Mycoplasmopsis sturni (DSM 22021, ATCC 51945, CIP 105812)

Name: Mycoplasmopsis sturni (DSM 22021, ATCC 51945, CIP 105812)
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BacDive ID 8624

Type strain

Strain Designation UCMF

Culture col. no. DSM 22021 ATCC 51945 CIP 105812 UCMF

NCBI tax ID(s) 1122249 39047

Special Collections DSMZ CIP

History <- CIP <- J. G. Tully, Frederick Cancer Res. and Development Center, Natl. Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Frederick, USA; UCMF <- S. J. Geary, Univ. Connecticut, Storrs CT, USA <- L. Hinckley CIP <- 1998, J.G. Tully, Univ. Connecticut, USA: strain UCMF <- S.J. Geary <- L. Hinckley

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Mycoplasmopsis sturni UCMF is an aerobe animal pathogen that was isolated from Conjunctiva of European starling Sturnus vulgaris.

aerobe animal pathogen genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 45328

ATCC 51945,CIP 105812,DSM 22021

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:45

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Mycoplasmatota

Class Mollicutes

Order Mycoplasmoidales

Family Metamycoplasmataceae

Genus Mycoplasmopsis

Species Mycoplasmopsis sturni

Full scientific name Mycoplasmopsis sturni (Forsyth et al. 1996) Gupta et al. 2018

Synonyms (1)

Mycoplasma sturni

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence	Motility
125439	negative	100
125438		97.245

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
16108	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
32853	MEDIUM 79 - for Mycoplasma		Distilled water make up to (610.000 ml);Glucose (5.000 g);Peptone (5.300g);Tryptone (10.000 g);PPLO broth (0.500 g);Sterile supplement - M00265 (375.000 ml)
123330	CIP Medium 79	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
16108	positive	growth	37
32853	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
16108	aerobe
125439	facultative anaerobe	95

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.8
125438		98.377

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Birds	-
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Eye

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
16108	Conjunctiva of European starling Sturnus vulgaris	Sturnus vulgaris	Connecticut	USA	USA	North America
123330	Conjunctiva of European starling, Sturnus vulgaris		Connecticut	United States of America	USA	North America	1995

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence U22013 (>99% sequence identity) for Mycoplasma sturni subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples	57
Plant Samples
Total Samples	61

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16108		2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
123330		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	Mycoplasma sturni DSM 22021	contig		1122249.3		1122249	79
66792	ASM70148v1 assembly for Mycoplasmopsis sturni DSM 22021	scaffold	GCA_000701485	1122249.5	2561511123	1122249	76.64

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Mycoplasma sturni ATCC 51945 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY766090	905		39047
16108	Mycoplasma sturnidae 16S rRNA gene, partial sequence	U22013	1426		39047

GC content

16108

GC-content (mol%)31.0

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Mycoplasmopsis sturni DSM 22021
NCBI: GCA_000701485

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	95.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	100.00	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	59.30	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.80	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Mycoplasmopsis sturni DSM 22021 DSM 22021
NCBI: GCA_000701485.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	65.82	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	82.47	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	83.86	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	98.38	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.20	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	97.25	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Mycoplasma sturni sp. nov., from the conjunctiva of a European starling (Sturnus vulgaris).	Forsyth MH, Tully JG, Gorton TS, Hinckley L, Frasca S Jr, van Kruiningen HJ, Geary SJ	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-46-3-716	1996

References

#16108	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22021
#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 )
#32853	; 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) .
#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 .
#123330	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 105812
#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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Mycoplasmopsis sturni (DSM 22021, ATCC 51945, CIP 105812)

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_000701485

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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