Geojedonia litorea Park et al. 2013
General information
Name
Geojedonia litorea
Valid publication
2013
Effective publication
2013
Nomenclature type
CCUG 63682
;KCTC 32260
;YCS-16
Etymology
L. fem. adj. <i>litorea</i> belonging to the seashore, coast.
Ecology
Source
isolated from coastal seawater from a seaweed farm of Geojedo on the South Sea, South Korea.
Morphology
Cells are non-flagellated, non-gliding and rod-shaped, coccoid or filamentous, ~0.2-0.4 µm in diameter and 0.4-10.0 µm in length; a few cells longer than 10.0 µm occur. Colonies on MA are circular, slightly convex, smooth, glistening, yellow in colour and 1.0-2.0 mm in diameter after incubation for 3 days at 30°C.
Morphology standardized
cell shape | width |
---|---|
rod; coccus; filament | ~0.2-0.4 |
flagellum |
---|
- |
Physiology
Oxygen requirement
aerobic
GC
GC_content |
---|
35.7 |
Gram
staining |
---|
negative |
Halophily
optimum |
---|
2% |
range |
---|
0.5-6.0% |
C/N source
positive results | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
xylan | pectin | starch | agarose | alginate | aesculin | casein | sucrose | maltose | D-glucose | D-trehalose | D-galactose | D-mannose | D-cellobiose |
negative results | |||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
urea | carboxymethylcellulose | gelatin | xanthine | hypoxanthine | tween 80 | L-tyrosine | chitin | melibiose | myo-inositol | D-ribose | D-melezitose | L-arabinose | D-fructose | L-rhamnose | D-raffinose | D-mannitol | D-xylose | D-sorbitol | lactose |
Biochemistry
Fattyacids
Name | Account |
---|---|
iso-C15:1 G | 20.7 |
iso-C16:0 3-OH | 5.1 |
iso-C15:0 3-OH | 5.2 |
iso-C17:0 3-OH | 22.7 |
iso-C15:0 | 20.0 |
C16:1 ω7c and/or C16:1 ω6c | 8.5 |
Nitrate rdc
-
Polar lipids
PE
Quinones
MK-6
Enzymology
Enzyme | Activity |
---|---|
acetyl β-glucosaminidase | - |
acid phosphatase | - |
alkaline phosphatase | + |
catalase | + |
cystine arylamidase | - |
esterase C4 | - |
esterase C8 | - |
leucine arylamidase | + |
lipase C14 | - |
naphthol AS-BI-phosphohydrolase | - |
oxidase | + |
trypsin | + |
valine arylamidase | + |
α-chymotrypsin | + |
α-fucosidase | - |
α-galactosidase | - |
α-glucosidase | - |
α-mannosidase | - |
β-galactosidase | - |
β-glucosidase | - |
β-glucuronidase | - |
Taxonomy marker
References
1
Park, S., Lee, J.-S., Lee, K.-C., and Yoon, J.-H. Geojedonia litorea gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from coastal seawater. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2013) 103:1255-1262.[DOI:10.1007/s10482-013-9904-6]
[PMID:23515678]
2
Validation List No. 153. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2013) 63:3131-3134.[DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.056101-0]