Spiroplasma kunkelii (DSM 21866, ATCC 29320, CSO E)

Name: Spiroplasma kunkelii (DSM 21866, ATCC 29320, CSO E)
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BacDive ID 14356

Type strain

Strain Designation CSO E, E-275

Culture col. no. DSM 21866 ATCC 29320 CSO E E-275

NCBI tax ID(s) 47834

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- J. K. Davis, Dept. Agronomy, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, USA <- J. G. Tully <- R. F. Whitcomb; E-275

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Spiroplasma kunkelii CSO E is a microaerophile plant pathogen that was isolated from infected corn with Rio Grande stunt disease.

microaerophile plant pathogen 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 39465

DSM 21866,ATCC 29320

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Mycoplasmatota

Class Mollicutes

Order Mycoplasmatales

Family Spiroplasmataceae

Genus Spiroplasma

Species Spiroplasma kunkelii

Full scientific name Spiroplasma kunkelii Whitcomb et al. 1986

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16002	SP4-Z MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1076b)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SP4-Z MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1076b) Composition: Agar 10.0 g/l Tryptone 10.0 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l PPLO broth 3.5 g/l Urea 2.0 g/l Glucose 1.0 g/l None 1.0 g/l Yeast extract 0.4 g/l DNA 0.2 g/l CMRL 1066 Fetal bovine serum Swine serum Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
16002	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

16002

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Infection	#Disease	-
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Fruit (Seed)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
16002	infected corn with Rio Grande stunt disease	Texas	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence GU562447 (>99% sequence identity) for Spiroplasma from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples	9
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	12

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity plant	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16002		1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Spiroplasma kunkelii strain ATCC 29320 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	GU562447	1443		47834
16002	Spiroplasma kunkelii 16S ribosomal RNA gene, 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, 23S ribosomal RNA gene, 23S-5S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, and 5S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	DQ319068	5400		273035

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Mycoplasmalike organisms (MLOs) and distinguish them from other MLOs.	Nakashima K, Kato S, Iwanami S, Murata N.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.59.4.1206-1212.1993	1993

References

#16002	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21866
#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 .
#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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Spiroplasma kunkelii (DSM 21866, ATCC 29320, CSO E)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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