Corallococcus macrosporus (DSM 51954, Cc m7)

Name: Corallococcus macrosporus (DSM 51954, Cc m7)
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BacDive ID 9580

Type strain

Strain Designation Cc m7

Culture col. no. DSM 51954 Cc m7

NCBI tax ID(s) 35

Special Collections DSMZ Reichenbach collection

History <- H. Reichenbach, GBF; Cc m7

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Corallococcus macrosporus Cc m7 is a bacterium that builds a fruiting body and was isolated from soil.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 144147

DSM 51954

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:20:00

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Deltaproteobacteria

Order Myxococcales

Family Myxococcaceae

Genus Corallococcus

Species Corallococcus macrosporus

Full scientific name Corallococcus macrosporus (Krzemieniewska and Krzemieniewski 1926) Reichenbach 2007

Synonyms (3)

"Chondrococcus macrosporus"
Myxococcus macrosporus
"Pseudomyxococcus macrosporus"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Corallococcus macrosporus** (16)	Type strain
9576	C. macrosporus Cc m8, DSM 14697, CIP 109128, JCM 12621 (type strain)
9575	C. macrosporus Cc m15, DSM 14690
9577	C. macrosporus Cc m3, DSM 51951
9578	C. macrosporus Cc m4, DSM 51952
9579	C. macrosporus Cc m6, DSM 51953
9581	C. macrosporus Cc m9, DSM 51955
9582	C. macrosporus Cc m10, DSM 51956
9583	C. macrosporus Cc m11, DSM 51957
9584	C. macrosporus Cc m12, DSM 51958
9585	C. macrosporus Cc m13, DSM 51959
9586	C. macrosporus Cc m16, DSM 51960
9587	C. macrosporus Cc m17, DSM 51961
9588	C. macrosporus Cc m19, DSM 51962
9589	C. macrosporus Cc m20, DSM 51963
9590	C. macrosporus Cc m21, DSM 51964
9591	C. macrosporus Cc m22, DSM 51965

Morphology

Multicellular morphology

@ref	Forms multicellular complex	Complex name
18281		fruiting body

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
13670	VY/2 AGAR (DSMZ Medium 9)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: VY/2 AGAR (DSMZ Medium 9) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Baker's yeast 5.0 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 1.36 g/l Vitamin B12 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
13670	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
13670	soil	Djerba Island	Tunisia	TUN	Africa

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ233920 (>99% sequence identity) for Myxococcaceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	63
Soil Samples	880
Animal Samples	57
Plant Samples	157
Total Samples	1157

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
13670	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
13670	Myxococcus macrosporus 16S rRNA gene, strain Cc m7	AJ233920	1522		35

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#13670	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 51954
#18281	Reichenbach, H.: Collection description and documentation of myxobacteria by H. Reichenbach, HZI (formerly GBF); Collection curr. located at the DSMZ . Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH:
#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 )
#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 .
#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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