- Source: Mycoplasma capricolum
Mycoplasma capricolum is a species of Mycoplasma bacteria. It is primarily a pathogen of goats, but has also been found in sheep and cows. The species requires external sources of cholesterol to grow or survive (which usually comes in the form of a natural fatty acid auxotroph), but the uptaken fatty acid is not used as a substrate for energy production but rather for phospholipid synthesis instead.
It (specifically the capripneumoniae subspecies) causes a disease in goats called contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP).
References
Further reading
Lartigue, Carole; Lebaudy, Anne; El Yacoubi, Basma; Rose, Simon; Grosjean, Henri; Blanchard, Alain; Douthwaite, Stephen (17 June 2014). "The flavoprotein Mcap0476 (RlmFO) catalyzes m5U1939 modification in Mycoplasma capricolum 23S rRNA". Nucleic Acids Research. 42 (12): 8073–8082. doi:10.1093/nar/gku518. PMC 4081110. PMID 24939895.
External links
Mycoplasma capricolum at MicrobeWiki
Type strain of Mycoplasma capricolum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase