Spiroplasma syrphidicola (DSM 22631, ATCC 33826, EA-1)

Name: Spiroplasma syrphidicola (DSM 22631, ATCC 33826, EA-1)
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BacDive ID 14368

Type strain

Strain Designation EA-1

Culture col. no. DSM 22631 ATCC 33826 EA-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1276229 216945

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Spiroplasma syrphidicola EA-1 is a microaerophile, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from hemolymph of the syrphid fly Eristalis arbustorum.

microaerophile mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 40711

DSM 22631,ATCC 33826

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:50:20

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Mycoplasmatota

Class Mollicutes

Order Mycoplasmatales

Family Spiroplasmataceae

Genus Spiroplasma

Species Spiroplasma syrphidicola

Full scientific name Spiroplasma syrphidicola Whitcomb et al. 1996

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Motility	Confidence
125438		94.85

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16439	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)	Range
16439	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
16439	microaerophile
125439	facultative anaerobe	92.8

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		93.27

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	77.27	17 of 22
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	photosynthesis	71.43	10 of 14
66794	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	NAD metabolism	55.56	10 of 18
66794	d-mannose degradation	55.56	5 of 9
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	adipate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	acetate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	purine metabolism	46.81	44 of 94
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	45.45	5 of 11
66794	serine metabolism	44.44	4 of 9
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	43.75	7 of 16
66794	propanol degradation	42.86	3 of 7
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	42.22	19 of 45
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	flavin biosynthesis	40	6 of 15
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	cellulose degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	38.46	5 of 13
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	38.46	5 of 13
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	37.5	3 of 8
66794	d-xylose degradation	36.36	4 of 11
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	36.36	4 of 11
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	36.26	33 of 91
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	34.62	9 of 26
66794	non-pathway related	34.21	13 of 38
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	33.33	2 of 6
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
66794	lipid metabolism	32.26	10 of 31
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	32.14	9 of 28
66794	urea cycle	30.77	4 of 13
66794	methionine metabolism	30.77	8 of 26
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	30	3 of 10
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	30	3 of 10
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	28.57	2 of 7
66794	glutathione metabolism	28.57	4 of 14
66794	degradation of pentoses	25	7 of 28
66794	butanoate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	25	2 of 8
66794	biotin biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	25	3 of 12
66794	leucine metabolism	23.08	3 of 13
66794	ascorbate metabolism	22.73	5 of 22
66794	cysteine metabolism	22.22	4 of 18
66794	valine metabolism	22.22	2 of 9
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	22.22	2 of 9
66794	tyrosine metabolism	21.43	3 of 14
66794	alanine metabolism	20.69	6 of 29

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body Product	#Fluids	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species
16439	hemolymph of the syrphid fly Eristalis arbustorum	Eristalis arbustorum

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence NR_025711 (>99% sequence identity) for Spiroplasma from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	54
Soil Samples	6
Animal Samples	67
Plant Samples	3
Total Samples	130

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16439	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	ASM40095v1 assembly for Spiroplasma syrphidicola EA-1	complete	GCA_000400955	1276229.3	2554235381	1276229	98.85

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Spiroplasma syrphidicola 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY189309	1516		1276229
16439	Spiroplasma syrphidicola strain EA-1 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	NR_025711	1516		216945

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Spiroplasma syrphidicola EA-1
PATRIC: 1276229.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	92.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	69.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	63.20	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	77.80	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Spiroplasma syrphidicola EA-1 EA-1
NCBI: GCA_000400955.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	74.82	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	80.56	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	94.27	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.27	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.49	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	94.85	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Complete genomes of two dipteran-associated spiroplasmas provided insights into the origin, dynamics, and impacts of viral invasion in spiroplasma.	Ku C, Lo WS, Chen LL, Kuo CH.	Genome Biol Evol	10.1093/gbe/evt084	2013
Phylogeny	Spiroplasma syrphidicola sp. nov., from a syrphid fly (Diptera: Syrphidae).	Whitcomb RF, Gasparich GE, French FE, Tully JG, Rose DL, Carle P, Bove JM, Henegar RB, Konai M, Hackett KJ, Adams JR, Clark TB, Williamson DL	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-46-3-797	1996

References

#16439	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22631
#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 )
#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) .
#66794	Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )
#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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Spiroplasma syrphidicola (DSM 22631, ATCC 33826, EA-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Pathway annotation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000400955

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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