Mycobacterium smegmatis (DSM 43286, ATCC 356, NCTC 524)

Name: Mycobacterium smegmatis (DSM 43286, ATCC 356, NCTC 524)
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BacDive ID 8316

Type strain

Strain Designation 74C, Schering 250

Culture col. no. DSM 43286 ATCC 356 NCTC 524 74C Schering 250

NCBI tax ID(s) 1772

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- K. Kieslich; Schering 250 (Mycobacterium borstelense) <- ATCC; ATCC 356 <- E. G. Hastings; 74C <- NCTC; NCTC 524

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Mycobacterium smegmatis 74C is a human pathogen of the family Mycobacteriaceae.

human pathogen Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 50237

DSM 43286,ATCC 356,NCTC 524,CDBB 76

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:40

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Mycobacteriaceae

Genus Mycobacterium

Species Mycobacterium smegmatis

Full scientific name Mycobacterium smegmatis (Trevisan 1889) Lehmann and Neumann 1899 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

"Bacillus smegmatis"
Mycolicibacterium smegmatis

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Mycobacterium smegmatis** (27)	Type strain
8324	M. smegmatis GA 735, Cornell 3, 14 133 0010, DSM 43756, ... (type strain)
8256	M. smegmatis Minetti 41, DSM 43479, SN 220
8309	M. smegmatis DSM 43059, CCM 1889, IMRU N 525, NCTC 525, ...
8310	M. smegmatis DSM 43061, CCM 2228, NCTC 523
8311	M. smegmatis 52-L-1, DSM 43078, IMRU 672
8312	M. smegmatis DSM 43079, IMRU 853
8313	M. smegmatis DSM 43080, IMRU 580
8314	M. smegmatis 52-Q-1, DSM 43081, IMRU 595
8315	M. smegmatis DSM 43277, ATCC 101, ATCC 14468, NCIB 9953, ...
8317	M. smegmatis 169, Schering 275, DSM 43299, ATCC 114, CCUG ...
8318	M. smegmatis DSM 43464, ATCC 27204, IMET 10646, SN 2
8319	M. smegmatis 607, DSM 43465, ATCC 607, NRRL B-692, SN ...
8320	M. smegmatis DSM 43466, IMRU 7992, SN 35
8321	M. smegmatis DSM 43467, IMRU 9822, SN 44
8322	M. smegmatis 114, DSM 43468, ATCC 27205, IMET 10647, IMRU ...
8323	M. smegmatis 7449, DSM 43469, IMET 10648, SN 46
8325	M. smegmatis DSM 44200, HKI 0056 (SG 987)
8326	M. smegmatis 987-M10, DSM 44201, HKI 0062
104243	M. smegmatis ST033288(HKI),
136747	M. smegmatis CIP 56.5, CCTM 170, NCTC 53
139485	M. smegmatis F21, CIP 73.26
143909	M. smegmatis CCUG 21821, ATCC 19979, NCTC 333
143910	M. smegmatis CCUG 21822, ATCC 23028
143911	M. smegmatis CCUG 21823, ATCC 23032
143912	M. smegmatis CCUG 21824, ATCC 23037
145167	M. smegmatis CCUG 27786
145276	M. smegmatis CCUG 28062, NCTC 3821

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
10928	LÖWENSTEIN-JENSEN MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 354)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: LÖWENSTEIN-JENSEN MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 354) Composition: Potato flour 18.6104 g/l L-Asparagin 2.23325 g/l KH2PO4 1.55087 g/l Mg-citrate 0.372208 g/l Malachite green 0.248139 g/l MgSO4 0.148883 g/l Glycerol Fresh egg mixture Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
10928	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
10928			2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Baikalomycins A-C, New Aquayamycin-Type Angucyclines Isolated from Lake Baikal Derived Streptomyces sp. IB201691-2A.	Voitsekhovskaia I, Paulus C, Dahlem C, Rebets Y, Nadmid S, Zapp J, Axenov-Gribanov D, Ruckert C, Timofeyev M, Kalinowski J, Kiemer AK, Luzhetskyy A.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms8050680	2020
Metabolism	Pyruvate Substitutions on Glycoconjugates.	Hager FF, Sutzl L, Stefanovic C, Blaukopf M, Schaffer C.	Int J Mol Sci	10.3390/ijms20194929	2019
Enzymology	Characterization of a mannan-like oligosaccharide from Mycobacterium smegmatis.	Maitra SK, Ballou CE.	Biochem Biophys Res Commun	10.1016/0006-291x(76)90236-9	1976
Metabolism	Amylooligosaccharides from Mycobacterium smegmatis.	Yamada H, Ballou CE.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.139.1.302-304.1979	1979
Metabolism	Polymethylpolysaccharide synthesis in an ethionine-resistant mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis.	Maloney DH, Ballou CE.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.141.3.1217-1221.1980	1980
Metabolism	Identification of the polyketide synthase involved in the biosynthesis of the surface-exposed lipooligosaccharides in mycobacteria.	Etienne G, Malaga W, Laval F, Lemassu A, Guilhot C, Daffe M.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.01235-08	2009
Phylogeny	Interrelationships among Mycobacteria and Nocardiae.	Manion RE, Bradley SG, Zinneman HH, Hall WH.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.87.5.1056-1059.1964	1964
	Rapidly growing, acid fast bacteria. I. Species' descriptions of Mycobacterium phlei Lehmann and Neumann and Mycobacterium smegmatis (Trevisan) Lehmann and Neumann.	GORDON RE, SMITH MM.	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.66.1.41-48.1953	1953
Enzymology	Purification and characterization of C28-55 fatty acids from Mycobacterium smegmatis.	Sathyamoorthy N, Qureshi N, Takayama K	Can J Microbiol	10.1139/m85-041	1985
Enzymology	Pyruvylated glycolipids from Mycobacterium smegmatis. Structures of two oligosaccharide components.	Saadat S, Ballou CE	J Biol Chem	S0021-9258(18)33060-6	1983

References

#10928	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 43286
#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 )
#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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Mycobacterium smegmatis (DSM 43286, ATCC 356, NCTC 524)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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References

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