Lee HJ, Oh SJ, Kim JY, Kang HL, Lee SY, Lee KJ, Kang HS	Nat Biotechnol	10.1038/nbt1045	2004
Enzymology	A simple and efficient method for the purification of membrane-bound levansucrase from Zymomonas mobilis.	Vigants A, Hicke HG, Marx SP	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s002840010239	2001
Genetics	Characterization and replication properties of the Zymomonas mobilis ATCC 10988 plasmids pZMO1 and pZMO2.	Arvanitis N, Pappas KM, Kolios G, Afendra AS, Typas MA, Drainas C	Plasmid	10.1006/plas.2000.1480	2000
Genetics	Characterization of the mobilization region of the Zymomonas mobilis ATCC10988 plasmid pZMO3.	Afendra AS, Vartholomatos G, Arvanitis N, Drainas C	Plasmid	10.1006/plas.1998.1374	1999
Enzymology	Nucleotide and derived amino acid sequences of an extracellular sucrase gene (invB) of Zymomonas mobilis ZM1 (ATCC10988).	Song KB, Lee SK, Joo HK, Rhee SK	Biochim Biophys Acta	10.1016/0167-4781(94)90262-3	1994
Enzymology	Nucleotide sequence of levansucrase gene (levU) of Zymomonas mobilis ZM1 (ATCC10988).	Song KB, Joo HK, Rhee SK	Biochim Biophys Acta	10.1016/0167-4781(93)90130-6	1993
Pathogenicity	An ultraviolet-sensitive mutant of Zymomonas mobilis affecting the stability of its natural plasmid pZMO2.	Vartholomatos G, Typas MA, Drainas C	Plasmid	10.1006/plas.1993.1002	1993
	A structured kinetic model for Zymomonas mobilis ATCC10988.	Veeramallu U, Agrawal P	Biotechnol Bioeng	10.1002/bit.260360707	1990
	Immobilized cell biocatalyst activation and pseudo-steady-state behavior: model and experiment.	Monbouquette HG, Sayles GD, Ollis DF	Biotechnol Bioeng	10.1002/bit.260350608	1990
	Analysis and stability of Zymomonas mobilis ATCC 10988 plasmid pZMO3.	Scordaki A, Drainas C	Plasmid	10.1016/0147-619x(90)90044-d	1990
Enzymology	Expression and stability of a recombinant plasmid in Zymomonas mobilis and Escherichia coli.	Afendra AS, Drainas C	J Gen Microbiol	10.1099/00221287-133-1-127	1987
Phylogeny	Comparison of plasmids in strains of Zymomonas mobilis.	Stokes HW, Dally EL, Yablonsky MD, Eveleigh DE	Plasmid	10.1016/0147-619x(83)90016-1	1983
Biotechnology	Ethanol production by immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces uvarum, and Zymomonas mobilis.	McGhee JE, Julian GS, Detroy RW, Bothast RJ	Biotechnol Bioeng	10.1002/bit.260240512	1982
Phylogeny	Polyphasic study of Zymomonas mobilis strains revealing the existence of a novel subspecies Z. mobilis subsp. francensis subsp. nov., isolated from French cider.	Coton M, Laplace JM, Auffray Y, Coton E	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63732-0	2006

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 )
#24624	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12496
#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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Zymomonas mobilis (DSM 12496, CCUG 17860, CIP 102538)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Compound production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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