Mycoplasma amphoriforme (NCTC 11740, ATCC BAA-992, A39)

Name: Mycoplasma amphoriforme (NCTC 11740, ATCC BAA-992, A39)
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BacDive ID 134102

Type strain

Strain Designation A39

Culture col. no. NCTC 11740 ATCC BAA-992 A39

NCBI tax ID(s) 273136

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Mycoplasma amphoriforme A39 is a facultative anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from human - mouth.

facultative anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 286146

NCTC 11740

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:15

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Mycoplasmatota

Class Mollicutes

Order Mycoplasmatales

Family Mycoplasmataceae

Genus Mycoplasma

Species Mycoplasma amphoriforme

Full scientific name Mycoplasma amphoriforme Pitcher et al. 2005

Synonyms (1)

"Mycoplasmoides amphoriforme"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence	Motility
125439	negative	98.753
125438		94.538

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
31307	positive	optimum	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
31307	facultative anaerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	97.528

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.775
125438		94.9

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31307	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Human	-
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways	#Mouth

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species
31307	human - mouth	Homo sapiens

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY531655 (>99% sequence identity) for Mycoplasma amphoriforme subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	3
Soil Samples	4
Animal Samples	433
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	442

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	MAM001 assembly for Mycoplasma amphoriforme A39	complete	GCA_000723365	572419.3	8116354055	572419	87.21
66792	Mycoplasma amphoriforme A39	complete		572419.4		572419	71.9

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
31307	Mycoplasma amphoriforme strain A39 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY531655	1511	572419
124043	Mycoplasma amphoriforme strain A39 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	HM235423	1504	572419
124043	Mycoplasma amphoriforme A39 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, partial sequence.	HM235424	367	572419

GC content

31307

GC-content (mol%)34

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: MAM001 assembly for Mycoplasma amphoriforme A39
BV-BRC: 572419.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	97.53	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.75	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	73.76	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.78	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Mycoplasma amphoriforme A39
PATRIC: 572419.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	66.64	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	76.79	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	94.90	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	88.45	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.53	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	94.54	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of the emerging human respiratory pathogen Mycoplasma amphoriforme isolated from the UK and Denmark.	Day J, Afshar B, Rowlands RS, Umer TS, Windsor H, Paukner S, Jensen JS, Spiller OB, Chalker VJ, Beeton ML, ESCMID Study Group for Mycoplasma and Chlamydia Infections (ESGMAC).	J Antimicrob Chemother	10.1093/jac/dkac293	2022
Genetics	Target-enrichment sequencing yields valuable genomic data for challenging-to-culture bacteria of public health importance.	Dennis TPW, Mable BK, Brunelle B, Devault A, Carter RW, Ling CL, Mmbaga BT, Halliday JEB, Oravcova K, Forde TL.	Microb Genom	10.1099/mgen.0.000836	2022
Enzymology	Tools for detection of Mycoplasma amphoriforme: a primary respiratory pathogen?	Ling CL, Oravcova K, Beattie TF, Creer DD, Dilworth P, Fulton NL, Hardie A, Munro M, Pond M, Templeton K, Webster D, Workman S, McHugh TD, Gillespie SH.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.03049-13	2014
Phylogeny	Mycoplasma amphoriforme sp. nov., isolated from a patient with chronic bronchopneumonia.	Pitcher DG, Windsor D, Windsor H, Bradbury JM, Yavari C, Jensen JS, Ling C, Webster D	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63269-0	2005

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 )
#27622	IJSEM 2589 2005 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63269-0 , PubMed 16280532 )
#31307	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #27622
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Mycoplasma amphoriforme (NCTC 11740, ATCC BAA-992, A39)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000723365

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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