Description of Marinobacter sediminum LPB 0156

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, flagellated, non-pigmented and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, entire, convex and yellow colored after 1 day of incubation on MA at 25℃. Positive for nitrate reduction, but negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase in API 20NE. Does not utilize D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N-acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain LPB 0156 (= NIBR BAC 000498527) was isolated from a tidal flat sample, Jebu Island, Korea.