Borrelia turcica (DSM 16138, JCM 11958, IST7)

Name: Borrelia turcica (DSM 16138, JCM 11958, IST7)
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BacDive ID 14308

Type strain

Strain Designation IST7

Culture col. no. DSM 16138 JCM 11958 IST7

NCBI tax ID(s) 229155

Special Collections DSMZ JCM Literature strains

History <- T. Masuzawa; IST7

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Borrelia turcica IST7 is a microaerophile, motile, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Hyalomma aegyptium .

motile rod-shaped microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 134278

DSM 16138,JCM 11958

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:21:23

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Spirochaetota

Class Spirochaetia

Order Spirochaetales

Family Borreliaceae

Genus Borrelia

Species Borrelia turcica

Full scientific name Borrelia turcica Güner et al. 2004

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Gram stain	Confidence
30191	18 µm	0.24 µm	rod-shaped
125439					negative	99.9

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6307	BSK-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 403)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BSK-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 403) Composition: Bovine serum albumin 35.0245 g/l Gelatine 9.79706 g/l HEPES buffer 4.19874 g/l Proteose peptone no. 2 3.49895 g/l Glucose 2.09937 g/l Proteose yeastolate 0.69979 g/l Tryptone peptone 0.69979 g/l Na-pyruvate 0.559832 g/l Sodium citrate 0.489853 g/l N-Acetylglucosamine 0.279916 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.209937 g/l L-Glutamine 0.069979 g/l Double distilled water CMRL 1066 Rabbit serum

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6307	positive	growth	35
30191	positive	growth	34-39

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
6307	microaerophile
125439	obligate anaerobe	95.5

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.9
125438		95.372

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Tick

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code
6307	Hyalomma aegyptium (Hard tick)	Turkey	TUR

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6307	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	ASM360628v1 assembly for Borrelia turcica IST7	complete	GCA_003606285	1104446.3	2840707444	1104446	96.25

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6307	Borrelia turcica gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: IST7	AB111849	1270		1104446

GC content

6307

GC-content (mol%)30

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Borrelia turcica IST7
NCBI: GCA_003606285

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate anaerobe	95.50	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	50.00	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Borrelia turcica IST7 IST7
NCBI: GCA_003606285.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	82.22	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	79.07	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	93.34	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	95.37	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	84.98	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	51.62	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	The genus Borrelia reloaded.	Margos G, Gofton A, Wibberg D, Dangel A, Marosevic D, Loh SM, Oskam C, Fingerle V.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0208432	2018
	A selective antibiotic for Lyme disease.	Leimer N, Wu X, Imai Y, Morrissette M, Pitt N, Favre-Godal Q, Iinishi A, Jain S, Caboni M, Leus IV, Bonifay V, Niles S, Bargabos R, Ghiglieri M, Corsetti R, Krumpoch M, Fox G, Son S, Klepacki D, Polikanov YS, Freliech CA, McCarthy JE, Edmondson DG, Norris SJ, D'Onofrio A, Hu LT, Zgurskaya HI, Lewis K.	Cell	10.1016/j.cell.2021.09.011	2021
Phylogeny	Borrelia turcica sp. nov., isolated from the hard tick Hyalomma aegyptium in Turkey.	Guner ES, Watanabe M, Hashimoto N, Kadosaka T, Kawamura Y, Ezaki T, Kawabata H, Imai Y, Kaneda K, Masuzawa T	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.03050-0	2004

References

#6307	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16138
#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 )
#26537	IJSEM 1649 2004 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.03050-0 , PubMed 15388724 )
#30191	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 #26537
#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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Borrelia turcica (DSM 16138, JCM 11958, IST7)

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_003606285

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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