Microbacterium dextranolyticum WM

Kim, Mi-Sun, Lee, Ji-Hee, Kang, Joo-Won, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Jeon, Che-Ok & Seong, Chi-Nam, 2016, A report of 38 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the phylum Actinobacteria, Journal of Species Research 5 (2), pp. 223-234 : 231

Description of Microbacterium dextranolyticum WM 113

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, non-flagellated and rod shaped. Colonies are entire, convex, opaque and yellow colored after 3 days on R2A at 25°C. Positive for glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase, but negative for nitrate reduction, arginine dihydrolase, indole production, urease and gelatinase in API 20NE. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, D-maltose, malic acid and trisodium citrate are utilized. Does not utilize phenylacetic acid, capric acid and adipic acid. Strain WM113 (= NIBRBA0000114429) has been isolated from a freshwater sample, Woopo wetland, Gyeongnam Province, Korea.