Corallococcus macrosporus (DSM 51963, Cc m20)

Name: Corallococcus macrosporus (DSM 51963, Cc m20)
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BacDive ID 9589

Type strain

Strain Designation Cc m20

Culture col. no. DSM 51963 Cc m20

NCBI tax ID(s) 35

Special Collections DSMZ Reichenbach collection

History <- H. Reichenbach, GBF; Cc m20

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Corallococcus macrosporus Cc m20 is a bacterium that builds a fruiting body and was isolated from soil with plant residues.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 144212

DSM 51963

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:20:01

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
9580	C. macrosporus Cc m7, DSM 51954
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
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
13679	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)
13679	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Host	#Plants	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
13679	soil with plant residues	near Gizeh	Egypt	EGY	Africa

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
13679	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#13679	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 51963
#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 )
#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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