Corallibacter vietnamensis Kim et al. 2012
General information
Name
Corallibacter vietnamensis
Valid publication
2012
Nomenclature type
JCM 17525
;KCTC 23026
;KMM 6217
Etymology
N.L. masc. adj. <i>vietnamensis</i>, of or belonging to Vietnam, the country of origin of the type strain.
Ecology
Source
isolated from the coral Palythoa sp., collected from Vanfong Bay, South China Sea, Vietnam.
Morphology
Cells are non-endospore-forming rods (0.4-0.5 × 1.4-3.2 µm), and motile by gliding. On MA, colonies are 2-3 mm in diameter, circular with entire edges and dark orange in colour.
Morphology standardized
cell shape | length | width |
---|---|---|
rod | 1.4-3.2 | 0.4-0.5 |
motility |
---|
- |
Physiology
Nutrition type
chemoorganotroph
Oxygen requirement
obligately aerobic
GC
GC_content |
---|
34.8 |
Gram
staining |
---|
negative |
Growth temperature
range |
---|
10.0-40.0 |
Growth PH
range |
---|
4.0-10.0 |
5.5-7.5 |
Halophily
optimum |
---|
2.0-4.0% |
range |
---|
0.5-8.0% |
C/N source
positive results | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
starch | gelatin | aesculin | tween 40 | L-arabinose | mannose | citrate |
negative results | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
urea | tween 20 | chitin | casein | sucrose | mannitol | sorbitol | inositol | lactose |
Antibiotic
sensitivity | |||
---|---|---|---|
lincomycin | erythromycin | carbenicillin | chloramfenicol |
resistance | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
kanamycin | oxytetracycline | doxycycline | streptomycin | ampicillin | oleandomycin | penicillin_g | gentamicin | polymyxin | neomycin | tetracycline |
Biochemistry
Fattyacids
Name | Account |
---|---|
iso-C17:0 3-OH | 6.3-6.5 |
C16:1 ω7c and iso-C15:0 2-OH | 9.1-10.2 |
C15:0 | 9.9-10.6 |
iso-C15:0 | 20.2-23.3 |
iso-C15:1 | 29.7-29.9 |
Indole pdu
-
Polar lipids
PE
Quinones
MK-6
Vp test
-
Enzymology
Enzyme | Activity |
---|---|
alkaline phosphatase | + |
arginine dihydrolase | - |
catalase | + |
cystine arylamidase | + |
cytochrome oxidase | + |
esterase C4 | + |
esterase C8 | + |
leucine arylamidase | + |
lipase C14 | + |
lysine decarboxylase | - |
naphthol AS-BI-phosphohydrolase | + |
ornithine decarboxylase | - |
oxidase | + |
trypsin | - |
tryptophan deaminase | - |
valine arylamidase | + |
α-chymotrypsin | - |
α-fucosidase | - |
α-galactosidase | - |
α-glucosidase | + |
α-mannosidase | - |
β-galactosidase | - |
β-glucosidase | - |
β-glucuronidase | - |
Taxonomy marker
References
1
Kim, S.B., Nedashkovskaya, O.I., Zhukova, N.V., Kuchlevskiy, A.D., and Mikhailov, V.V. Corallibacter vietnamensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2012) 62:569-574.[DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.028928-0]
[PMID:21515707]