Borrelia californiensis (DSM 17989, ATCC BAA-2689, CIP 109133)

Name: Borrelia californiensis (DSM 17989, ATCC BAA-2689, CIP 109133)
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BacDive ID 14310

Type strain

Strain Designation CA446, CA 446

Culture col. no. DSM 17989 ATCC BAA-2689 CIP 109133 CA446 CA 446

NCBI tax ID(s) 373543

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History <- D. Postic; CA446 CIP <- 2006, <- D. Postic, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France: strain CA 446 <- R. Lane

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Borrelia californiensis CA446 is a microaerophile, motile, helical-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Kangaroo rat, Dipodomys californicus.

motile helical-shaped microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 361803

ATCC BAA-2689,CIP 109133,DSM 17989

@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 californiensis

Full scientific name Borrelia californiensis Margos et al. 2016

Synonyms (1)

Borreliella californiensis

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Gram stain	Confidence
43710	20 µm	0.2 µm	helical-shaped
125439					negative	100

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
7319	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
41876	MEDIUM 83 - for Borrelia		BSK-H medium (1000.000 ml)
43710	BSK medium
117103	CIP Medium 83	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
7319	positive	growth	35
41876	positive	growth	34
43710	positive	optimum	33-34

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
7319	microaerophile
43710	microaerophile

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		100
125438		94.864

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Rodentia (Other)
#Infection	#Patient	#Biopsy

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
7319	Kangaroo rat, Dipodomys californicus	Dipodomys californicus	California	USA	USA	North America
43710	Ear-punch biopsy excised from a male D. californicus		California	USA	USA	North America	1995-11
117103	Dipodomys californicus		California	United States of America	USA	North America	1992

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ224130 (>99% sequence identity) for Borreliella from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	378
Soil Samples	126
Animal Samples	1133
Plant Samples	40
Total Samples	1677

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7319	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
117103		2	Risk group (French 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	ASM1420588v1 assembly for Borreliella californiensis DSM 17989	scaffold	GCA_014205885	373543.8	2861252286	373543	69.12

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7319	Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, 16S rRNA gene, isolate CA446	AJ224130	1467		373543

GC content

7319

GC-content (mol%)27

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Borreliella californiensis DSM 17989
NCBI: GCA_014205885

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	100.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	54.10	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	100.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	85.80	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Borreliella californiensis DSM 17989
NCBI: GCA_014205885.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	82.06	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	81.98	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	94.38	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	94.86	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	89.14	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	50.89	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Distinction between Borrelia and Borreliella is more robustly supported by molecular and phenotypic characteristics than all other neighbouring prokaryotic genera: Response to Margos' et al. "The genus Borrelia reloaded" (PLoS ONE 13(12): e0208432).	Gupta RS.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0221397	2019
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
Phylogeny	Borrelia bissettiae sp. nov. and Borrelia californiensis sp. nov. prevail in diverse enzootic transmission cycles.	Margos G, Lane RS, Fedorova N, Koloczek J, Piesman J, Hojgaard A, Sing A, Fingerle V	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000897	2016

References

#7319	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17989
#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 )
#41876	; Curators of the CIP;
#43710	Gabriele Margos, Robert S. Lane, Natalia Fedorova, Johannes Koloczek, Joseph Piesman, Andrias Hojgaard, Andreas Sing, Volker Fingerle: Borrelia bissettiae sp. nov. and Borrelia californiensis sp. nov. prevail in diverse enzootic transmission cycles. IJSEM 66: 1447 - 1452 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000897 , PubMed 26813420 )
#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) .
#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 .
#117103	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 109133
#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 californiensis (DSM 17989, ATCC BAA-2689, CIP 109133)

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

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_014205885

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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