Spiroplasma alleghenense (DSM 19900, ATCC 51752, PLHS-1)

Name: Spiroplasma alleghenense (DSM 19900, ATCC 51752, PLHS-1)
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BacDive ID 14377

Type strain

Strain Designation PLHS-1

Culture col. no. DSM 19900 ATCC 51752 PLHS-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 216931

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- J. K. Davis, Univ. Purdue; PLHS-1 <- E. A. Clark and R. F. Whitcomb;

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Spiroplasma alleghenense PLHS-1 is a microaerophile bacterium that was isolated from hemolyph of scorpion fly .

microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 43161

DSM 19900,ATCC 51752

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:28:16

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Mycoplasmatota

Class Mollicutes

Order Mycoplasmatales

Family Spiroplasmataceae

Genus Spiroplasma

Species Spiroplasma alleghenense

Full scientific name Spiroplasma alleghenense Adams et al. 1997

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence	Motility
125439	negative	95.521
125438		92.93

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
8374	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)
8374	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
8374	microaerophile
125439	facultative anaerobe	97.376

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		93.895
125439		90.913

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

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

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
8374	hemolyph of scorpion fly ( Panorpa helena)	Panorpa helena	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY189125 (>99% sequence identity) for Spiroplasma from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples	22
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	25

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8374	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	ASM336377v1 assembly for Spiroplasma alleghenense PLHS-1	complete	GCA_003363775	216931.4	2843673047	216931	84.76
66792	Spiroplasma alleghenense strain PLHS-1	complete		216931.3		216931	64.8

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Spiroplasma alleghenense 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY189125	1516		216931
20218	Spiroplasma alleghenense strain PLHS-1 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S intergenic spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ004922	912		216931

GC content

8374

GC-content (mol%)31

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM336377v1 assembly for Spiroplasma alleghenense PLHS-1
NCBI: GCA_003363775

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	97.38	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	52.94	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	95.52	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	90.91	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Spiroplasma alleghenense PLHS-1
NCBI: GCA_003363775.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	71.12	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	79.89	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	92.67	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.90	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.57	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	92.93	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Complete Genome Sequence of Spiroplasma alleghenense PLHS-1(T) (ATCC 51752), a Bacterium Isolated from Scorpion Fly (Panorpa helena).	Chou L, Lee TY, Tsai YM, Kuo CH	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/MRA.00317-19	2019
Phylogeny	Revised group classification of the genus Spiroplasma.	Williamson DL, Whitcomb RF, Tully JG, Gasparich GE, Rose DL, Carle P, Bove JM, Hackett KJ, Adams JR, Henegar RB, Konai M, Chastel C, French FE	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-48-1-1	1998

References

#8374	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19900
#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) .
#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 alleghenense (DSM 19900, ATCC 51752, PLHS-1)

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_003363775

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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