Metallibacterium Ziegler et al. 2013
General information
Name
Metallibacterium
Valid publication
2013
Nomenclature type
Metallibacterium scheffleri
Etymology
L. neut. n. <i>metallum</i>, mine; L. neut. n. <i>bacterium</i>, small rod; N.L. neut. n. <i>Metallibacterium</i>, a rod from a mine.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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Cells are Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, facultatively anaerobic rods that are non-motile and chemoheterotrophic having a respiratory type of metabolism. Cells were isolated from an acidic environment but grow in a wide pH range (optimum, pH 5.5) and are therefore acid tolerant. The major fatty acids are iso-C11:0 3-OH, iso-C15:0, iso-C17:0 and iso-C17:1 ω9c. The polar lipids are aminophospholipid, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, two aminolipids, two putative glycolipids (staining weakly for sugars) and an unknown phospholipid. The ubiquinone is Q8. The DNA G+C content of the type strain is 66.6 mol%.
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References
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Ziegler, S., Waidner, B., Itoh, T., Schumann, P., Spring, S., and Gescher, J. Metallibacterium scheffleri gen. nov., sp. nov., an alkalinizing gammaproteobacterium isolated from an acidic biofilm. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2013) 63:1499-1504.[DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.042986-0]
[PMID:22863988]