| Sporosarcina psychrophila |
Taxonomy
Morphology
Growth conditions
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Caryophanales, Family Caryophanaceae, Genus Sporosarcina, Sporosarcina
psychrophila (Nakamura 1984) Yoon et al. 2001.
Historical synonyms: Bacillus psychrophilus (Larkin & Stokes, 1967) Nakamura 1984.
psychrophila (Nakamura 1984) Yoon et al. 2001.
Historical synonyms: Bacillus psychrophilus (Larkin & Stokes, 1967) Nakamura 1984.
Gram-positive rods, 0.8-0.9/1.8-4.5 µm. Variable motility; peritrichous flagella.
Spores are spherical, subterminal or terminal, sometimes swelling the sporangium.
Spores are spherical, subterminal or terminal, sometimes swelling the sporangium.
Maximum temperature 25-30 ºC; minimum temperature 0-3 ºC. No growth in
anaerobic agar. Can grow in 5% NaCl (variable). No growth in 10% NaCl or at 5.7 pH.
anaerobic agar. Can grow in 5% NaCl (variable). No growth in 10% NaCl or at 5.7 pH.
Isolated from soil, river water. No growth in the presence of lysozyme.
Unknown (none).
- Buchanan R.E., Gibbons N.E., Cowan S.T., Holt J.G., Liston J., Murray R.G.E., Niven C.F., Ravin A.W., Stanier R.W. ( 1974) –
Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eight Edition, The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore. - Gordon E.R., Haynes W.C., Pang C.H.-N., 1973.The Genus Bacillus, Agriculture Handbook No. 427, Agriculture Research Service
USDA, Washington D.C. - Yoon J.H., Lee K.C., Weiss N., Kho Y.H., Kang K.H. & Park Y.H.: Sporosarcina aquimarina sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from
seawater in Korea, and transfer of Bacillus globisporus (Larkin and Stokes 1967), Bacillus psychrophilus (Nakamura 1984) and
Bacillus pasteurii (Chester 1898) to the genus Sporosarcina as Sporosarcina globispora comb. nov., Sporosarcina psychrophila
comb. nov. and Sporosarcina pasteurii comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Sporosarcina. Int. J. Syst. Evol.
Microbiol., 2001, 51, 1079-1086.
Positive results for catalase, reduction of nitrate to nitrite, starch hydrolysis, decomposition of urea, acid production from glucose.
Negative results for citrate utilization, indole production, deamination of phenylalanine, decomposition of tyrosine, Voges-Proskauer
reaction and acid production from arabinose.
Variable results for decomposition of casein and acid production from mannitol and xylose.
Negative results for citrate utilization, indole production, deamination of phenylalanine, decomposition of tyrosine, Voges-Proskauer
reaction and acid production from arabinose.
Variable results for decomposition of casein and acid production from mannitol and xylose.
(c) Costin Stoica
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