Teretinema zuelzerae (DSM 1903, ATCC 19044)

Name: Teretinema zuelzerae (DSM 1903, ATCC 19044)
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Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 1903 ATCC 19044

NCBI tax ID(s) 156

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- E. Canale-Parola, University of Massachusetts, Department of Microbiology, USA <- ATCC; ATCC 19044 <- H. Veldkamp {1959}

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Teretinema zuelzerae DSM 1903 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from fresh water mud.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 36819

ATCC 19044,DSM 1903

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Spirochaetota

Class Spirochaetia

Order Spirochaetales

Family Treponemataceae

Genus Teretinema

Species Teretinema zuelzerae

Full scientific name Teretinema zuelzerae (Canale-Parola 1980 ex Veldkamp 1960) Song et al. 2023

Synonyms (3)

"Treponema zuelzerae"
Spirochaeta zuelzerae
Treponema zuelzerae

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	97.6

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
922	TERETINEMA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 169)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TERETINEMA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 169) Composition: Agar 10.0 g/l Yeast extract 4.0 g/l D-Glucose 2.0 g/l NaHCO3 1.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.04 g/l K2HPO4 0.0279378 g/l KH2PO4 0.00538896 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
922	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
922	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	91.647
125439	anaerobe	99.6

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		93.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

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

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
922	fresh water mud	California, Pacific Grove	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FR749929 (>99% sequence identity) for Treponema zuelzerae subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	855
Soil Samples	95
Animal Samples	134
Plant Samples	92
Total Samples	1176

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
922	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2102155v1 assembly for Teretinema zuelzerae DSM 1903	contig	GCA_021021555	156.12	156	74.96

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
922	Spirochaeta zuelzerae partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 1903T, clone 2	FR749929	1532		156

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
922	52.7	sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Treponema zuelzerae DSM 1903
NCBI: GCA_021021555

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	93.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	67.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	97.60	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Treponema zuelzerae DSM 1903
NCBI: GCA_021021555.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	87.02	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	91.65	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	95.06	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	73.98	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	89.38	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	59.39	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Comparative Analysis of Brucepastera parasyntrophica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Teretinema zuelzerae gen. nov., comb. nov. (Treponemataceae) Reveals the Importance of Interspecies Hydrogen Transfer in the Energy Metabolism of Spirochetes.	Song Y, Pfeiffer F, Radek R, Hearne C, Herve V, Brune A.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.00503-22	2022

References

#922	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1903
#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) .
#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 .
#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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Teretinema zuelzerae (DSM 1903, ATCC 19044)

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_021021555

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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