Methylobacterium goesingense

Maeng, Soohyun, Sathiyaraj, Srinivasan, Subramani, Gayathri, Kim, Ju-Young, Jang, Jun Hwee, Kang, Myung-Suk, Lee, Ki-Eun & Kim, Eun-young Lee and Myung Kyum, 2018, A report of six unrecorded radiation-resistant bacterial species isolated from soil in Korea in 2018, Journal of Species Research 7 (3), pp. 222-230 : 227

Description of Methylobacterium goesingense 18SH

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic and short rod-shaped. Colonies are pink-colored and circular after 3 days of incubation on R2A at 25℃.

In API 20NE system, positive for the reduction of nitrates (NO 3) to nitrite (NO 2 -), arginine dihydrolase, urease, D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-D-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, adipic acid, malic acid, and trisodium citrate. Negative for reduction of nitrates (NO 3) to nitrogen (N 2), indole production on tryptophan, glucose fermentation, gelatin hydrolysis, β-galactosidase and capric acid. Weak positive for esculin hydrolysis and phenylacetic acid.

In API 32GN system, positive for L-rhamnose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-ribose, inositol, D-saccharose (sucrose), D-maltose, itaconic acid, suberic acid, sodium malonate, sodium acetate, lactic acid, L-alanine, potassium 5-ketogluconate, glycogen, L-serine, D-mannitol, D-glucose, salicin, D-melibiose, D-fucose, D-sorbitol, L-arabinose, propionic acid, valeric acid, trisodium citrate, L-histidine, potassium 2-ketogluconate, and 3-hydroxybutyric acid. Negative for 3-hydroxybenzoic acid, capric acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, and L-proline. G + C mol for strain 18SH is 66.7%. Cells showed resistance to UV radiation. Strain 18SH (= NIBRBA0000116023) was isolated from a soil sample in Korea.