Magnetospirillum fulvum (DSM 113, ATCC 15798, KCTC 15608)

Name: Magnetospirillum fulvum (DSM 113, ATCC 15798, KCTC 15608)
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BacDive ID 13948

Type strain

Strain Designation 1360

Culture col. no. DSM 113 ATCC 15798 KCTC 15608 Pfennig 1360 1360 2 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1082

Special Collections DSMZ KCTC

History <- N. Pfennig, 1360 <- DSM <- N Pfennig, 1360

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Magnetospirillum fulvum 1360 is an anaerobe, spiral-shaped bacterium that was isolated from sewage pond.

spiral-shaped anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 44998

KCTC 15608,ATCC 35113,NCIB 11884,ATCC 15798,DSM 113,NCIB 11762,NCIMB 11762,ATCC 53113

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:21:17

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Rhodospirillaceae

Genus Magnetospirillum

Species Magnetospirillum fulvum

Full scientific name Magnetospirillum fulvum (van Niel 1944) Hördt et al. 2020

Synonyms (2)

Rhodospirillum fulvum
Phaeospirillum fulvum

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Magnetospirillum fulvum** (5)	Type strain
13949	M. fulvum 2860, DSM 114, Pfennig 2860
13950	M. fulvum 10060, DSM 115, Pfennig 10060
13951	M. fulvum Berkeley 147, DSM 116
13952	M. fulvum P 9 F 2, DSM 117
13953	M. fulvum 3, DSM 13234

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell shape	Gram stain
67771	spiral-shaped
67771		negative

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
2098	RHODOSPIRILLACEAE MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 27)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: RHODOSPIRILLACEAE MEDIUM (modified) (DSMZ Medium 27) Composition: Disodium succinate 1.0 g/l KH2PO4 0.5 g/l Ammonium acetate 0.5 g/l NaCl 0.4 g/l NH4Cl 0.4 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.4 g/l Yeast extract 0.3 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.3 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.05 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.005 g/l Resazurin 0.005 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0002 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0001 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 3e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
2098	positive	growth	28
67771	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
2098	anaerobe
67771	anaerobe

Observation

67771

Observationquinones: Q-9, MK-9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Waste	#Wastewater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Pond (small)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
2098	sewage pond
67771	From sewage pond

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence D14433 (>99% sequence identity) for Magnetospirillum from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples
Total Samples	1

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
2098	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Rhodospirillum fulvum 16S ribosomal RNA	M59065	1434		1082
20218	Phaeospirillum fulvum 16S rRNA	D14433	1401		1082

GC content

2098

GC-content (mol%)65.3

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria.	Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468	2020
Phylogeny	Phaeospirillum tilakii sp. nov., a phototrophic alphaproteobacterium isolated from aquatic sediments.	Raj PS, Chakravarthy SK, Ramaprasad EVV, Sasikala C, Ramana CV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.032250-0	2011

References

#2098	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 113
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#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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Magnetospirillum fulvum (DSM 113, ATCC 15798, KCTC 15608)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Observation

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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