Metallibacterium scheffleri Ziegler et al. 2013
General information
Name
Metallibacterium scheffleri
Valid publication
2013
Etymology
N.L. gen. masc. n. <i>scheffleri</i>, of Scheffler, named in honour of the geologist Horst Scheffler and in recognition of his work on mine geology and commitment to our work.
Ecology
Source
isolated from an acidic biofilm found in the pyrite mine Drei Kronen und Ehrt in the Harz Mountains, Germany.
Morphology
Cells are non-spore-forming, non-motile rods (0.4-0.6 × 1.3-2.6). Cells occur often as diplobacilli and form aggregates in liquid medium. Yellowish colonies appear on double-layer plates after 2 weeks.
Morphology standardized
cell shape |
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rod |
motility |
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+ |
Physiology
Nutrition type
chemoheterotroph
Oxygen requirement
facultatively anaerobic
GC
GC_content |
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66.6 |
Gram
staining |
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negative |
Growth PH
optimum |
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5.5 |
range |
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2.0-6.5 |
C/N source
positive results |
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casein |
negative results | ||||||||
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sucrose | starch | maltose | L-arabinose | glucose | acetate | D-malate | D-mannose | citrate |
Biochemistry
Fattyacids
Name | Account |
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iso-C11:0 3-OH | 6.1 |
iso-C17:0 | 33.75 |
iso-C17:1 ω9c | 31.9 |
iso-C15:0 | 9.07 |
Polar lipids
PE;PME;PG
Quinones
UQ-8
Taxonomy marker
Genomics
Submitter date: 2017/04/03 00:00 Update date: 2017/04/05 00:00
Source
KIT Karlsruhe
Coverage
114
Assembly status
Scaffold
Assembly class
haploid
Strain List
References
1
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]