Prosthecomicrobium hirschii IMCC

Kim, Mirae, Song, Jaeho, Yu, Dabin, Kim, Younghoo, Bae, Seok Hwan, Park, Miri S. & Cho, Yeonjung Lim and Jang-Cheon, 2021, A report of 28 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, isolated from freshwater and sediment of the Han River watershed in 2020, Journal of Species Research 10 (3), pp. 227-236 : 233

Description of Prosthecomicrobium hirschii IMCC 34762

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire, and white-colored after incubation for 3 days on R2A at 20℃. Positive for cytochrome oxidase; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis, and β-galactosidase in API 20NE. D-Glucose, Larabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N- acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized as sole carbon sources. Strain IMCC34762 (= NNIBR2020642BA13) was isolated from a freshwater sample, Soyang Lake, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Korea.