Deinococcus taklimakanensis

Jeon, Che-Ok, Kim, Wonyong, Bae, Jin-Woo, Seong, Chi-Nam, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Kim, Myung Kyum, Cha, Chang-Jun & Yoon, Taegun Seo and Jung-Hoon, 2023, A report of 36 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the phyla Actinomycetota, Bacillota, Bacteroidota, Deinococcota, and Pseudomonadota isolated in Republic of Korea, Journal of Species Research 12 (4), pp. 415-429 : 423

Description of Deinococcus taklimakanensis CAU-S6

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, non-flagellated, and coccoid shaped. Colonies are round, convex, smooth, and white colored after incubation for 3 days on R2 A at 37℃. In the API 20NE system, positive for arginine dihydrolase, urease activity, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis, and oxidase activity; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose acidification, β-galactosidase activity, utilization of D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-D-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain CAU-S6 (= NIBRBAC000501286) was isolated from a soil sample in Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea .