Empedobacter brevis Vandamme et al. 1994
General information
Name
Empedobacter brevis
Basonym
Flavobacterium breve (ex Lustig 1890) Holmes and Owen 1982
Valid publication
1994
Nomenclature type
ATCC 43319
;CCM 3299;CCUG 7320
;CFBP 3031;CIP 103104;CL 88/76;GIFU 3159;IAM 14197;JCM 1276
;JCM 21064
;KS 0410;LMG 4011
;NBRC 14943
;NCTC 11099;R-910;VTT E-91455
Etymology
L. masc. adj. <i>brevis</i>, short.
Ecology
Source
isolated from various sources including canal water, clinical specimens, food, fish and marine animals, dogs, and protists.
Morphology
Cells are non-motile, non-spore-forming rods with parallel sides and rounded ends (0.5 × 1-2 µm). Colonies are circular, low convex, smooth, and shiny, with entire edges.
Morphology standardized
cell shape | length | width |
---|---|---|
rod | 1-2 | 0.5 |
motility |
---|
+ |
Physiology
Nutrition type
chemoorganotroph
Oxygen requirement
aerobic
Gram
staining |
---|
negative |
C/N source
positive results | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
tween 80 | 3-hydroxybutyrate | gelatin | tween 20 | casein |
negative results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ethanol | sucrose | cellobiose | mannitol | raffinose | salicine | dulcitol | xylose | trehalose | sorbitol | inositol | glycerol | arabinose | rhamnose | adonitol | fructose | lactose | gluconate | peptone | malonate | glucose | tyrosine | arginine | 3-ketolactose | phenylalanine | citrate | aesculin | urea |
Biochemistry
Fattyacids
Name | Account |
---|---|
iso-C17:0 3-OH | 17.6 |
iso-C15:0 3-OH | 7.3 |
iso-C17:1 I and/or anteiso-C17:1 B | 6.2 |
C16:1 ω5c | 5.5 |
iso-C15:0 | 24.5 |
Indole pdu
+
Polar lipids
PE
Quinones
MK-6
Enzymology
Enzyme | Activity |
---|---|
catalase | + |
oxidase | + |
Taxonomy marker
AM177497
Empedobacter brevis
Create date: 14-DEC-2005
Length
1485
Topology
linear
Strandedness
double
Xref
Genomics
Submitter date: 2013/04/24 00:00 Update date: 2014/07/11 00:00
Source
DOE Joint Genome Institute
Coverage
0
Assembly status
Scaffold
Assembly class
haploid
Strain List
References
1
Holmes, B., and Owen, R.J. Flavobacterium breve sp. nov., nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1982) 32:233-234.[DOI:10.1099/00207713-32-2-233]
2
Vandamme, P., Bernardet, J.F., Segers, P., Kersters, K., and Holmes, B. New perspectives in the classification of the flavobacteria: description of Chryseobacterium gen. nov., Bergeyella gen. nov., and Empedobacter nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1994) 44:827-831.[DOI:10.1099/00207713-44-4-827]
3
Zhang, R.-G., Tan, X., Liang, Y., Meng, T.-Y., Liang, H.-Z., and Lv, J. Description of Chishuiella changwenlii gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from freshwater, and transfer of Wautersiella falsenii to the genus Empedobacter as Empedobacter falsenii comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2014) 64:2723-2728.[DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.060178-0]
[PMID:24453231]
4
Hahnke, R.L., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., GarcIa-Lopez, M., Mukherjee, S., Huntemann, M., Ivanova, N.N., Woyke, T., Kyrpides, N.C., Klenk, H.-P., and Goker, M. Genome-based taxonomic classification of Bacteroidetes. Front. Microbiol. (2016) 7:2003.[DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2016.02003]
[PMID:28066339]
[PMCID:PMC5167729]
5
List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion No. 26. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2017) 67:2081-2086.[DOI:10.1099/ijsem.0.002071]