Treponema isoptericolens (DSM 18056, JCM 13955, SPIT 5)

Name: Treponema isoptericolens (DSM 18056, JCM 13955, SPIT 5)
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BacDive ID 134223

Type strain

Strain Designation SPIT 5

Culture col. no. DSM 18056 JCM 13955 SPIT 5

NCBI tax ID(s) 367456

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History <- S. Dröge, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany; SPIT 5 <- S. Dröge; {2005} S. Dröge SPIT5.

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Treponema isoptericolens SPIT 5 is an anaerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from Hindgut of termite.

Gram-negative motile spiral-shaped anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 404838

JCM 13955,DSM 18056

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:08

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Spirochaetota

Class Spirochaetia

Order Spirochaetales

Family Treponemataceae

Genus Treponema

Species Treponema isoptericolens

Full scientific name Treponema isoptericolens Dröge et al. 2008

Synonyms (1)

Helmutkoenigia isoptericolens

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
31949	negative	16 µm	0.45 µm	spiral-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
7275	HELMUTKOENIGIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 843)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HELMUTKOENIGIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 843) Composition: Yeast extract 13.9581 g/l Trehalose 1.89332 g/l Maltose x H2O 1.79462 g/l Sucrose 1.69591 g/l Cellobiose 1.69591 g/l Na2CO3 1.49551 g/l NaCl 0.997009 g/l Trypticase peptone 0.997009 g/l D-Xylose 0.747757 g/l KCl 0.498504 g/l DL-Dithiothreitol 0.398804 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.398804 g/l NH4Cl 0.299103 g/l KH2PO4 0.199402 g/l Na2SO4 0.149551 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0997009 g/l Thiamine pyrophosphate 0.0498504 g/l Pyridoxal hydrochloride 0.00498504 g/l Pyridoxal phosphate 0.00498504 g/l HCl 0.00249252 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00149551 g/l Haemin 0.00129611 g/l Coenzyme A 0.000997009 g/l FAD 0.000997009 g/l Ca-folinate 0.000997009 g/l ß-NAD 0.000997009 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000498504 g/l Nicotinamide 0.000498504 g/l NaOH 0.000498504 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.000299103 g/l Nicotinic acid 0.000199402 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 0.000199402 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000189432 g/l Calcium pantothenate 9.97009e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.97009e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 9.97009e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 7.97607e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.97906e-05 g/l Folic acid 4.98504e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.58923e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.39282e-05 g/l D-(+)-biotin 1.99402e-05 g/l Riboflavin 9.97009e-06 g/l H3BO3 5.98205e-06 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.98804e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.99103e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.99402e-06 g/l Distilled water
7275	TREPONEMA RECTALE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 212a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TREPONEMA RECTALE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 212a) Composition: Na2SO4 2.77778 g/l Trehalose 1.88393 g/l Maltose x H2O 1.78571 g/l Acetic acid 1.76276 g/l Cellobiose 1.6875 g/l Sucrose 1.6875 g/l Na2CO3 1.4881 g/l Trypticase peptone 0.992061 g/l Ethanol 0.94246 g/l D-Glucose 0.793651 g/l D-Xylose 0.744048 g/l Propionic acid 0.590922 g/l Na-pyruvate 0.496032 g/l KH2PO4 0.496031 g/l NaCl 0.396825 g/l NH4Cl 0.396825 g/l Starch 0.396825 g/l DL-Dithiothreitol 0.396825 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.327381 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.297619 g/l iso-Butyric acid 0.0942225 g/l n-Valeric acid 0.0931313 g/l iso-Valeric acid 0.0923379 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0496031 g/l HCl 0.00248016 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.0014881 g/l NaOH 0.000496032 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000496031 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.000297619 g/l Nicotinic acid 0.000198413 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 0.000198413 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000188492 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.92064e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 9.92064e-05 g/l Calcium pantothenate 9.92064e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 7.93651e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.94444e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.57143e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.38095e-05 g/l D-(+)-biotin 1.98413e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.95238e-06 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.96825e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.97619e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.98413e-06 g/l Distilled water DL-2-Methylbutyric acid Vitamin K1 Butyric acid

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
7275	positive	growth	30
31949	positive	optimum	30
67770	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
31949	positive	optimum	7.3
31949	positive	growth	6.5-8

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

31949

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31949	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
31949	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
31949	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
31949	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
31949	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
31949	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31949	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Host species
31949	Hindgut of termite
7275	hindgut of the termite Incisitermes tabogae	Belize	BLZ	Middle and South America
67770	Hindgut contents of the lower drywood termite Incisitermes tabogae				Incisitermes tabogae

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AM182455 (>99% sequence identity) for Treponema isoptericolens subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples	66
Plant Samples
Total Samples	69

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7275	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7275	Treponema isoptericolens partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain SPIT5T	AM182455	1464		367456

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
31949	47.7
67770	47.7	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Treponema isoptericolens sp. nov., a novel spirochaete from the hindgut of the termite Incisitermes tabogae.	Droge S, Rachel R, Radek R, Konig H	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64699-0	2008

References

#7275	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18056
#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 )
#28205	IJSEM 1079 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64699-0 , PubMed 18450692 )
#31949	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 #28205
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#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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Treponema isoptericolens (DSM 18056, JCM 13955, SPIT 5)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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