Acholeplasma equifetale (ATCC 29724, NCTC 10171, DSM 116313)

Name: Acholeplasma equifetale (ATCC 29724, NCTC 10171, DSM 116313)
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BacDive ID 167728

Type strain

Strain Designation C112

Culture col. no. ATCC 29724 NCTC 10171 DSM 116313 C112

NCBI tax ID(s) 1408415 264634

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Acholeplasma equifetale C112 is a prokaryote that was isolated from isolated from lung of aborted horse fetus.

genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 39679

DSM 116313,ATCC 29724,NCTC 10171

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:10:11

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Mycoplasmatota

Class Mollicutes

Order Acholeplasmatales

Family Acholeplasmataceae

Genus Acholeplasma

Species Acholeplasma equifetale

Full scientific name Acholeplasma equifetale Kirchoff 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Motility	Confidence	Gram stain
125438		91.5
125439		90	negative

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
124990	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 Yeast extract 0.4 g/l DNA 0.2 g/l CMRL 1066 Distilled water Fetal bovine serum Swine serum

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
124990	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	facultative anaerobe	95.2

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
124990	isolated from lung of aborted horse fetus	Hannover	Germany	DEU	Europe	52.3759	9.732 52.3759/9.732

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY538165 (>99% sequence identity) for Acholeplasma equifetale subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	184
Soil Samples	182
Animal Samples	356
Plant Samples	156
Total Samples	878

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
20215	1	Risk group
124990	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM68773v1 assembly for Acholeplasma equifetale ATCC 29724	contig	GCA_000687735	1408415.3	2556921630	1408415	71.72

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20215	Acholeplasma equifetale 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY538165	1408	264634
124043	Acholeplasma equifetale 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S intergenic spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	AY744936	918	264634
124043	Acholeplasma equifetale strain ATCC 29724 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	AY765210	732	264634

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Acholeplasma equifetale ATCC 29724
NCBI: GCA_000687735

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	82.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	66.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	90.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	95.20	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Acholeplasma equifetale ATCC 29724
PATRIC: 1408415.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	65.92	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	76.86	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	84.91	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	93.91	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	89.70	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	91.50	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Evaluation of Mycoplasma inactivation during production of biologics: egg-based viral vaccines as a model.	David SA, Volokhov DV, Ye Z, Chizhikov V.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.02776-09	2010
	Isolation and molecular identification of Mycoplasma equigenitalium from equine genital tracts in northern India.	Nehra K, Rana R, Viswas KN, Arun TR, Singh VP, Singh AP, Prabhu SN.	Iran J Vet Res		2015
Enzymology	[Mycoplasmas isolated from the genital tract of mares (author's transl)].	Kirchhoff H, Heitmann J, Bisping W.	Zentralbl Bakteriol A	10.1016/s0172-5599(80)80116-7	1980
Enzymology	Properties of the nucleases of mollicutes.	Pollack JD, Hoffmann PJ.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.152.1.538-541.1982	1982
	Peloplasma aerotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Anaerobic Free-Living Mollicute Isolated from a Terrestrial Mud Volcano.	Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Slobodkin AI.	Life (Basel)	10.3390/life14050563	2024

References

#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#124990	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 116313
#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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Acholeplasma equifetale (ATCC 29724, NCTC 10171, DSM 116313)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000687735

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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