Name: Treponema isoptericolens SPIT 5
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 134223

Type strain:

Species: Treponema isoptericolens

Strain Designation: SPIT 5

Culture col. no.: DSM 18056, JCM 13955

Strain history: S. Dröge SPIT5.

NCBI tax ID(s): 367456 (species)

SI-ID 404838

DSM 18056

Section

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

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

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Spirochaetota*
	Class	*Spirochaetia*
	Order	*Spirochaetales*
	Family	*Treponemataceae*
	Genus	*Treponema*
	Species	**Treponema isoptericolens**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Treponema isoptericolens Dröge et al. 2008

Synonym

Helmutkoenigia isoptericolens

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #31949]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #31949]	Cell length	16 µm

[Ref.: #31949]	Cell width	0.45 µm

[Ref.: #31949]	Cell shape	spiral-shaped

[Ref.: #31949]	Motility	yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #7275]

Culture medium

HELMUTKOENIGIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 843)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

[Ref.: #7275]

Culture medium

TREPONEMA RUMINIS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 212a)

[Ref.: #7275]

Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

[Ref.: #7275]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #7275]	growth	30 °C
[Ref.: #31949]	optimum	30 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	30 °C

[Ref.: #7275]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #31949]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #31949]			optimum	7.3
[Ref.: #31949]			growth	6.5-8

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #31949]	arabinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31949]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31949]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31949]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31949]	trehalose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31949]	xylose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #31949]		alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #31949]	Sample type/isolated from	Hindgut of termite

[Ref.: #7275]	Sample type/isolated from	hindgut of the termite Incisitermes tabogae
[Ref.: #7275]	Country	Belize
[Ref.: #7275]	Country ISO 3 Code	BLZ
[Ref.: #7275]	Continent	Middle and South America

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Hindgut contents of the lower drywood termite Incisitermes tabogae
[Ref.: #67770]	Host species	Incisitermes tabogae
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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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

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #7275]	Treponema isoptericolens partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain SPIT5T	AM182455	1464	ENA	367456 tax ID

[Ref.: #31949]	GC-content	47.7 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	47.7 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 18056, JCM 13955

[Ref.: #91817]

SI-ID 404838

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 )

#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 (see below)

#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 .

#91817

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID404838.1 )

#28205

IJSEM 1079 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64699-0 , PubMed 18450692 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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