Taxonomy
Morphology
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Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Actinomycetota, Class Actinomycetes, Order Micrococcales, Family Micrococcaceae, Genus Nesterenkonia, Nesterenkonia
muleiensis Wang et al. 2020.
Species description is based on a single isolate.
Gram-positive rods, 0.3-0.6 x 0.7-1.2 µm. Non-motile. Non-spore-forming.
Colonies are 2mm in diameter, circular, convex and pale yellow after growth on
marine agar at 35 ºC for 3days. Grows at 10-45 ºC (optimum 35 ºC), at pH 6.0-12.0
(optimum 8.0) and in the presence of 0-12% (w/v) NaCl (optimum 1% (w/v) NaCl).
Aerobic.
Isolated from sap of Populus euphratica collected in Mulei county, Xinjiang province, PR China.
Undetermined.
- Wang R, Anwar N, Ding J, Ye Y, Ren Y, Fu G, Chen C, Xu J, Wu M. Nesterenkonia muleiensis sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium
isolated from sap of Populus euphratica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1888-1894.
Positive results for catalase, gelatin hydrolysis, esterase (C4), esterase lipase (C8), alpha-glucosidase, ONPG, leucine arylamidase,
valine arylamidase, trypsin, naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase, acid production (API 50CH) from D- and L-arabinose, amygdalin,
arbutin, cellobiose, aesculin, D-fructose, glycerol, glycogen, D-galactose, glucose, gentiobiose, lactose, maltose, melibiose, D-
mannose, mannitol, methyl alpha-D-mannopyranoside, methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside, N-acetylglucosamine, rhamnose, raffinose,
salicin, sucrose, starch, turanose, tagatose, xylitol, and D-xylose.
Can utilize sucrose, D-galactose, D-sorbitol, L-arabinose, psicose and alpha-ketobutyric acid.
Negative results for alkaline phosphatase, cystine arylamidase, chymotrypsin, alpha-fucosidase, alpha- and beta-galactosidase,
beta-glucuronidase, beta-glucosidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, H2S production, indole production, lipase (C14), alpha-
mannosidase, methyl red test, nitrate reduction, oxidase, starch hydrolysis, Tween 20, 40, 60 and 80 hydrolysis, L-tyrosine hydrolysis,
urease, and Voges–Proskauer test.
(c) Costin Stoica