Sphingobium mellinum (DSM 7458, ATCC 51292, LMG 11032)

Name: Sphingobium mellinum (DSM 7458, ATCC 51292, LMG 11032)
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Type strain

Strain Designation WI4

Culture col. no. DSM 7458 ATCC 51292 LMG 11032 WI4

NCBI tax ID(s) 1387166

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Sphingobium mellinum WI4 is a mesophilic plant pathogen that was isolated from soil using lettuce seedlings as bait.

mesophilic plant pathogen genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 4813

LMG 11032,LMG 12557,LMG 15575,LMG 9838,ATCC 51292,DSM 7458

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:50:17

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Sphingomonadales

Family Sphingomonadaceae

Genus Sphingobium

Species Sphingobium mellinum

Full scientific name Sphingobium mellinum Francis et al. 2014

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3163	RHIZOMONAS SUBERIFACIENS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 726)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: RHIZOMONAS SUBERIFACIENS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 726) Composition: Agar 11.0 g/l Enzymatic digest of casein 5.0 g/l Glucose 2.5 g/l K2HPO4 x 3 H2O 1.3 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l KNO3 0.5 g/l Ca(NO3)2 x 4 H2O 0.06 g/l Distilled water
3163	R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casamino acids 0.5 g/l Starch 0.5 g/l Glucose 0.5 g/l Proteose peptone 0.5 g/l Yeast extract 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.3 g/l Na-pyruvate 0.3 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
3163	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
3163	soil using lettuce seedlings as bait	Wisconsin	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KF437546 (>99% sequence identity) for Sphingobium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	93
Soil Samples	32
Animal Samples	28
Plant Samples	65
Total Samples	218

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity plant	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3163		1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3786079v1 assembly for Sphingobium mellinum DSM 7458	scaffold	GCA_037860795	1387166	55.21

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Sphingomonas sp. WI4 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	S57491	267		106806
3163	Sphingobium mellinum strain WI4 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KF437546	1451		1387166

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
3163	63.0	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Reclassification of rhizosphere bacteria including strains causing corky root of lettuce and proposal of Rhizorhapis suberifaciens gen. nov., comb. nov., Sphingobium mellinum sp. nov., Sphingobium xanthum sp. nov. and Rhizorhabdus argentea gen. nov., sp. nov.	Francis IM, Jochimsen KN, De Vos P, van Bruggen AHC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.058909-0	2014

References

#3163	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 7458
#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 )
#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 .
#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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Sphingobium mellinum (DSM 7458, ATCC 51292, LMG 11032)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_037860795

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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