Rhodospirillum rubrum (DSM 1068, FR.1)

Name: Rhodospirillum rubrum (DSM 1068, FR.1)
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BacDive ID 14007

Type strain

Strain Designation FR.1

Culture col. no. DSM 1068 FR.1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1085

Special Collections DSMZ

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Rhodospirillum rubrum FR.1 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from mud.

anaerobe mesophilic genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47315

DSM 1068

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:50:14

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Rhodospirillaceae

Genus Rhodospirillum

Species Rhodospirillum rubrum

Full scientific name Rhodospirillum rubrum (Esmarch 1887) Molisch 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

"Spirillum rubrum"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Rhodospirillum rubrum** (8)	Type strain
14005	R. rubrum S 1, S1, DSM 467, ATCC 11170, NCIB 8255, ... (type strain)
14006	R. rubrum G 9, DSM 468
14008	R. rubrum Ha, DSM 107
14009	R. rubrum 1785-1, DSM 11221, DSM 471
14010	R. rubrum 1761-1b, DSM 11222
14011	R. rubrum DSM 50914, ATCC 27048, ICPB 2204
143232	R. rubrum CCUG 17916, ATCC 9791, LMG 2955
143233	R. rubrum CCUG 17917, ATCC 17032, LMG 2956

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	99.3
125438	negative	98.333

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
414	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)	Range
414	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

414

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.2

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Mud (Sludge)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
414	mud	Freiburg	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
414	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1658394v1 assembly for Rhodospirillum rubrum DSM 1068	contig	GCA_016583945	1085.15	8098967821	1085	31.66

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Rhodospirillum rubrum DSM 1068
NCBI: GCA_016583945

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	57.70	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	68.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Rhodospirillum rubrum strain DSM 1068
PATRIC: 1085.15

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.33	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	51.90	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	84.22	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	67.73	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.66	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	81.74	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Osmotic Adaptation and Compatible Solute Biosynthesis of Phototrophic Bacteria as Revealed from Genome Analyses.	Imhoff JF, Rahn T, Kunzel S, Keller A, Neulinger SC.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms9010046	2020
	Differences in the architecture of cytoplasmic and intracytoplasmic membranes of three chemotrophically and phototrophically grown species of the Rhodospirillaceae.	Golecki JR, Oelze J.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.144.2.781-788.1980	1980
Metabolism	Pyruvate-dependent diauxic growth of Rhodospirillum rubrum in light.	Solaiman D, Uffen RL.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.152.3.1175-1187.1982	1982

References

#414	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1068
#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 )
#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) .
#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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Rhodospirillum rubrum (DSM 1068, FR.1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_016583945

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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