Acetobacter okinawensis GAM

Heo, Jun, Won, Miyoung, Lee, Daseul, Han, Byeong-Hak & Kwon, Seung-Beom Hong and Soon-Wo, 2022, Report of eight unrecorded Acetobacter species in Korea, discovered during the survey in 2018 - 2019, Journal of Species Research 11 (3), pp. 155-161 : 159

Description of Acetobacter okinawensis GAM 12-M2

(= KACC 22696)

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, motile, non-pigment- ed and coccoid rod (0.85-0.95 μm × 1.5-2.5 μm) after 2 days incubation on YPM medium at 28℃. Colonies are round, raised and beige colored with a diameter of 0.5 mm. Catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Positive for aesculin hydrolysis, but negative for indole production, arginine dihydrolase, urease and gelatin hydrolysis. Does not assimilate any of the substrates embedded on API 20 NE test strip. Acid is produced from L-arabinose, D-ribose, D-xylose, D-galactose, D-glucose, D-mannose and D-fucose, and weakly produced from D-melibiose, gentiobiose and potassium 5-ketogluconate, but not produced from glycerol, erythritol, D-arabinose, L-xylose, D-adonitol, methyl- β -D-xylopyranoside, D-fructose, L-sorbose, L-rhamnose, dulcitol, inositol, D-mannitol, D-sorbitol, methyl- α -D-mannopyranoside, methyl- α -D-glucopyranoside, N -acetylglucosamine, amygdalin, arbutin, esculin ferric citrate, salicin, D-cellobiose, D-maltose, D-lactose, D-saccharose, D-trehalose, inulin, D-melezitose, D-raffinose, amidon, glycogen, xylitol, D-turanose, D-lyxose, D-tagatose, L-fucose, D-arabitol, L-arabitol, potassium gluconate and potassium 2-ketogluconate. Strain GAM12-M2 (= KACC 22696) was isolated from persimmon fruit sampled at Sangju-si. The GenBank accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain GAM12-M2 is ON459615.