Bacillus deserti

Kim, Ju-Young, Sathiyaraj, Srinivasan, Subramani, Gayathri, Lee, JinWoo, Maeng, Soo hyun, Jang, Jun Hwee, Lee, Ki-Eun & Kim, Eun-young Lee and Myung Kyum, 2018, A report of eight unrecorded UV-resistant bacterial species in Korea isolated in 2018, Journal of Species Research 7 (3), pp. 202-209 : 207

Description of Bacillus deserti 18JY1-7

Cells are Gram-stain-positive and rod-shaped. Colonies creamy white, mucoid, and translucent after 3 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. In the API 20NE systems, utilization of arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, D-glucose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, D-maltose are positive. Reduction of nitrates (NO 3) to nitrite (NO 2 -), Reduction of nitrates (NO 3) to nitrogen (N 2), indole production on tryptophan, glucose fermentation, gelatin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase, L-arabinose, N -acetyl-D-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, phenylacetic acid are not utilized. In the API 32GN systems, utilization of itaconic acid, suberic acid, sodium malonate, lactic acid, potassium 5-ketogluconate, 3-hydroxybenzoic acid, L-serine, salicin, D-melibiose, D-fucose, D-sorbitol, L-arabinose, propionic acid, capric acid, valeric acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid and L-proline are negative. L-rhamnose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-ribose, inositol, D-saccharose, D-maltose, sodium acetate, L-alanine, glycogen, D-mannitol, D-glucose, trisodium citrate, L-histidine, potassium 2-ketogluconate and 3-hydroxybutyric acid are utilized. G + C content for strain 18JY1-7 is 43.0%. Cells showed resistance to UV radiation.

Strain 18JY1-7 (= NIBRBA0000116022 ) was isolated from a soil sample, Jeju, Korea .