Rhodopila globiformis (DSM 161, ATCC 35887, Pfennig 7950)

Name: Rhodopila globiformis (DSM 161, ATCC 35887, Pfennig 7950)
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BacDive ID 59

Type strain

Strain Designation 7950

Culture col. no. DSM 161 ATCC 35887 Pfennig 7950 7950 CIP 107835 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 1071

Special Collections DSMZ CIP

History DSMZ <- N. Pfennig, 7950 CIP <- 2003, DSMZ <- N. Pfennig: strain 7950

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Rhodopila globiformis 7950 is an anaerobe, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from sulfur spring.

Gram-positive rod-shaped anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 4899

LMG 4312,DSM 161,ATCC 35887,CIP 107835

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:24:56

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Acetobacteraceae

Genus Rhodopila

Species Rhodopila globiformis

Full scientific name Rhodopila globiformis (Pfennig 1974) Imhoff et al. 1984

Synonyms (1)

Rhodopseudomonas globiformis

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
119646	positive	rod-shaped
125438	negative			97.685

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
2128	RHODOPSEUDOMONAS GLOBIFORMIS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 25)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: RHODOPSEUDOMONAS GLOBIFORMIS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 25) Composition: Mannitol 1.5 g/l Na-gluconate 0.5 g/l KH2PO4 0.5 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.4 g/l NH4Cl 0.4 g/l Yeast extract 0.25 g/l Sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate 0.2 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.05 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.005 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0002 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0001 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 0.0001 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 3e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2e-05 g/l Biotin 2e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1e-05 g/l Distilled water
36597	MEDIUM 462 - for Rodophila globiformis		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Sodium chloride (0.400 g);Magnesium sulphate heptahydrate (0.400 g);Calcium chloride dihydrate (0.050 g);Yeast extract (0.250 g);Potassium di-hydrogen phosphate (0.500 g);Ammonium chloride (0.400 g);Mannitol (1.500
119646	CIP Medium 462	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
2128	positive	growth	28
36597	positive	growth	25
119646	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
2128	anaerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	99.625

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		93.737

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions
66794	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
66794	threonine metabolism	100	10 of 10
66794	ethanol fermentation	100	2 of 2
66794	vitamin E metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	photosynthesis	100	14 of 14
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	100	22 of 22
66794	ppGpp biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
66794	glycogen metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	butanoate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	resorcinol degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	valine metabolism	100	9 of 9
66794	quinate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	lipoate biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	100	3 of 3
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	100	8 of 8
66794	gluconeogenesis	100	8 of 8
66794	taurine degradation	100	1 of 1
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	folate polyglutamylation	100	1 of 1
66794	lactate fermentation	100	4 of 4
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	denitrification	100	2 of 2
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	100	9 of 9
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	100	7 of 7
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	100	7 of 7
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	100	3 of 3
66794	NAD metabolism	94.44	17 of 18
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	92.86	26 of 28
66794	leucine metabolism	92.31	12 of 13
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	90.91	10 of 11
66794	starch degradation	90	9 of 10
66794	phenol degradation	90	18 of 20
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	90	9 of 10
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	88.89	8 of 9
66794	serine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	88.89	8 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	methionine metabolism	88.46	23 of 26
66794	3-phenylpropionate degradation	86.67	13 of 15
66794	alanine metabolism	86.21	25 of 29
66794	propanol degradation	85.71	6 of 7
66794	citric acid cycle	85.71	12 of 14
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	85.29	29 of 34
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	83.33	5 of 6
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	83.33	5 of 6
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	83.33	10 of 12
66794	purine metabolism	82.98	78 of 94
66794	proline metabolism	81.82	9 of 11
66794	tryptophan metabolism	81.58	31 of 38
66794	lipid metabolism	80.65	25 of 31
66794	3-chlorocatechol degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	80	12 of 15
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	80	8 of 10
66794	hydrogen production	80	4 of 5
66794	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	propionate fermentation	80	8 of 10
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	80	4 of 5
66794	gallate degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	factor 420 biosynthesis	80	4 of 5
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	chorismate metabolism	77.78	7 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	glycolysis	76.47	13 of 17
66794	degradation of sugar acids	76	19 of 25
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	androgen and estrogen metabolism	75	12 of 16
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	75	3 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	75	3 of 4
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	75	6 of 8
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	73.33	33 of 45
66794	flavin biosynthesis	73.33	11 of 15
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	72.73	8 of 11
66794	chlorophyll metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	benzoyl-CoA degradation	71.43	5 of 7
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
66794	tyrosine metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	heme metabolism	71.43	10 of 14
66794	non-pathway related	71.05	27 of 38
66794	arginine metabolism	70.83	17 of 24
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	70.33	64 of 91
66794	sulfate reduction	69.23	9 of 13
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	68.75	11 of 16
66794	degradation of pentoses	67.86	19 of 28
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	cysteine metabolism	66.67	12 of 18
66794	cyanate degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	65.38	17 of 26
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	64.71	11 of 17
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	glutathione metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
66794	d-xylose degradation	63.64	7 of 11
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	histidine metabolism	62.07	18 of 29
66794	urea cycle	61.54	8 of 13
66794	creatinine degradation	60	3 of 5
66794	lysine metabolism	57.14	24 of 42
66794	degradation of hexoses	55.56	10 of 18
66794	cholesterol biosynthesis	54.55	6 of 11
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	54.55	6 of 11
66794	carnitine metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	biotin biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	50	5 of 10
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	50	11 of 22
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	50	2 of 4
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	50	1 of 2
66794	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
66794	arachidonic acid metabolism	44.44	8 of 18
66794	allantoin degradation	44.44	4 of 9
66794	polyamine pathway	43.48	10 of 23
66794	ascorbate metabolism	40.91	9 of 22
66794	elloramycin biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	arachidonate biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	D-cycloserine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	methanofuran biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	vitamin K metabolism	40	2 of 5
66794	metabolism of amino sugars and derivatives	40	2 of 5
66794	sphingosine metabolism	33.33	2 of 6
66794	nitrate assimilation	33.33	3 of 9
66794	(5R)-carbapenem carboxylate biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	aclacinomycin biosynthesis	28.57	2 of 7
66794	alginate biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	25	3 of 12
66794	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
66794	daunorubicin biosynthesis	22.22	2 of 9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Spring
#Condition	#Sulfuric	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
2128	sulfur spring	Wyoming, Yellowstone Natl. Park	USA	USA	North America
119646	Environment, Sulfur spring		United States of America	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence D86513 (>99% sequence identity) for Rhodopila globiformis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	612
Soil Samples	9890
Animal Samples	650
Plant Samples	2538
Total Samples	13690

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
2128	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
119646	1	Risk group (French 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	ASM293711v1 assembly for Rhodopila globiformis DSM 161	scaffold	GCA_002937115	1071.7	2831737867	1071	18.37

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Rhodopila globiformis DNA for 16S rRNA	D86513	1465		1071

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM293711v1 assembly for Rhodopila globiformis DSM 161
BV-BRC: 1071.7

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	99.63	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	60.14	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	65.46	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	93.74	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Rhodopila globiformis DSM 161
NCBI: GCA_002937115.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	97.69	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	68.16	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	59.01	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	79.30	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	94.25	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	75.82	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Anaerobic 3-methylhopanoid production by an acidophilic photosynthetic purple bacterium.	Mayer MH, Parenteau MN, Kempher ML, Madigan MT, Jahnke LL, Welander PV.	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-021-02561-7	2021
	Genome Sequence of the Unusual Purple Photosynthetic Bacterium Phaeovibrio sulfidiphilus, Only Distantly Related to Rhodospirillaceae, Reveals Unique Genes for Respiratory Nitrate Reduction and Glycerol Metabolism.	Dubey S, Meyer TE, Kyndt JA.	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/mra.01200-20	2020
	Isolation of Uncultured Bacteria from Antarctica Using Long Incubation Periods and Low Nutritional Media.	Pulschen AA, Bendia AG, Fricker AD, Pellizari VH, Galante D, Rodrigues F.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.01346	2017
Genetics	Osmotic Adaptation and Compatible Solute Biosynthesis of Phototrophic Bacteria as Revealed from Genome Analyses.	Imhoff JF, Rahn T, Kunzel S, Keller A, Neulinger SC.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms9010046	2020
	Silent gene clusters encode magnetic organelle biosynthesis in a non-magnetotactic phototrophic bacterium.	Dziuba MV, Paulus A, Schramm L, Awal RP, Posfai M, Monteil CL, Fouteau S, Uebe R, Schuler D.	ISME J	10.1038/s41396-022-01348-y	2023
	Combined use of 16S ribosomal DNA and 16S rRNA to study the bacterial community of polychlorinated biphenyl-polluted soil.	Nogales B, Moore ER, Llobet-Brossa E, Rossello-Mora R, Amann R, Timmis KN.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.67.4.1874-1884.2001	2001
Enzymology	Coffea arabica L., a new host plant for Acetobacter diazotrophicus, and isolation of other nitrogen-fixing acetobacteria.	Jimenez-Salgado T, Fuentes-Ramirez LE, Tapia-Hernandez A, Mascarua-Esparza MA, Martinez-Romero E, Caballero-Mellado J.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.63.9.3676-3683.1997	1997
Metabolism	New insights into the metabolic potential of the phototrophic purple bacterium Rhodopila globiformis DSM 161(T) from its draft genome sequence and evidence for a vanadium-dependent nitrogenase.	Imhoff JF, Rahn T, Kunzel S, Neulinger SC	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-018-1489-z	2018
Phylogeny	Acidibrevibacterium fodinaquatile gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from acidic mine drainage.	Muhadesi JB, Huang Y, Wang BJ, Jiang CY, Liu SJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003618	2019

References

#2128	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 161
#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 )
#36597	; Curators of the CIP;
#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 .
#119646	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 107835
#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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Rhodopila globiformis (DSM 161, ATCC 35887, Pfennig 7950)

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_002937115

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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